Juan Luis's Story

[JL Walker B.]

Dear Harrison and all on the list:

For the meanwhile here I sent you some hot waves that emerge from the 30
centigrade degree there are now at Santiago, in this time of Christmas and
preparations for receiving the New Year.

The process of taken responsibility for telling my story and your posting
about it, I think are untying my quill and permitting me become more
extroverted and active in my relationship with this list. I’m glad of doing
so but it isn’t so easy as I would presume. Writing the lines that follows
take me some time and at least I believe would permit me to improve my
English, up to when I begin the article I negotiate with you. So, without
fear or false shame, in the next paragraphs I presents some opinions and I
intend to draw a persistent and challenger vision, which perhaps should be
the epilogue of the real storytelling that will come later.

The worm air here tends to be higher especially considering the actual
political scenario at Chile. The next 15 of January will take place
the “ballottage” or second round for elect the next President of the
Republic, between Michelle Bachelet and Sebastian Piñera, for the period
2006 - 2010.

My vote will be for Michelle Bachelet because much of reasons that exceed
the purpose of this list, except one that I think is the most passionate to
all of us. She recognize explicitly, as an strategic point of his
government program, the importance of “opening the space” for a citizen
dialog and a more effective citizen participation, like one of the most
fundamental ways of amplification and improvement of our democracy. For
knowing more about she and her government program, goes directly to the
following site in Spanish
http://www.michellebachelet.cl/m_bachelet/ambientes/0/

I don’t know if she already knows about Open Space Technology, probably she
do, but my intuition says me that there is a great opportunity to make of
OST the very best and preferred tool for carrying forward the desire
transformations.

Nevertheless I already know very well, what Harrison called sometime
ago “the power of turtles”. With a felt-sense experiencing, I know that
focusing the transformational forces of the self-organizations processes,
is with no doubt, what I personally think is the most necessary condition,
that will permit us to advance to a more participatory democracy as a daily
way of life in our organizations of the futures. And at this point, is also
necessary to tell you that I have nothing to do with the political world
here in Chile. More exactly, only by my professional experience, I really
are coming to know the political implications of been an OST facilitator.

So, my vision is that in the year of the bicentenary of our independence
(2010), a very big OST event in the Citizen’s Plaza will occur for
celebrating the finalization of that important architectural and urbanity
project. In his most profound sense, this celebration will symbolize also
the development of a series of other political and social processes, which
permit the citizen welcome the consolidation of a more participatory
democracy. For more details about this project go to the following site in
English http://www.presidencyofchile.cl/citizensplaza/

There I saw a big white tent with about other sixteen more little,
surrounding all that big space. The invited people are important leaders of
all sectors of the public and private ambit, who together reflects and
dialog about the Chile that they want for their suns and grandchild. There
are approximately 2010 people, which in a two-day sessions OST event,
construct a complete manual of ideas, conclusions and suggestions. Most of
those people have participated before in others two or three previous OST
events, that was realized in his local area from a total of almost forty
events realized around all the country.  The President of the Republic
initiate, participate and close this finally event. In her last words at
the closing circle, she shall says something like this:

 “
And this experience has shown all of us that this is the way that we
want to relationship and work with each other, for construct the nation
that we desire for the future. This form of dialog and conversations, and
the processes of freedom and responsibility that it involves, is for me the
most important element that will assure all of us, the achievements we are
looking for our democracy. The structures, norms and proceedings that we
must design, should be aligned to all of these discoveries and I’m sure
that from now on, we will do it too much easier. Your active participation,
leadership and replication of this kind of functioning with your local
people, will continuously be a fundamental part for the final success of
our Program for the Amplification and Improvement of Citizen’s
Participation ”

This is my fantasy and now I will just keep walking to work


Johnnie Walker
(“Black label”)

(Juan Luis for the moment has gone to learn more English, so afterwards in
this hot summer, can tell you the real story that he had announced will
do.)

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