thanks for posting this, chris. theresa is a friend of mine, as well, and i have also already pledged. theresa, catcomm, and also this new program called pledgebank, are fantastic programs. i'm glad to second your invitation here. michael
On 12/27/05, Chris Macrae <wcbn...@easynet.co.uk> wrote: > 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 > -- Michael Herman Michael Herman Associates 300 West North Ave #1105 Chicago IL 60610 USA Phone: 312-280-7838 mher...@globalchicago.net http://www.michaelherman.com http://www.globalchicago.net/wiki http://www.openspaceworld.org Executive Facilitation ...getting the most important things done in the easiest possible ways. * * ========================================================== 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