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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'>Carmela – Beautiful and thank you! Reminds me of my favorite Bette Miller...<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'>It's the heart afraid of breaking<br>That never learns to dance.<br>It's the dream afraid of waking<br>That never takes the chance.<br>It's the one who won't be taken,<br>Who cannot seem to give,<br>And the soul afraid of dyin'<br>That never learns to live.<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<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 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></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>Carmela Ariza<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 09, 2013 9:33 PM<br><b>To:</b> World wide Open Space Technology email list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSList] Certification?<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-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Dear HO and the rest of OS loving colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>While reading again fully and partly the sharing/discussion on certification and now this - point of Harrison on "I will be the first to cheer the departure of OST...." <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Somehow my poem that I wrote this morning resonates with the ongoing discussion. Allow me to share this....<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#37404E'>Holding Things Lightly<br>by: Carmela Ariza<br>5:55AM, 10 August 2013<br><br>Allow me <br>To hold things lightly<br>For when I cling to them <br>I loose sight <br>Of the more beautiful<br>Of the more important<br><span class=textexposedshow>And the more fulfilling </span><br><span class=textexposedshow>Things in life</span><br><br><span class=textexposedshow>When I have an idea</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>Give me the wisdom</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>To hold it lightly</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>That I may give room</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>For this idea to grow</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>Along with other ideas</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>Acknowledging </span><br><span class=textexposedshow>Collective wisdom</span><br><br><span class=textexposedshow>When I have an opinion</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>Whether about an issue</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>Or about a person</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>Or even an event</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>Allow me to hold this opinion</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>Lightly</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>So that I could lend an ear</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>To other opinions I hear</span><br><br><span class=textexposedshow>When I have something</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>I call my favorite thing</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>Allow me to hold it lightly</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>So that I will not hold it </span><br><span class=textexposedshow>Too tightly</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>Grasping for more</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>Never letting go</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>Hurting myself or others</span><br><br><span class=textexposedshow>When I hold someone dearly</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>Allow me to relax my grip</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>On the one I love</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>So that she may grow</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>Through and with others</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>Affirming my part</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>As well as the role of others</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>In forming and shaping my beloved</span><br><br><span class=textexposedshow>When I am so attached to my life</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>Allow me to see beyond this life</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>And when the end is near</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>I shall gracefully exit</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>Not fearing </span><br><span class=textexposedshow>Nor doubting</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>That this road ahead</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>Is where I am meant to be</span><br><br><span class=textexposedshow>Help me to hold things lightly</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>Suspending my thoughts </span><br><span class=textexposedshow>Making space for something new </span><br><span class=textexposedshow>Stepping back </span><br><span class=textexposedshow>Taking a different view</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>Confirming, disconfirming</span><br><span class=textexposedshow>Breathing in, breathing out</span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#37404E'>Simply letting go</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>All the best to all! Have a good weekend!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Carms<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><strong><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#60BF00'>If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. -- Henry Miller</span></i></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><span style='color:black'><hr size=1 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> Harrison Owen <<a href="mailto:hhowen@verizon.net">hhowen@verizon.net</a>><br><b>To:</b> 'World wide Open Space Technology email list' <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 10 August 2013, 8:14<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSList] Certification?</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div id=yiv1239363946><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Paul – it ain’t Dogma – just experience. If the experience changes, change the story. And that is what we are – Story Tellers. And the Tale has yet to be fully told. One thing I am absolutely clear about. We didn’t invent it. And certainly I didn’t invent it. Been going on for 14.7 billion years, and we are just catching up – just barely. Wherever it happens is the right place. We just have to keep out eyes open. And Be prepared to be surprised. I will be the first to cheer the departure of Open Space Technology. It is, and always has been in my mind a “half-way technology.” Something we do until we can easily and openly do the real thing. Which paradoxically is nothing new and nothing strange. Just what we do, and what we are. So relax Paul... the story is just getting started....</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Harrison</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Harrison Owen</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>7808 River Falls Dr.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Potomac, MD 20854</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>USA</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer)</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Camden, Maine 04843</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Phone 301-365-2093</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>(summer) 207-763-3261</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><span class=MsoHyperlink>www.openspaceworld.com</span> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><span class=MsoHyperlink>www.ho-image.com</span> (Personal Website)</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><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" target="_blank">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a> [<a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org">mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>paul levy<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 09, 2013 7:23 PM<br><b>To:</b> World wide Open Space Technology email list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSList] Certification?</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>The problem, dear colleagues, is that if you fix this as dogma...<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>For me it all comes down to this:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>· 5 Conditions of Use<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>· A few logistics<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>· Circle<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>· 5 Principles<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>· Law of 2 feet<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>· Be Prepared to be Surprised<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>· Trust the People<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>... Then you have killed the space for change. What Harrison calls (also dogmatically) "the genuine article" sets up a tragic polarity between genuine or NOT genuine.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>George W Bush did the same in the Iraq war: "Either you are with us or you are against us"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Harrison will take this "genuine article" dogma to his grave. Shame. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Certification even arises at all because of this false dogma. It has drawn it in by becoming a blueprint. Oh dear.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>There is no genuine article other than what we create in the moment of need and service. If we rediscover Open Space in the same format 25,000 times then it still isn't a rule or a dogma of genuineness. It simply the beauty if what it is. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>It's an act of beautiful magic, renewed and new in the emerging now.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Stop with the minimum lists already!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Burn the user guide. Just for the hell of it. Forget it all. Then go to work. Watch the circle form. Watch open space technology escape again, breathing better and fresher - possibly in the same form, possible it might surprise you.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Paul <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>On Friday, 9 August 2013, Suzanne Daigle wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='color:black'>Certification</span></b><span style='color:black'>, it keeps coming up and most likely it will keep coming up as more and more people experience Open Space. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>My story is that perhaps if there had been certification in 2009, I might not have jumped in as I did, recklessly and blissfully. In that first 12 to 16 months, I committed to one Open Space a month. And oh my, it was the best training ground ever. I know I botched it up many times, forgetting to say something, not being as clear in my instructions or worse, feeling so darn nervous with that dark shadow of control and desire for a predictable outcome still in my being. Funny thing is; I can confidently assert that it didn’t make a darn bit of difference. The space opened and people found each other and soon forgot the facilitator was ever there, except at the close and then only for a brief minute or two. It was again their turn to speak.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>In the weeks and months preceding WOSonOS 2013, a big gang of Millennials got to experience Open Space. It rocked their world as it had rocked mine and they are now running with it. Early on, one USFSP student couldn’t wait to integrate it into one of his study groups. What happened is probably nothing like Open Space. As he tells it, he arrived late, explained it in a rush and somehow students got it, whatever version of Open Space that might have been. Today that same guy is eating and sleeping Open Space; he invented stuff for the newsroom at WOSonOS and keeps making plans on how he and others will be bringing Open Space to student government and community. He is not alone; others are just as ignited.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>For me it all comes down to this: <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'>5 Conditions of Use<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'>A few logistics <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'>Circle<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'>5 Principles<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'>Law of 2 feet<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'>Be Prepared to be Surprised<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'>Trust the People<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>The simplicity of it all still astounds!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>An invitation to see life and be in life, with all its beauty, awe and wonder! Infinite and indescribable!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Timeless in the awareness it has created in me, how it has enriched my life with others, in the doing and not doing. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>From clarity to confusion, from knowing to not knowing, from joy to sadness, hope and despair…it’s all there like breathing in and breathing out. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Oh the twist of fate, the serendipity that led me to Open Space or Open Space to me! It was not even a real Open Space, just enough to spark something that made me long to know more. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>How grateful I am to have met OS. How appreciative to have stood on the shoulders of giants who came before me and who are here in this community. And how much I want others and everyone to “experience” it too; however they experience it, wherever it leads them!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>In the spirit of “one less thing to do” that is embodied in Open Space, it is where I believe we find that 1% sweet spot that ignites it all: the individual and collective “passion” and “responsibility” that leads to the life cycles of high performance that is in nature everywhere around us. By opening space and doing less, we are clearing the space for what matters most.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>How can we certify that? It does not even really exist. It’s just life. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>This is what the “certification conversation” inspired in me as I felt the knots in my stomach, the old confusions surfacing, and the feeling of so much to do that I’m not doing, so much more to know that I don’t know. The “not good enough story” that struggles to re-emerge poked its ugly head out. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>So I had to reground myself once again, to the sheer simplicity of Open Space.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Am I “being” this way yet? Heck no! But maybe by reminding myself a bit more every day and speaking it out loud, I will do less and say less (on that I have a long way to go). When there is pain in the world, it is awfully difficult to believe that doing less is for the best. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>I’ll take a glass of Pinot Noir now if there’s any left. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Suzanne<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Chris Corrigan <<a href="mailto:chris.corrigan@gmail.com" target="_blank">chris.corrigan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Hiya ,Chris!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>I have no trouble with givens as a practice. I learned that from Birgitt too although these days i talk about it as working in context. For me it is all part of setting the container for the work. In the Art of Hosting workshops many of us do we spend a lot of time on design, reasoning that the methods are simple actually but understanding the pre and post meeting work, working with the context and setting and holding a container for cocreation are essential to good work getting done. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>I have no problem with people receiving certificates for attending workshops but one simply can't guarantee performance with certification in this field. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Pass the wine. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>C<br><br>-- <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>CHRIS CORRIGAN<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Harvest Moon Consultants<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><a href="http://www.chriscorrigan.com/" target="_blank">www.chriscorrigan.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><a href="http://aohrivendell.withtank.com/" target="_blank"><b>Art of Hosting - Participatory Leadership and Social Collaboration</b>, Bowen Island, BC</a> <span class=MsoHyperlink>November 11-14,2013</span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><br>On 2013-08-09, at 12:48 AM, "<a href="mailto:eiwor@gatewayc.com" target="_blank">eiwor@gatewayc.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:eiwor@gatewayc.com" target="_blank">eiwor@gatewayc.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Dear Chris I agree about all you said, especially about the givens. I would even dare to say that the prework and the discussion there is what opens the space. What I do at the beginning of an OST meeting is ritual, also important but still ritual. <br>Thanks for your story.<br>Eiwor<br><br>Skickat från min HTC<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>----- Reply message -----<br>Från: "Chris Weaver" <<a href="mailto:chrisgweaver13@gmail.com" target="_blank">chrisgweaver13@gmail.com</a>><br>Till: "World wide Open Space Technology email list" <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.</a><a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">org</a>><br>Rubrik: [OSList] Certification?<br>Datum: fre, aug 9, 2013 06:45<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Greetings All,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Ah, I can't resist jumping in to stir the pot. It is an honor to join a thread peopled by so many folks whom I respect (and appreciate and love) so much. I invite you to settle in for rather a long story, which may, at some point, have something to do with "certification."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>After learning of Open Space in Anne Stadler's kitchen, I walked around as a newbie at the OSonOS in Monterrey (the one fifteen years ago, from which Harrison was unexpectedly absent, due to a nasty flu, I believe), with my jaw hanging open to meet so many bold and brilliant facilitators (I remember especially Michael P, Alan Stewart, Brian Bainbridge, Roxy, and Birgitt Bolton) sharing stories that I sweetly strove to wrap my head at least half-way around.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>For a few years I engaged actively on the OSLIST as I began to facilitate some OST meetings (without even "finishing the book," as I recall) in the Seattle school where I worked as a teacher. In 1999 I landed here in North Carolina, where I attended my first OST workshop as part of the Genuine Contact Program with Birgitt (Bolton) Williams who had recently landed a few hours away.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Now I will say that I have an assumption only that at around that time there was something of a "falling out" between Birgitt and her work and the work of some other OS facilitators. I do not know, nor need to know, the details. But I do know that there are some points of practice that have generated some heated passion in the community and that I think are worthy of putting on the storytelling table. (I know that there is not supposed to be a table, but I suddenly imagine myself with Jeff, Chris, Peggy, Harrison, Michael in a pub somewhere with a rough wooden table, on which I am happily uncorking a bottle of pinot noir.)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>When I completed the Genuine Contact "Working with OST" workshop, I received a certificate, but not a certification. (The distinction is important because there was no intention on the workshop leader's part to evaluate my "competence" in any way.) Based on my participation in the four-day experience, I could, if I cho<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Suzanne Daigle<br>NuFocus Strategic Group<br><span class=MsoHyperlink>7159 Victoria Circle</span><br><span class=MsoHyperlink>University Park, FL 34201</span><br>FL <span class=MsoHyperlink>941-359-8877</span>; <br>CT <span class=MsoHyperlink>203-722-2009</span><br><a href="http://www.nufocusgroup.com/" target="_blank">www.nufocusgroup.com</a><br><span class=MsoHyperlink>s.daigle@nufocusgroup.com</span><br>twitter @suzannedaigle<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='color:black'><br>_______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To unsubscribe send an email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">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" target="_blank">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>