International Open Space on Bowen Island

Chris Corrigan chris at chriscorrigan.com
Fri Aug 8 17:17:28 PDT 2003


Hi folks:

Bowen Island, off the west coast of Canada is where I live and we are at
the end of day one of a two day open space community dialogue on how to
make our little village, Snug Cove, an inviting place to live, work and
play.

We are really blessed to have with us here Michael Herman who opened the
space today, and Avner Haramati from Israel who is visiting and giving
us good advice and contributing some lovely stories and sorting through
what of all of this he might take back to Israel.  I love it that we
have that energy supporting our little village planning process.

We had a little more than 20 people in the circle today and issues
ranged from traffic problems (a big issue, as Snug Cove is also where we
load our ferry a new marshalling system has been recently imposed upon
us) to supporting self-employed people in the local economy to seeing
the Cove through a child's eyes, to writing and mapping stories of Snug
Cove onto an aerial photograph and soon to the digital database at
http://www.bowenisland.info.

We opened space in the heart of the Cove on a lawn behind the little
cottage that is used to support lifelong learning on Bowen Island.  We
used clothes pins to stick our issues to a cedar hedge.  We have been
writing up proceedings on poster board for use at our big community
festival on August 23rd where others will read and add to them.  We'll
slowly have the proceedings living at the wiki space attached to the
website of the Ashoka Institute for Community Practice, where you can
read more about the event (see
http://www.chriscorrigan.com/aicp/snugcove.html)

Having both Avner and Michael here is a treat.  Avner and his family
gave a talk on Wednesday night on his work in Israel and about 20 people
came out to hear that.  We're off in a half hour or so to a local
Shabbat service conducted by a visiting rabbi, and held here to welcome
Avner and Sarah and their girls to Bowen.

So it's good times here...engaged deeply in local thinking and talking
about how what we are doing might have some application in Jerusalem and
Chicago and Vancouver and elsewhere.  Feeling really strongly at the
moment that I am living in the think globally, act locally mindset.

Cheers, from Bowen.  And more later, if I get a lull in enjoying myself!

Chris

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CHRIS CORRIGAN
Bowen Island, BC, Canada
http://www.chriscorrigan.com
chris at chriscorrigan.com

(604) 947-9236

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