Dear Annette, Thank you so much for sharing this. I have posted it on our Street Hosting Berlin blog (with no names mentioned): http://streethostingberlin.posterous.com/opening-space-at-occupy-london
I hope this is ok with you and I am happy to add your name and your website (once it is ready). Just let me know, when it is ready! Or if I should change something on the blog... Best from Berlin, Frauke On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Annette Zera < az...@gettingonbrilliantly.co.uk> wrote: > Dear OS Friends > > Usually I am a 'lurker' on this site, but this morning I have woken up so > excited I have to do a post. So, this is about about the Occupy LSX, the > camp outside St. Paul's Cathedral, which as you know is one of many camps > gathering around to world to protest against corporate greed and the > distortions of capitalism. > > Occupy LSX is extraordinary and already sufficiently successful to have > the (albeit hedged around) support of luminaries like the Archbishop of > Canterbury and the leader of the Labour party. I visited the camp twice > last week and was impressed, as others have been in other camps around the > world, at the smart, warm, welcoming self-organising management of a > difficult location with hundreds of people coming and going with both > shared and different intentions and interests. > > After chatting to some people on my second visit it was agreed that I > would return the next day, Friday, to facilitate a (ridiculously short Open > Space session. I did and to my delight about 25 people jammed and jostled > in a small drafty tent with an African drumming concert going on outside. > More people came and went, many joined in for good conversations and at > the end said they wanted more of this kind of gathering. Afterwards I > laminated the ideas/notes (e.g."what about a *maximum* wage?") so they > can be hung up for others to read and talk about. I was asked to come back > next week and facilitate another session as well as talk about how we might > use Open Space and other approaches to support the movement. > > It so happens that I've just returned from a great family trip to San > Francisco (where I met the lovely Lisa Heft, hello Lisa) and Adelaide, > feeling happy but unsure about what I'd be doing over the next few months > as my next assignment (in Thailand) has been washed by floods into next > year. This feels as if it is meant to be! I work with a photographer and > designer Richard White and in the next few weeks he is going to set up a > page on my website to record whatever happens. So you can see why I'm > excited! > > With very best wishes > Annette > > PS Looking forward to seeing and meeting many of you at WOSonOS2012 in > London! > > Annette Zera > 19 Highbury Terrace Mews > London N5 1UT > > 0207 690 1495 > 07951771466 > > www.gettingonbrilliantly.co.uk > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > -- Frauke Godat --------------------------------------------------------------- Projektleitung "Zukunft geht zur Schule" Young Leaders Award 2008 der BMW Stiftung Herbert Quandt --------------------------------------------------------------- Registration for Art of Hosting Training Berlin, November 18-20, 2011 is open: http://tinyurl.com/64w72dr --------------------------------------------------------------- phone (mobile): +49 (0)176 50 47 88 06 Twitter: @futureatschool @fraukeatschool www.futureatschool.net -------------------------------------------------------------------
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