Morning news on the last day of the training in Weimar

[Pannwitz, Michael M]

Dear Colleagues,
this is the 5th and last day of the os-facilitator training in
Weimar, Germany with 46 participants from 13 European countries.
I am sitting on top of a huge pile of insights and learnings but want
to share with you just  the bits and pieces that were announced
during morning news...which I think show a little of the spirit that
emerged in this very diverse group:
-birth of my grandchild complete with name and weight and a huge
round of clapping and congratulation
-a handmade greeting card for the support staff (kitchen, cleaning,
technicians) being passed around for people to sign
-a Father Day song (also called "men's day" in these parts) presented
in Swedish...the singer walking the circle once while presenting the
song
-Report on a participant who had to enter the hospital and is now
recuperating with the indication of returning to the training during
the day
-Profuse thank you and appreciation for a group that had organized a
campfire the night before (including the chopping of the required
wood)
-announcement that a 200 photo CD about the training is in production
and will go to all the participants
-the comment from the facilitator-in-training as a mobile rings
"there are even announcements from outer space arriving"
-reminder of a participant to notify the technical staff when a
computer breaks down in the computer cabinet and not to just walk off
-announcing a chatroom that will be available to the group on
www.openspace.pl beginning 7pm on June 6
-announcing the creation of an international open space-museum as
part of the polish website

We closed the training with a medicine wheel exercise to reflect on
the temporary learning organisation, handing out certificates of
attendence by participants themselves and the final circle for
everyone to have a last look at all the others present, Indian rain
included and then turning around, feeling the group at your back and
walking off into all directions.

So there is a new wave of os-facilitators (several with considerable
experience but most of them complete newcomers) going out to Malta,
Portugal, Poland, Romania, Austria, Sweden, Estonia (three people,
including Mikk Sarv and Mariu Sarv who had ho in Estonia last year
and are translating the Practice of Peace into Estonian), Belgium,
Lithuania, Slovenia, Latvia, Hungary and of course Germany swarming
out---

It was great fun with a grand team (Hans-Georg Wicke, Serpil Karahan,
Mia Konstantinidou and Michael Pannwitz jr.)

Greetings from Weimar
mmp







Michael M Pannwitz
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12209 Berlin, Germany
FON +49 - 30-772 8000     FAX +49 - 30-773 92 464
www.michaelmpannwitz.de

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