Inviting Topics for helping social agencies work together?

[Chris Corrigan]

Here in the Vancouver area, agencies which serve the urban Aboriginal 
community have been meeting every month for the past five years in and 
extended conversation called the Vancouver Aboriginal Council.

It isn't an organization in the traditional sense. It's more of a container 
for conversation and collaboration and I believe it has served a critical 
role in smoothing over the very volitile political environment in Vancouver.

And it got it's start with an Open Space in January 2000.

More here: http://www.vac-bc.ca/about.html

Chris 

On 8/28/05, Joelle Lyons Everett <JLEShelton at aol.com> wrote:
> 
> Doug--
> 
> 25 years ago, the community where I live was concerned about the fact that 
> community systems were not working together. Lots of people with good ideas, 
> but the available energy and resources were going in too many directions.
> 
> A community group convened a meeting. Open Space had not yet been 
> invented, but we invited people from major community systems (city and 
> county government, schools, college, social services, service clubs) to an 
> all-day meeting to look at the future we desired for the county. We had 
> about a hundred people, a more-structured design than I would use today, 
> plenty of great conversations.
> 
> This meeting was repeated 4 times over a period of five years, with many 
> good outcomes. Social-service agencies decided that they needed to talk to 
> each other more often, and began a monthly lunch meeting to talk about 
> shared concerns. Five years after this program ended, a grant proposal was 
> written--I don't know who initiated the idea, but the directors of 65 
> different agencies and service providers signed off on the same 
> proposal--something that I know would not have happened ten years earlier.
> 
> Joelle
> 
> 
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CHRIS CORRIGAN
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Open Space Technology

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