OS and Community Forums on Universal Health Care?

[Jeff Aitken]

Nancy: I imagine two (or three) ways to go, off the top of my head --

1. Open spaces with broad theme (such as, issues and opportunities regarding health care in Vermont) which lead to wide ranging dialogues on a variety of perspectives; which may lead to convergence upon a narrower set of directions and strategies to pursue. You might assume that universal health care would be one of those directions.

2. Open spaces with narrower theme (such as, issues and opportunities regarding developing universal health care) -- which leads to intense pro/con dialogues if you invite a wide variety of people, which is fine, or to

3. focused strategic dialogues if you invite the "pro" camp only.

These three ideas might be nested and iterative. It depends on whom you invite to the circle, how you shape the theme, etc.

Jeff

> Hi Everyone,
>
> 48 hours ago I heard about OS for the first time when I learned that it
> will be used at a Vermont statewide peace conference I will be attending
> this Sunday.
>
> I'm also working (volunteering - we have no $$) with some physicians in
> Vermont to set up forums to engage our communities in a discussion of our
> health care crisis and attempt to form on going groups that can educate
> themselves about universal health care and work for statewide legislative
> change.
>
> So far, I've read just about everything on the website:
> http://www.openspaceworld.org/wiki/wiki/wiki.cgi  but have no other
> experience with OS.
>
> Do people on this list think that OS will be work pursuing for this work?
>
> Nancy Potak
> Greensboro, Vermont
> 802 533-9206
>
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