Harrison's comments remind me of a long-ago meeting, a planning meeting for maybe the third annual Mason County Idea Fair--an event which was not Open Space (it was before even the first Open Space). It was a somewhat-more-structured event designed to let people from different community systems talk with each other, and we gathered a few notes about expressed priorities and needs to feed back into the systems.
The purpose was to get a lot more people participating in community decision making. And at one point in the planning process, the organizers looked at each other and realized that people were prepared to take a lot more responsibility than we were prepared to offer them. A wonderful learning moment--and one which simplified our plans considerably. The need to make sure everything goes right dies hard, at least in me! Joelle * * ========================================================== 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
