from Ukraine

jotoepfer at boscop.de jotoepfer at boscop.de
Wed May 25 06:42:48 PDT 2005


Dear colleagues,

right now Tuesday evening a thunderstorm has shut down all electricity. We are
sitting at the dark bar drinking Moldavian Chardonnay wondering whether we will
be able to send this message.

After a full day of Open Space participants got into Action Planning this
morning, producing 26 proposals resulting in 22 detailed next steps. Since we
agreed to have a Learning Exchange for this crowd in November there will be a
wonderful chance to see what will come out of it.

Everybody spoke in the Closing Circle including one participant who took a whole
minute of silence for herself and saying Thank You before she handed the
talking stick (Jo’s powerful piece of wood from the river Ob in Siberia, which
has gone though more than two thousand hands) to the next person.

A recurrent strain was their recall of early childhood learning experiences and
their amazement at the harmonious atmosphere
 which was part of their general
theme. This against their experience in this transforming society.

After lunch a four minute introduction by Michael and Jo in English and Russian
into Open Space on Open Space. Sobering and down to earth. Even though they had
a strenuous day they posted 18 issues and produced 19 reports in four hours.

Before the electricity went off our team had copied all the reports for all the
participants so that the book will be ready by tomorrow morning.

Gads, the juice just came back after a 90 minute black out causing everybody at
the bar to cheer and clap.

One of the highlights today: Michael speaking in English during the Evening News
and Jo not translating with varying participants jumping into the translator
mode. High play, high laughing and a spirit reminiscent of what many of us are
dreaming about: the InterActive Organization
 here in the remote Ukrainian
countryside.

We hope this reaches you in good spirits at breakfast while we are enjoying
Ukrainian folk singing by a group next to the bar.

Jo and Michael

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