<html><head><base href="x-msg://14/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Tonnie,<div><br></div><div>Congratulations, the Thesis sounds like a very inspiring read. We met briefly while you were writing it (at a SIOO organized conference at NEMO) while you were deeply involved in the research.</div><div><br></div><div>I look forward to reading the book and would also love a copy of the article if possible, and hope to meet you soon here in the Netherlands to congratulate you in person.</div><div><br></div><div>With warm greetings,</div><div><br></div><div>Doris Gottlieb<br><div>
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<br><div><div>Op 3 jun 2011, om 10:58 heeft Tonnie van der Zouwen het volgende geschreven:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="NL" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 4.8pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; color: black; ">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 4.8pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 4.8pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; color: black; ">After being very quiet in this community for the last year, it is with great pleasure to inform you that after six years I finally finished my PhD research on effective use of Large Scale Interventions (which I see as an approach for whole system change, including the large group intervention methods such as Future Search, Open Space Technology, World Café, Whole Scale Change/Real Time Strategic Change). So you may call me ‘doctor Tonnie’ now :). The Open Space world community contributed substantially to this research, I want to thank everyone who shared experiences and ideas with me, on this list, in the WOS on OS in Berlin, or otherwise.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 4.8pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; color: black; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 4.8pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; color: black; ">All findings are wrapped up in a book with the title ‘<u>Building an evidence based practical guide to Large Scale Interventions. Towards sustainable organisational change with the whole system’</u>. It is published by Eburon Academic Publishers and available as paperback and as eBook (only $ 13.79) on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; color: black; "><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Building-evidence-based-practical-Interventions/dp/9059725034/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1306913486&sr=8-3" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span lang="EN-US">amazon.com</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; color: black; "> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; color: black; ">and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; color: black; "><a href="http://www.eburon.nl/building_an_evidence_based_practical_guide_to_large_scale_interventions_ebook?language_code=en" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span lang="EN-US">eburon.nl</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; color: black; ">. The book offers a practical guide with guidelines for effective use of LSI to assess conditions before the process, enhance performance during the process, and an evaluation instrument to evaluate effectiveness after the process. The first parts of the book tell the story of my inquiry in the practice of LSI worldwide, including Open Space Technology practice, resulting in an overview of ‘What is LSI?’, which might be a handy chapter for students or starting facilitators. I hope to develop the practical guide in more popular versions for divers user groups, in open source. Reactions are very welcome on </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; color: black; "><a href="http://www.largescaleinterventions.ning.com/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span lang="EN-US">www.largescaleinterventions.ning.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 4.8pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 4.8pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; color: black; ">This book benefited enormously from the work and stimulating responses of founders such as Harrison Owen, Juanita Brown, David Isaacs, Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff, Barbara Bunker and Billie Alban. I am grateful for their wise words and for their inspiration. Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 4.8pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 4.8pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; color: black; ">As spin off from my research and book, <u>an international training workshop on</u> <u>effective use of Large Scale Interventions </u> is scheduled <u>17 – 19 November 2011 in Noordwijk, Netherlands. </u>The workshop focuses on the principles and conditions for success and on how to embed large group meetings in a larger change process. It is not about specific recipes for Large Group Methods. The workshop is meant for facilitators working with LSI who want to improve their practice, an interactive master class. For details and registration see<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; color: black; "><a href="http://www.largescaleinterventions.com/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span lang="EN-US">www.LargeScaleInterventions.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 4.8pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 4.8pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; color: black; ">During my research I used large group methods for two research conferences, as member check. An online Open Space and a life Search Conference. Participants recognized the conferences as an innovation in action research, so I wrote an article about it. The title is ‘Practice what you preach. Large group conferences as member check’. It has been published in Profile, International Journal for Change, Learning, Dialogue (October 2011). If you are interested, let me know and I will send you a digital copy. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 4.8pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; color: black; ">Best wishes from a sunny Holland,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 4.8pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 4.8pt; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; color: black; ">Tonnie<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; 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