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
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