Heh. Hedging my bets for when the training wheels come off!
On 13-Jun-09, at 4:19 AM, Harrison Owen <hho...@verizon.net> wrote:
Chris – your second paragraph is a masterpiece. And it is your birth
day too!
But I am curious. What’s faster and deeper than Open Space? (“…
than almost anything else.”)
Harrison
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Subject: Re: Tips for presenting Open Space to a Peace & Justice
center?
Done a lot of work in this area, most notably with the Dalai Lama
Centre here in the Vancouver area. We used Open Space to open up
the Centre to connection and collaborations with the community at
large to see how everyone could get work together. I've worked in a
huge variety of social justice setting around indigenous rights,
human rights, youth, workers rights, fairness in the food system,
diversity work, you name it, all using Open Space to bring people
together to collaborate on issues for which they sahre passion and
are willing to take responsibility.
My standard take on things is to riff on the mantra of "when we
don't know what to do, and we need to involve lots of people and to
trust their intelligence, passion and responsibility, Open Space is
the fastest way to get to work." World peace and social justice
remain, to the best of my knowledge, elusive states which makes me
think that the more hands and hearts we have in the mix the better.
An Open Space conference will quickly access this collective
intelligence and passion and build a field of relationships that
will put ideas to work. And it will do it faster and deeper than
almost anything else.
I'm sure many others on the list will give you other examples and
stories and maybe even a powerpoint or two, but my advice is have
the conversation with your sponsors starting with what they are
trying to do, and what they think will make that work sustainable
after the gathering. Open Space gets to the issues in 45 minutes
and after a day or two you have a set of relationships that will
sustain the work long after the conference ends.
Good luck to you!
Chris
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Harold Shinsato
<har...@shinsato.com> wrote:
I'm presenting at the board meeting on Monday of the Jeanette Rankin
Peace
Center to propose they use Open Space to initiate a Peace Conference
in our
region. Jeanette Rankin was the first woman in the US Congress, and
she also
voted against our entry into both World Wars (pretty much alone from
what I
recall).
Will the kind readers of this list provide any tips and pointers about
making such a presentation? If anyone one has a slide deck they'd be
willing
to share, even better!
Thanks in advance!
Harold Shinsato
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