Dear Harrison cc Open Space List I am wondering if we can find a few people who will make 120 dollar pledges for Theresa Williams Catalytic Communities initiative at www.catcomm.org. A deep community project based in Rio De Janeiro, with potential impact replicating societal projects worldwide and linked through the Washington DC region where Theresa was brought up and her parents live
Why could Open Space people be particularly interested? ...AS well as working as the local hub and community meeting place for people who are have grassroots community-up innovations to space, catcomm has developed the virtual infrastructure to catalogue collaboration projects from any society that are ready to be replicated across orther societies facing the same challenge. I have always thought that quite a large number of open space activations are missing the trick of replicating what one community learns across other facing similar challenges. To achieve this perhaps one of the deeper dynamics needed is to review those open spaces that their facilitation clients want worldwide propagation for from several lenses. Conflict resolving initiatives of most interest to people in S America may have a different pattern from those that interest social chnage agents in USA and so on. WE can only see the practical patterns of this by iteratively championing local translations of social bariiers as well as cataloguing stories form all around the world of open space. Perhaps one day we could dream that every media organsiation had an open space correspondent as well as the 50 less interesting to me correspondents that most newspapers or tv stations field. I feel there is a multiplicative bridge between catcomm and open space but perhaps we will only discover all the practical ways of making the most of catcomm and oopen space worlds if a few people take out a pledge and then start cataloguing which of the open spaces they know of also want to be replicated to any community facing a similar conflict barrier. If you read this in 2005 and have questions please feel free to ask them of me and Theresa. A fulfilling 2006 to all of us. Back in London Queen Elisabeth has turned into a social activist. In her annual Christmas message she asked every Briton to debate whether the evidence of 2005 is that "humanity is turning against itself" and if they conclude so: to adopt one way of intervening in 2006. Sounds like catalytic community project hosts and open space agents will have a very demanding year. cheers chris macrae wcbn...@easynet.co.uk http://project30000.blogspot.com Dear Friends, Thank you once again for signing the Pledge!! I just want to drop you a quick note to share with you our current situation. 154 people have now signed the Pledge, and we need only 45 more!! But, as you know, we have only five days to meet the Pledge for the Pledge to be deemed active. I would like to encourage each of you who've already signed the Pledge to reach out to one more friend this week and encourage them to join us. If 1/3 of us are successful, we will have met our goal, and every single one of us will have been instrumental in making that possible!! For the Pledge visit http://www.pledgebank.com/catcomm. For more information about Catalytic Communities visit www.catcomm.org. For the Campaign Countdown blog visit http://catalyticcommunities.blogspot.com. Thanks, once again, for your support! Warmest wishes, Theresa --------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through http://www.easynetdial.co.uk * * ========================================================== 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
