Just opened space for 550 at the Kellogg Food and Society Conference

[Proteus Communications]

Hello Chris!  Wonderful to hear news of the space, the conversations that
are opening in Arizona about good food and social justice.  Thank you for
sharing your notes from the field (and may that field yield a good crop
indeed!)

 

Standing with you,

 

Kathryn 

 

Kathryn Thomson

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Proteus Communications

proteus at shawbiz.ca

 

Some doors open only from the inside
Hafiz

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of eddie
palmer
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 12:33 AM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: Just opened space for 550 at the Kellogg Food and Society
Conference

 

Hi Chris

 

Good to talk to you again after a long break (due to technology, not me
going somewhere else!)

 

Sounds great, and I echo what you say about logistics, as this is about the
same as the largest we have ever run.

 

We did an event on a Food Policy for Scotland last year, and all the
proceedings did go into actual Government Policy - really interesting group

 

All the best

 

Eddie Palmer

Open Futures Ltd

 

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Chris
Corrigan
Sent: 30 April 2008 18:49
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Just opened space for 550 at the Kellogg Food and Society
Conference

 

Hi colleagues:  A report from the field...

 

I just opened space here for 550 people at the Food and Society Conference.
This was the biggest OST gathering I have ever facilitated, and it's huge in
importance as well.  There must have been close to 100 sessions proposed for
today and I'm just gathering my energy for a long day and night ahead of
compiling the proceedings document.

I'm a stranger to the good food movement in the United States, and so it's
hard for me to know what the agenda looks like, but like all Open Space
events I trust that it is what is needed right now.  Our organizing question
was: "If you take the margins and social justice seriously, what are the
bold conversations you need to have to amplify and accelerate the impact of
good food."  I stepped into the circle following a powerful talk on
structural racism in the food system given by today's provocateur, Maya
Wiley from the Center
<http://www.centerforsocialinclusion.org/struct_racism.html>  for Social
Inclusion.  She dropped a great challenge into the centre of the circle,
speaking about the radical nature of this room full of people.  People were
ready to get to work.  I have rarely seen a flood to the centre of the room
as I just experienced.  It's kind of overwhelming.

So the participants are in a break now, and soon enough the remainder of the
day will be self-organized.  Learning a lot about working with great
friends, all of whom had my back this morning and had the logistics nailed
down pretty well.  We had to prepare 140 breakout spaces, in a conference
facility <http://www.wildhorsepassresort.com/>  that is over the top
luxurious and is pretty concerned about the aesthetics of randomly places
pods of chairs.  Within these constraints, the conference staff have been
great and the hosting team rocks.  It's impossible to do one's best work
alone.

You can follow along with the gathering at the Food
<http://www.foodandsociety2008.org/Default.aspx?tabid=56&ItemID=5000456&NID=
5010456>  and Society website.

Cheers,

 

Chris



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Facilitation - Training - Process Design
Open Space Technology

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