Re: International Women's Peace Service - Palestine

2002-03-04 Thread Glory Ressler
Do you know anyone who might be interested in participating in this? Please help circulate to possible candidates. Best wishes, glory INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S PEACE SERVICE PALESTINE NEEDS 16 WOMEN: To spend three months a year, for three years in a Palestinian village support local efforts toward

non-convergence and posters

2002-03-04 Thread Michael Herman
just had my first live go-round with the non-convergence approach we've been talking about on metanet lately. have posted some of my process/results there. in short, i think it went very well and feels very promising and clean. also, jeff aitken, there is an invitation there for you to say more

from OS Institute (US) board

2002-03-04 Thread john engle
Dear Colleagues, We would like to invite the larger OS community into a discussion. We also encourage those interested in implementing ideas that emerge from the discussion to come forth. Following the membership renewal letter recently sent by the Open Space Institute (US) to its members, sever

Re: from OS Institute (US) board

2002-03-04 Thread Michael Herman
some thoughts... 1) What do you all think about these ideas? i'm not sure that open space suffers for lack of a central database. the stories are certainly available on the list and on the websites of many practitioners. and also by posting a request for stories here on the list. my guess is

Re: from OS Institute (US) board

2002-03-04 Thread Michael M Pannwitz
Dear John, dear other board members, I like the idea of a database of events. If you take a look at my website, there is a list of events (Veranstaltungen) from 1996 (when I began to facilitate os-events) till today listed chronologically with information to: date, length in days, sponsor, title, l

Re: from OS Institute (US) board

2002-03-04 Thread Ralph Copleman
Hi all, My responses/reactions to Kerry's comments and the OSI board's request... > > 1) Open Space, as a process, lacks a universal database of events and its > credibility suffers accordingly. I have no evidence of suffering credibility. Can Kerry or someone say more about this? If we did hav

Re: from OS Institute (US) board

2002-03-04 Thread Esther .
I feel that the kind of structure we need will happen if it's truly necessary but I do not think that we should maintain a database. I, certainly, have more important things to do as, I am sure, do the board. And I agree with Ralph that we all sit in the same circle. Also, some of my clients woul

Re: from OS Institute (US) board

2002-03-04 Thread Michael Herman
some more notes... first i just want to be clear that www.openspaceworld.org is *not* michael herman's website, though i understand how there could be some confusion about that. suffice it to say that michael herman speaks only one language, and that one not so good sometimes. also, that www.mic

Re: from OS Institute (US) board

2002-03-04 Thread Michael Herman
a call for major ost resource depots... if you have a major section of your website devoted to offering resources for ost practitioners, whether those resources be stories, articles, training tools or whatever... something beyond one-few pages that merely describe and offer your open space service