[OSList] Open Space with Children's System of Care in NJ

Gail West icataiw at gmail.com
Sat Oct 6 15:58:49 PDT 2012


Chuni - Thank you for your wonderful "wish story".  And your wish makes the
whole world a new and different place for all of us.  May there be many
more!

Gail

On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 2:00 AM, <chunili2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> This is an open letter.
> Dear Harrison and Suzanne,
>
> I wanted to drop you a note to tell you that the wish I made in Jan 2011
> in New York (when we first met) had just come true a couple of weeks ago. I
> remember saying to myself then: "This open space format would be so
> beneficial to the NJ Children's System of Care that I need to figure out a
> way to sell it to my agency and the entire System!"
>
> Well, on 9/20 and 9/21, we held a two-day Children's System of Care Call
> to Collaboration convening for Monmouth County. My agency MonmouthCares
> sponsored the event, my Executive Director was the host, our partner
> Community YMCA donated the camp ground as the venue, and I was the
> facilitator.
>
> Everything went beautifully! 60 system partners came representing the
> government, schools, juvenile justice system, behavioral health services,
> mobile response system, family support services, youth advocacy, etc.
> Weather was great and the open space environment couldn't have been better.
>
> And the best part of this journey is that it wasn't me who drove the
> project. It was one of our supervisors who created a vision from last
> year's strategic planning retreat, which I facilitated using Open Space,
> and took the initiative to make this happen. I watched the entire
> leadership team in my organization doing this without me having to convince
> anybody. I did little in the preparation; I just showed up, opened the
> circle, held the space, and closed the circle. And for that, they thanked
> me for my "leadership" and gave me a pair of Tibetan bells as gift!
>
> Seriously, now that the word has gone out, my next wish is to take it to
> the government and the state level.
>
> Looking forward to seeing you next week!
>
> Chuni Li
> New Jersey
>
>
>
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