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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>As doubtless you have seen in the press, things are getting a little bumpy in Egypt – to say the least. And our friend Claudia Gross is right in the middle of all of it. Claudia, as you might remember, is the person who gifted me with The 5<sup>th</sup> Principle as she related the tale of Tahrir Square. Anyhow, Claudia is a special person and she along with her Egyptian friends and colleagues need and deserve whatever good wishes and High Spirits we can send their way. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Not only is she right in the middle of things, but definitely pressing on. Space will be opened, and I can only believe it is desperately needed – this from Claudia (and I hope she will add more as the opportunity comes by)…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“However, we are still up for a 1-day Open Space for tomorrow 31.12. as an outlook for 2012. Many representatives of a diversity of civil society initiatives are invited. One of the newly trained facilitators had the idea and will facilitate it - am so proud of him :-) Will be there to invisibly support when needed and to have a bath in OS nectar and positive energy. Hope that many new ideas and hopes will grow out of this event. And I hope for myself that we soon will have enough people interested in being trained too - we need more Arabic speaking facilitators, we need more Open Spaces.” (I should say that Claudia never gave me permission to pass this along – so if needed, she can beat me around the head and shoulders anytime.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Open Space is always useful, and at times (like these times), absolutely critical and essential. There are times when the rubber really hits the road, when things really count. And this is such a time. Good Luck Claudia and Friends!<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><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Camden, Maine 20854<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Phone 301-365-2093<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(summer) 207-763-3261<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><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><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>