Piotr
trying again to send the message
all the best
romy
Begin forwarded message:
From: Romy Shovelton <ro...@compuserve.com>
Date: 15 March 2004 09:03:50 GMT
To: OSLIST <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu>
Subject: Re: OS in a religious context
Piotr
great to hear and see you.....
I know that many, many of us have worked with religious communities in
Open Space.
My own experience has been with various Catholic orders of nuns and
monks - in Ireland and England + with the
Conference of Religious or Ireland (CORI). Open Space is so natural
here.
with very best wishes to you and your community
Romy
On 14 Mar 2004, at 23:44, Piotr Banach wrote:
Dear Andrea,
your questions are a good opportunity to introduce myself to the OS
LIST.
My name is Piotr Banach and I’m a Polish Open Space facilitator.
For the first time I participated in an OS-event in September 2002 in
Erkner (Berlin/Germany). Michael M Pannwitz was a facilitator and he
encouraged me to know an Open Space. After this I participated in a
few Open Space events and than I did an OS training in
Weimar(Germany, Mai 2003).
So I could try to facilitate my first Open Space event in my home
town Parczew (Poland). Since that first Open Space event, which I
facilitated in Parczew, till now, I did about 10 events inPoland.
InWeimarwere with me 4 Polish people, and so we organize now inPoland
an “Open Space Poland Group”.
(Do you know anybody from Poland, who facilitates Open Space beside
us?)
Why were your questions, Andrea, important for me?
Because I’m a catholic priest...
In one community, in a middle of Poland(Kutno) I’m a parish priest
now.
It is very interesting, because although I’m a priest, I don’t have
any experience with Open Space in a religious context. I organized
once an Open Space in my own parish, but the theme was more social
than religious: What can a parish do for the people, who are
unemployed?
In Polandpeople don’t know Open Space at all. Every time I have to
explain very precisely the method and to encourage people to take
responsibility for their topics. Some times it is quite difficult,
but it works.
Dear Andrea, you are right, that many religious people expect
guidance from the church (especially here, in East Europe). But I
think, there is the time to change it, and the Open Space Technology
is a very useful method to do this. I our Polish church we have to
encourage people to take a responsibility for the community, for the
church, for our religious life. I think Open Space can help in this
work.
As a priest, I’ll try to do this in a future. For example I
facilitate an Open Space in April for Polish pastoral theologians.
I’m prepared to be surprised, but I hope as well, that this method
will work in a religious context too.
Very many greetings to the whole OS LIST from Kutno (Poland)!
Piotr
PS. I’m sorry for my English, but my first foreign language is
German. I want so much to learn English more...
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----- Original Message -----
From: Vona Andrea
To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
Sent:Saturday, March 13, 2004 10:54 PM
Subject:open space
Dear EVerybody experienced in Open Space,
I am doing a research o n the use of O.S. in the Catholic church. It
is connected to an O.S .even held last autumn in Hungary. I've made
several interviews with the participants and many quesitons arouse.
If you have any ideas, opinions about the following quesitons. Feel
free to answer.
1. If the participants do not know much about O.S. in advance, they
can bring up a topic, but can they take responsibility for their
topic if they did not have the chance to prepare for that topic?
2. The Law of Two Feet can give you the chance to "step out" of those
situations, which seem to be awkward and problematic but if you are
brave enough and stay there, maybe you can solve your problems. Isn't
it dangerous to step out of each situation which we find at first
sight uncomfortable or boring. Maybe it is just the temptation to
escape and avoid something.
3. Have you ever participated in an O.S. in religious context? What
was your experience?
4. Many religious people expect guidance from the church. But in an
O.S. everybody can bring up topics and there is no guidance. IN a
religious context people need spiritual guidance, they want to be
filled with words and want to be supported. How can O.S. work for
these type of people?
I look forward to any replies.
Best wishes, Andrea Vona, University of Economic Sciences, Budapest,
Hugary.
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