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Open Space invites people who care to surface meanings and begin taking action.

:- Doug.

Invite those who like Open Space to gather to consider the deeper aspects and see how to use it to get things done.

:- Doug.

Stillness is movement too.

:- Doug.

Seek not to multi-task
Don’t pull yourself to pieces, stay together
Move little or much, precisely as
Luxuriantly as you need
Time has many dimensions
Many tributaries fractal
Times parallel and interleave

:- Doug.

We may fulfill the object of humanity
By attempting a task no one of us can attain
Or asking a question for which there may be no final answer

:- Doug.

For you, time.

:- Doug.

What might be the third dimension of conversational space? First is the In-Out continuum, second is the Personal-Whole continuum. Personal-Whole seems clearly of the heart, and In-Out of the head. That leaves hands for the dimension of perhaps Motion-Stillness. With this we can at least draw the spiral of crises and their evoked progressions. Second level crises are primarily concerned with encountering farm people who have not been to Paris. Third level is allying with those who have and so have different ideas how to change the world.

:- Doug.

So on what do we work?
Something larger
Than our own agendas

:- Doug.

We don’t so much
Create or find
We invite others who
Invite settings inviting us to
Participate
We encounter
What we evoke

:- Doug.

Safety is found in small circles. The breakout sessions with around 6 persons seem naturally to evoke this quality. Maybe there is an unspoken or even spoken agreement of confidentiality: If I am going to self disclose, then I expect and promise that what is said here stays here. Perhaps there is an unexamined safety in small numbers.

Here is reason to suggest to people wishing to combine sessions or even stay in the plenary group that the smaller groups are safer and so there is a greater chance of something new arising.

:- Doug.