students in os as part of celebration of women

[Chris Corrigan]

Great stories John, as usual.  Thanks for putting them out there to
extend my learning about the possibilities of OST.

Chris


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CHRIS CORRIGAN
Consultation - Facilitation
Open Space Technology

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


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>  Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 11:18 AM
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>  Subject: students in os as part of celebration of women
>
>  This past Saturday I had the delightful opportunity of participating
in
>  an
>  Open Space with roughly 110 Haitian High school students and 10
teachers
>  and
>  school administrative staff.
>
>  The theme, translated from Haitian Creole to English, was, "What can
we
>  do
>  to ensure that there is authentic harmony between girls/women and
>  boys/men?"
>
>  We were at The Louverture Cleary School which is a private boarding
>  school
>  for kids who have been assessed as being academically gifted and who
come
>  from desperately poor neighborhoods and households.
>
>  I have been doing two to three Open Space meetings with teachers and
>  administrative staff each year for the last several years. This was
our
>  first Open Space with students. What excites me most is that two
young
>  teachers-both in their mid twenties-who have participated in previous
>  open
>  space meetings, initiated, organized and facilitated the event.
>
>  It emerged from the school's custom of doing an annual two day
program
>  for
>  female students celebrating international day for women. This year,
the
>  female students joined together and said to the teacher responsible
for
>  the
>  program something like this: "If the purpose of our celebrating
>  International Day of Women is to move forward in realizing a society
that
>  honors the rightful role of women, than the boys have to be a part of
the
>  program, because they are a big part of the problem."
>
>  Madame Louis, their teacher, worked with other teachers and students
to
>  come
>  up with a two-day program involving all students in grades
9-12--girls
>  and
>  boys--calling it: "Celebrate People." They designated Saturday
morning,
>  the
>  second day, from 8:00 am to 12:00 noon as being a time in Open Space.
I
>  only
>  learned about all this after the theme had been created. The two
teachers
>  responsible for the program, one a Haitian women and the other a
United
>  States-ian man, with encouragement from school's leadership, wanted
to
>  facilitate. They simply contacted me to get some pre-meeting coaching
and
>  help with setting up the space.
>
>  The meeting was done outdoors in their school's courtyard, protected
by
>  trees from the hot tropical sun.
>
>  There were two different time periods, more than 20 subjects posted,
>  notes
>  from the majority of small group discussions turned in, a talking
stick
>  type
>  exercise from 11:35 to 12:05, and nothing but positive comments about
the
>  morning in Open Space.
>
>  On April 10, the entire school-200 students and 30 teachers and staff
are
>  invited by school's leadership to attend a full day in open space on
a
>  theme
>  something like:  "What needs to be a part of our apprenticeship to
ensure
>  that we will be prepared, when we graduate, to help our country move
>  forward?"
>
>
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