I am helping a group plan their regional conference -- to be in San Francisco June 29-July 1. Only one person on the planning committee has ever experienced Open Space and, as you can imagine, there is a lot of resistance and pushing to 'control' and organize the agenda, leaving just little bits of time here and there for open space. I have not yet foud the way to help them feel reassured that ALL of the important issues and needs WILL be dealt with in Open Space. (They want to carve outand reserve a morning for "charter and structure" and another time for "global issues" etc.) I was wondering if any of you know of any OS sessions that might be going on in the next weeks that some of these individuals could attend or participate in to help them experience=understand, trust, appreciate the process... Please let me know --especially if you know of any community type OS events. It is hard for me to work this through with the committee since I am in Seattle! (They meet in San Francisco)
This group has a very exciting and daunting mission: the Global Peoples Assembly is forming all over the planet -- we have an opportunity to find the way to create a parliamentary type body that would function in parallel to the UN --at first informally, i.e. without legal mandate, but with great support and attention. There is intense interest and desire for this including at very high levels within the UN -- people are so frustrated with the current situation. And the voices of people have been rising up since Seattle's WTO protests... This Assembly is what we can all say YES to -- a direct, grassroots voice of the people. Perhaps some you would like to get involved! We need all the help-capacity-energy-vision we can muster! (This is needless to say all pro bono of course). You can contact me and/or check out the just developing web site: www.ourvoices.org Thanks for any help, Susan Susan Partnow, Partnow Communications 4425 Baker NW Seattle, WA 98107 tel. 206-789-8697 fax 206-782-7786 su...@partnowcom.com * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html =========================================================== osl...@egroups.com To subscribe, 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign up -- provide an email address, and choose a login ID and password 3. Click on "Subscribe" and follow the instructions To unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@egroups.com: 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign in and Proceed