<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;
mso-fareast-language:PT">Hi Raffi:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;
mso-fareast-language:PT"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;
mso-fareast-language:PT"><span>The Concepts of "Whole Person" and
"Whole Person Approach" have been around for some time and are not
new (for instance, see <a target="_blank" href="http://www.well.com/user/dooley/change.pdf">http://www.well.com/user/dooley/change.pdf</a>, A
Whole-Person/Systemic Approach to Organization Change Management, By Jeff
Dooley, copyright 1998), and the same is true with other concepts like
"left brain/right brain", "learning styles", etc. Of
course, anyone can take a piece from here and another from there and give it a
new name, and eventually even trademark it.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;
mso-fareast-language:PT"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;
mso-fareast-language:PT">My only experience attending a Whole Person session
was that I was being directed to do this or that, because the facilitator was
convinced that this or that would put my right brain at work (which is not needed<b>
because it is always at work</b>...). But the point is that I don't like being
"directed" neither to "direct others".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;
mso-fareast-language:PT"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;
mso-fareast-language:PT">For me, the magic of OST is that the facilitator does
not need to direct people (except, eventually, as Harrison recalled, to justify
the fee). Just open some space and the whole person will appear and real whole
people will direct themselves and do the job.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;
mso-fareast-language:PT"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-fareast-language:
PT">Abraços (this time in Portuguese)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br></div><div>Artur</div><div> </div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Raffi Aftandelian <raffi_1970@YAHOO.COM><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sun, November 14, 2010 3:23:20 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [OSLIST] self-organization and "conscious" Open Space organizations [was OST and PD (Positive Deviance)]<br></font><br>
Queridos Harrison, Artur, y todos-<br><br>(...)<br><br>Artur, I was intrigued in you talking about Whole Person Process<br>Facilitation as a directive process. I see how you can call it that. And as<br>someone who has been using WPPF the past 6 years, I'm excited that the four<br>principles and the Law are invoked- at least the way I was taught- in a WPPF<br>meeting...I don't know of any other meeting method that works within a<br>pre-set agenda that does that.<br><br>abrazos,<br>Raffi<br><br>*<br>*<br>==========================================================<br><a ymailto="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU" href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a><br>------------------------------<br>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options,<br>view the archives of <a ymailto="mailto:oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu" href="mailto:oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu">oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu</a>:<br><span><a
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