brief notes from N. Ireland

[Terry Gibson]

Great, Romy, so glad it went well. The 8th is my birthday which will act as
a prompt to think about you when you get in the circle with the 'big kids'.
My Lurgan friends are staying with me this w/end if you'd like another
perspective.

Terry


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From: "romy shovelton" <romys at compuserve.com>
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Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 4:55 PM
Subject: brief notes from N. Ireland


> Dear all
>
> thought I'd copy the notes I just wrote in reponse to an email from
> Birgitt.  Many of you sent such supportive thoughts to me/ us and I am
> hugely grateful.  I really felt you with us.
>
> Birgitt wrote: I am thinking about you as you set off for your work in
> Ireland and hope
> very much that it is both successful and joyfilled for you and that the
> results are lasting for the people.<
>
> xxxxxxxxxxxxx  thanks so much for that.  The young person's event went
> really well this week - especially the storytelling on the evening before
> the Open Space Technology meeting - it was very moving - and probably
could
> have gone on longer once they got going.  We also came up with a rather
> lovely process for involving them from moment one and making the space
> theirs : I put a series of flipchart sheets around a wonderful flower
> display in the centre of the circle - the sheets made a kind of hexagon
> looking shape (if you can imagine it).  Into the inside of the sheets I
> layed all the wonderful stones that had been collected from a local
beach -
> all kinds of beautiful shapes and colours - ready for the young people to
> choose to prompt their storytelling.  Then I asked the young people to
> think about why they came and what they want to get out of being at the
> event and to 'go for it' and write their thoughts on the sheets in the
> centre.  There was a big rush and lots of wonderful things written - about
> peace and making change etc - as well as "getting out of school!" - this
> was added to next day and during the time together.    We also had an
> absolutely huge Graffitti Wall that was completely filled with thoughts.
>
> The Open Space time was somewhat chaotic and rather difficult to keep the
> attention of some of them through three one hour sessions (one before
lunch
> and two afterwards) - and I wondered if 45 min sessions might have been
> better. On the other hand some of them wanted to talk for more than an
hour
> (and of course could have done even if we'd created Post-Its of 45 mins).
>
> Whatever the timing issues, on the whole they all dived into conversations
> with energy and really thought hard about what they wanted for the future.
> It was sufficiently enjoyable and they found the whole time valuable
enough
> that lots of them are saying that they are going to attend the next event
> (8/9th March)- for community and business people (and primarily adults) -
I
> am really thrilled at this, as it's one of the reasons we put on the young
> person's event first....  and .... now they are coming. It's so good.  We
> also really emphasised the importance of the young people taking things
> forward themselves and continuing to be involved (with support) rather
than
> just giving their thoughts and then getting disappointed that "the
Council"
> and others don't seem to listen or do anything.  So... it will be great to
> have young people putting up their issues while the adults are there next
> week.
>
> so... thanks for keeping us in your thoughts.....
>
> Romy
>
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>From  Fri Mar  2 18:29:57 2001
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Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 18:29:57 +0100
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From: Annette Hartvig Larsen <ahl at openspace.dk>
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Dear all,

This is to let you know that the Web Site of the Open Space Institute
Denmark is up and running.
It is in Danish, of course, except for the information and registration
for the May 19th-23rd event
with Harrison Owen which is in English as the participant group is on
its way to become very international. Just clieck the link on the first
page of http://www.openspace.dk/

Greetings from Denmark,




Gerard Muller
Annette Hartvig Larsen

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