Harrison Owen Quotes

#1. Forget about trusting the process; trust the people.

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#2. Most people don't really care about the process of a meeting; they care about the issues and the results.

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#3. it is not how many people come, or even who comes (in the sense of status or position) that counts, rather it is the quality of the interaction and conversation that make the difference.

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#4. For good conversation you only need one other person who shares your passion and cares about what you care about.

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#5. The circle is the fundamental geometry of open human communication.

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#6. It would seem that most everything we do in the name of organizational effectiveness is antithetical to what Life requires

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#7. It is the dance between chaos and order that is truly creative.

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#8. If at the end of our time together you find yourself walking out with just what you walked in with, you will have wasted your time.

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#9. It is only in the dance between chaos and order that life progresses.

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#10. The world is full of good ideas, but without passionate commitment, they are worth little and go nowhere.

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#11. passionless good ideas are not only useless, they are a liability.

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#12. Peace of the sort that brings wholeness, harmony, and health to our lives only happens when chaos, confusion, and conflict are included and transcended.

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#13. If everything turned out just the way everybody expected, life would be exceedingly dull, and learning in any useful sense simply would not occur.

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#14. When the spirit of people is strong focused and vibrant, wonderful things happen.

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#15. The job of the facilitator is not to keep things on time, but rather to enable the creation of safe time.

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#16. Change is a journey and the journey is always about change. And if there is no change, why bother with the journey? And the best journeys require lots of space of one sort or another. So for great journeys - just open space.

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