Opening Space for Peace Week '07?

Tue Jan 16 11:55:47 PST 2007

Hi Patricia, I like your idea very much!

Just a further thought: Maybe you could additionally invite to an 
OpenSpace-Online real-time conference on Peace - perhaps within this Peace 
Week or as an online follow-up for example 4-6 weeks later or as a 
pre-meeting 6-8 weeks before your Open Space event - this could also enable 
further powerful complementary synergies. It would be even possible to have 
simultaneous online meetings in different towns and to immediately share all 
the conference documentations among all the nation-wide participants.

Here one application example, which was also connected with an 'Education 
for Sustainable Development Project' in one German Town (also an 
online/offline combination): 
<http://www.openspace-online.com/oso_en/html/kundenstimmen/osnabrueck.html>

If you like the idea, write me. Let's see how I could support you.

Best regards from Berlin
Gabriela
www.OpenSpace-Online.com
Free eBook:
<http://www.openspace-online.com/OpenSpace-Online_eBook_en.pdf>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patricia Haines" <levelgreen at kaxy.com>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 4:01 PM
Subject: Opening Space for Peace Week '07?

>I have an idea I'd like this group's thoughts on -
>
> Taking inspiration from Harrison and Michael's experience, I've been 
> working with others in my
> hometown (Ithaca, NY) to put together a series of events and gatherings 
> for what we're calling Peace
> Week  - Sept 11 through Sept 21st, the International Day of Peace.
>
> Thanks to the email below, I'm now adding an Open Space on Peace to our 
> calendar.
>
> I'll also be inviting members of the U.S. Partnership for the Decade of 
> Education for Sustainable
> Development (global UN decade - see<uspartnership.org> to offer up their 
> own versions of Peace Week.
> Since the Partnership uses Open Space as a core process, if any of you 
> would like to join this
> effort for your own hometowns, let me know. We'll be putting information 
> and linkages up on the
> Partnership website, Adult & Community pages - and, as I know you all 
> know, the synergy of doing
> this together creates irresistable energy.
>
> Your thoughts?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net>
> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Sent:         Fri, 12 Jan 2007 08:37:26 -0500
> Subject: Opening Space for Peace
>
>> You may remember that last year Michael Pannwitz and I had the privilege 
>> of
>> Opening Space for the Congress of Imams and Rabbis in Seville. The 
>> occasion,
>> as I reported, was more than a little exciting and definitely not 
>> according
>> to whatever "Plan" I might have had. That said, the gathering was also
>> profoundly moving and powerful for the two of us and, we believed, the
>> participants as well - at least that is what we saw, and they said. Now
>> almost a year later it was very nice to receive a note from an advisor to
>> the King of Jordan and sometime Ambassador to the UN, which said in 
>> part,"
>> It was wonderful in Seville and the great role you played changed the 
>> entire
>> atmosphere, into what turned out lively, warm and cordial."
>>
>> Had the event been only another community/corporate gathering, the words
>> would have seemed nice but not particularly significant. But that event 
>> was
>> filled with virtually every conflict and tension imaginable - and at 
>> points
>> seemed quite ready to fly into a million pieces. The shift from 
>> catastrophe
>> (as some were calling it) into "lively, warm and cordial" was, to put it
>> mildly, mind blowing, and confirmed once again, if confirmation was 
>> needed
>> that opening space for peace can be very effective. And of course, the 
>> real
>> heroes were not Michael, me or Open Space. The people did it all by
>> themselves, as usual. Once they had the space to become what they already
>> were - a vibrant self-organizing system searching for peace with 
>> themselves
>> and their world, nothing else was needed.
>>
>> As we sit at the edge of 2007 watching the so called "world 
>> powers/leaders"
>> going in circles, seeking to control events and the lives of others with
>> disastrous results, I find the experience of Seville to be nothing short 
>> of
>> uplifting. To be sure we could all blow it this time around, but there is 
>> an
>> alternative. It is also true, I think, that we in this funny little 
>> online
>> community have a lot of work to do.
>>
>> Harrison
>>
>> Harrison Owen
>> 7808 River Falls Drive
>> Potomac, Maryland   20854
>> Phone 301-365-2093
>> Skype hhowen
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>>
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>> Personal website www.ho-image.com
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