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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dear Raffi and other colleagues in OST,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>As the story of the first intentional Conscious Open Space Organization (COSO) was unfolding, I wrote the learning and the considerations onto the OST list. Those posts are in the archives author Birgitt Bolton. In recent time, the COSO morphed into the Genuine Contact Organization (GCO). In the intervening 18 or so years, we continued working with this holistic approach to organizational design (with OST at its heart), more learning happened, more considerations needed to be taken into account. This is also recorded in the archives author Birgitt Williams. The shift to the GCO took place more than a year ago. I am now consciously exploring more of my learning, including the role of a shift in consciousness, and the natural seen world along with the super natural unseen world in the effectiveness of OST and of the GCO. I have also been sharing this to a degree on the OST list.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I hope Lori, that if you find this of interest, that the archives on the matter are inspiring to you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Blessings all,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Birgitt Williams<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.dalarinternational.com">www.dalarinternational.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Suzanne Daigle<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, November 26, 2011 10:30 AM<br><b>To:</b> World wide Open Space Technology email list; Raffi Aftandelian<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSList] OST and funding crisis<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p>Awesome post Raffi!<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Nov 26, 2011 10:28 AM, "Raffi Aftandelian" <<a href="mailto:raffi_1970@yahoo.com">raffi_1970@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Lori-<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>I think Birgitt Williams's (nee Bolton) story of running a large social services nonprofit organization in Canada and regularly using Open Space Technology and Whole Person Process Facilitation within clear givens might be of interest to your client. The organization managed to thrive even in the face of budget cut. And the regular use of these approaches led to the creation/birth of a Conscious Open Space Organization (now called "the Genuine Contact Organization")<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>I don't have a link for the story. Birgitt, is there somewhere online where one can read the story now? I see that part of the story - with great context-setting- is available here:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/htdig.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org/2001-January/002800.html" target="_blank">http://lists.openspacetech.org/htdig.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org/2001-January/002800.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Also, I think you might find other examples of interest in the "Open Space Examples" document at <a href="http://openspaceworld.org" target="_blank">openspaceworld.org</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://openspaceworld.org/cgi/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceExamples" target="_blank">http://openspaceworld.org/cgi/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceExamples</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Finally, I'll just repeat the off-repeated wisdom of others that you as a lurker may have already heard:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>You can cite examples of other OST applications to someone until the cows come home, at the end of the day until one has had an experience these stories may likely just sound like nice words. Kind of like walking endlessly around a swimming pool with someone who has never taken the plunge, explaining the benefits of swimming.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>My two kopecks/rials.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>appreciatively,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Raffi<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>powered by ubuntu 10.4<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To unsubscribe send an email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org" target="_blank">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>