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Or something.<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><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 04843<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"><span style='color:blue'>www.openspaceworld.com</span></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"><span style='color:blue'>www.ho-image.com</span></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"><span style='color:blue'>http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</span></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>paul levy<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, March 24, 2013 4:08 PM<br><b>To:</b> World wide Open Space Technology email list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSList] Follow-Up and Flow in Open Space<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Perfectly described, Koos!<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>And it is why I believe that when we open space, we open space not only for the future but for our whole "time organism". <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>It is also why, if there must be "action planning" is need not only come at the end!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Time is linear, circular and many other things as well. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Warm rushes<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Paul<br><br>On Sunday, 24 March 2013, Koos de Heer wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=NL style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Paul,</span><span lang=NL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=NL style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=NL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I once heard a story from someone who had been to Greece, interviewing people about the political and economic situation there. He reports that some people would say: “We can’t predict the future – after all, you have no idea of the things that are still hidden behind your back.” The metaphor of the way time flows there is the opposite of ours. In Western Europe, we picture ourselves as looking to the future and having the past behind our backs. Apparently in Greece, the people experience the timeline so that the future is coming from behind and the past is disappearing in front of them. So they are looking at the past and not seeing the future. Which makes sense; we think we look at the future, but what are we looking at? Only images, because we don’t know what it will be. Which also leads to the question whether our images from the past are correct, but that is another story.</span><span lang=NL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=NL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This leads me to wondering if there might be cultures where time is viewed as circular, which would make even more sense to me.</span><span lang=NL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=NL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Koos</span><span lang=NL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=NL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Van:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="javascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org');" target="_blank">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a> [mailto:<a href="javascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org');" target="_blank">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a>] <b>Namens </b>paul </span><span lang=NL style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>levy<br><b>Verzonden:</b> zondag 24 maart 2013 <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://4">19:37</a><br><b>Aan:</b> World wide Open Space Technology email list<br><b>Onderwerp:</b> Re: [OSList] Follow-Up and Flow in Open Space</span><span lang=NL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=NL> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=NL>David<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p><span lang=NL> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span lang=NL>There's a depth and warm texture to your model.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span lang=NL> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span lang=NL>I would offer this:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span lang=NL> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span lang=NL>You define vision this: <br>"what does it look like when it is done"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span lang=NL> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span lang=NL>I believe that is only part of vision. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span lang=NL> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span lang=NL>Vision is what does the temporal picture look like: the picture of past, present AND future, all playing into each other. As I said earlier - what went before (past) is also before us (future, in front).<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span lang=NL> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span lang=NL>Such a magical word - before - it means both behind and in front !<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span lang=NL> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span lang=NL>When we open space for a vision of the whole timeline - the unfolding story - then something often emerges - it is this: potential <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span lang=NL> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span lang=NL>I believe we can only truly know the future vision when we look back at it. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span lang=NL> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span lang=NL>Be prepared to be surprised.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span lang=NL> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span lang=NL>The future is often revealed by opening space for the present and the past.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span lang=NL> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span lang=NL>Futures are fulfilled in where we have travelled from.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span lang=NL> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span lang=NL>Paul<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span lang=NL><br>On Sunday, 24 March 2013, David wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>When I do open space with my business hat on in the consulting role, I almost always start with four imperatives that most companies start with, even if they havent articulated it, but soon lose sight of. I call it VMPM. Vision, Mission, Purpose, Method. Many companies have a mission statement, few ever read it after it has been written. NO company is healthy for more than a year or two at a time, although many run very successfully from the economic metric for years or decades. I just put up the four words, the group gets to define them. Here are my definitions, that we usually start with to frame the discussion:</span><span lang=NL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=NL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Vision: what does it look like when it is done. A vision is a snapshot, or series of snapshots. Vision is not Mission.</span><span lang=NL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Mission: What is the target, how does the map compare to the territory. The territory is not always reflected on the map. (just by a street map of Nairobi sometime, and you will see what I mean). Mission is not Purpose.</span><span lang=NL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Purpose: the personal "why" . Purpose is purpose, it is my personal core driver. </span><span lang=NL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Method: How we do it, the outflow of the inflow of the first three points. Method is how I achieve my self interests as part of a collaborative community, also called a company. </span><span lang=NL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=NL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>All successful communities have these common elements: Community! which is collaborative and cooperative, consistent and committed. </span><span lang=NL><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>