Fwd: [oslist] Conversations From Siberia

[Harrison Owen]

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>Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 07:36:57 -0400
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>Subject: [oslist] Conversations From Siberia
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>I have been having wonderful conversations with Elena Marshak from
>Siberia. I think she is on the list here, but perhaps a little afraid to
>come out. With her permission I am posting some of our conversation just
>to give you the flavor, to encourage her, and in the hopes that this
>wonderful community will support her in her efforts.
>
>Harrison
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>Using the possibility to talk to you I want to say my congratulations on
>what I've read about Open Space in the book of Peggy Holman and Tom Devane -
>The Change Handbook, which Peggy presented to my friend Marina and me in
>Berlin last september of Future Search Learning Workshop. My knowledge of OS
>is very small, just the part of it which can be used in FSC and your article
>in this book. I'm translating this book to Russian - just for myself and my
>friends but think about publishing it. I like your article very much and
>started to ask Peggy many questions so she got me on your OSlist.
>The question which interested me after reading law and principals of OS in
>FS hand book of Marv.Weisbord and Sandra Janoff and in your article that the
>role of facilitator is 20 minutes instruction before OS real start to work.
>So if excluded the presentation of participants just saying law and rules -
>that's it?
>our people are afraid of interactive methods and we are still work on
>promoting something like FSC and we provide 3 of them this february and
>march. the experience is very interesting though hard for me - not to talk
>except giving tasks. As we provide more training before in management like
>Strategic Planning, Marketing and so on though interactive with a lot of
>tasks.
>Today we talk with our local government people and they want us to provide a
>sort of discussion on parnersthip of NGOs and local governments on the 29-th
>of June. Two sections will be traditional - 13 lecturers and ours will be a
>sort of interactive. but for 2.5 hours, and the topic of my group will be
>implementation of the programs - the most hard one for Russians... so I was
>thinking if it is possible to work on somehow new ways, or I have an
>alternative to ask the participants questions like HOW they think we can do
>implementation (better) what is needed to be done and what are the problems
>to be solved, though we usually try to avoid problems and talk more of what
>people want to do. Can you give me some advice?
>
>
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>Thank you for your answers. I really had a heart beating when I heard about
>this OS workshop in Moscow - but that is 3000 kms
>(about 2000 miles) so it I could I would really run there, but I learned
>about this opportunity a week before dead line of 17-th of May and I could
>not make all things at this short time... Well, I know, when you look for
>excuses - that is not a constructive way of thinking - I really sorry I
>could not. Michael Pannwitz proposed me to organize such a workshop for
>autumn in Novosibirsk, and he is ready to come. but organization also mean
>money, and real organization - who, when, where - you know also 6 W and we
>have a lot of plans for autumn, so we need to find the window for doing
>this.
>Now I"m working with local government officers on Partnership with NGOs and
>I will have 2.5 hours in my session to talk about implementation. We mean by
>this realization of the social programs. I'm looking for better way of doing
>it and asking myself the same question as I saw in your OSlist - whether it
>is possible to do something with OS technology.
>
>
>Best wishes
>Elena Marchuk, Ph.D.
>Director of the Regional Development Center "Ceres"
>Novosibirsk
>
>"Elena A. Marchuk" <marco at mail.nsk.ru>
>
>
>
>
>Harrison Owen
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Harrison Owen
7808 River Falls Drive
Potomac, MD 20854
USA
phone 301-469-9269
fax 301-983-9314
website
www.mindspring.com/~owenhh
Open Space Institute websites
www.openspaceworld.org
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