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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'>Not to twist thoughts or maybe bend minds – but I doubt that anything is “essential” when it comes to facilitating an Open Space gathering, if only because the fundamental process, (self organization) was there way before OST. Not of our making or control. And if we did absolutely nothing, self organization would roll on. BUT I believe we (facilitators/practitioners/?) can add value by helping to bring this elemental power of life to consciousness awareness. There are all sorts of ways that can be done, but the more subtle the better. I always loved the Medicine Wheel for its elegant simplicity and the way it wove history and tradition into present experience. But is it essential? I more than suspect that the only “essential” for a good OST is to learn to do nothing at all…<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'>ho<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><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Harrison Owen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>7808 River Falls Dr.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Potomac, MD 20854<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>USA<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'>189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Camden, Maine 20854<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'>Phone 301-365-2093<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>(summer) 207-763-3261<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'><a href="www.openspaceworld.com%20">www.openspaceworld.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="www.ho-image.com%20">www.ho-image.com</a> (Personal Website)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D'>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></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><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>Raffi Aftandelian<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 03, 2012 11:39 PM<br><b>To:</b> OSlist<br><b>Subject:</b> [OSList] medicine wheel? anyone?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>friends,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>craig's questions encouraged me to post about something i've been meaning to ask for a while:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>i'm curious how much - if at all- do you use the medicine wheel reflection activity described in the ost user's guide at the end of an ost meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>do you see it as an essential element of a carefully facilitated ost meeting? or not?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>or is it best dropped ('one more thing not to do').<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>in my training in ost it was presented as essential and for years i did it and couldn't quite connect to it. but with time however, my relationship to the medicine wheel changed. and i think it has lots of value. at the very least it serves a role in bridging, bridging the experience of the meeting to the monday after the meeting...and beyond. as in, 'how do we take what we experienced here into our day to day life in our organization?'<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>also my curiousity comes from hardly ever seeing it mentioned on the list...<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>curious about your responses,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>much warmth,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";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:"Courier New";color:black'>powered by ubuntu 10.4<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>