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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I love it when a plan comes
together! Or maybe better – I love it when thinking converges. Pat Black’s
posting about Sugata and the Hole in the Wall crowd set the stage. Sugata, of
course was not doing an Open Space – it was even better. He was being
open space. I just loved his repeated phrase, “And then I left”
Been there. And I felt a real shift in the way he was working and thinking. He
did not start with a fixed notion of an institution/organization in which he
was opening space and moving to self organization. Quite the contrary -- his
starting point was all open space in which self organization was the only way.
His contribution was finding ways to be supportive and be nutritive in that
environment. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>In a very different realm I
felt that Stella Duffy was doing the same sort of thing, or close to it. She
may have used Open Space (formally speaking) – but at a deeper level it
seemed that she had come to realize that theatre (like all the rest of life) is
open space and self organization rules. Her contribution was to explore and
create better was of being in that space. (Stella beat on me if I am presuming
too much </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Wingdings'>J</span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>What I really love is the switch. It is all open space (self
organizing) and how do we maximize our life and contribution, as opposed to an
alternative view which presumes that it is all rigid structure and
pre-organized into which we are trying to introduce a little air. Very
different starting points which I find very exciting.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Harrison <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Harrison Owen<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>7808 River Falls Dr.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Potomac, MD 20854<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Phone 301-365-2093<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>www.openspaceworld.com<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>www.ho-image.com (Personal Website)<o:p></o:p></p>
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