[OSList] Is Open Space Education Possible?

[christopher macrae via OSList]

Is it possible to Open Space Education? 
 
I had almost given up asking this question when I was bowledover by this 23 year old chinese lady Amy the week before Independence Day 2015.It was her first trip abroad and she was interviewing anyone she could fromover 50 nations at the 20th year of the creative children festival celebrated onthe Mall Washngton DC. Her favorite interviewees were the children but therewere also elders   like Samara Ethiopian-American owner of the 5billion person elearning satellite yazmi, or Bangladeshi Naila for 15 yearsmuhammad yunus first female director of grameen mobile phone, or William aChinese America retiree who has spent quarter of a century building friendshipsout of Chillicon Valley (Stanford), or Taddy Blecher founder of the Mandelaextranet and the free university of entrepreneurship for the underprivileged.Amy seemed to grow about 10 years in self-confidence by the end of her 10 daysin DC, but as she flew back to ChinaI never really expected to see the likes of her again
 
3 months later i got a whats app message, it was Amy:  is there anyone more innovative I caninterview on my second trip. I said the only person i can think of is Harrison Owenin Maryland. She said what? Whydidnt I see him first time? I said he lives summers on a boat in Maine.She said what? ...Thankfully they had lunch on her second voyage abroad. Andhe said to her if you are happy to cancel rest of our DC trip, why not come toBeijing and observe open space china with me. Amy gulped: am I a right person?of course, yes please. At the airport she said to me I will be back and nextI want to interview a leader of a social business college. I said what? But whileAmy was observing Harrison magic in Beijing,i was being debriefed on some research at the Vatican University. Their information wasthat the only college leadership team in USAthey had found to be up for the pro-youth curriculum transformation of PopeFrancis was in Brooklyn, thanks to the extraordinaryfemale Dean there.
 
So here we are last week with : a short video of Amy's firstgig in Brooklyn and the Dean's review.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztwZi_g2F-8&feature=youtu.be       https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/eel-comes-brooklyn-new-york-joann-d-rolle-ph-d-?trk=mp-author-card  What will happen next could be fun... 
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