Keepin' Busy

[Elena A. Marchuk]

Harrison, I'm also interested in the history of leadership school for 
non-profit sector
can you include me on the list of participants to whom you will tell it, 
please
best wishes
elena marchuk
from the -40C Novosibirsk, Russia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glory Ressler" <on.the.edge at sympatico.ca>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: Keepin' Busy


> 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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>>
>> "Ring the bell that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering. There
>> is a crack in everything, That's how the light gets in."
>>  Leonard Cohen
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