<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>Thanks, Harrison, Michael and Brendan:</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">This is very inspiring for comand-and-control oriented Catholic country.</span><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Regards</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Artur</span></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Friday, November 22, 2013 8:45 PM, Harrison Owen <hhowen@verizon.net> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv8251230165"><style><!--
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--></style><div><div class="yiv8251230165WordSection1"><div class="yiv8251230165MsoNormal">Our friend, Michael Wood, dropped me a note with a wonderful story. By all rights I should have asked him to share, but the story is so good, I just couldn’t wait, and Michael, if I need to apologize, please consider it offered. <span style="font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></div><div class="yiv8251230165MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv8251230165MsoNormal">So it is all about Wave Riding in OZ with a most unlikely set of characters. Anglican (Episcopalian) clergy! Being one of those, I can tell you from personal history and experience that there are few groups in this world more staunchly conservative and resistant to change. This is not surprising as we have had many hundreds of years to perfect our stance, and in an odd sort of way, we do it rather well – staying exactly the same. Thank you. The thought that such a group could find meaning and purpose
in the arcane art of Wave Riding is marvelous...not to say mind blowing!</div><div class="yiv8251230165MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv8251230165MsoNormal">And to all you folks who may wonder whether or how traditional sorts in business and government might respond to opening a little space and hopping a wave I can tell you that stranger things do happen. Case in point. And actually, those business and government folks are just pussy cats and late comers when it comes to resistance to change. </div><div class="yiv8251230165MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv8251230165MsoNormal">But enough of that. On to the story... (with many thanks and apologies to Michael)</div><div class="yiv8251230165MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv8251230165MsoNormal">“Over the last few months it’s been fun to support some Anglican Church folks (lay and ordained) in Brisbane get into Waveriding mode (Brendan McKeauge has also been working with some
Catholic Education people in Brisbane), and I have another program in February. As you know, clergy generally and certainly Anglican clergy, were taught the intricacies of control. Now, increasingly they know it doesn’t work. If they don’t know it, then a lot of them are moving into internal melt down as the external system of the church unravels around them. Fortunately a few of them are recognizing that control doesn’t work and it’s some of those guys and gals that I’ve started to work with, sharing OST and Waveriding principles and a bit of work with Talking Circles. They’re lovin’ it. Saying they’re feeling revitalised already.</div><div class="yiv8251230165MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv8251230165MsoNormal">It’s early days of course and plenty of potential to be swamped by the existing culture. But so far I’ve worked with 30 people, 45 by the end of February. They are keen to support each other and have already
started to do things differently, and see the world differently. On the third morning of our time together, after they’ve actually experienced a couple of days of self-organised action learning, I invited them to reflect on the question, ‘was Jesus a Waverider’? Then the pennies start to drop at a really deep level. When we drop it down to that level I hope it will help them to hang in there with the living experiment. No longer just a passing ‘fad’ about how to run a meeting, but a more profound way of going with the flow of reality.</div><div class="yiv8251230165MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv8251230165MsoNormal">The primary sponsor in Brisbane, Peter Catt is the Dean of St. John’s Cathedral in Brisbane. He has been the local champion and sat in on the first program. In the closing circle Peter said, <i>‘some people ask me how I can be Dean in a place the size of St. John’s and look so relaxed all the time [I’d
been thinking precisely that]…it’s because I believe that reality looks like that [pointing to the four principles and one law on the wall]. I think the definition of wisdom is to run with the way the world actually is, and stupidity is to fight against it’</i>. Sums it up pretty well doesn’t it.”</div><div class="yiv8251230165MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv8251230165MsoNormal">And don’t you just love Peter Catt, The Dean! </div><div class="yiv8251230165MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv8251230165MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv8251230165MsoNormal">Thank You Michael!</div><div class="yiv8251230165MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv8251230165MsoNormal">Harrison</div><div class="yiv8251230165MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv8251230165MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv8251230165MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv8251230165MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv8251230165MsoNormal">Harrison
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