A story from the field: talking stick

WeBe TrainConsult wb-trainconsult at gmx.net
Wed May 25 04:42:39 PDT 2005


Am Tue, 24 May 2005 17:47:40 +0200, schrieb Gerard Muller:
> Dear all,
>
> Earlier on I wrote I always ask the sponsor to choose and introduce
> a talking stick.
>
> While most do not find this an easy thing to do, most select
> something which I could not have thought of,
> and more often than not the words they introduce the talking stick
> with are something which, well, you would like to have in
> writing....................
>
> No-one ever did, until last Saturday, and it is a beautiful example
> I would like to share with you.
>
> The background: we have some 15.000 Somalians in Denmark, fugitives
> from the war a decade ago.
> Ninety percent are unemployed. Being foreigners, muslim and black
> does not make it easier in Danish society to get a job.
>
> The question of the Open Space was:
> "Many thousands Somalians would like to have a job soon - how do we
> create that success ?"
>
> Participants: some hundred people. Somalians, employers, and others
> somehow connected to the issue.
>
> And now for the talking stick, introduced by a Somali woman - here
> are her words:
>
>
> I have chosen to bring along a key to our closing round.
>
> Every single Somalian who was on his way to Denmark, had a dream We
> all knew it would require hard work to realise that dream
>
> The dream was about getting a life with physical and social safety
>
> Among other things that means having a job to enable us to pay for
> a place to live,
> to have control over our lives, and have a sense of pride in
> ourselves and thereby be respected in society.
>
> This key represents our dream.
>
> But it is as if this key does not fit to the keyhole we found here
> in Denmark ...........
>
> However, Today we have created a new key.
> The key to our dream, to our future.
>
> From Today onwards we will use this key to turn into the right
> direction.
>
> We will turn it from left to right and will work hard to realise
> the dream
>
>
> Greetings from Denmark,
>
>
> Gerard Muller
> Open Space Institute Denmark
> Phone: (+45) 21269621
> Mail: gm at openspace.dk
>
>
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