<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Heidi and all,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I also remembered and just looked for the 4 laws of spirituality from India:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m6HSdYuvHY" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m6HSdYuvHY</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Birgitt Williams has worked a lot in India and will probably share about it, when she comes to reading this thread.<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">I remember posts from our Indian Genuine Contact colleagues which made it very clear to me:</div><div class="">They embraced the depth and naturalness of this work with ease. Even more ease than many westerners, it seemed.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(The Genuine Contact approach includes OST and many other processes - Whole Person Process Facilitation etc - all in alignment with the spirit of OST).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">See their Facebook page with some OST pictures: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Genuine-Contact-Space-1696912453783156/" class="">https://www.facebook.com/Genuine-Contact-Space-1696912453783156/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Marai</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 31.03.2018 um 06:43 schrieb Jeff Aitken via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" class="">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><a href="http://www.openspaceworldmap.org/country/IN" class="">http://www.openspaceworldmap.org/country/IN</a><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Several people listed here who have worked in India using OST.</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 7:25 PM R Chaffe via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" class="">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class="">To support the posts so far. Open Space technology that I had the privilege to be part of seemed to be just the right thing as it reflected many of the values that are present in the various cultural and religious practices in the society that I shared. Because it is so your client may be looking for the Western World simplistic imposed solutions. You challenge may be the fact that everyone has an equal space, every idea is welcome, complexity is seen as a natural component of the issues and opportunities and that there may be confronting, challenging and radical suggestions. Opening space has the promise of gleaning the ideas, suggestions, issues that are within that business community so the sponsor must be able to accept this and in their opening, enabling address must sincerely convey this to the participants. So when they step back the participants are ready to post their topic without hesitation. The social structures in India often mean that various sections of the community are excluded as they are members of the other class or cast. This will be the major barrier to getting the whole of the business involved and therefore major issue in engaging other sections in any change the event using Open Space Technology “invents”.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best of luck, if you mission is based on pluck you will succeed if on luck success is optional</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div id="m_-5508734800572719240AppleMailSignature" class="">Regards<div class="">Rob</div></div><div class=""><br class="">On 31 Mar 2018, at 11:38 am, Jeff Aitken via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">OST was in India nearly before it was established in the USA - both in the same few years late 80s!<div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Others have stories I'm sure..m</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Jeff</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 5:30 PM Heidi Nobantu Saul via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">
<div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Greetings OST World Community - from the high desert of Santa Fe, New Mexico ~</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I have a potential client in India (a tech company) and it would be very helpful to be able to provide them with some companies, institutions or organizations that have used Open Space in India in recent years. Meaning more recent than the original event in Goa - which I have mentioned to my client. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">They have the idea that it is an 'American' thing and therefor may not work as easily with Indian participants.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">If any of you who have facilitated OST in India are willing to share where you did it/who for, I would be most appreciative!</div><div class="gmail_default" 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