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In open space aspiration is supported powerfully. Some people may get
desperate when they think their power, role or position could get people to
come to their session or stay in their session. When people use their own two
feet to vote, fear, rejection and desperation does show up sometimes in
I once heard a wonderful analogy about readiness for change that came from
the world of family therapy:
Imagine that a family lives in a house made of slats and that it has no
bathroom. Everyone poops through the slats. The deal is that the family
will not try to change until the poop gets high en
Dear PKaipa,
Do I understand that you believe that in open space people are
despairing, aspiring, or operating on auto-pilot?
Or is it that in open space we do not have to operate that way? If so,
how then are we operating in open space?
Ralph Copleman
What I understood about human nature and human learning is that we change only
under two conditions: desperation and aspiration. Desperation to keep our
identities as we know them alive, allows for transformation of those exact
identities. We know of many stories in which people who had near death
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>From: pka...@aol.com[SMTP:pka...@aol.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 1998 9:29 AM
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>Subject: Re: fear and change
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>What I understood about human nature and human learning is that we change
>only
>under two co
