Dear Joelle, how are you?
thank you for your nice letter, .... it is so warming us and gives us a shoulder of community! We are just back from our trip to Nojabrsk (Novembersk - if translated, as the place was called this way because there was a new oil - place found there in Novermber...) and the people in the North of Siberia are not just the average people - they are more active, then the average people as they decided to move North - to some 63 degree of North parallel... to live there in the permafrost - where they have already snow on the ground - as well as in Novosibirsk today.... a little bit early... they are very intellectual - the people we worked with and it was a sort of funny to look as they fulfill our tasks in Future Search Conference and just jumped fulfilling OS technology - at once they understood what we wanted from them, not even listening all instructions up to the end, so I asked them to wait a little bit and listen all the instructions, may it was wrong, they were already started to discuss all their ideas.... but it was really good process, though it started as usual with unexpected things. As I thought we agreed on the dates with the Mayor of the city, he was asked to go to the Regional meeting to "defend" the budget of the City and his vice-mayor was working with us. but when we arrived, thinking that we need to start the same day, the people were surprised and said, that the workshop starts tomorrow.... so the first info went throug with the dates 10-11-12, and the new agreement becouse of the flights "tuesday and friday" going to Novosibirsk and back was LOST. so they said : "Well, you will fly next Tuesday...." which was not a way for us as Marina has a new OS on Sunday with "Young Leaders Club" of 8-10 years old children and their parents and doesn't know what will happens if children will have question, how they will lead the group discussion and so on... so we did ask to find other ways of going to Novosibirsk and there is an every day flight from Surgut - another oil place three hours drive (in the night) there from Nojabrsk, so we did it after the closing of FSC and the flight was 6:50 am to Novosibirsk - so happy and tired without night - we are back home!! take care and good luck elena ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joelle Lyons Everett" <jleshel...@aol.com> To: <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 11:38 AM Subject: Re: os journeyn (LONG) > Elena-- > > Truly, you make my head spin with all the work you are doing! And we saw > some of the results of your work in July, when we discovered that many of the > women at the leadership conference had already experienced one or more Open > Space conferences. > > I also observed that the Siberian women who were in OS with us in Tacoma and > in Novosibirsk were reluctant to divide the group and attend different > sessions, but worked very hard to present all the sessions sequentially. And > I decided that if this is self-organized and agreeable to the participants, > it is probably okay. Though I would like the group to divide by interest and > work longer on their questions. But I think overall it is working. > > I felt very sad about the Sibir plane which went down--it is just a tragedy > for the people involved, and also for the airline. And I understand why > Russians are still flying--your country is so huge that it is not too > feasible to hop in your car and drive! > > I salute you and Marina for your hard work to introduce new ways of working > together to so many people. If they try something new, then they have more > choices for the future. Know that many of us are cheering for you! > > 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...@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
