Tips for presenting Open Space to a Peace & Justice center?

[Chris Corrigan]

Heh. Hedging my bets for when the training wheels come off!





On 13-Jun-09, at 4:19 AM, Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net> wrote:

> Chris – your second paragraph is a masterpiece. And it is your birth 
> day too!
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> But I am curious. What’s faster and deeper than Open Space? (“… 
> than almost anything else.”)
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> From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of  
> Chris Corrigan
> Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 8:25 PM
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> Subject: Re: Tips for presenting Open Space to a Peace & Justice  
> center?
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> Done a lot of work in this area, most notably with the Dalai Lama  
> Centre here in the Vancouver area.  We used Open Space to open up  
> the Centre to connection and collaborations with the community at  
> large to see how everyone could get work together.  I've worked in a  
> huge variety of social justice setting around indigenous rights,  
> human rights, youth, workers rights, fairness in the food system,  
> diversity work, you name it, all using Open Space to bring people  
> together to collaborate on issues for which they sahre passion and  
> are willing to take responsibility.
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> My standard take on things is to riff on the mantra of "when we  
> don't know what to do, and we need to involve lots of people and to  
> trust their intelligence, passion and responsibility, Open Space is  
> the fastest way to get to work."  World peace and social justice  
> remain, to the best of my knowledge, elusive states which makes me  
> think that the more hands and hearts we have in the mix the better.   
> An Open Space conference will quickly access this collective  
> intelligence and passion and build a field of relationships that  
> will put ideas to work.  And it will do it faster and deeper than  
> almost anything else.
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> I'm sure many others on the list will give you other examples and  
> stories and maybe even a powerpoint or two, but my advice is have  
> the conversation with your sponsors starting with what they are  
> trying to do, and what they think will make that work sustainable  
> after the gathering.  Open Space gets to the issues in 45 minutes  
> and after a day or two you have a set of relationships that will  
> sustain the work long after the conference ends.
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> Good luck to you!
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> Chris
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> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Harold Shinsato  
> <harold at shinsato.com> wrote:
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> I'm presenting at the board meeting on Monday of the Jeanette Rankin  
> Peace
> Center to propose they use Open Space to initiate a Peace Conference  
> in our
> region. Jeanette Rankin was the first woman in the US Congress, and  
> she also
> voted against our entry into both World Wars (pretty much alone from  
> what I
> recall).
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> Will the kind readers of this list provide any tips and pointers about
> making such a presentation? If anyone one has a slide deck they'd be  
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> to share, even better!
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>     Thanks in advance!
>     Harold Shinsato
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