Re: OS with kids - please advice

2003-08-25 Thread BrendanMcKeague
Thanks for this Toke - its a grand story and full of rich promise - I've been playing with some people in the schools scene for a while and this has given me the momentum to prompt them further into the space... Cheers - keep enjoying Svenmark Brendan in Oz At 08:59 PM 24-08-2003 +0200, you wrot

Re: OS with kids - please advice

2003-08-25 Thread toke
Dear Brendan. Good to hear it - looking forward to hear your stories good winds - toke mandag 25. aug 2003 kl. 03:15 skrev BrendanMcKeague: Thanks for this Toke - its a grand story and full of rich promise - I've been playing with some people in the schools scene for a while and this has gi

Re: OS with kids - please advice

2003-08-24 Thread toke
Hi Gerard. Thanks for a lovely day of learning in The Bramstrup space. As promised here is one of the stories about opening space for children and grow up together - on equal terms for your inspiration * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.ed

Re: OS with kids - please advice

2003-06-04 Thread Gerard Muller
Dear Kerry, Carla, Jack, Tok:e , Michael: links, Julie Reinhard, Agneta and Mark, Thanks for your helpful comments regarding “OS with kids”. I have fed them back to the preparation group, and will let you know how it all turns out. Greetings from Sunny Denmark Gerard Muller Open Space Instit

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2003-05-08 Thread At&T -- Mark R. Jones
00 e-Mail: mark.r.jo...@seabase.com -- -Original Message- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Gerard Muller Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 12:15 AM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu

Re: OS with kids - please advice

2003-05-07 Thread Skaparlust
Hej Toke, Jag arbetar en del i skolor, och har en utvärdering som du kanske är intresserad av. Jag skulle gärna ta del av någon design som du jobbat med. Hälsningar Agneta Falk - Original Message - From: "toke" To: Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 3:06 PM Subject: Re: OS with kid

OS with kids - please advice

2003-05-07 Thread Reinhard Frommann
Dear Gerard, I am facilitating an Open Space with children in the Town of Teltow (near Berlin). The Theme is the "buildup of a Youth Parliament in Teltow". The Age of the Children have a span from 8 to 17 years. We have had two Open Space meetings. My experience from these meeting are that whe

Re: OS with kids - please advice

2003-05-06 Thread Pannwitz, Michael M
In fact, planning meetings are in themselves just plain interesting and fun. Show me a gathering of people from ages 6 to 106 that is dull or not fun or not simply hilarious! The feedback to the planning meeting experience is always pretty similar (I close a planning meeting with a short 3 minute

Re: OS with kids - please advice

2003-05-06 Thread Pannwitz, Michael M
Dear Julie, a planning meeting is a wonderful opportunity to mimic the composition of the open space with the idea to have "the whole system" together. So I get them all together and certainly not seperately...getting everyone into the planning mode sets the stage for the way the os will run. What

Re: OS with kids - please advice

2003-05-06 Thread Pannwitz, Michael M
Dear Gerard, my experience with after school day-care children (8 through 12 years old, see event Nr. 40 in my "Veranstaltungen" list with a complete documentation that you can see if you click on "Praxisbericht"), with elementarty school children (6 through 12, see event Nr. 25...there is also a m

Re: OS with kids - please advice

2003-05-06 Thread toke
Dear Gerard I have some experience with this here in Denmark during ther last 5- 6 years...and have developed different approaches and variations for allowing children to participate on a peer to peer level in co creating their own educational future / schools. I can mail you one the designs if

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2003-05-06 Thread Thomas Herrmann
Thomas > -Ursprungligt meddelande- > Från: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu]För chris weaver > Skickat: den 6 maj 2003 13:45 > Till: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > Ämne: Re: OS with kids - please advice > > > Gerard, > > I have had a simil

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2003-05-06 Thread Vliex, Carla (cvl)
bus 907, 3800 AX Amersfoort > Telefoon 033 4677478, Fax 033 4677479 > Mobiel 06 53927407 > E-mail c...@tg.nl, Internet www.tg.nl > > > -- > From: Gerard Muller[SMTP:g...@openspace.dk] > Reply To: OSLIST > Sent: Tuesday, 06 May, 2003 10:14 > To: os

OS with kids - please advice

2003-05-06 Thread kerry napuk
Dear Gerard Muller Good question: how young can children be to participate in Open Space? We did an event with the youngest group convenor aged 12, who talked about pocket money (weekly allowance). She was assisted by a mentor. Maybe some of the older kids could mentor younger ones and help the

OS with kids - please advice

2003-05-06 Thread Gerard Muller
Dear All, I have been asked to facilitate an Open Space for a school. The theme will be: "What school do we want to have in the future, and how do we create it ?" When discussing who should participate, the conclusion at this moment is the Board, the schools staff, parents, children and a couple

Re: OS with kids - please advice

2003-05-06 Thread Julie Smith
- From: "Pannwitz, Michael M" Date: Tuesday, May 6, 2003 8:56 am Subject: Re: OS with kids - please advice > Dear Julie, > a planning meeting is a wonderful opportunity to mimic the > composition of the open space with the idea to have "the whole > system" together. >

Re: OS with kids - please advice

2003-05-06 Thread Julie Smith
I wonder if it would help to look more deeply at how we structure the planning for an OST with children and youth. I'm thinking it might be helpful to think in terms of multiple sponsors, all of whom need attention and input before the event. I think I might even meet with them separately in thre

Re: OS with kids - please advice

2003-05-06 Thread chris weaver
that was our closing. It was marvelous. Chris > From: Gerard Muller > Reply-To: OSLIST > Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 10:14:35 +0200 > To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > Subject: [OSLIST] OS with kids - please advice > > Dear All, > > I have been asked to facilitate an Op

Re: OS with kids - please advice

2003-05-06 Thread Jack Ricchiuto
]On Behalf Of Gerard Muller Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 4:15 AM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: OS with kids - please advice Dear All, I have been asked to facilitate an Open Space for a school. The theme will be: "What school do we want to have in the future, and how do we crea