Re: Fw: Y2K gets a small taste of Open Space

1998-12-27 Thread Karen McCarthy Casey
Ralph, I'm new at this and so far have only done any of this on my own, so i am always intrigued by the direction some of the conversations take. I would like to suggest that perhaps what has open space work is that people are suddenly and intentionally present to the present - leaving the future o

Re: Fw: Y2K gets a small taste of Open Space

1998-12-23 Thread Christopher Kloth
Ralph, I will be pondering your observation this season: ralphsc wrote: > Open space is ultimately, perhaps, about the present.

Re: Fw: Y2K gets a small taste of Open Space

1998-12-23 Thread ralphsc
To Chris and others, I have also been a member of the World future Society from time to time. I stopped sending them hard-earned money for subscriptions when I concluded that their ringing predictions about one sector, would be completely out of synch with their forecasts for another. For futuris

Re: Fw: Y2K gets a small taste of Open Space

1998-12-22 Thread Christopher Kloth
Add me to the list of people who has struggled with my relationship to futurists in general (I have claimed to be one at times) and the World Future Society (which I have been a member of off and on for 15 years). My experience is that there is far more energy going into projections of what will b

Fw: Y2K gets a small taste of Open Space

1998-12-21 Thread Peg Holman
This story came to the Open Space Institute (US) e-mail address. Thought you might enjoy it. Peg Holman -Original Message- From: Tom Atlee To: grouplearn...@lists.best.com ; eryn...@aol.com ; fnues...@aol.com Cc: h...@igc.org ; bbaumruc...@value.net ; bdfutu...@aol.com Date: Friday, De