Raffi, Please review this case as a story of living peace.
Let me know if you need anthing regarding this event. Love, park --------------------- NOSAMO On a cool rainy day in early afternoon in September, thirty six members of NOSAMO, a fan club for a politician, Ro Mu-Hyun, who later became the president of Korea in 2002. They gathered to come up with a draft plan for the next stage of their evolution before their hero, heavily and constantly bombed by opposition parties backed up by 3 major conservative papers, would step out Cheongwadae, the presidential palace, in late February-less than 6 months remaining. The debate-loving voluntary group that rushed from different parts of the country was serious, tense, and yet excited to tackle and finish their seemingly impossible task before next noon knowing their tendency of endless debates, which had produced natural shattered, bitter feelings among members of the fan club, in less than twenty four hours. The Open Space meeting started in a circle and after a brief introduction to Open Space Technology and the topic of the meeting. Soon the agenda wall-the bulletin board, was filled up with 14 topics they would be discussing over the afternoon and evening. With agenda posted on the wall, the idea market opened and each poster started to make a short pitch to attract as many people as possible to her or his session. Once pitches and selections were over, real business of discussions started. Serious yet somewhat excited discussions proceeded in and out of the meeting hall. Although there were man and his family who aroused suspicion among sensitive members of the fan club that the man who accompanied his wife and a young daughter both of whom seemed a disguise for his role was a spy from the opposition camp to sneak in and find out what was going on in the meeting, curiously it failed to do any harm on the meeting. Open Space intact! He seemed to be just carried along helplessly by the tidal waves of passion generated among the crowd. Around mid night ended the breakout sessions and the people were tired enough but yet too excited to go to bed. They wanted to celebrate their definite victory over their love of never-ending debates. For them, it was genesis of another collectively-created myth since they helped their hero become their president and protected him from the impeachment crisis. The late night party, highlighted by singing, dancing, and wine, came to an end near dawn. Next morning started in the circle again. People were surprised and impressed by a report bound with a red cover laid on every chair. A magic. The logistic team and a handful of volunteers compiled and copied reports and bound them. Having the reports in their hands, the facilitator started priority balloting that help the crowd converge on their priority issues. Although they had to hurry up to drive long miles way back home despite the rain, after a brief reflection the group left the venue with the report. The host of the meeting, chairperson of future preparation committee, retrospecting the meeting he said "It was the only meeting in years where we could have meeting and finish without debate and quarrels and with concrete results in a meeting of that kind." * * ========================================================== 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
