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Open Space is a method of problem solving, or for those of you more hands-on or who think organically, a way of weaving issues and opportunities and the people who care.

:- Doug.

Invite those who diverge to converge
So something new can emerge

:- Doug.

He removes the log from your eye
You remove the speck from hers
Together we see more and more and more

:- Doug.

Converge the divergent
Something new emerges

:- Doug.

Speak the word new
Draw the circle larger
Brave now, courage, converse

Include the student, the lesser
Include the politician, the lost
Go off-script: small voices make new

:- Doug.

What does your voice want to say?
What does our voice want to say?

:- Doug.

Help others to see
that they might increase our vision
leap frog
:- Doug.

Open Space is where new things happen.

:- Doug.

What’s to fear in a poet?
What’s to fear in a Quaker?
Fear for your very life!

:- Doug.

We don't have to look for our weaknesses
     Or the limits in our way of seeing the world
We can just turn our eyes
     Toward us
Already
What good we create! 
     What beauty we see!
     What new truths we embrace!
Together

:- Doug.

The sponsor, the facilitator, does not open space
Nor was it there all along for us to walk into
Each poster, each word, each ear, each heart creates the space open

:- Doug.

All things are reflections of all others
mirrors who cannot see their own reflections
babies are drawn to babies
puppies to puppies
maybe even water on the hills to water in the sea
look deeply enough—are we afraid?—and we see wherever we look all there is
not just the jewels on Indra’s net
all reflect all

:- Doug.

Verse reminds us
in these mere words is
more

:- Doug.

The world out there
is not

As solid as
you think

Changing as much as
you think

Much of the world out there
you think

So keep reminding yourself
the world out there
is not

:- Doug.

interplay
of mind and matter
gives us space,
time, and causality
so interplay of minds,
hearts, and wills—spirit—
gives us what comes next

:- Doug.

heart—beauty—compassionate—us—invite
mind—truth—reflect—poetry—imagine
hand—goodness—create—whole-making—engage
The spiraling of these is called spirit

:- Doug.

Let’s get down to poetry.

:- Doug.

Into your poetical now.

:- Doug.

Into your poetry now.

:- Doug.

This is the deeper dive into rare conversation.

:- Doug.

What in your heart is unsolved?

:- Doug.

Repeat learning’s mantra:
I don’t know

:- Doug.

Observation’s beam
Spiral around source
So mind reflects
Heart compasses
Will creates
(Entrepreneurship = love =
Creative action = creative core)
Truth
Beauty
Goodness
Seeing, we can turn

:- Doug.