The Art and Craft of Teaching Peace in OS

[Tree Fitzpatrick]

Leslie, the Seattle PoP conference was a little bit different than the other
PoP events that I am aware of and, as I already indicated to Melinda, I
believe our invitation and design explains the difference.  We seed the
field with people from around the world actively using OS in high conflict
situations . . . and that was what we got. . . it was seeding this energy
that attracted people from twenty five countries to our little gathering of
130.

One participant at 'our' PoP felt called to have a PoP in her hometown of
Albuquerque, Suzanne Maxwell.  I was thrilled to be able to attended
Suzanne's PoP in September 2005 and Harrison was there leading us each day
and it was a wonderful event but it was not very much like the one my
colleagues and I (some of whom are on this list right now:  Lisa Heft, Peggy
and more) co-created in the Seattle area in 2003.

So, when you ask, Leslie, if you can attend a similar PoP in 2006, are you
asking someone knows about another event that will be designed around
Harrison's book "The Practice of Peace" and which actively works to attract
participants from all around the world who are actively working to resolve
human conflicts in the world?  To my knowledge, there are no such events
scheduled.

If you are interested in helping to organize an event similar to the one we
held in Seattle, Leslie, I know that several members of the core team of
organizers for the Seattle 2003 PoP are deeply interested in doing more of
them.  I invite anyone reading this to let me and/or the list know and maybe
we can co-create another one.

I hesitated to share these thoughts, to compare and contrast one PoP
conference from another, especially because I know some people on this list
have had wonderful PoP experiences led by Harrison and in several countries
and that each event was wonderful.  But to my knowledge, having invited
guests working with hard conflicts as a clear part of the intention for the
event has not been done or achieved the same kind of results as 'our'
Seattle PoP 2003 achieved. . . . we set the intention of having high
conflict as central to the event and that's what we got.  At the one I
attended in Albuquerque, as a matter of fact, many participants voiced their
desire to have more conflict arise during the event. . . . but the people
who did show up, all of whom were, of course, wonderful, did not really have
a lot of conflict to share:  we were mostly middle class white people
wanting to practice peace. . . whereas at Seattle PoP we had Haitians and
Israelis and Irish people sharing the very real conflicts of their lives.

Seriously, I'd love to go to another PoP with an intention to invite people
working with conflict.  If you read this and are interested, let's see what
might happen.

With love rays,
Tree Fitzpatrick
Shaman, mystic, mother

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