Dear fellow openspeisery (as we say in Russian),
Thanks for your support and your thoughts. It feels good to be part of
this (virtual) community. I really hope to make it to Goa this year and be
mesmerized/hypnotized/enchanted by fellow openspeisery. Need to work on
AccessKinging my way there!
Tha
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
It was never my intention to get into the "Peace Business." Nor was it my
intention to write another book. But in the course of my life my intentions
are often overlooked, and happenstance rules. So much for a life plan. And
now, the book - The Practice of Peace - is
Skill building and Open Space: I can understand why folks think that some
sort of personal/group skill building might be helpful. But my personal
experience is that such efforts rarely do any good, and may actually be
harmful. I remember one occasion with a large bank where there was concern
that
Well done Raffi and thanks for the story - and thanks Michael and Joelle
for articulating much of my thinking in response.
For me as facilitator, I am growing into a deepening recognition of the
power of this process and my own powerful presence as facilitator - or as
some of us at OSOZ discussed
I'd like to try to offer this new direction:
"What is the question?"
What if the question is not about what are the "givens"
but rather
what are the "musts" (I mean like in sailing) that make it possible for
the wind/spirit (in Hebrew it is the same word :"Ruach")
to move us in a direction.
T
Dear friends and colleagues,
I just finished doing another Open Space here in Moscow with a local NGO
that works with teenagers with substance abuse issues as well as at-risk
youth. This was a 1.5 day strategic planning session preceded by an
evening of storytelling.
It was the first time I'd eve
