Fwd: OS in a religious context

Thu Mar 18 04:12:34 PST 2004

Piotr

trying again to send the message

all the best

romy

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Romy Shovelton <romys at compuserve.com>
> Date: 15 March 2004 09:03:50 GMT
> To: OSLIST <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
> Subject: Re: OS in a religious context
>
> Piotr
>
> great to hear and see you.....
>
> I know that many, many of us have worked with religious communities in  
> Open Space.
> My own experience has been with various Catholic orders of nuns and  
> monks - in Ireland and England + with the
> Conference of Religious or Ireland (CORI). Open Space is so natural  
> here.
>
> with very best wishes to you and your community
>
> Romy
>
> On 14 Mar 2004, at 23:44, Piotr Banach wrote:
>
>> Dear Andrea,
>>
>> your questions are a good opportunity to introduce myself to the OS  
>> LIST.
>>
>>  
>>
>> My name is Piotr Banach and I’m a Polish Open Space facilitator.
>>
>> For the first time I participated in an OS-event in September 2002 in  
>> Erkner (Berlin/Germany). Michael M Pannwitz was a facilitator and he  
>> encouraged me to know an Open Space. After this I participated in a  
>> few Open Space events and than I did an OS training in  
>> Weimar(Germany, Mai 2003).
>>
>> So I could try to facilitate my first Open Space event in my home  
>> town Parczew (Poland). Since that first Open Space event, which I  
>> facilitated in Parczew, till now, I did about 10 events inPoland.  
>> InWeimarwere with me 4 Polish people, and so we organize now inPoland  
>> an “Open Space Poland Group”.
>>
>>  
>>
>> (Do you know anybody from Poland, who facilitates Open Space beside  
>> us?)
>>
>>  
>>
>> Why were your questions, Andrea, important for me?
>>
>>  
>>
>> Because I’m a catholic priest...
>>
>> In one community, in a middle of Poland(Kutno) I’m a parish priest  
>> now.
>>
>> It is very interesting, because although I’m a priest, I don’t have  
>> any experience with Open Space in a religious context. I organized  
>> once an Open Space in my own parish, but the theme was more social  
>> than religious: What can a parish do for the people, who are  
>> unemployed?
>>
>> In Polandpeople don’t know Open Space at all. Every time I have to  
>> explain very precisely the method and to encourage people to take  
>> responsibility for their topics. Some times it is quite difficult,  
>> but it works.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Dear Andrea, you are right, that many religious people expect  
>> guidance from the church (especially here, in East Europe). But I  
>> think, there is the time to change it, and the Open Space Technology  
>> is a very useful method to do this. I our Polish church we have to  
>> encourage people to take a responsibility for the community, for the  
>> church, for our religious life. I think Open Space can help in this  
>> work.
>>
>>  
>>
>> As a priest, I’ll try to do this in a future. For example I  
>> facilitate an Open Space in April for Polish pastoral theologians.  
>> I’m prepared to be surprised, but I hope as well, that this method  
>> will work in a religious context too.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Very many greetings to the whole OS LIST from Kutno (Poland)!
>>
>>  
>>
>> Piotr
>>
>>  
>>
>> PS. I’m sorry for my English, but my first foreign language is  
>> German. I want so much to learn English more...
>>
>>  
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Vona Andrea
>> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
>> Sent:Saturday, March 13, 2004 10:54 PM
>> Subject:open space
>>
>>
>> Dear EVerybody experienced in Open Space,
>>
>> I am doing a research o n the use of O.S. in the Catholic church. It  
>> is connected to an O.S .even held last autumn in Hungary. I've made  
>> several interviews with the participants and many quesitons arouse.  
>> If you have any ideas, opinions about the following quesitons. Feel  
>> free to answer.
>>
>> 1. If the participants do not know much about O.S. in advance, they  
>> can bring up a topic, but can they take responsibility for their  
>> topic if they did not have the chance to prepare for that topic?
>>
>> 2. The Law of Two Feet can give you the chance to "step out" of those  
>> situations, which seem to be awkward and problematic but if you are  
>> brave enough and stay there, maybe you can solve your problems. Isn't  
>> it dangerous to step out of each situation which we find at first  
>> sight uncomfortable or boring. Maybe it is just the temptation to  
>> escape and avoid something.
>>
>> 3. Have you ever participated in an O.S. in religious context? What  
>> was your experience?
>>
>> 4. Many religious people expect guidance from the church. But in an  
>> O.S. everybody can bring up topics and there is no guidance. IN a  
>> religious context people need spiritual guidance, they want to be  
>> filled with words and want to be supported. How can O.S. work for  
>> these type of people?
>>
>>  
>>
>> I look forward to any replies.
>>
>> Best wishes, Andrea Vona, University of Economic Sciences, Budapest,  
>> Hugary.
>>
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