<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">Dear Anne,<div class="gmail_msg">So much joy to have your voice popping in here at just this moment and in the fun that I am poking at Harrison. The list has been a little too dull lately and so it is fun to play a bit.</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">I close my eyes and remember with a full heart all of the exceptional gatherings in your living room where all who gathered collectively opened space with so much love. So much was birthed there and of course we all had the freedom to take from it what inspired us personally and run with it or not. I think that kind of freedom is a reflection of the quality of the space, the fact that we didn't have an organization getting in our way, our curiosity, wonder and play. </div><div class="gmail_msg"><br></div><div class="gmail_msg">And of course there was the Expanding our Now...an experience of five days in open space so beautifully held by you and Harrison. My world changed as I believe the world for others did.</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br></div><div class="gmail_msg">Blessings and love to you dear friend,</div><div class="gmail_msg">Birgitt</div></div><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 6:27 PM anne stadler via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">Planning and OS<br class="gmail_msg">Lovely to see you two rocking on your front porch sharing stories!  Like the old days... (only then it was more like butting heads at times!). </div><div id="m_-8751703594425581578m_3456671381092539071AppleMailSignature" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div id="m_-8751703594425581578m_3456671381092539071AppleMailSignature" class="gmail_msg">My 2 cents: you can open space to do anything.  Just have to focus on the question you need to ask (that has heart and meaning for you), AND realize (actually live) the four principles.</div><div id="m_-8751703594425581578m_3456671381092539071AppleMailSignature" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div id="m_-8751703594425581578m_3456671381092539071AppleMailSignature" class="gmail_msg">Love love dear old pals!  Anne<br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><span class="m_-8751703594425581578m_3456671381092539071Apple-style-span gmail_msg">Your Self</span></div><div class="gmail_msg">Occupy</div><div class="gmail_msg">100%</div></div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">A world that works for ALL is a world of love made visible</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">Address: 18464--47th Place NE</div><div class="gmail_msg">                  Lake Forest Park, WA</div><div class="gmail_msg">                  98155, USA</div><div class="gmail_msg">Phone: <a href="tel:(206)%20459-0227" value="+12064590227" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">206-459-0227</a></div><div class="gmail_msg">Skype: anne.m.stadler</div><div class="gmail_msg"> <span style="font-size:13pt" class="gmail_msg"> </span></div><div class="gmail_msg"><a href="http://www.InClaritas.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">www.InClaritas.com</a></div><div class="gmail_msg"><a href="http://Www.CallofCompassion.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">Www.CallofCompassion.org</a></div><div class="gmail_msg"><a href="http://www.SourcingtheWay.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">www.SourcingtheWay.com</a></div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div></div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">On Feb 16, 2017, at 1:10 PM, via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">Send OSList mailing list submissions to</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">    <a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">    <a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span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_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">like oil and water. It is also true that on those occasions where I was</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">privileged to be with a group Planning in Open Space - it was marvelous.</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">Good stuff seriously happened, and best of all people really had fun - even</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">if there were times when it seemed like we were all hanging on by our finger</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">nails because things were moving so fast!</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">Of course the "proof of the pudding" in this business is not, "Did you make</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">a plan?" but most importantly - Did it work? And it is precisely here that</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">things really get confusing. The plans not only "worked" as (self) reported</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">by the participants - But they worked faster and better than ever. Almost to</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">the point that it seemed the distinction between "planning" and "doing" had</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">dissolved. Wow!</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">I can see another heresy just coming into view. Everybody "knows" that</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">Planning comes first. Neat, orderly, rational, deliberate - considered over</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">and over again. THEN... Action. But what would it mean if it happened all at</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">once? ... That there really was no meaningful distinction between planning</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">and doing? Not as an ideal, but as an experienced reality?</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">Some might say that this is a clear indication of mental aberration - Mad in</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">a word. On the other hand... were the experience real (as in repeatable,</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">non-drug induced, whatever) we might just have to take another look at what</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">we mean by "Planning."</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">Harrison</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">Winter Address</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">7808 River Falls Dr.</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">Potomac, MD 20854</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"><a href="tel:(301)%20365-2093" value="+13013652093" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">301-365-2093</a></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">Summer Address</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">189 Beaucauire Ave</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">Camden, ME 04843</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"><a href="tel:(207)%20763-3261" value="+12077633261" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">207 763-3261</a></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">Websites</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"><a href="http://www.openspaceworld.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">www.openspaceworld.com</a></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"><a href="http://www.ho-image.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">www.ho-image.com</a></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">-------------- next part --------------</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">An HTML attachment was scrubbed...</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">URL: <<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20170216/ed280e46/attachment.html" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20170216/ed280e46/attachment.html</a>></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">------------------------------</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">Message: 2</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 17:38:44 +0000</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">From: Birgitt Williams via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">To: World wide Open Space Technology email list</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">    <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">Subject: Re: [OSList] Planning and Open Space ????</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">Message-ID:</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">    <<a href="mailto:CAKF340grv7qFwe_zJY7okqxxCYXZhD=bp6gWDNP9Yz=ofTrkrg@mail.gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">CAKF340grv7qFwe_zJY7okqxxCYXZhD=bp6gWDNP9Yz=ofTrkrg@mail.gmail.com</a>></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">Harrison....LOL! I haven't received an email in my inbox that pushed so</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">many buttons in one email in a long time. I won't address all of them in</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">this mail. Thank you for the smiles this morning. You are I must be long</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">overdue to have lunch together. I remember the seven times that you were in</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">Ontario with your Open Space Technology training and in my sponsor role I</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">participated actively. I believe that one component of our work together</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">that the participants loved was your sweeping comments followed by my</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">perspective, often differing considerably from yours. I think we had a lot</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">of fun with those differing perspectives at the time. And by 1993 at what</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">was then called OSONOS I remember posting something that I did annually for</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">a while....the topic 'Harrisy', a play on your name of course with the</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">implication of 'what do we actually do that is different from what Harrison</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">does/says he does'.</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">On the subject of planning and Open Space Technology, for more than two</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">decades every group I have assisted with their planning have had one or</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">multiple OST meetings as a VITAL part of the process. I cannot imagine</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">planning without including OST.</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">I started calling 'planning' a 'Preferred Future', similar to making</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">intentions. It is not about control. It is about dreaming....together. It</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">is about how we are all novices at co-creating our future....something we</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">are figuring out on planet earth....that we have some significant impact on</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">'reality' as it unfolds.And just in case it is true that everything is</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">spirit, that everything is conscious energy, we can affect that energy from</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">an ocean of possibilities to a smaller sea of likely probabilities. To what</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">extent can we do that? Don't know. Making intentions, creating vision</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">boards, co-creating a picture of a desired future, giving ourselves</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">permission to do so in whatever ways feels right and exciting....all are</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">parts of us playing in this earth plane as adolescent creator gods and</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">goddesses....playing, learning. So, some of us might do what you did in</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">earlier days as captured by Billie Alban and Barbara Bunker in Large Group</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">Interventions....we tack something on after the OST to help people</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">formulate their co-created dreaming and help them put some traction with it</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">beyond the enthusiastic traction created within the OST.</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">Blessings,</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">Birgitt</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 11:26 AM Harrison Owen via OSList <</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"><a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">Occasionally somebody ponders the possibility of Open Space and Planning ?</span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">as in, could you do Planning, Strategic and otherwise, in Open Space? My</span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">immediate response has always been, Yes. As a matter of fact I have done</span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">just that on a number of occasions.</span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">There is no question that when we ?opened space for our future?  (which</span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">always seemed to be the essence of the theme), a marvelous time was had by</span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">all. Something that looked very much like a ?plan? emerged with attendant</span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">work groups ?  all committed and in place, and of course the time taken for</span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">the exercise was minuscule compared to standard practice. End of story. Or</span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">is it?</span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">Planning, at least in common usage, has some association with controlling,</span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">or even *creating*, the future. Indeed, many would argue that control of</span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">the future is the whole point of planning. Open Space, on the other hand,</span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">is all about self organization ? which implies that control as we usually</span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockq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te" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">non-drug induced, whatever) we might just have to take another look at what</span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">we mean by ?Planning.?</span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">Harrison</span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">Winter Address</span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">7808 River Falls Dr.</span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">Potomac, MD 20854</span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"><a href="tel:(301)%20365-2093" value="+13013652093" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">301-365-2093</a> <(301)%20365-2093></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">Summer Address</span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">189 Beaucauire Ave</span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">Camden, ME 04843</span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"><a href="tel:(207)%20763-3261" value="+12077633261" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">207 763-3261</a> <(207)%20763-3261></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">Websites</span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"><a href="http://www.openspaceworld.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">www.openspaceworld.com</a></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"><a href="http://www.ho-image.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">www.ho-image.com</a></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">_______________________________________________</span><br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">OSList mailing list</span><br class="gmail_msg"></blo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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Birgitt Williams</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">President & Senior
Consultant of Dalar International Consultancy, Inc. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.dalarinternational.com/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">http://www.dalarinternational.com</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Co-founder of the
Extraordinary Leadership Network </span><a href="http://www.extraordinaryleadershipnetwork.com/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">http://www.extraordinaryleadershipnetwork.com</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Co-founder of the
Genuine Contact™program and author of The Genuine Contact Way: Nourishing a
Culture of Leadership  </span><a href="http://www.genuinecontactway.com/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">http://www.genuinecontactway.com</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt">                   </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Co-owner of the Genuine
Contact Co-owners Group Ltd. </span><a href="http://www.genuinecontact.net/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">http://www.genuinecontact.net</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Supporting leadership
development for leading in a culture requiring agility and flexibility in a
performance environment of constant change.</span></i></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Leadership development
at your own pace? Become a member of the Extraordinary Leadership Network </span><a href="http://www.extraordinaryleadershipnetwork.com/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">http://www.extraordinaryleadershipnetwork.com</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> to participate in an online leadership
development program designed to increase the leadership skills and capacity you
need to perform in a performance environment of constant change. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">PO Box 19373, Raleigh,
North Carolina, USA 27619</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">phone: 1-919-522-7750</span></p></div></div>