<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><base href="x-msg://15/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Lovely story! Thanks!<div><br><div>Hege from Norway<br><div><div>5. okt. 2012 kl. 20:17 skrev Harrison Owen <<a href="mailto:hhowen@verizon.net">hhowen@verizon.net</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Thank you Chuni for sharing this story. Every so often a dream comes true, and when it does, isn’t it wonderful!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Harrison<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Harrison Owen<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; 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">189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Camden, Maine 20854<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Phone 301-365-2093<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">(summer) 207-763-3261<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; 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">To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0in 0in; "><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[mailto:oslist-<a href="mailto:bounces@lists.openspacetech.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><a href="mailto:chunili2000@yahoo.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">chunili2000@yahoo.com</a><br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, October 05, 2012 2:01 PM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>OSLIST<br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[OSList] Open Space with Children's System of Care in NJ<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">This is an open letter.<br>Dear Harrison and Suzanne,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div><div id="yiv845081319"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><br>I wanted to drop you a note to tell you that the wish I made in Jan 2011 in New York (when we first met) had just come true a couple of weeks ago. I remember saying to myself then: "This open space format would be so beneficial to the NJ Children's System of Care that I need to figure out a way to sell it to my agency and the entire System!"<br><br>Well, on 9/20 and 9/21, we held a two-day<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Children's System of Care Call to Collaboration</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>convening for Monmouth County. My agency MonmouthCares sponsored the event, my Executive Director was the host, our partner Community YMCA donated the camp ground as the venue, and I was the facilitator.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Everything went beautifully! 60 system partners came representing the government, schools, juvenile justice system, behavioral health services, mobile response system, family support services, youth advocacy, etc. Weather was great and the open space environment couldn't have been better.<br><br>And the best part of this journey is that it wasn't me who drove the project. It was one of our supervisors who created a vision from last year's strategic planning retreat, which I facilitated using Open Space, and took the initiative to make this happen. I watched the entire leadership team in my organization doing this without me having to convince anybody. I did little in the preparation; I just showed up, opened the circle, held the space, and closed the circle. And for that, they thanked me for my "leadership" and gave me a pair of Tibetan bells as gift!<br><br>Seriously, now that the word has gone out, my next wish is to take it to the government and the state level.<br><br>Looking forward to seeing you next week!<br><br>Chuni Li<br>New Jersey<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> </span></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style=""> </span></p></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To unsubscribe send an email to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">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" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>