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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Robyn – Open Space (formal OST)
first happened in 1989. And in one form or another it has been going (well)
ever since. Turns out they, like all the rest of the cosmos have been engaging
in self organizing on going – despite protestations to the contrary. But
every Guru knows that you only become real as a profound presence in The
Moment. One might say Open Space.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Have fun – it (<st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>) is a
grand, albeit overpowering Space.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Harrison Owen</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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w:st="on">ME</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">04843</st1:PostalCode></span></font></st1:place><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>301-365-2093 (Winter)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Website <a href="http://www.openspaceworld.com">www.openspaceworld.com</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
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color:windowtext'> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName> [mailto:<st1:PersonName
w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName>@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Robyn Stratton-Berkessel<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, September 07, 2009
2:48 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName>@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: Not ideal but worth
the effort (Latin reflection)</span></font><font color=black><span
style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>As a virtual bumble bee on our <st1:PersonName w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName>,
it delights me how we drop in on conversations and choose to linger longer or
not. In fact the whole web invites us to live the 4 principles and the 1 law,
following our passions, engaging or not. Here, I am energized by
Suzanne's story - her personal experience and honoring of her own courage and
how powerful it was at many levels. What excites me equally is the group
for whom Suzanne opened space - National Alliance for Media, Arts and Culture.
Marvelous they get to experience the transparency and openness and passion of
OS and what they may be moved to do with it in their own lives. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Next, Artur and Juan's observations about the role of
cultural traditions and the structures that may or may not be ready to embrace
the openness of open space - "embracing the chaos" as he mentions -
is a really interesting and important topic from my perspective. I'm
heading to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>
later in the year. My life's dream coming true. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>If any of you has experience in any part of <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>
working with participatory, self-organizing methodologies, I would love
to hear. India is so hugely diverse, and I am wondering how open to
self-organizing processes without set agendas, talking-heads and control
mechanisms the various cultures might be. Awareness of the different memes in
Spiral Dynamic terms helps a lot, as well as recognizing the cultural imprint
and influence of our heritage, as Artur reminds us. As an Australian, I
feel strongly aligned to my cultural imprint as anti-authoritarian, delighting
in bucking the system - serving me sometimes and other times not. And I
am respectful of others whose history is different. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Warm regards from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Atlantic Highlands</st1:City> <st1:State w:st="on">NJ</st1:State></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Robyn<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Robyn Stratton-Berkessel<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>+1 732 291 0462<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Skype: robynsb<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Twitter: robbiecat<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://www.positivematrix.com">www.positivematrix.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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JL Walker wrote: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>It’s an
excellent hypothesis my dear friend. Thank you I think it’s true.<u5:p></u5:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>Juan Luis<u5:p></u5:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span lang=ES
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size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName> [<a
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a>]
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>En nombre de </span></b>Artur Silva<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Enviado el:</span></b> domingo, 06 de
septiembre de 2009 6:48<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Para:</span></b> <a
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Asunto:</span></b> Re: [<st1:PersonName
w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName>] Not ideal but worth the effort<u5:p></u5:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Suzanne:<u5:p></u5:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Being myself from Portugal, but
knowing well Spain and France, I have come to understand that in Latin
countries, mostly influenced by the Catholic tradition, than by
Protestantism, people have even more difficulty to embrace the chaos than in
some other cultures. Hierarchies and control have more influence in our
heads and institutions.<u5:p></u5:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>So OST is more difficult to
“sell” and even more powerful when we can get to it.<u5:p></u5:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>De</span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span lang=FR-BE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>
Lisbonne</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>, avec amitié<u5:p></u5:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <u5:p></u5:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Artur<u5:p></u5:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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--- On <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sat, 9/5/09, Suzanne Daigle <i><span
style='font-style:italic'><a href="mailto:sdaigle4@gmail.com"><sdaigle4@gmail.com></a></span></i></span></b>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font><u5:p></u5:p></p>
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From: Suzanne Daigle <a href="mailto:sdaigle4@gmail.com"><sdaigle4@gmail.com></a><br>
Subject: Re: [<st1:PersonName w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName>] Not ideal
but worth the effort<br>
To: <a href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a><br>
Date: Saturday, September 5, 2009, 7:49 AM<o:p></o:p></span></font><u5:p></u5:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><st1:place w:st="on"><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Harrison</span></font></st1:place>
-<br>
Inviting people to live the Open Space principles and the Law of 2 Feet
throughout the conference and beyond was my invitation. Doug said it was a
little sneaky; <st1:place w:st="on">Harrison</st1:place> said the whole thing
becomes rather subversive: "Stealth OST". No criticism intended and
none taken on my part. But it got me thinking and then grinning like a
Cheshire cat.<br>
<br>
Well the irony of it all is that OST is all about that. The beauty is its
simplicity and covertness. It worked for me by awakening my activist
soul and putting the conformist me in a box somewhere. Being French, I'd say
that OST can be the Bastille of Independence, Freedom, and Choice...the thing
that awakens the dormant "passion" and "personal
responsibility" in individuals. Society and companies do not easily
embrace the chaos, confusion and conflict that you describe in Wave Ride
often preferring the Closed System Hoax with its illusion of control and
predictability rather than the messy alternative. Not working so well these
days though! <br>
<br>
Now back to those 4 simple principles with the Law of 2 Feet, the Butterfly
and the Bumble Bee and what they stir "inside" people when you let
yourself experience them cause you can't really know it by reading it. They
awaken feelings, emotions, connections, thinking on a more conscious and
unconscious level, listening, participating, sharing, authenticity, fun and
the list goes on -- all of the stuff that we are taught to control and
contain. And then surprise, once that's released, creativity emerges,
purpose, action and results which come under that beautiful law of nature
called self-organizing --nothing new, always been there. OST I think invites
this hope and magic back into our being and our lives. Sneaky,
subversive, stealth....yes indeed! Fitting reflections for this Labor
Day Weekend 2009! Thanks guys!<br>
<br>
Suzanne<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Harrison Owen <<a
href="http://us.mc546.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=hhowen@verizon.net"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send=true>hhowen@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font><u5:p></u5:p></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>So you had fun! Great!! And as I
read along I had this strange sense of déjà view all over again, to quote the
great Yogi. This is where we started with improvements!! OST was born out of
the recognition that the really juicy part of a large conference happened in
the coffee breaks, to which I would add the bar, long walks, and just
hanging out. Sure there were formal presentations and elaborate processes to
include people, expand people, transform people. But for the most part the
formal sessions provided stuff we had heard before or could have read in a
book, and all the elaborate processes seemed great at the start, but simply
couldn’t hold a candle compared to a good conversation at the bar or
wherever. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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which I thank you – is that the good old informal, self organizing
system is alive and well, and it will function regardless of all efforts to
structure and control. And if you offer a little support (your
“anywhere, anytime sessions”) it only gets better. Doug is right
– the whole thing becomes rather subversive. You might call it Stealth
OST.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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haven’t invented a thing. “It” (self organizing systems)
always was. We may acknowledge its presence, support its process, but at the
end of the day – it will do just fine all by itself. Of course it would
feel better if folks stopped trying to organize a self organizing system.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Not ideal but worth the
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Back from <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Boston</st1:place></st1:City>
after facilitating “A</span></font><font color=red><span
style='color:red'> <b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Taste</span></i></b></span></font>
of Open Space” at the NAMAC (National Alliance for Media, Arts and
Culture) Conference. This was my first large event (300+ participants);
did not have that much lead time to prepare; and the circumstances were less
than ideal: blended with workshops, no opportunity to sit in a circle and for
a while, I worried about wall space and ability to use masking tape on the
walls of this ornate room in a historical hotel. We used blue painters’
tape. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Looking back, I would not have traded a minute of
this experience. Yes, it could have been so much better but ultimately it was
worth it based on the number of conversations (20 – 25…more?)
over the 3 days of the conference. I had 90 minutes on the first
morning with the plenary group to OPEN SPACE: announce the OS question tied
to their theme (Lisa Heft was so helpful in offering some ideas with lots of
other invaluable tips too), to explain the principles and the Law, to build
an agenda, and to open a marketplace. Within an hour, no less than 15
groups were talking. I called it the Speed Dating of OPEN SPACE clearly
indicating that this was just a “TASTE of Open Space”. I said it
would be an opportunity for them to find each other quickly by connecting
with others who shared their passion on common topics. <u5:p></u5:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I thought I would be a basket case but somehow
having meditated twice daily for the 10 days preceding this event, rehearsing
on my outside patio over and over, scouring Diane Gibeault’s training
materials, reading everything I could get my hands on and seeking help from
some OS trusted friends who were so very generous, I felt calm, clear and
grounded. It wasn’t about me; it was about the participants! The
night before, working with a few volunteers, I took the time to quietly walk
the room and did so again the next morning. And I thought of this
audience and my passion for their cause – free press, documentary film
producers, youth, arts, media, culture, democracy, etc. The hardest
part was not having the circle and people writing and posting the topics at
the back of the room. Clearly all the OS practitioners are right that you
NEED a circle to keep the energy focused in the middle in spite of the fact
that I had them visualize a giant circle as part of my intro. Not the
same…at all! As people were writing and announcing their topics,
many started conversations around their tables and I had to bring them back
to attention a few times. I feel we could have had 60 to 75 topics in
those first 15 minutes instead of the 30 we got. Others topics were
added later and some folks posted Summary Reports from their discussions.<u5:p></u5:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Over the 3 days, there were six 90 minute OS
timeslots on the program not including the Closing (no circle there
either). What I invited people to do was to live the 4 Principles of OS
and the Law of 2 Feet (Butterfly and Bumble Bee) throughout the
conference and even beyond. We had blank post-it notes so they could
schedule their sessions anytime, anywhere and they did: in the coffee shop,
in the bar (15 people form 10 pm until past midnight), early morning and
lunchtime as well as in the assigned locations in our plenary room which
became the OPEN SPACE hub. What they said they appreciated most was the gift
of choice and freedom.<u5:p></u5:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>As I watched the
conversations happening from afar, I felt such gratitude to have had the
courage to do this. People came by to share quietly as I cleaned up coffee
cups, trash, etc. The feedback was extremely positive and while I know
it could have been better, my commitment to be “opening space”
for people wherever and however I can from the heart is what drives me now.
Yes I will always push for optimal conditions as I feel I must. But if
I can’t get there, I will just try to do my best and not shut the door.
If anyone wants to know more, I’ll gladly share all that I
lived and felt during those three days. I owe so much to this
community. Thank you everyone. </span></font><br>
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