Chuni - Thank you for your wonderful "wish story". And your wish makes the whole world a new and different place for all of us. May there be many more!
Gail On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 2:00 AM, <chunili2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > This is an open letter. > Dear Harrison and Suzanne, > > I wanted to drop you a note to tell you that the wish I made in Jan 2011 > in New York (when we first met) had just come true a couple of weeks ago. I > remember saying to myself then: "This open space format would be so > beneficial to the NJ Children's System of Care that I need to figure out a > way to sell it to my agency and the entire System!" > > Well, on 9/20 and 9/21, we held a two-day Children's System of Care Call > to Collaboration convening for Monmouth County. My agency MonmouthCares > sponsored the event, my Executive Director was the host, our partner > Community YMCA donated the camp ground as the venue, and I was the > facilitator. > > Everything went beautifully! 60 system partners came representing the > government, schools, juvenile justice system, behavioral health services, > mobile response system, family support services, youth advocacy, etc. > Weather was great and the open space environment couldn't have been better. > > And the best part of this journey is that it wasn't me who drove the > project. It was one of our supervisors who created a vision from last > year's strategic planning retreat, which I facilitated using Open Space, > and took the initiative to make this happen. I watched the entire > leadership team in my organization doing this without me having to convince > anybody. I did little in the preparation; I just showed up, opened the > circle, held the space, and closed the circle. And for that, they thanked > me for my "leadership" and gave me a pair of Tibetan bells as gift! > > Seriously, now that the word has gone out, my next wish is to take it to > the government and the state level. > > Looking forward to seeing you next week! > > Chuni Li > New Jersey > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- Gail West, ICA 3F, No. 12, Lane 5, Tien Mou W Rd Taipei, Taiwan 111 Ph) 8862) 2871-3150 email) icat...@gmail.com Skype) gwestica www.icatw.com
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