Open Space and Climate Change

Mon Sep 22 00:13:00 PDT 2008

To all Facilitators of Open Space Technology

OPEN SPACE AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Greetings,

At the 16th International "Open Space on Open Space" (WOSONOS)
Conference, held in San Francisco in July 2008, a significant
conversation was convened by Rebecca Peterson, an Associate Professor in
Environmental Studies at York University (Canada), on the theme of Open
Space and Climate Change. 

The key question that arose was:

How can we - the community of OS facilitators internationally, raise
awareness of the urgent need, in the next 10 years, to find solutions to
human caused Climate Change and how might OS make a contribution to
significant leverage points?

One major idea that emerged was whether we might harness the
entrepreneurial spirit of the global Open Space community by
facilitating Open Space events focused on addressing Climate Change.
This would involve OS facilitators identifying potential sponsors for
Open Space events with themes like:

"The Social and Economic Opportunities associated with a Low Carbon
Economy". 

The exact wording would obviously vary according to local circumstances
and the specific interests of Sponsors. 

You could target groups with a concern to address global warming as
potential event Sponsors - government; private sector; community groups;
Non Government Organisations (NGO's). It may also be possible to
leverage existing events - someone mentioned a major Climate Change
conference coming up soon in Denmark.

Please note that we are not asking OS facilitators to be Sponsors of
events. We need to keep the boundaries clear. This is about how to
maximise replication and leverage. We maximise leverage and ownership by
planting the seed of this idea in the minds of other people - and
offering ourselves as facilitators.

QUESTION 1: Would you be willing to identify and make such contact with
potential sponsors? (and then tell us how you are doing)

QUESTION 2: Would you like to be part of a general contact list to keep
this idea alive by sharing stories and ideas? Initially this would
simply be a circular email on the theme of "Climate Space". We believe
this topic warrants a separate list from OSLIST.

QUESTION 3: Would you like to be part of a WORKING GROUP (whoever comes
are the right people) with a more limited email circulation to keep the
momentum going?

QUESTION 4: Do you have any other comments?

I invite you to write to me (Michael) at angchaplain at admin.uwa.edu.au
with specific responses to the four questions above. It would make it
easier for me to read if you would cut and paste the questions into a
new email and insert your answer underneath each of the four questions.

Full details of the Climate Change conversation from WOSONOS 2008 will
be available in due course at www.openspaceworld.org

Michael Wood, Western Australia
Erica Peng, USA
Rebecca Peterson, Canada
(Convenors of the Action Planning Conversation)

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