<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">By the way Michael, you r paper is brilliant and incredibly useful to the many many cleargy I am working with these days. I will be sharing it widely. Thank you so much for taking the time to put it together.<div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 2013-04-08, at 2:49 PM, Chris Corrigan <<a href="mailto:chris.corrigan@gmail.com">chris.corrigan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><base href="x-msg://79/"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Great to see that coming to fruition Michael.<div><br></div><div>I've been working for several years now with Open Space and other participatory processes in churches in the USA and Canada and we are having lots of fantastic conversations about the application of these processes to spiritual communities. If nothing else, working with Churches affords us some language for talking about what is going on when these processes are humming, that we can't always use in secular society. </div><div><br></div><div>Many of the clergy I am working are having the uncanny feeling that the spiritual practice of being in groups got outsourced to the OD community in the 1980s sometime and that now it's great to bring it back into the way that churches are organized. I am in many conversations about the theological implications of Open Space these days and welcome any questions about what I am learning off line or by email.</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div><br><div><div>On 2013-04-04, at 9:51 PM, Michael Wood <<a href="mailto:michael.wood@uwa.edu.au">michael.wood@uwa.edu.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-AU" 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: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">First of all, thankyou Mathilde for your lovely articulation of the principles and your description of the opening of the circle. It’s great to be reminded of the beauty of the process which still never ceases to move me.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">On another front, at WOSONOS2008 in San Francisco I posted a conversation on connections between Open Space and Christian theology. As an Anglican Priest I have continued to ponder this over the years and finally got around to getting all my thoughts into one place toward the end of last year. The article really focusses on using Open Space and ‘circle’ principles in leadership in church communities but might be useful for other settings. This can be found at the following link.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.michaeljohnwood.com/#!articles-by-michael-wood/cw4e" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.michaeljohnwood.com/#!articles-by-michael-wood/cw4e</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">This is ‘work in progress’ and I’d be delighted to receive feedback, suggestions and constructive critique from members of the OS community who might be interested in this theme.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Michael<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Perth, Western Australia<o:p></o:p></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></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>