Dear colleagues -- I am enjoying the honor and excitement of meeting and spending time with the fabulous Ms. Elena Marchuk, our fellow Open Space and Future Search colleague from Siberia.
What a delight she is, and what an amazing and essential job she is doing at such time in her country's history and development. I am finding her some books to take home, as she does not have access to any original publications on the processes she uses to facilitate. She has also been showing me reports and photographs of her Future Search and Open Space work in Siberia and elsewhere. What a privilege it is to see her work and to learn of her success. Elena mentioned a dream to me: She dreams about coming to Birgitt's training in San Francisco at the end of April. And this is very close to the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) world conference in Minneapolis, USA in May. But of course she felt it was just a dream, as one airplane ticket to the USA is for her one year's salary. Well, as Niels, Laurel and Annette will understand (this happened to us in Denmark last October), once you share a dream with another person it has the distinct possibility of becoming a reality. Whoops! No longer a dream... The airline ticket that is a year's salary for Elena is $545 US. These books that for her are impossible to get are on our shelves and at our bookstores. Would you care to join me in contributing to Elena's Dream Fund? Dreams are so often achievable with help from others. If you would like to contact me directly to discuss what books she needs, how to contribute some extra money you may have to her dream, or anything else along this line, I invite you to do so at lisah...@pacbell.net She will be staying here in California until the end of February. Birgitt's class is at the end of April. The IAF world conference is in mid-May. She will be contacting her support network of Rotarians for housing possibilities. Added bonus: If you are attending either event you will get to meet her in person (!!). I look forward to hearing from you, Lisa Lisa Heft Berkeley, California, USA * * ========================================================== 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