Opening Space for Peace Week '07?
Steve Woodall
steveoftulsa at cox.net
Sun Jan 21 08:10:24 PST 2007
This topic resonates with me. Not sure how to help with it, but will jump in
and try.
Steve Woodall
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patricia Haines" <levelgreen at kaxy.com>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: Opening Space for Peace Week '07?
> Super idea, Gabriela! anyone else want to work on this with us?
>
> I would like to link this initiative with those already at play within the
> framework of 11 Days of
> Global Unity (9/11-9/21) <OneWorld.com> and <pathwaysforpeace.org>, which
> I founjd after I'd sent
> that first message off. This way we could call on the international OS
> community to join in.
>
> Thanks Harrison!
>
> Patricia
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gabriela Ender <gabriela.ender at OpenSpace-Online.com>
> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Sent: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:55:47 +0100
> Subject: Re: Opening Space for Peace Week '07?
>
>> 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
>> >> Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com
>> >> <http://www.openspaceworld.com/>
>> >>
>> >> Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org
>> >> Personal website www.ho-image.com
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>From Sun Jan 21 19:05:30 2007
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Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 19:05:30 -0500
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From: douglas germann <76066.515 at compuserve.com>
Subject: Good novel to read?
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Hi--
Yes, I know this is a little off topic, but you, my friends, probably
love literature I might learn to love.
So: What novels are you reading these days? Something that gave you
surprises and AHAs?
I leave for a trip with some good reading time in about 3 days....
Good reading, everybody!
:- Doug.
PS: I am enjoying the conversation about OSonOS. I favor the hugging
kind.
:- Doug.
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