Dear os'rs! Hi! My name is Raffi Aftandelian, from Berkeley California, USA and currently in Moscow. I just joined this list today and wanted to introduce myself.
I just got trained in OST by Birgit Williams in Novosibirsk (Siberia), Russia. (a HUGE thanks to Lena Marchuk for organizing this training. Lena and I are both members of Intertraining, an association of NGO consultants and trainers in the CIS. A thank you Marina Tyasto for translating at the training. Lastyear Intertraining members were trained in OS at the annual conference; which i missed). This was important enough for me in spite of my finances that I took a two day (each way!) train trip from Moscow to participate in the training. I am thrilled to join the OS "family". The training got me really jazzed about OST and am very grateful to Birgit for really encouraging us to think profoundly about the essence and form of OST. I have been in Moscow for the past 3 1/2 years doing conflict resolution workshops (Alternatives to Violence Project) and am now very interested in applying OST to my work with NGO's here. I recently have been active on refugee issues (specifically around the war in Chechnya). I would love to know if and when there have been threads on the form and essence of OST here (i know there is an archive and started looking there a bit.) If you know offhand of times when there were especially valuable threads on this let me know. We here are planning on starting a Russian language OS e-group -- this came out of the mini-Open Space on OS that took place at our training. I am just brimming with ideas and look forward to joining you as colleagues in this adventure! All the best, from a green mild summery Moscow, Raffi Aftandelian * * ========================================================== 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