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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE-CH link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>Dear OS community<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>I have the honor of facilitating an OS meeting in the legislative context where the interests and needs of the participants are very contrary. After several failures of actualized by-laws in the necessary political processes, the responsible federal office this time wants to learn in an OS where the needs of the people concerned are BEFORE they start rewriting the by-laws. (Usually, those needs surface only when the parties and offices concerned are asked to comment the already written by-laws, which is too late to incorporate most of them.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>We had a very interesting preparation meeting where the question came up whether there are examples of successful OS-outcomes in a context of very contrarious interests and needs of the people concerned. I would be more than happy to hear / read some of your stories. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Gratefully yours, Catherine <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Catherine Pfaehler<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Open Space Begleitung<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Bümplizstrasse 84<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>CH - 3018 Bern, Switzerland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>+41-(0)31-558 06 81<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>+41-(0)76-488 15 46<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>www.open-space-begleitung.ch<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>