Deep Democracy * Open Space * Other systemic methods

[Patricia Haines]

-this is another example of why and how listservs are important: I never heard about  Deep Democracy
- or Open Space - or the World Café - in grad school! even though I was supposedly preparing for
work in participatory program planning - thanks to you all for sharing so generously from your
knowledge and experience!

My organization, the Level Green Institute, is planning to host a series of week-long residential
Folk School sessions this coming summer. Colleagues from the national network of community-based
groups that draw on the Nordick model have asked that one of the strands in each session be on
grassroots organizational capacity-abuilding.  In addition to non-profit management and
entrepreneurship, I'm thinking that five days on methods for participatory envisioning and planning
would be very valuable. 
Since ven Cornell's Adult Ed program doesn't offer this, I'm thinking that we could cover Open
Space, Deep Democracy, World Café,  Search Conferences, and Participatory Action Planning - any
other ideas?

I'd welcome your thoughts -

Patricia Haines---- Original Message -----
From: Esther Ewing <EwingChange at aol.com>
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Sent:         Thu, 3 Nov 2005 15:52:28 EST
Subject: Re: Deep Democracy * Open Space * Other systemic methods

>  
>  
> If you look in the archives, I posted about Deep Democracy to this list  
> about 7 or 8 years ago. I believe my email address back then was  
> eewing at inforamp.net . It's good to see Myrna's website up and writing. Her stuff  is very 
> powerful.
>  
> Esther Ewing
> 
> Hi  Chris,
> 
> Another great resource, one which has some case studies of how  OS has been 
> used as a democratic tool is:
> 
> The Tao of Democracy  by Tom Atlee.
> 
> His website, co-inteligence.org is a great resource as  well (he notes 
> Harrison's book as "The how-to manual for one of the simplest,  most powerful 
> self-organized collective processes we have.")
> 
> Tom is a  dedicated, brilliant thinker concerned with Democracy in all its 
> forms,  especially when it involves everyday citizens in the decision  
> making/creating/resolving processes.
> 
> I highly recommend Tom Atlee, and  his book.
> 
> with grace and love, 
> 
> Zelle 
> 
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> Zelle Nelson 
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> Chris  Macrae wrote:
> 
> Last week I was lucky enough to talk to Myrna Lewis , originator of Deep 
> 
> Democracy _http://deep-democracy.net_ (http://deep-democracy.net/)  for 2 
> hours elapsed, during a 4 day 
> 
> network meeting "organizational Democracy" in Washington DC 
> 
> _http://clubofdc.blogspot.com_ (http://clubofdc.blogspot.com/) 
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> 
> I got convinced of several things that I would be delighted to discuss more 
> 
> with anyone interested:
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> 
> Along with open space, deep democracy is a truly simple/original design for 
> 
> systemically intervening with a view to resolve conflicts
> 
> 
> 
> since they are both systemic methods, we could benefit by understanding how 
> 
> they can best intefrface with each other in particular sorts of contexts, as 
> 
> well as what other systemic methods both tend to interface with repeatedly
> 
> 
> 
> cheers
> 
> chris macrae _wcbn007 at easynet.co.uk_ (mailto:wcbn007 at easynet.co.uk)  
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