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If you have an urgent matter, please email back and I will do my best to respond to your request. Zoey Luxton, Assistant to Karen du Four des Champs INERCOR, The Training & Consulting Co. because change begins at the core . -----Original Message----- From: Viv McWaters <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 10:21 PM Subject: Help with an Open Space for scientists >Hello all > >Enthused and finally willing to take the risk after deepening my >understanding of OS with Birgitt, I've put up a proposal to conduct a >regular meeting of scientists using OS. > >This three-day meeting will be used to determine what the next phase of >research should be after the completion of the current three-year program >(in June 2000). The focus of research is eutrophication - or the causes of >blue-green algae in waterways, making the water dangerous to fish, animals >and humans - a serious environmental problem here in Australia. > >These scientists are generally resistant to process facilitation, let alone >OS - but I think I can convince them of the benefits. My problem rests with >their desire to include the traditional scientific presentations of results >to date and feedback to each other. I have suggested that this could be a >part of the OS - where there is passion and responsibility - but there is >some resistance to this and a desire to schedule a specific session for >these reports to everyone who attends. > >I am reluctant to do this (even at the beginning) because I think it will >detract from the experience of OS - and I know if I can convince them to >try OS they will love it. > >Any suggestions? > >Cheers > >Viv > > > >Viv McWaters >Integra Pty Ltd >45 Valentine Street, Ivanhoe 3079 >Victoria Australia >Ph/Fax: 61 3 9499 9300 > >"Thus the task is not so much to see what no-one yet has seen, but to think >what nobody yet has thought about that which everyone sees." Schopenhauer >
