Hi friends of Open Space I held one yesterday here in Denmark for a group of 24 Polish environmentalits, farmers, scholl teachers and decesion makers from a rural area west of Warsaw. It worked magic.
Some of them had never been outside their area or worked in groups before. In 5 hours they had deceided to form action teams to transform their area to work towards sustainable action in the area of education, farming and tourism...... Translation: - only two understood English - so only the briefing and the reflection in the end all the rest was in their language and on their terms....... when they understood the law of two feet, the smiled and became part of the process, that was so new to them to be conscoiusly given the choice to follow their own feeling for freedom...... I am looking forward to see how Open Space can help the development in Eastern Europe where I have done a lot of work already. Anybody else Opening space there ? The baltics, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Hungary ? love to hear your learnings. - toke Toke Paludan Møller InterChange Aps - at the edge of nature Stengaardsvej 5 A, 8600 Silkeborg, Denmark Ph +45 8684 6919 Fax +45 8684 6908 Mobile +45 2616 6919 email: [email protected] NEW - URL: http://www.interchange.dk
