[OSList] Let's Do it... Estonia here?

Thu Nov 28 12:46:29 PST 2013

I think I told briefly about it in 2009. The home page of Let’s Do It describes the history of it so (http://www.teemeara.ee/en):

The day of civil actions is a day of collective action that has been taking place in different forms all over Estonia since the year 2008. In 2008 people gathered together to clean Estonia from illegal garbage, in 2009 people gathered together to generate good ideas and from 2010-2013 there have been several different actions (Estonian: talgud) all over Estonia. Every community, organisation or active citizen decided by themselves what needed to be done and asked other people to join according to that. 

After the first year of action in 2008 May 3rd, when 50000 people cleaned more than 10000 tons of illegal garbage, the second year in 2009 was aimed to get ideas for further years and actions. One of initiators of the action, Toomas Trapido was familiar with Open Space. The User’s Guide was published in Estonian already in 2005, so it was easy to suggest OS for idea generation.People were asked to sign up to become local facilitators. The trainings were arranged in different parts of Estonia. I did two trainings, Piret Jeedas and Robert Oetjen were trainees too. Altogether about 700 facilitators were trained, they facilitated OS-like meetings all over Estonia, about 12 thousand people attended and generated lots of ideas, how to improve their local surroundings. Many of these ideas are implemented. Of course, the trainings were too short - some 4-5 hours only. Some of facilitators got more interested in OS and they have continued facilitation. For most of them it was just an amazing experience of the self-organisation in work.

Greetings from Estonia!

Mikk Sarv

On 28 Nov 2013, at 15:39, Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net> wrote:

> Mikk – I do love you AND WHY have you not told us about the Let’s Do it program? I can’t believe I just missed it. It is truly wonderful with lots of opportunities for learning, I know. It also seems rather like what Suzanne and Chuni did with Creative New Jersey and also what Phelim did with the D&D program all around the UK. Multiple, connected OS’s for a purpose. Tell us more!
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> From: oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Mikk Sarv
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> Let’s Do It campaign’s second year in Estonia was started with OS trainings for 700 local facilitator, it was followed up with one-day Open Spaces all over Estonia, attended by more than 10 000 participants.
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> On 27 Nov 2013, at 16:29, Ben Roberts <ben.roberts at charter.net> wrote:
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> Hmmm… I’ve become interested in Estonia too of late, because of their amazing “Let’s Do It” campaign, which has launched a global movement: http://youtu.be/A5GryIDl0qY
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> From: oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of chris.corrigan at gmail.com
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> Hi all..
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> Hi Mikk!
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> I have been working with Estonians over the past few years who know Open Space very well.  Piret Jeedas, Ivika Nögel and Robert Oetjen have been hosting some great Art of Hosting work in Estonia for a number of years, and they are slowly adding practitioners to our worldwide community.
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> Learn more about them here:
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> http://www.kaasamine.ee/ including some results of learning we did together this past summer.
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> Eesti is one of my favourite places on earth, and Open Space finds a natural home there.
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> Chris
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> On Nov 25, 2013, at 7:48 AM, Mikk Sarv <tuulepuu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> It is strange. One of co-speakers, Henry Laupmaa, who was speaking about community tools, has attended several open spaces. Maybe he wasn’t present, when you mentioned open space?
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> But it can be so, that some people know a lot about it and others haven’t heard a word.
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> Mikk Sarv
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> On 25 Nov 2013, at 16:50, Steven Clift <clift at e-democracy.org> wrote:
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> I was mentioning CityCamp and unconference/ost formats at an event here today. http://bit.ly/clifteu13
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> Folks were not familiar and figured the format would be very culturally uncomfortable.  As I first heard about OST in Denmark a decade+ ago, I figure there might be Baltic folks here I simply need to connect to my hosts.
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> Suggestions?
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> Steven Clift
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