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You’re not thinking large enough
The theatre is all about
Characters and sets and off-stage
Something larger is
Emerging under your feet

:- Doug.

A picture of T³ might be Tea party people or other ideologues.

:- Doug.

With T⁴ have we reached the zenith? I doubt that. Maybe we become a species of Doolittles, able to counsel with the animals … and the stars.

:- Doug.

In Open Space Technology we are watching the whole emerge as it emerges. So unless we are doing work for the larger whole, or creating a larger whole, there is a mismatch. Individuals seeking private benefit can find it here, and the group can in the process experience unconscious coherence but they will never see the benefits nor as quickly as the group working for a larger good.

:- Doug.

Open Space Technology is a holistic process and a 3rd and 4th level thinking process. (Using it for less is a waste of what we can do with beauty.)

:- Doug.

My world has gotten so turned upside down by this hospitalization, I have found it hard to think about meetings and wholes—my thoughts have contracted to the size of my medical issues.

:- Doug.

Dialogue allows us
to see the whole
as it emerges
us means each and the whole
and more—how can we know ahead?

:- Doug.

Invite right sized circles: if you have 12 people in a circle, only 1 can speak at a time. In 2 circles likely 3 times as many people speak: there is a greater chance of more ideas escaping.

:- Doug.

Spelling helps my ears
visualize what you say
maybe see what you mean

:- Doug.

Shopping as recreation is something I (as a man?) do not comprehend. This is shopping by strolling among the offerings to see what I might like, with money to spend. I only comprehend Know what I want, get in, get out, spend as little as possible.

:- Doug.

Why should I not make people work to understand me? Is this not engagement? If I activate their head and heart and even hands, do I not create partnerships, find creative friends?

:- Doug.

Open Space Technology: a free market method of meeting.

:- Doug.

What are the fractions of
truth between
and & or?

:- Doug.

Paint a vision
to see who sees

:- Doug.

Diverticulitis—one of the perquisites of getting older.

:- Doug.

With computers today taking over more and more of our coordinating and deciding activities from stoplights to traffic flow to knowing when to fill a tire, can it be long before politicians feel threatened that their old wranglings are being taken away, the need for them diminished?

:- Doug.

Independence Day fireworks: all the money we burn up in a few minutes! Why does the human spirit turn out in such numbers to watch? What does it see? Mostly not independence after all these years. The bright shining noisy display? Something more? Something of one? Something of its own human spirit?

:- Doug.

I’m waiting for you my sons
to grow up
to gather some depths
so we might meet

:- Doug.

The poem is for you
to complete
—with all possible

:- Doug.

It’s a new world
—not necessarily brave
that’s why you must be

:- Doug.

Do you fear being absorbed
in the sea?
Maybe you will absorb it!

:- Doug.

Become part of
your world
absorb and be

:- Doug.

When you meet the world
you both change

:- Doug.