FW: Editorial Work for OS & OST & POP goes our Youth

[chris macrae]

Thanks Kelvie - you are a wordsmith wonder

I have put your edited text up at A European Union space I co-edit.
http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?comment=1985
If its not OK, shout and I can of course re-edit

Whilst on the line, I am trying at the moment to map in each European
country a first point of contact amongst youth networks who care about
peacemaking -if anyone has some suggestions of people I should be trying
to connect to please say. The only reason why I say European is that
this is a geographic networking role I have been co-assigned by the
Australian movement of 200 peacemaking NGO's
http://www.collapsingworld.org <http://www.collapsingworld.org/>   I
would love to contribute to a world map of youth movements if anyone
else is starting work on such a compass.

Sincerely, Chris Macrae, wcbn007 at easynet.co.uk, 2004 Year of
Transparency, www.valuetrue.com <http://www.valuetrue.com/>


Updates:
04.1
For a couple of months I have been discussing a few terms with experts
in Open Space. This is a sort of consensus paragraph we have reached:

Open Space - gateway to real time, real place deep reflection,
conversation and idea development (special thanks for editing help to
Kelvie Comer)

Open Space technology ( <http://www.openspaceworld.com,>
http://www.openspaceworld.com,  <http://www.openspaceworld.org,>
http://www.openspaceworld.org,  <http://www.openspaceworld.net,>
http://www.openspaceworld.net,  <http://www.practiceofpeace.com>
http://www.practiceofpeace.com ) permits every human to make the most of
their time.

Systemically, Open Space is the simplest tool people will have for
communally valuing the dynamics of Conflict, Change and Chaos. Each of
these 3 C's is depressingly misunderstood whenever our human race
forgets its essential collaborative spirit - what makes us better at
value multiplying than those species we call animals.

For example, when people come together in conflict, highly passionate
perspectives may emerge with deep feelings. If these feelings can be
resolved in a way that openly engages everyone in the prospects for a
better future than the conflict ridden past, a valuable collaborative
initiative is now started. Our current understanding of conflict is
systemically immature both in commercial business contexts and human
policy places and environments. Equally, if we can go openly beyond this
barrier, the prospects for the human race's innovative diversity may
become wonderful at every locality worldwide.

I picture conflict as a gravity attracting huge passions and interests;
its often been stirred up by a congregation of compounding winds of
change (Chaos); Confusion (and its tragic partner destruction) is what
happens if one person or one sectional interest tries to rule over this
space and all the people passionately interdepending on communal human
sense and hoped for progress. Openness and reconciliation of respect is
the only pathway I can imagine truly leading out of descending into
conflict's communal hell. (do you have a different picture? )

-----Original Message-----
From: Kelvie Comer [mailto:kelvie_comer at hotmail.com]
Sent: 07 January 2004 22:58
To: wcbn007 at easynet.co.uk
Subject: Editorial Work for OS & OST

Chris . . .took a stab at editorial work, no significant substantive
changes.  You've made fascinating meaning of OST.  Not sure I understand
what you are trying to say there.

Use or not as you see fit.

I started life as an English teacher; was a college dean for a long,
long time; then a professor; am now on leave caring for my husband.

Thoroughly enjoyed the web page . . .you have quite a mind.

Kelvie C. Comer, Ed.D.

Youth in London
From: Josef Davies-Coates [mailto:josef at uniteddiversity.com]
Sent: 09 January 2004 03:51
To: news at uniteddiversity.com
Subject: Sat Feb 7th: uniteddiversity Open Space event

Everyone: please read and pass around.  Thanks and Peace, ud x

Sat Feb 7th 2004: *uniteddiversity Open Space Technology event*

*Be the change you want to see in the world* - Ghandi

*Self-organise and Share* - uniteddiversity

Sharing makes sustainable living simple, improves quality of life, and
reduces our ecological
footprint (see http://wiki.uniteddiversity.com/ecological_footprint)

Imagine if all your mates and loved ones, together with all the talented
and caring people you
collectively all know (plus all the people they all know) shared some of
everything they have: time,
tools, knowledge, land, food and shelter...

If you think about it, you'll soon realise that together we already have
the knowledge, expertise,
land, property and resources necessary to establish a global network of
sustainably managed commons.

We just need to self-organise and start sharing.

All the Tools for Change we need are already at hand: free software,
land trusts, co-ops, social
enterprise, social forums, community currencies, renewable energy,
satellite broadband, community
wireless, social software, open space technology, ecological building,
permaculture design, urban
ecovillages, city farms, community gardens, infoshops and social centres
etc. etc.

Like what you hear?

Everyone who shares our principles (see
http://www.uniteddiversity.com/about and
http://wiki.uniteddiversity.com/member_agreement) is invited to come
along on *Saturday February
7th* to experience experience a session of Open Space Technology and
shared times...

Why?

Apart from the obvious (to have fun), we hope to to decide how we can be
the change we all want to
see in the world.

The rough plan is:

    * Launch a formalised *Open Organisation*, incorporating our shared
principles, and agree to
begin to use it to more effectively pool our time and resources towards
acheiving our common goals.
    * Experience *Open Space Technology* to help us mind share and move
ahead.
    * Party! With our all-star jam sessions: *Sessions of Spontaneity*
(tbc)

Invitations will be sent to the ud list by 21st January. If you're not
on it already, use the form
on our homepage to sign up now.

More details about the meeting will be coming soon. In the meantime,
make sure you have a read
through the ammusing and illuminating brief history of Open Space
Technology at
http://www.openspaceworld.com/brief_history.htm and check out the 12
steps (see
http://www.uniteddiversity.com/12steps)

Peace,

the ud crew

http://www.uniteddiversity.com

--
Josef Davies-Coates
Founder, uniteddiversity LLP

Tel: 0845 456 9774
Mob: 07800 849 287

mailto:josef at uniteddiversity.com
http://www.uniteddiversity.com
Youth in Australia
http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/wyr.html



Network ProjectsCollapsing
<http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/cwc.html>  World
Conference

 <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/cwc.html> World Youth
Reconciliation Project

 <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/wyr.html> HIV/AIDS
Project
 <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html>
 <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> World Youth
Reconciliation Project
 <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> An
international network for local and global reconciliation" is a loose
association of groups and individuals around the world seeking to
coordinate their various, diverse activities directed towards the common
broad goal of reconciliation. It has been formed in part in response to
the events of September 11 and their aftermath and the apparent
impotence of the international institutions for the establishment and
maintenance of peace and reflects a sense that there is a need for a
robust infrastructure at the level of civil society that allows
community to come into direct contact with each other.
 <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> The network
will be formally inaugurated at a conference in London in September
2003, at which a formal structure which can facilitate open, democratic
collaborations among diverse groups will be considered. It has also
given rise to a number of specific projects. The World Youth
Reconciliation Project, or "WYR", The World Youth Reconciliation Project
aims to bring together young people to address the problems of hostility
and lack of understanding and mutual respect among people of different
cultures throughout the world.
 <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> WYR will
include a range of events, themes and projects that converge at a
festival to be held in late 2004. These will involve active
collaborations among young people living in different settings and in
each case aim to produce specific, enduring outcomes. Following the
festival, a workshop will be held in the setting of a live-in camp to
consolidate the achievements of the process and to assist in the
development of a structure that can promote the development of a
continuing program of activities.
 <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> Aims
WYR aims:
1.  to assist in the development of greater understanding among youth
from diverse cultures;
2.  to establish networks between communities involving young people
that may otherwise not be in communication with one another; and
3. to create an environment in which young people can collaborate in the
pursuit of global reconciliation.
 <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> It seeks to
contribute to the realisation of these aims by:
1. organising a Youth Reconciliation Festival, which will take the form
of a series of active collaborations among young people, developed over
time and converging on a series of public events in Melbourne in early
2004; and subsequently
2. holding a live-in workshop, or camp, to establish a continuing
framework that will promote ongoing youth activities directed towards
reconciliation on a local and global scaleParticipants
 Like the global reconciliation network, WYR is an open, collaborative
project. It seeks to involve young people from around the world, with a
particular focus on Australia and the Asia Pacific region. Particular
attention will be given to ensuring that a wide range of cultures, local
regions and community groups are represented, including schools,
indigenous groups and different community based cultural organisations.
Although no specific age range has been set, it is planned that the
activities will appeal predominantly to people aged between 12 and 25.
 <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> Project plan
WYR will involve a festival and a camp-workshop. The festival - which
will take the form of a series of collaborative activities occurring
over some months converging on a series of public showings in late 2004
- will aim at a diverse group of young people and will emphasise global
reconciliation and cross-cultural pride and acceptance in a laid-back,
fun setting. Following the conclusion of the festival process these
issues will be examined in further detail at a camp-workshop, which will
focus especially on the development of a framework that will enable
participants to continue to work actively to make a difference within
their own communities.
 <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> The festival
will involve a series of projects or "themes" using different media,
occurring in different settings and involving a range of groups of young
people. These projects will bring young people together around music,
theatre, video, the visual arts, writing, discussion and other
activities. Each project will be coordinated by an experienced
practitioner, many of whom will have particular skills in education.
 <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> The projects
will come together at a series of public presentations in late 2004,
which will themselves include international music, theatre, dance, film,
food etc., together with lectures and discussion around the theme of the
celebration of world cultures and the need for global reconciliation. An
emphasis will be placed on interactive workshops to enable participants
to engage with each other actively around these subjects in small groups
and to provide opportunities for dialogue and individual expression.
 <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> Camp
Following the public festival, a workshop in the setting of a camp will
be held to enable a smaller group of young people to share their
cultural backgrounds with one another in the form of discussion groups
and workshops in an intimate, residential setting and to explore ways to
promote acceptance of difference within their local communities. This
camp, which will extend over 4-5 days, will also provide an opportunity
for participants in the festival to evaluate its success and to consider
the possibilities for establishing an ongoing process to continue the
work it has initiated. Particular attention will be given to the
development of another festival in a different city.
 <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> Outcomes
The principal outcome of WYR will be the development of conditions for
harmony between people from different cultural, political, racial and
religious backgrounds, emerging our of the experience of working
together on particular projects. The existence of widespread divisions
and hostility separating people around the world is disheartening for
young people, who often feel unable to make any response themselves, and
in some cases, themselves mimic this hostility within their own local
communities in the form of intolerance, discrimination and racism.
Bringing people together in small communities in cooperative projects
will help counter negative images, enhance communication and overcome
the sources of hostility. The experience of participating in a festival
or workshops itself will lead to an increase in understanding and
cross-cultural harmony and tolerance which those attending will continue
to practice in their daily lives.
 <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> The specific
activities that are generated in relation to the festival, such as
artistic works, the video the tile installation and written materials,
will provide a concrete embodiment and symbol of the processes that
produced them and will continue to represent the aims of the project.
At the public festival and the camp which follows a framework will be
developed to facilitate continuing forms of cooperation and ways of
bringing people from different communities and cultures together. This
process will make use of the resources of the global reconciliation
network to provide opportunities for continuing communication through
its web site to promote the further development of networks and outreach
programs, participation in specific projects in different areas, and
other follow-up activities.
 <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> It is
intended to use the opportunities presented by this project to develop a
network of relationships to facilitate the continuation of the youth
reconciliation festival as a recurring event.
Depending on the availability of funding, consideration will also be
given to developing other processes to encourage continuing contact
between young people from different cultures and backgrounds.
 <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> Further
information
Further information can be obtained by contacting:

 <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> Address:
 <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> Paul
Komesaroff,
Director Monash Centre for the Study of Ethics in Medicine and Society
Monash University Department of Medicine
Alfred Hospital
Commercial Road
Prahran, Victoria 3181 Australia.

 <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> Fax:
 <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> (613) 9521
2124

 <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> e-mail:
 <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html>
paul.komesaroff at med.monash.edu.au
 <mailto:paul.komesaroff at med.monash.edu.au>
 <mailto:paul.komesaroff at med.monash.edu.au>
 <mailto:paul.komesaroff at med.monash.edu.au>

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