[OSList] OST at R(E)volution of Portugal - A New World is Possible

[Jeff Aitken]

Veronique, thank you for this report, this is very exciting! I hope
that a longer and bigger Open Space will serve the needs of people to
feel more connected and talk freely and create a good future together.

Jeff
San Francisco

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Veronique Santos
<veronique_santos at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Last Thursday and Friday took place in Lisbon a very interesting 2 days
> Conference under the subject “(R)Evolution of Portugal – A New World is
> Possible”.
>
> This was mainly a conventional event with 7 panels that took place from 9 am
> in the first day until 4.30pm in the second day. Each Panel had 3 or 4
> presentations of 20 minutes each, followed by a 30 minutes period of
> questions and answers. From 5 pm to 7pm in the second day there was an Open
> Space session organized by the Open Space Institute of Portugal. In the
> traditional Conference part a number of talks took place, many real cases
> were presented on sustainability and transition projects, cooperative
> organizations, values and economy for a “new World”, new educational
> projects, the need for a new awareness, etc.
>
> I have facilitated the Open Space part (having Luís Dias and Artur as
> co-facilitators). The Opening, including session proposals and the market
> place took place in half an hour, followed by two breakout sessions of 30
> minutes each, in 10 places, and a closing circle of 30 minutes.
>
> About 70 people were present and 19 sessions were offered but, after the
> breakout sessions were initiated, people self-organized and many sessions
> were merged with others. There was a palpable energy during these sessions,
> probably as this was the first space were people could talk freely with each
> other, followed by a very touching and emotional closing circle.
>
> During the OST session and at the closing circle some people mentioned the
> need to have a bigger OST for people networking and cross-pollination of
> different projects.
>
> I will put some photos of this OST in the NING.
>
> Regards,
>
> Véronique Santos
> Open Space Institute of Portugal
>
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