Dear Harrison and all on the list: For the meanwhile here I sent you some hot waves that emerge from the 30 centigrade degree there are now at Santiago, in this time of Christmas and preparations for receiving the New Year.
The process of taken responsibility for telling my story and your posting about it, I think are untying my quill and permitting me become more extroverted and active in my relationship with this list. Im glad of doing so but it isnt so easy as I would presume. Writing the lines that follows take me some time and at least I believe would permit me to improve my English, up to when I begin the article I negotiate with you. So, without fear or false shame, in the next paragraphs I presents some opinions and I intend to draw a persistent and challenger vision, which perhaps should be the epilogue of the real storytelling that will come later. The worm air here tends to be higher especially considering the actual political scenario at Chile. The next 15 of January will take place the ballottage or second round for elect the next President of the Republic, between Michelle Bachelet and Sebastian Piñera, for the period 2006 - 2010. My vote will be for Michelle Bachelet because much of reasons that exceed the purpose of this list, except one that I think is the most passionate to all of us. She recognize explicitly, as an strategic point of his government program, the importance of opening the space for a citizen dialog and a more effective citizen participation, like one of the most fundamental ways of amplification and improvement of our democracy. For knowing more about she and her government program, goes directly to the following site in Spanish http://www.michellebachelet.cl/m_bachelet/ambientes/0/ I dont know if she already knows about Open Space Technology, probably she do, but my intuition says me that there is a great opportunity to make of OST the very best and preferred tool for carrying forward the desire transformations. Nevertheless I already know very well, what Harrison called sometime ago the power of turtles. With a felt-sense experiencing, I know that focusing the transformational forces of the self-organizations processes, is with no doubt, what I personally think is the most necessary condition, that will permit us to advance to a more participatory democracy as a daily way of life in our organizations of the futures. And at this point, is also necessary to tell you that I have nothing to do with the political world here in Chile. More exactly, only by my professional experience, I really are coming to know the political implications of been an OST facilitator. So, my vision is that in the year of the bicentenary of our independence (2010), a very big OST event in the Citizens Plaza will occur for celebrating the finalization of that important architectural and urbanity project. In his most profound sense, this celebration will symbolize also the development of a series of other political and social processes, which permit the citizen welcome the consolidation of a more participatory democracy. For more details about this project go to the following site in English http://www.presidencyofchile.cl/citizensplaza/ There I saw a big white tent with about other sixteen more little, surrounding all that big space. The invited people are important leaders of all sectors of the public and private ambit, who together reflects and dialog about the Chile that they want for their suns and grandchild. There are approximately 2010 people, which in a two-day sessions OST event, construct a complete manual of ideas, conclusions and suggestions. Most of those people have participated before in others two or three previous OST events, that was realized in his local area from a total of almost forty events realized around all the country. The President of the Republic initiate, participate and close this finally event. In her last words at the closing circle, she shall says something like this: And this experience has shown all of us that this is the way that we want to relationship and work with each other, for construct the nation that we desire for the future. This form of dialog and conversations, and the processes of freedom and responsibility that it involves, is for me the most important element that will assure all of us, the achievements we are looking for our democracy. The structures, norms and proceedings that we must design, should be aligned to all of these discoveries and Im sure that from now on, we will do it too much easier. Your active participation, leadership and replication of this kind of functioning with your local people, will continuously be a fundamental part for the final success of our Program for the Amplification and Improvement of Citizens Participation This is my fantasy and now I will just keep walking to work Johnnie Walker (Black label) (Juan Luis for the moment has gone to learn more English, so afterwards in this hot summer, can tell you the real story that he had announced will do.) * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist