[OSList] Is Open Space Education Possible?

[Jeff Aitken via OSList]

Very exciting Chris and Harrison and it was fun to meet Amy via the video.

(Also curious about the theater and therapy connection she mentioned, as i
have a friend who wants to take drama therapy back home to China.)

Good to read JoAnn's report too.

What may be next? In addition to the conferences JoAnn mentioned.

Best
Jeff
Rainy night, north of San Francisco
Is it possible to Open Space Education?

I had almost given up asking this question when I was bowled over 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 from over
50 nations at the 20th year of the creative children festival celebrated on
the Mall Washngton DC. Her favorite interviewees were the children but
there were also elders   like Samara Ethiopian-American owner of the 5
billion person elearning satellite yazmi, or Bangladeshi Naila for 15 years
muhammad yunus first female director of grameen mobile phone, or William a
Chinese America retiree who has spent quarter of a century building
friendships out of Chillicon Valley (Stanford), or Taddy Blecher founder of
the Mandela extranet 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 days in DC, but as she flew back to China I 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 can interview on my second trip. I said the only person i can
think of is Harrison Owen in Maryland. She said what? Why didnt 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. And he said to
her if you are happy to cancel rest of our DC trip, why not come to Beijing
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 next
I want to interview a leader of a social business college. I said what? But
while Amy was observing Harrison magic in Beijing, i was being debriefed on
some research at the Vatican University. Their information was that the
only college leadership team in USA they had found to be up for the
pro-youth curriculum transformation of Pope Francis was in Brooklyn, thanks
to the extraordinary female Dean there.

So here we are last week with : a short video of Amy's first gig 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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