Visit to Tiblissi and Practice of Peace in Berlin

[Michael M Pannwitz]

Dear colleagues,
had a great visit to Tiblissi in Georgia with Jo.
Another experience in facilitating a planning session without knowing 
the language with the consequence that the planning group for the 
development of a Tiblissi neighborhood had to do everything, including 
every piece of writing (Georgian looks different from anything I have 
seen before, closest association was Malayalam).
In addition, we provided a "presentation" of open space to a group of 
some 30 interested the evening after the planning session...using the 
planning session results as an intro and then "giving" an introduction 
into an open space technology event the way we usually do it.
When we got to the point of inviting people to now offer their issues,
there was a rush to the center as if it was a "real" os...we had a hard 
time to break it up (nobody was upset, luckily).

Well, while in that great country we talked about the Berlin PoP Program 
with ho and there will be 3 people coming that are involved in the 
Armenian/Azerbaidschanian/BergKarabach/...conflict work.
By now, there are 22 registered from Germany, Denmark, Siberia, Turkey 
and some Germans living and working in Spain and France are coming, too.

There is still loads of room, so you are invited to open up your 
calendar, check your budget (my goal is to have nobody excluded on 
account of cash), recruit others and sign in.

The Early Bird Phase is over but there is a 20% reduction if you bring 
someone else along or recruit others.

Greetings from bright fall sun in Berlin
but also thinking of the earthquake victims in Pakistan with more than 
40 000 dead and millions of homeless where I recently conducted an 
ost-training
and wondering about the zero reference to it on our (usa-centric) list 
as opposed to the horrible disaster in New Orleans..
mmp

Michael M Pannwitz wrote:
> Dear Colleagues everywhere,
> just returned from an exciting OSonOS in the UK (their second) as a 
> foreign intruder....I imagine that there will be a report forthcoming to 
> this list.
> Among other things, I did talk to a bunch of them, in a pub, wherelse, 
> about the upcoming Practice of Peace Program in Berlin.
> Well, seems that although they had heard about it, the direct contact 
> encouraged several to utter the intention of coming to Berlin.
> Especially when I told them about our "hosting of visitors" project 
> where Berlin colleagues will invite people from abroad to stay in their 
> homes. Besides being a real treat it is also somewhat of a necessity for 
> some of us on a slim budget.
> Opening my computing machine after having been gone for 4 days I was 
> overwhelmed by the non-response to the invitation for the Practice of 
> Peace (at least, I thought, there would be an interest to come to the 
> birthday party where we will have harrisinis - this is the very special 
> martini that played an important part in the creation of open space 
> technology).
> So, this is trying to encourage you to take advantage of the early bird 
> rate until October 7.
> I am leaving for Georgia (the country) to spread open space there 
> together with Jo...when I return on October 7, I want to be overwhelmed 
> by the massive registration wave!
> Here is the link with all the details:
> www.practicepeaceberlin.org
> 
> See you in Berlin
> (and next year in Estonia for the European OSonOS and in Moscow!!)
> mmp

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