[OSList] who are the right people

[Jeff Aitken via OSList]

Hi Chris. I like the frameworks offered in the Art of Hosting which help
create the context for conversations like this - one is called 'Two Loops
of Change' showing a loop of the declining system and a loop of the system
growing to replace it. Deborah Frieze has some videos on it.

https://youtu.be/ZcyHKKc2LVg

When drawn out on the floor, people can literally stand in the spot on the
loops where they see their work - hospicing the old, creating or midwifing
the new, helping folks make the leap, etc.

People seem to have no trouble knowing that systems are dying all around
and new are trying to emerge. (Could be a small sample size tho.)

Makes for good conversation and context for a good open space etc.

Jeff
"the people who come are the right people" but sometimes doesnt that depend
on how much work has been done on the invitation process to include all
sides including those who may not know they are part of the broeken systems

i guess when an open space is about a local community issue its relatively
simple to see whether everyone has been included but

 my main concern is on issues only global youth can mobilise if
sustainability is to be our future - and yet while i am interested in
movements that empower youth  (sytarting with creating jobs) i also see
sustainability -whether we win it or lose it - as an intergenerational
compound crisis -

does the generation of trump or clinton understand how much they have
presided over designing non-sustainable systems?  has mass tv media becomes
such an intergenerational liar that we no longer have enough bases for
intergenerational trust?  what 5000 people invitation to open space would
maximise a movement of networks to combat the national rifle association at
least on selling assault guns-

 here are these systems that seem so broken - are we deceiving youth in
implying that enough elders will ever come to celebrate youth's best
endeavors

I also have a suspicion that eg hackathons viralise their invitations  and
get extraordinary collections of young participants in ways
that open space invitation agents may need to get smarter at - if
intergenerational space is to be convened as much as the coming decade of
tipping points will require

just thinking aloud- any views?
chris macrae
www.globalyouth50000.com



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