coping with drug use

[Lisa]

Dear Avner -

In that OST is about connecting not just to others who share your
passions but also connecting to your fuller self, I have found (as you
indeed have also found) that having Open Spaces both serves the
individual (for example, gives the one using drugs a fuller sense of
their own worth, and helping them find / others hear their own true
voice) and the system (including people served by systems or services in
the Open Space - as well as those who wish to serve / work in the
system/service - brings the 'client's' ideas for change and needs
assessment and what works back into the whole process, thus serving all.
Plus the other thing you know in Open Space is that finally people can
truly witness people as people (one of the recurring statements I hear
in closing circle from those who were supposedly 'served' - such as
youth among adults - is "finally you heard me fully but didn't feel the
need to solve, just truly hear me" and "finally I found those (adults,
whomever) who wish to work *with* me, not *for* me."

You know it will work beautifully, and I am glad you are there.

Warm wishes from chilly Berkeley,  Lisa

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Consultant, Facilitator, Educator
O p e n i n g  S p a c e
2325 Oregon
Berkeley, California
94705-1106   USA
+01 510 548-8449
lisaheft at pacbell.net

From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]On Behalf Of Avner
Haramati
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 11:57 AM
 Subject: coping with drug use
A small city in Israel (about 50,000 people) is interested in the use of
OS on the issue of coping with overuse of drugs, especially among the
youth. The local agencies and the educational system feel quite
helpless.
Do any of you have an actual experience with this kind of OS?

Avner Haramati
Jerusalem

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