Dear Funda,
I live in a rich city: Berlin.
My colleagues and I have facilitated about 300 os-events since 1996
in this city alone.
The dark sides of this city have in that same period grown:
unemployment, poverty, homelessness, dismanteling of social services,
cuts in primary education and health c
Michael writes :
"There, I saw grand opportunities for open space and talked about it
to people."
That's what i do here, although it is not heard so quickly. But i can not
get detached
so quickly from people's struggle.
I agree that self organizing, local resources, their lives and livelyhood
Funda -- seems to me it always has to be a personal decision and judgment as to
how one may best contribute. It is quite true that my resourses vastly exceed
those of most people in the world. I therefore have a special responsibility to
use those resourses in the most judicious fashion to do th
Dear Funda,
when I am a facilitator, thats my focus.
Getting out of the way, being unattached, with the stance "dont do
anything, just stand there" ( instead of "do something, dont just
stand there")
works better all the time as I am struggling to be in that mode.
When I am a participant, then its
Funda Oral wrote:
That's what i do here, although it is not heard so quickly. But i can
not get detached
so quickly from people's struggle.
I agree that self organizing, local resources, their lives and livelyhood
(as Harrison mentions)...their ability to create solutions are
important...very
as I mentioned at OSonOS, and as I always say, for me the power of OS is to
shift the mindset from one of 'indifference, powerlessness, isolation' to
'abundance, action, responsibility'
which is absolutely fundamental for authentic, grassroots, effective social
change
OS is the most powerful
Hi Judi,
That storm of rain and thunder you could thank us for (smile)!! Me and
Gustav we each bought one "thunder storms maker" and one "rain maker" at the
Busker festival down in the harbour and we did play a little with them on
Wednesday evening...
Now we are safe back home - Thank you and your
Dear Filiz,
reflecting on my experience in more than 100 os events I facilitated
I dont recall running into "indifference, powerlessness or isolation"
but being with people that were coming from "abundance, action and
responsibilty".
(plenty of them pretty mad, upset, full of stuff they needed to g
Dear all,
Interesting story. Maybe this governor is ready for OS? Any OSers in New
Mexico ready to drop and and tell him what they want? He seems to forge
ahead, damn the torpedoes on left, right or center. At least he seems to know
who he is and what he wants. A refreshing change, fo
Hi,
Last year in May, I had enough of the gray walls of my cubicle. It was also
around the time I was telling my work buddies about my art projects, and wanted
to show some to them... One thing led to another, and I decided to open "the
Cubicle Gallery", a small gallery inside my cubicle at
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