Hi Zack! You might just think about punting and let somebody else from "outside" your group do the honors. That way you all could jump in with full passion bringing such knowledge and experience as you may possess. Which I know is considerable. If you choose to go that route I can suggest two folks right in your neighborhood with whom I have worked for years, and whom I trust implicitly. As a matter of fact we just concluded another offering of The Practice of Peace Program which we did at the International Center over on Riverside Drive. Karen Davis and Ralph Copleman are the folks and they can be reached at kda...@concentric.net and rcople...@comcast.net Actually, if I were in your shoes, and the group was going to be sizable, I would ask both. Always helps to have a partner around.
Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20845 Phone 301-365-2093 Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Zachary Metz Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 12:31 PM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: ? on chosing a facilitator - Isr - Pal Open Space Hi all, My colleagues and I here at the Center for International Conflict Resolution at Columbia have been asked to hold an Open Space on a question related to the role of civil society in supporting the peace process in Israel and Palestine. We are struggling a bit to get clarity on who of our team makes the most sense to facilitate. We have several great folks - the question is really about the role of the "identity" of the OS facilitator in an OS that may generate lots of heat around questions of identity, including Israeli, Jewish, Arab, Palestinian, American and others. We imagine the group will include a mix of interested people from US-based civil society groups working on or around advocacy and/or peace issues related to Israel and Palestine. Here are the options we have on the table (round table of course!): - one Jewish American facilitator (me, full disclosure) -a partnering of the above with a Palestinian American facilitator - a co facilitation -a European American facilitator with no explicit ties to any of the identity issues at play in this conflict Any thoughts, opinions, experiences, etc that you have on the question of the identity of the facilitator in OS are more than welcome. I look forward to your input as we quickly (it's Friday) move towards opening space on this critical question. Be well, Zachary Metz * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
