Re: Bumblebee quotations

2003-02-15 Thread Joelle Lyons Everett
In a message dated 2/14/03 4:47:04 PM, ch...@chriscorrigan.com writes: << So can we welcome the new animal to our pantheon? >> Chris-- The more the merrier! Joelle * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu -- To su

Re: OST and decolonization

2003-02-15 Thread Joelle Lyons Everett
Chris-- Wow! This is huge. Thank you for sharing it. Joelle * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu -- To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit:

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2003-02-15 Thread Bernd Weber
Dear Tova, Thank you, I read your call. I can not directly contribute, but forwarded the posting to some perhaps interested friends in Austria. Bernd On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 20:53:27 +0200, Averbuch wrote: -Original Message- My dear friends of the list, I don't usually post from othe

Re: An OS-related poem

2003-02-15 Thread Bernd Weber
Chris, I love it. If I imagine passing on this truth to the "logically framed" national planners of my main client's Rural Development Projekt in central Mozambique... I can image it could have subversive effects ;-) In any case I immedeately forwarded it to our "nucleo de consultoria". Thank

Re: OST and decolonization

2003-02-15 Thread Bernd Weber
Chris, It's me again. I am not really sorry, but it was an error. My answer should have been an answer to this email of yours. I only notized the error, when the post came back right now from the list. Thanks again Bernd On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:58:03 -0800, Chris Corrigan wrote: This is obviously

Re: OST and decolonization

2003-02-15 Thread Harrison Owen
At 04:58 PM 2/14/2003 -0800, CHRIS CORRIGAN wrote: He said that at the end of the day he realized that this kind of expectation is what cultural assimilation is all about; that we expect others to set the agenda and tell us what our work is supposed to be. He concluded that Open Space works well

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2003-02-15 Thread Schloss Associates
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Re: OST and decolonization

2003-02-15 Thread john engle
dear chris, thank you for taking the time to share this quote. we are in the midst of producing a 20 documentary on the experience in Haiti of open space and reflection circles (discussion based-education designed for classroom). a very progressive US-based organization whose members are familia

Re: OST and decolonization

2003-02-15 Thread Harrison Owen
At 09:26 AM 2/15/2003 -0500, john wrote: i strongly believe that were i to not have come upon open space, the perils of being an n. american working for change in a place like haiti, would have overwhelmed me with disillusionment, resulting in the need to leave the country years ago. I suspect

Re: OST and decolonization

2003-02-15 Thread Chris Corrigan
Harrison: I use that line about disempowerment all the time. The empowerment thing is a funny one, but over the years, working with Open Space I have learned that it is really only possible to disempower somebody, not to empower them. People empower themselves, people only disempower others. Th