OS with homeless in city park?

[Chris Corrigan]

Here are two stories I have about working with homeless people in Open
Space.  Neither of these were done outside, but in both cases, homeless
people were involved in the action planning and later took leadership roles
with both initiatives:

http://www.chriscorrigan.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.VictoriaUrbanDevelopmentAgreement
http://www.chriscorrigan.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.PrinceGeorgeUrbanAboriginalStrategy

There were also homeless folks at these gatherings:

http://www.chriscorrigan.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.ThePeoplesGathering
http://www.chriscorrigan.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.PublicLegalEducationForAboriginalFamilies
http://www.chriscorrigan.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.VictimServicesForYouth

Cheers,

Chris

On 4/2/07, avner <avnerh at zahav.net.il> wrote:
>
>  Agout 4 years ago, Tova and I opened a 4 hours space for a group of very
> poor people who were demonstrating aginst the poverty situation in Israel.
> They penetrated a large square in the Middle of the rich neighborhoods of
> Tel Aviv and lived there for months in sort of tents and pieces of cloths.
> They called the place `The bread square` (a loaf of bread in hebrew is also
> a village square)
>
> We were part of a group who visited and were trying to help them. An OS
> with them and their supporters seemed to be interesting for them so we did
> it there in the open. The side of an old bus, in which their leader was
> living, served as the Market place.
>
> The about  30 people who participated were engaged but as far as remember
> the ones who actually took it into actions were mainly the supporters
>
> Avner Haramati
> Jerusalem
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Erich Kolenaty <e.kolenaty at aon.at>
> *To:* OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> *Sent:* Monday, April 02, 2007 1:09 PM
> *Subject:* OS with homeless in city park?
>
>
> Doug,
>
> I don't know whether the emphasis of your search is for "homeless" or for
> "city park". I once did an Open Space in a Vienna city park together with
> the fabulous Florian Fischer. It was a gathering for a NGO called "bridges
> for peace" and a short, but brilliant event. Very romantic, in the darkening
> park around an enlighted monument. Maybe it is the story you are looking
> for. Florian and me wrote a story about this event, which was published in a
> book. You can download the story here
> http://www.togger.org/~redsys/doc_transformation/Open_Space_1-7.pdf<http://www.togger.org/%7Eredsys/doc_transformation/Open_Space_1-7.pdf>.
> Unfortunately it is written in german, but maybe this fits perfectly to you
> name ;-)).
>
> Greetings from lovely Vienna
> Erich
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* douglas germann <76066.515 at compuserve.com>
> *To:* OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> *Sent:* Saturday, March 31, 2007 9:15 PM
> *Subject:* [OSLIST] OS with homeless in city park?
>
> Hi--
>
> Floating around our group is a story of gathering homeless in a city
> park for an OS. Does anybody recall where I can find out more of that
> story and who facilitated it? Was it in Vienna?
>
> Any other stories of OS among homeless people?
>
> Thanks!
>
> :- Doug. Germann
>
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CHRIS CORRIGAN
Facilitation - Training
Open Space Technology

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