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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Well spoken Suzanne! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Don’t think we are
smarter, just other experiences to share </span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span lang=EN-US
style='color:#1F497D'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Tonnie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Van:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b>Namens </b>Suzanne Daigle<br>
<b>Verzonden:</b> donderdag 3 december 2009 13:54<br>
<b>Aan:</b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b>Onderwerp:</b> Re: [OSLIST] Open Space and academic research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Something
else to add to the mix of this conversation. The world, our organizations, our
communities; so many system breakdowns everywhere: in education , on
environment, economically, socially, etc. No need to list them all! So many places
where having the opportunity to "open space" and "invite the
gift of time" would help, could transform, add some joy to this beautiful
life, deliver higher performance, raise consciousness about what's important
and as we know, the list goes on. <br>
If only...!<br>
If only people could know what they can not know until they
"experience" it. And because that is so, they just keep on working
harder and faster trying to fix what's not working (so much more of it too)
doing what they've always done before because that's all they know. Well...! <br>
Well...when you care about Open Space; when you know what you know... that it
works every time (even when we think it didn’t work, it worked) and you
want to do more of it because you have a passion for what you do in this <i>invitational
</i>and <i>invisible </i> role that we call facilitator.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>And
then when you are like me, still very much an Open Space student having
facilitated only 6 times but participated in a total of 11 since “falling in
love” with this process last April because I just knew from my entire life
experience that this is not a technique, not a tool box process, it’s something
much bigger than that. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>And
that’s why, “with trepidation”, I posted an appeal to help fix the
Wikipedia site (without any of the knowledge of a Tonnie van der Zouwen, or a
Jeff Aitken, or a Larry Peterson; and without the experience and know-how of
those who do so much (like Harrison of course, Diane Gibeault, and Michael
Herman managing this wonderful list that gives me a place to speak...doing
this, for years!) . So in spite of the butterflies in my stomach when I
post here and certainly when I facilitate, I see a need to document, to invent,
to create a way to say what we are doing, to <b>describe from a place of
conversation where people are at now</b> <b>in that not knowing place</b>...not
bend to academia but partner with academia so that some day, when people do a
google search (Open Space way of life) on the internet (Open Space way of life)
and Wikipedia pops up (Open Space way of life), there will be fewer red flags
and it will be a little easier for us to scale that first mountain of “inviting
people to do what they can not know until they do it”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>And while a bunch of people smarter than
me on that stuff are doing this (Tonnie, Jeff, and others) , I’ve got a lot of
“Just do it” to do in Open Space. Life sure is grand when you know
there’s a bunch of folks who speak their mind, care a lot, live in chaos, pain
and joy, self organize and share leadership; people who are so plain generous
with newbies like me and the welcome I’ve felt...those are the folks in this
Open Space community. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Enough
for now, passion is exhausting really! :-}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Suzanne</span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tonnie van der
Zouwen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 03, 2009 6:24 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Open Space and academic research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Harrison, thank you
for your ideas about right and wrong. It is about expectations, but also about
our benchmarks for performance. I think I understand what you are trying to
say. What happens is the only thing that could have happened. I agree, it’s
true. And that some control helps is paradoxically also true. We can’t control
the waves, but we can increase our skill to ride them. I think that is why you
share your wonderful stories about your experiences, and that is why learning
about technique of wave riding (from academic research or other practices)
might help too. For me those practices are part of the self-organizing
world as well, and they helped to bring us where we are now. Still leaves
me puzzled about your remark, wherein I sensed some regret, about the ignorance
of academics for 25 years of Open Space. I think that will change if some
researchers care and feel responsible. I do. Also part of the self-organizing
world. Will it make things better? I hope, that’s why we Open Space, isn’t it?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Tonnie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Van:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b>Namens </b>Harrison Owen<br>
<b>Verzonden:</b> donderdag 3 december 2009 1:03<br>
<b>Aan:</b> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b>Onderwerp:</b> Re: [OSLIST] Open Space and academic research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:red'>Going “Wrong” is an interesting thing. My “wrong” could be your
“right” It all depends. So when I hear about Open Spaces that go “wrong” I
always wonder what the expectations were. As for self-organizing systems – they
always (in my experience) try to “optimize.” That would be called “search
for fitness.” And in the great sea of life, everything works out … but some of
it can be quite painful. I think that comes with the territory, and no small
amount of the pain comes from the fact that things did not work out the way we
desired. Funny thing: The Cosmos was not created for our pleasure and benefit,
I think. </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:red'>Or put another way – I think self-organization always aims at High
Performance (by definition) – and some make it and others don’t. Or at the very
least, some do not perform as well as others – which is how we derive our
benchmarks for “High Performance.” </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:red'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:red'>Could there be another way? Maybe. And for sure if the “Ruler of the
Cosmos (Him/her/It)” had consulted with us early on, doubtless we could have
come up with something better. But I am not sure about “better.” Seems to me
that for all the warts, pain, foibles, weirdness, false starts, etc. – it is
totally amazing that we are all here 13.7 billion years from GO! – Albeit some
of us are complaining about how bad things are. Personally, and all evidence to
the contrary – I think it is wonderful!</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>From:</b> OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tonnie
van der Zouwen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 02, 2009 9:42 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Open Space and academic research</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Harrison, </span><span
lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>For sure, I’m
having fun doing my research. Talking to you and many other people who are
experimenting with Self Organizing systems for High Performance (an interesting
reframing of my Large Scale Interventions for sustainable change, to what
extend do we mean the same?). I really appreciate your sharing of insights and
experiences, the great gift of your books. Actually the experiment is repeated
many times, by many practioners, matching conditions and following procedures
(that is what I call interventions) for high performance results. My point is
that it doesn’t always bring high performance, and that things can go wrong. We
don’t talk about the ones that didn’t produce good results in publications. To
put the cat among the pigeons: If we want to be taken seriously in the
academic world, maybe the invitation should not only be “repeat the
experiment”, but also “come and review our experiments, what performance did
they bring and why?” Finding out how the power of self organization can be
utilized and assisted even better or more widely. </span><span
lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Tonnie</span><span
lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Van:</span></b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b>Namens </b>Harrison Owen<br>
<b>Verzonden:</b> woensdag 2 december 2009 13:26<br>
<b>Aan:</b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b>Onderwerp:</b> Re: [OSLIST] Open Space and academic research</span><span
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>Hi Tonnie –
My experience for the last 25 years is that OS has been a marvelous natural
experiment that I just fell into. My hope would be that any and all curious
people (people with curiosity – which hopefully includes academics</span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:red'>J</span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>)
would have as much fun as I have. Truthfully, my interest in Open Space is less
focused on large group interventions, indeed any kind of intervention, but
rather on the function and power of self organizing systems and the ways in
which we might utilize and assist their gifts. </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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of Wave Rider was not that Open Space creates High Performance (although I
think it does), but rather that High Performance is a function a well
performing Self Organizing system. Open Space (for me) became a critical (but
not only) part of the experimental environment in which I considered all that
business. You will notice that I set the book up as a report on that
experiment, detailing the experimental conditions, procedure, and results to
date. The invitation is to run the experiment for yourself. All the questions
you raise are totally valid and should you run the experiment I am sure you
will find your answers – which may or may not accord with the answers (results)
I found. But that is the nature and fun of a good experiment. So how will you
know? Just do it and find out. Have fun.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>From:</b> OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tonnie
van der Zouwen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 02, 2009 6:13 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Open Space and academic research</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'>Dear<span style='font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span> Harrison, <span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><span
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Yesterday I was
reading (almost) all emails on this list. Learned a lot again. What I kept
wandering about last evening is your remark about how little attention to OST
is paid so far in academic research and publications. Since I am doing research
on large scale interventions (Success factors and effects and a practical guide
for effective use of LSI) </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><span
lang=EN-US>this triggered me: What research questions would you like to be
answered in academic research? </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><span
lang=EN-US>What would you like OST to be compared with? Then I realized that
touches the question: How to see OST and what is it used for? In your book Wave
rider you give examples of OST as a method for creating high performance
systems. The practitioner in me reacts: Ok, I know it works, let’s do it. The
academic researcher in me sais: He, interesting, how do I know the high
performance system is there? How long will it last? What is the influence of
the length of the meeting? Does it ripple off, why/why not? Et cetera. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>We had two
conferences with researchers, practitioners and clients about my research on
success factors and effects of LSI. Thanks again Harrison for contributing to
the online conference. In the discussions, especially in the live conference on
September 17<sup>th</sup>, </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><span
lang=EN-US>a wide gap showed between LSI practice and academic tradition. I
think that explains part of the relatively little attention in academic
research. Some practitioners say: “we don’t need evidence from research, we
already know it works”, or “research will never be able to grasp the magic of
….” . While some </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><span
lang=EN-US>researchers say: “It is all self reported success from founders and
practitioners with an interest in a positive image”, or “If you can’t
conceptualize it you should try harder”. Moreover, you have to work with
sophisticated qualitative research methods to do justice to complex situations
and the richness of an intervention as OST. It is my opinion most academic
institutes still operate in a classic quantitative or linear research
tradition. They don’t want to burn their hands on what they think wooly stuff,
or they simply don’t know how to inquire complex interventions. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Another problem
with finding articles on</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><span
lang=EN-US> research on OST is that the phenomenon is labeled with different
names. On the level of OST as a large group intervention, or as an interactive
method for change more literature is available. But you don’t see OST in the
title. I gathered a long list of references, so if you are interested let me
know. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Luckily, there
are also practitioners and researchers who see possibilities and added value in
academic research. Especially those who combine both activities. </span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><span
lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>What would you
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Tonnie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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