Keepin' Busy

[Glory Ressler]

Hi Eric:
Not sure what to say... first ever national school on leadership for 
non-profit sector.
Held in BC, Alberta, Northwest Territories. Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia
Arising out of the Voluntary Sector Initiative's National Learning 
Initiative... addressing identified needs and challenges to leadership in 
the sector...

I can share more but, perhaps, it's best done by individual requests rather 
than whole listserv communications?
For example, I could send some docs with more description and/or an article 
I wrote which was published in the National Storytelling Network's 
Storytelling in Organizations electronic newsletter...

Let me know what you want / need and I'll do my best to provide it!

Glory :-)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Lilius" <elilius at halhinet.on.ca>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: Keepin' Busy


> Hi Glory,
> Could you write more about this leadership school for the non profit 
> sector?
> Eric
>
> Glory Ressler wrote:
>
>> Thanks Doug!
>> Your appreciation (keep it comin' bro - lol) stimulated me into 
>> remembering another meaningful story about OS/OST...
>>
>> In my work developing and delivering a pan-Canadian (schools held across 
>> the country) leadership school for the non-profit sector, Open Space 
>> Technology was extensively used in conjunction with story circles, which 
>> we called 'Great Conversations'.
>>
>> One result was that leaders participating from the Canadian far north 
>> began to see how their personal and organizational visions connected to 
>> each other and to the larger community. As a result, they are now 
>> pursuing a territorial coalition/network across non-profit sub-sectors 
>> with a focus on "building healthy communities." This was determined to be 
>> the focus that would potentially include the largest group of non-profits 
>> organizations possible.
>>
>> This group also had a breakthrough concerning challenges around 
>> collaborating with the aboriginal peoples of the area (which has been 
>> historically unsuccessful - think silos). They came to realize that they 
>> needed to listen more to the aboriginal stories before offering their 
>> own - and to learn from their experience rather than assume that had 
>> something to teach.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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