The potential of OST in achieving great transitions locally and globally

[Cliodhna Mulhern]

Hello Alan

Thank you for sharing with everyone your thoughts on the Awakening the  
Dreamer Symposium. I too am a symposium facilitator and have been an  
OS practitioner for several years. I think many of us in the ATD  
community are also OS practitioners. I am based in the UK and it is  
quite usual here to open space at the end of the symposium. It is a  
great way for the energies ignited in the room to converge around  
actions...I hope you found this worked for you in your symposium.

In recent weeks we have also talked about the Transition Towns  
Movement  on this listserve...this is another community focused on  
creating a new and better world after cheap oil. This community has  
also embraced open space as its conversation tool...you can find  
Transition Towns on www.transitiontowns.org.

As a facilitator and dialogue host with a passion for reconciling  
people and planet I am finding that all conversation processes have  
never been in more demand...It is magnificent to have these tools to  
help us find our a way to a new way of being, conversing and doing  
together....and I am full of gratitude to those who have nurtured  
these ways over the last 40 years...With deep appreciation, Cliodhna


On 11 Apr 2009, at 02:05, Alan Stewart wrote:

> Dear All
>
> You may be interested to know of two lively groups which could have  
> significance for our work in general and particularly for some of us.
>
> Both are concerned about what is required to change the trajectory  
> on which the modern world has been rocketing along - as a matter of  
> urgency. And ours is the kind of practice which would be of great  
> value in enabling inclusive participation on a grand scale to  
> achieve the transition to a more hopeful and harmonious future based  
> on environmental sustainability, social justice and spiritual  
> fulfillment.
>
> One of these is the GTI - 'The Great Transition Initiative -  
> established by the Tellus Institute in Boston. An essay entitled  
> 'The Great Transition Today - A Report from the Future' by the  
> leader of this group, Paul Raskin, is one that I have found to be  
> most edifying and inspiring. Particularly for the notion that we did  
> make it through to 2084 having developed widespread 'human  
> solidarity' and 'ecological sensibility' with a deep reverence for  
> the natural world. And that 'Massive participation in healing the  
> planet becoming a great source of pride for the global citizenry'  
> was the way this happened.
>
> With a similar vision and different approaches is the Pachamama  
> Alliance which has developed the Awakening the Dreamer (ATD)  
> Symposium This is a well constructed way of alerting people in all  
> walks of life to four questions about 'Where we are?', 'How did we  
> get here?', 'What's possible for the future?' and 'Where do we go  
> from here? in regard to healing the little blue planet - 3rd from  
> the sun - which is our home.
>
> Was there ever a group process more tailor made to address this last?
>
> From my experiences, learning and ideals I see links between what  
> these two groups are doing and OST practice. With this in mind I am  
> going to Manila next week to co-facilitate the first ATD Symposium  
> in the Philippines, on Tues 14th.
>
> And have alerted Spacenik friends there.
>
> Could it be that OST becomes widely used for follow up to ATD  
> Symposiums after they have been presented to groups of many kinds  
> and size? I am now among nearly 1000 facilitators world wide who  
> have undertaken training and are registered to facilitate the  
> Symposium and will bring this potential to the attention of the  
> others.
>
> There are of course plenty of other initiatives which are in tune  
> with the two I have mentioned here. I believe that our support for  
> those which we know about and find animating could make a  
> substantial difference to what is accomplished.
>
> Wishing all a joyous Easter period wherever this is celebrated and  
> elsewhere too.
>
> Go well
>
> Alan
>
> Dr Alan Stewart, PhD
> Chairman
>
>
>
>
>
> Mob: +852 9438 7680
> Em: alan at multimindsolutions.com
> Web: www.multimindsolutions.com
>
>
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Cliodhna Mulhern
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