[OSList] Is Open Space Education Possible?

Tue Dec 8 03:41:58 PST 2015

Dear Jeff
May i introduce amy/alizee  i think you may find she is a perfectionist with boundless energy and very concerned to try to learn how to live up to harrison's spirit and goals especially of what i call stage 2 the open space itself
i am very much more concerned with stage 1 - the invitation process- its not that I dont love stage 2 but I  am an introverted  maths guy and have zero skills as a mass  real-time  facilitator
right now the invitation challenge concerning me in usa is how to spread enough awareness among 7000 students in the poorest college in the CUNY  (public new york) system that they could be spending part of their time engaging academics in formats that are nearer open space than podium lectures and endless examinations;
 next months challenge will be planning 2016 exchanges between black and chinese youth as we are hopeful that amy has found a part of new york development agencies who want such a new york-china goodwill movement- fortunately her fiends at the vatican like maurizio want to triangularise this youth movement by including latin/franciscans who first introduced us to the Brooklyn college's leadership team
If you are ever in new york or dc, amy would do a much better job than me in showing you round this sort of open space education challenge but i would be game too if i can be of any use
Tomorrow our brooklyn college  leadership has dared itself to show michael moores new film (kindly lent to us by the only half good mass media studio in new york) to hundreds of students - it starts with the claim that the exponentially increased cost of college education since the 1970s has been part of a  most depressing way of controling black youth so that they have little role in developing anything  - we are hoping the audience will be in live tweet mode
after that heaven help us we may need all the facilitation skills we can outreach to
chris macrae dc 240 316 8157
      From: Jeff Aitken <r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com>
 To: christopher macrae <chris.macrae at yahoo.co.uk>; World wide Open Space Technology email list <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> 
 Sent: Sunday, 6 December 2015, 7:49
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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 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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