Hi Patricia, I like your idea very much!
Just a further thought: Maybe you could additionally invite to an
OpenSpace-Online real-time conference on Peace - perhaps within this Peace
Week or as an online follow-up for example 4-6 weeks later or as a
pre-meeting 6-8 weeks before your Open Space event - this could also enable
further powerful complementary synergies. It would be even possible to have
simultaneous online meetings in different towns and to immediately share all
the conference documentations among all the nation-wide participants.
Here one application example, which was also connected with an 'Education
for Sustainable Development Project' in one German Town (also an
online/offline combination):
<http://www.openspace-online.com/oso_en/html/kundenstimmen/osnabrueck.html>
If you like the idea, write me. Let's see how I could support you.
Best regards from Berlin
Gabriela
www.OpenSpace-Online.com
Free eBook:
<http://www.openspace-online.com/OpenSpace-Online_eBook_en.pdf>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patricia Haines" <levelgr...@kaxy.com>
To: <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 4:01 PM
Subject: Opening Space for Peace Week '07?
I have an idea I'd like this group's thoughts on -
Taking inspiration from Harrison and Michael's experience, I've been
working with others in my
hometown (Ithaca, NY) to put together a series of events and gatherings
for what we're calling Peace
Week - Sept 11 through Sept 21st, the International Day of Peace.
Thanks to the email below, I'm now adding an Open Space on Peace to our
calendar.
I'll also be inviting members of the U.S. Partnership for the Decade of
Education for Sustainable
Development (global UN decade - see<uspartnership.org> to offer up their
own versions of Peace Week.
Since the Partnership uses Open Space as a core process, if any of you
would like to join this
effort for your own hometowns, let me know. We'll be putting information
and linkages up on the
Partnership website, Adult & Community pages - and, as I know you all
know, the synergy of doing
this together creates irresistable energy.
Your thoughts?
----- Original Message -----
From: Harrison Owen <hho...@verizon.net>
To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
Sent: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 08:37:26 -0500
Subject: Opening Space for Peace
You may remember that last year Michael Pannwitz and I had the privilege
of
Opening Space for the Congress of Imams and Rabbis in Seville. The
occasion,
as I reported, was more than a little exciting and definitely not
according
to whatever "Plan" I might have had. That said, the gathering was also
profoundly moving and powerful for the two of us and, we believed, the
participants as well - at least that is what we saw, and they said. Now
almost a year later it was very nice to receive a note from an advisor to
the King of Jordan and sometime Ambassador to the UN, which said in
part,"
It was wonderful in Seville and the great role you played changed the
entire
atmosphere, into what turned out lively, warm and cordial."
Had the event been only another community/corporate gathering, the words
would have seemed nice but not particularly significant. But that event
was
filled with virtually every conflict and tension imaginable - and at
points
seemed quite ready to fly into a million pieces. The shift from
catastrophe
(as some were calling it) into "lively, warm and cordial" was, to put it
mildly, mind blowing, and confirmed once again, if confirmation was
needed
that opening space for peace can be very effective. And of course, the
real
heroes were not Michael, me or Open Space. The people did it all by
themselves, as usual. Once they had the space to become what they already
were - a vibrant self-organizing system searching for peace with
themselves
and their world, nothing else was needed.
As we sit at the edge of 2007 watching the so called "world
powers/leaders"
going in circles, seeking to control events and the lives of others with
disastrous results, I find the experience of Seville to be nothing short
of
uplifting. To be sure we could all blow it this time around, but there is
an
alternative. It is also true, I think, that we in this funny little
online
community have a lot of work to do.
Harrison
Harrison Owen
7808 River Falls Drive
Potomac, Maryland 20854
Phone 301-365-2093
Skype hhowen
Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com
<http://www.openspaceworld.com/>
Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org
Personal website www.ho-image.com
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