Open Spacing Schools & an Xmas Competition in catalysts of self-organising

[Chris Weaver]

Chris,

Please keep me in the loop.  I have many questions to ask you but I am
traveling and too busy with the holidays until next week.  What you have
written about the power of children self-selecting their mentors is such an
important key - I have been working on just this for several years, designing
ost and similar events and facilitating with many hundreds of youth, sometimes
with their teachers & parents.  My colleagues and I have developed the design
for a self-organizing mentoring village as an educational model, & we are deep
in the next phase of design this winter for application in spring with
teenagers who are in the foster-care system, and also with school groups.  I'll
be in touch with you directly next week.

Cheers!

Chris Weaver
Swannanoa, North Carolina, USA

Quoting chris macrae <wcbn007 at easynet.co.uk>:

> Dear Michael & OS
>
> As I see :it’s a continuous project, where anyone opens the space
> wherever we can
>
> In the UK I have some experience in getting school governors to open up
> Schools to emotional literacy surveys as run by www.antidote.org.uk  -
> do say if anyone wants to know more on this excellent idea tank on
> bringing back self-organising to schools; clearly one needs permission
> at a school level of teachers and some parents/governors
>
> We need (I think) to collate similar experiences - in particular do we
> have
> any examples of continuity of open spaces in a school already, or have
> they all been one-offs? (why didn’t they sprout naturally?) also let's
> think which other open space topics already in repertoire like community
> regeneration are potentially natural ones for school open space
> conversations?
>
> Who else may be interested in joining in? For example, I know quite a
> few people who feel that what kids need to learn for the future is
> changing faster than school curricula at least in particular practice
> areas; does anyone else? Can we link these people?
>
> chris macrae, wcbn007 at easynet.co.uk
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Pannwitz, Michael M
> Sent: 22 December 2003 12:07
> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Subject: Re: Open Spacing Schools & an Xmas Competition in catalysts of
> self-organising
>
> Dear Chris,
> sounds exciting.
> Who is the sponsor of this grand project?
> greetings from Berlin
> mmp
>
> On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:45:57 -0000, chris macrae wrote:
>
> >Happy Xmas Open Spacers , friends
> >
> >I realize that some of you have already done stuff in schools before
> but
> >over the next 5 years (partly because my daughter is 7) I want to get
> to
> >an experiment which puts open space throughout a school from 6th grade
> >(or 12 years) up
> >
> >By which I mean that once a year the main parent, teacher, kid exchange
> >includes a one-day open space at each grade (6? Up)
> >
> >I am mapping back a personal model (21 years brewing
> >http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html ) for a future view of the
> >world where I believe a person will be most productive if they can
> >select much more than in the past their 10 greatest mentors at any time
> >(10 might be 5 or 12 but its of that order). I assume that historically
> >typically we start with mother and father as mentor, then add in
> another
> >family member or school teacher, and then it goes rather random unless
> >you have the luck of going off the academic track into sports or
> >creativity or happen to have a great family business (or something
> >geographically local) to go into that just accidentally matches your
> >talents.
> >
> >( If you have to have an academic track to this model I would suggest
> >Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's work on the way people enjoy learning and
> >accomplishing presence)
> >
> >I am pretty sure that with the miracle combination of open space and
> the
> >virtual matching life to deep learning that email provides, those who
> >earliest get more selection and open communal guidance from supportive
> >peers who are also selecting mentors will get in effect better
> schooling
> >for life's opportunities. If we could prolong childlike inquiry
> >patterns, I could buy more of that contextualization instead of
> standard
> >examinations too
> >
> >I realise that what I have written is only half-cooked as yet. But if
> >anyone would like to form an email ring and once we've worked out 'how
> >to do it' we will of course report back then please contact me
> >
> >(I do also intuit a few other experiences from 2003
> >http://www.enterpriseforall.info  - eg attending a wonderful open space
> >by Roma and Lin (supported by 2 banks NatWest and Royal Bank of
> >Scotland, and including feedback with UK Treasury) on urban
> regeneration
> >which point me to the same rationale of let's make sure we future-proof
> >part of the school curriculum in ways that the young (not just the lag
> >of the old) should have a vibrant voice in
> >
> >Over in Europe, there are hi falutin things like Europe Vision 2010 by
> >which our 25 countries are supposed to be as good as the world gets at
> >knowledge society and nurturing human/social capital's diversity; my
> >guess is open space schools as a wee catalytic experiment gives people
> >one of the best shots of achieving 2010 (of course I would delight in
> >hearing your idea of another catalytic concept, because we people do
> >need a few great chances to self-organise in my view...)
> >
> >Happy Xmas and Transparent New Year to all, Chris Macrae
> >
> >wcbn007 at easynet.co.uk (in spite of this address my daughter's in a
> >school in Maryland, US)
> >
> >www.valuetrue.com
> >
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