Yes Yes! Joelle thanks for this story. I remember that George Por, also a friend of Gus, had a booklet called "transformative conferencing" which was a collection of stories about creative ways folks have gathered, including "Togetherbound: A Gathering of the Mad."
I think Anthony Judge, who is leaderful in the field of "knowledge ecology," was involved -- and he has a fabulous website on transformative conferencing. http://www.uia.org/uiadocs/conftr0.htm As long as any of you may be looking, check out: "Transformation Metaphors derived experimentally from the Chinese Book of Changes (I Ching) for sustainable dialogue, vision, conferencing, policy, network, community and lifestyle" (wow) http://www.uia.org/uiademo/met/chingndx.htm Jeff At 12:46 AM -0500 3/7/02, Joelle Lyons Everett wrote: >Denis-- > >Thanks for the reminder that we all build on the work of pioneers and >inventors who went before us. > >The first direct forerunner of an Open Space conference that I am personally >aware of was an international conference on the future convened by a friend, >Gus Jacacci, at a castle in Italy a couple of decades ago. - Jeff Aitken Collaboration Consultant: Specialist in Open Space Process 1281 Burnside Road, Sebastopol CA 95472 USA 707-829-8256 mailto:j...@svn.net www.openspacetechnology.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