MY FIRST OPEN SPACE experiences, coming soon

[ELEDER AURTENETXE PILDAIN]

Hello, hello!

I just write some lines to tell you about my first Open Space experiences
that are taking place next days in Eibar and Bilbao:

1. Tomorrow I'll be facilitating an Open Space in Eibar. Some months ago I
proposed "Sormena Espazio
Irekian<http://ikastaroak.ueu.org/component/ikastaroak/ikastaro/47.html>"
(meaning "Creativity in Open Space") as a day and a half meeting about
creativity, in which we will be opening space tomorrow between 11:00 and
18:00, and this will be the main part of the meeting.

We will be keeping the OS in Basque language and I find it specially
fullfilling being so, as this kind of "avantguard" activity takes seldom
place in this ancestral but less used tongue of our country.

2. The 9th of July I'll be facilitating OS again, this time at home, in
Bilbao. It'll be a one day meeting to find financing alternatives for a
group of about 6 people that run 3 small freeware enterprises that deal with
computer security,...  Their projects are facing finance troubles and have
to rethink theim. They should have good alternatives soon as, otherwise,
they would be closing in September.

Regarding this OS, I wonder if opening space in Basque and Spanish language
would work OK and what I should take into account if I did so, something I'm
quite bended towards.

Ours is a diglosic community with everybody knowing Spanish. Around 50% of
potential comers are able to communicate in Basque. Having the space to do
so would be a kind  surprise and  inspiring for some of them. Having to
express themeselves in Spanish (one more time) would be the expected (and,
sometimes unconsciously, frustrating) thing for some of the comers,...
Besides, myself I'm someone that loves Basque language and doing stuff that
helps it reflourish...

I first knew about OS when I read Tom Atlee's book "The Tao of Democracy"
and it really stroke me. Some ten years have passed since and recently I've
decided to take it on and try it. Harrison's OST book, all these fantastic
people on the list-community ant the site itself are great support to
prepare something that is so much common sense, but so rare these days.

Whatever happens will be the only thing that could have happened, sure :-)!

Kind regards,

*Eleder Aurtenetxe Pildain
BM31

*www.burumapak.blogspot.com
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BILBAO*

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