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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dear Suzanne (and others),<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I am so pleased and humbled that you appreciated my little video from Marysville. I had come to know Fr Brian after talking with him about the horrors of my experiences working in a government department. I had heard a radio interview with Birgitt Williams who was visiting Melbourne and as she spoke I heard little bells going off in my brain: this person is talking about my two favourite words – <i>elegant simplicity</i>. From there I tracked Fr Brian down and was trying to get a handle on this thing called Open Space Technology. For a small fee I agreed to video the OSonOSinOZ meeting in the hope of getting some insights into what made OST tick. All up I videoed around 12 hours of tape (which I still have if anyone is interested) including a number of interviews including Harrison and several others. I found the whole experience compelling and was deeply moved when I was invited to contribute a story to the Closing Circle. The intensity of that experience was unforgettable – I felt as though I was at the epicentre of a powerful energy field and could barely speak for shaking! Unbelievable for someone who had once hosted his own national TV series...<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'>When I set about trying to crystallise OSonOSinOZ in a short video, I found that the story pretty much told itself. I needed no slick video montages, no pumping music beat to “sell” the idea. Instead I simply let the natural bush sounds and the snippets of conversation set their own pace. I once heard one of the great communicators of biology, Prof Carl Gans, say to a colleague “If you truly understand your subject, you can tell it to anyone in five minutes.” This to a colleague who was complaining that the seminar organisers had only allowed him 20 minutes for his presentation. There’s a parallel I see here. I could easily make a 60 minute documentary about Open Space from the material I shot at Marysville but I doubt that would achieve anything more than the little 5 minute clip did. Your responses here in the list suggest I may be right in this.<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'>As Alan Stewart mentioned, the town of Marysville was destroyed in the subsequent bushfires and the Marylands Chalet seen in the video was burnt to the ground. During the conference, Nev Kennard took me for an early morning flight in his helicopter to get the aerial shots used to open the video. That video is the last taken of the intact town and of the Chalet. That adds poignancy to a truly memorable experience. The attached photo shows forest regrowth a year after the bushfires. Note the large boulder cracked by the heat of the fire.<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'>So once again, thank you for the opportunity and for the experience. Although I have never actually hosted an Open Space, I have advocated the concept to a great many people, one of whom, Stuart Candy, has embodied it in his own work on an international scale. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Peace to you all!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>David<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'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dr David Smith<br>BSc(Hons) PhD FRSA<br>Director, imaginACTION pty ltd<br> <br>50 Sweyn Street<br>Balwyn North<br>Victoria 3104<br>AUSTRALIA<br> <br>t +613 9857 8688<br>m 0411 444 048<br><a href="mailto:david@imaginaction.net.au">david@imaginaction.net.au</a><br><a href="http://www.imaginaction.net.au/">www.imaginaction.net.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> <br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>imaginACTION<br></span><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Overall Winner, <br>Australian Achiever Awards<br>Victorian TV, Film, Audio and Video</span></i><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'><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'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US 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>Suzanne Daigle<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, 21 October 2013 10:19 PM<br><b>To:</b> World wide Open Space Technology email list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSList] Distributing Harrison's The Practice of Peace<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Dear Linda, <br><br>I just ordered two boxes of books. I know they will make wonderful gifts for friends, family and colleagues at special times. Thank you for organizing this Linda.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I had procrastinated in placing my order and this morning I can thank Artur Silva who posted this brief Open Space video on Facebook... from 2002, an Open Space on Open Space in Marysville Australia. Many familiar faces, a gentle and beautiful flow, some captions and text to complement the footage, and even Harrison announcing a topic: "The Practice of Peace", like the title of the books I just bought. <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>So whether Open Space is theater, a game, passion/responsibility for high performance, connection and collaboration, a way of being or life itself, all I can say is that it was wonderful to start my day in this quiet special way, feeling the gratitude of friendship and purposeful work through Open Space. <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Tip of the morning to all (or afternoon or evening, wherever you may be). Hope you enjoy these 4.51 minutes of pure magic and feel as inspired as I do right now. <br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WlRiX_ID68">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WlRiX_ID68</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>suzanne<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Linda Stevenson <<a href="mailto:stevenson8899@msn.com" target="_blank">stevenson8899@msn.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The Open Space Institute in the US has been gifted boxes of Harrison Owen's <u>The Practice of Peace</u> books, and we would like to distribute these books FREE, but do need you to pay the cost of shipping and handling. The minimum order is one box which contains 34 books. More details and how to order a box (or boxes) can be found at:<br> <br><a href="http://osius.org/content/practice-peace-books" target="_blank">http://osius.org/content/practice-peace-books</a><br> <br>Please order a box or more for distribution to colleagues and clients, friends and family! The world is in need of some more Open Space and peace, and we can only store the books until the end of the year.<br> <br>On behalf of the OSI-US Board, thank you,<br>Linda Stevenson<br> <br> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><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><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><br>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Suzanne Daigle<br>Open Space Facilitator<br>NuFocus Strategic Group<br><br>FL 941-359-8877 <br>Cell: 203-722-2009<br><a href="http://www.nufocusgroup.com" target="_blank">www.nufocusgroup.com</a><br><a href="mailto:s.daigle@nufocusgroup.com" target="_blank">s.daigle@nufocusgroup.com</a><br>twitter @suzannedaigle<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>