Seeking advice: mixing youth & adults at OS + video

[Eddie Palmer]

Dear Susan,

No, allow Open Space to be really what it is meant to be!
The youths need the confidence that their voices will be heard - sometimes we
have run pre-sessions to answer worries such as these, but, please, no
restricted sessions! - that is agianst the whole principle

Best wishes to you,

Eddie Palmer
Open Futures
EDINBURGH
Scotland
www.openfutures. com

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>From  Sun Apr  1 11:16:57 2001
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Like Chris, I have opened the space for youth and adults many times,  in
multi-racial settings,  in 600 person church organizations, in schools
working on violence issues, in an alternative elementary school fighting for
its life among others.  It can work extremely well.  Some youth take
leadership and find it exhilarating.  Others may stay back for the first
round as they are not used to taking responsibility for their ideas (some
adults are the same).  This is where evening news can be critical in hearing
peoples concerns and frustrations and shifting them into the challenge to
take leadership and responsibility the next morning by putting up topics.
That has worked every time for me.

Larry

Larry Peterson
Associates in Transformation
41 Appleton Ave.,
Toronto, ON, Canada, M6E 3A4
416.653.4829
Fax 416.653.0609

lpasoc at inforamp.net
www.inforamp.net/~lpasoc
www.openspaceworld.com

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