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From: Harrison Owen
To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: [OSLIST] Unintend Consequences, Collateral Damage and Truth
Telling
Larry -- they did give me some warning. Sort of like . . . there may be some
"pol
Ho to you, Harrison; and to Birgitt...
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- Original Message -
From: Harrison Owen
To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: Unintend Consequences, Collateral Damage and Truth Telling
Larry -- they did give me some warning. Sort of like
esday, August 25, 2004 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: Unintend Consequences, Collateral Damage and Truth Telling
Thanks for the truth Harrison - about the event and about your experience in
it.
Did you see any of it coming in the planning before the event? Sometimes it
is a real surprise when
Thanks for the truth Harrison - about the event and about your
experience in it.
Did you see any of it coming in the planning before the event?
Sometimes it is a real surprise when the air is out, the dead moose in
on the table and the spirit is ebbing.
I'm not clear from your story when you "lef
There is a saying that goes something like this, "If you love
something, set it free. If it comes back to you it's yours. If it
doesn't, it never was." These words feel relevant here.
With the act of stepping aside, IMHO Harrison truly allowed room for
ALL possibilities of outcome: the energy of t
In a message dated 8/22/04 1:10:41 PM, fundao...@superonline.com writes:
>
> Maybe the question is " can we open more space in our hearts for conflict
> and respect those who are in conflict?"
>
> Lisa's and Harrison's reactions reminded me the difference between male&
> female dealing with c
Harrison--
<< Last thought. I don't think I was describing a new way to conclude and
<< Open Space. If anything it was more about kick starting the whole
<< operation with a radical re-opening of Space. It was also about giving
<< everybody the clear opportunity to make their own choices in a
ay, August 22, 2004 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: Unintend Consequences, Collateral Damage and Truth Telling
Doug -- I am not so sure that this is really a fork in the road -- somehow
that image is just too linear, suggesting that there is a single road. It feels
to me rather more like a deepening of
Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: Unintend Consequences, Collateral Damage and Truth Telling
Maybe the question is " can we open more space in our hearts for conflict and
respect those who are in conflict?"
Lisa's and Harrison's reactions reminde
--- Lisa Heft wrote:
Harrison- I totally 'got' that you were fully engaged, and also
knowing you and having seen you work I know that you would have found
just the right way to say what you were doing without in any way
leveraging it or implying anything by it. I also feel that people in
the cir
tation. In Open Space or elsewhere.
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From: Lisa Heft
To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: Unintend Consequences, Collateral Damage and Truth Telling
Hmmm.
I have reopened the circle the next morning
Yes, Harrison -
You said:
I totally 'got' that you were fully engaged, and also knowing you and
having seen you work I know that you would have found just the right way
to say what you were doing without in any way leveraging it or implying
anything by it. I also feel that people in the circle
As Toke said, this is a great conversation about "being in the fire."
One of my fiery times was a two-day Open Space for a nonprofit organization
that had been informed that unless they restructured to serve a larger region,
they would lose the funding that supported their service work in their
co
From: "Douglas D. Germann, Sr." <76066@compuserve.com>
To:
Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 6:53 AM
Subject: Unintend Consequences, Collateral Damage and Truth Telling
> Harrison--
>
> It seems to me you have invented a different way to conclude OST. I think
> there are
Hmmm.
I have reopened the circle the next morning with a bit of a challenge to
participants ('you can spend today telling the story as it has been, or
you can tell the new story beginning today' or 'if you want to spend
today describing the problem, as you did yesterday, feel free - if you
want to
Thank you for offering these real stories.Harrison
I have been close to this several times, but never had to practice
leaving to practice that kind of trust with the whole group fully -
it may find me soon who knows
What has helped me so far when these moments occur with clients or the
non-convergence is written up in some detail here, funda...
http://www.globalchicago.net/wiki/wiki.cgi?NonConvergence
and doug, i would say that what harrison did was a big version of
non-convergence. reopening the space for whatever wanted to happen
next, rather than pushing for action plans
you'll find some samples here, funda. varying degrees of provocative,
evocative and imaginative. and still they all worked well enough. michael
http://www.globalchicago.net/wiki/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceTech/InvitationWriting
Funda Oral wrote:
I am curious to know some "exemples of invitation"
you'll find some samples here, funda. varying degrees of provocative,
evocative and imaginative. and still they all worked well enough. michael
Funda Oral wrote:
Dear Listers,
I am curious to know some "exemples of invitation" as described in the book "
provocative, evocative, imaginati
f anything I
sensed a deeper connection with the participants.
Harrison
- Original Message -
From: Douglas D. Germann, Sr.
To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 11:53 PM
Subject: Unintend Consequences, Collateral Damage and Truth Telling
Har
Harrison--
It seems to me you have invented a different way to conclude OST. I think
there are 3 ways that are talked about here on the list:
1. Convergence (the first way).
2. Reopening the space for action planning (Chris Corrigan's way).
3. Opening breathing room (for times of shock).
So we
s,
Funda
- Original Message -
From: Harrison Owen
To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 5:55 PM
Subject: Unintend Consequences, Collateral Damage and Truth Telling
One of the earmarks of any good Open Space (and I've never seen a bad one) is
tha
Dear Harrison,
my thoughts: I suspect that there is no alternative to leaving the
circle or to step back...I further suspect that anything one might do
with or to the people gathered (even though the urge might be
overwhelming) will tend to shrink the space for the forces of
selforganisation to do
One of the earmarks of any good Open Space (and I've never seen a bad one) is
that Truth is spoken. It may be the sort of truth that manifests when
professional colleagues honestly and authentically access the relative merits
of particular approaches to a given issue -- not on the basis of who i
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