Opening space for 24 Polish people - It worked magic.

[Barbara Sliter]

It is always helpful to me to understand how natural to people OS is.
Thanks for the sharing.
Barbara Sliter


----- Original Message -----
From: Toke Paludan Møller - InterChange <toke at interchange.dk>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 2:54 AM
Subject: Opening space for 24 Polish people - It worked magic.


> Hi friends of Open Space
>
> I held one yesterday here in Denmark for a group of 24 Polish
> environmentalits, farmers, scholl teachers and decesion makers from a
rural
> area west of Warsaw. It worked magic.
>
> Some of them had never been outside their area or worked in groups before.
>
> In 5 hours they had deceided to form action teams to transform their area
> to work towards sustainable action in the area of education, farming and
> tourism......
>
> Translation: - only two understood English - so only the briefing and the
> reflection in the end all the rest was in their language and on their
> terms.......
>
> when they understood the law of two feet, the smiled and became part of
the
> process, that was so new to them to be conscoiusly given the choice to
> follow their own feeling for freedom......
>
> I  am looking forward to see how Open Space can help the development in
> Eastern Europe where I have done a lot of work already.
>
> Anybody else Opening space there ?
> The baltics, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Hungary ?
>
> love to hear your learnings.
>
> - toke
>
>
> Toke Paludan Møller
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