[OSList] who are the right people

Mon Jun 13 11:11:46 PDT 2016

Thanks Birgitt, this is just the simple fresh thinking I was looking for.
Chris Macrae may this help you too.

Jeff
On Jun 13, 2016 10:23 AM, "Birgitt Williams" <birgitt at dalarinternational.com>
wrote:

> Hi Jeff,
> I believe that the best way 'in' is through the student councils, with the
> intention of setting up student council sponsored conversations. I also
> recommend that you contact people at organizations like Greenpeace who have
> been successful at getting events set up for them on campuses for a long
> time. They also, each with their passion, want to engage with students for
> a brighter future.
>
> If it were me, and I didn't want to do too much work to get this moving,
> and I didn't have too big a vision at first, I would simply book space on
> campus that allowed for a meeting room, be prepared to have a number of
> four hour long OST events on the theme 'Creating the Future You Love' or
> similar...pass out leaflets and get on with it...letting the people present
> give advice on how to get more space opened.
>
> Warmly,
> Birgitt
>
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 8:33 PM Jeff Aitken via OSList <
> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>
>> I don't mean anything elaborate or mechanical. I just mean who is good to
>> talk to first, and next. In your experience.
>> On Jun 12, 2016 5:19 PM, "Harrison Owen" <hhowen at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I surely don’t. But then again, I have never seen a step-by-step be all
>>> that useful. Usually works the way it works. Just about the same as always.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ho
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* OSList [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] *On
>>> Behalf Of *Jeff Aitken via OSList
>>> *Sent:* Sunday, June 12, 2016 8:02 PM
>>> *To:* christopher macrae; World wide Open Space Technology email list
>>> *Cc:* oslist-request at lists.openspacetech.org
>>> *Subject:* Re: [OSList] who are the right people
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Does anyone have a step by step approach to opening spaces for important
>>> societal-future-together conversations in schools and colleges.
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>> On Jun 12, 2016 4:34 PM, "christopher macrae via OSList" <
>>> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> the way i see the world after 40 years of questioning what will happen
>>> to the net genetration (and i understand my hypotheses are not everyones)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> over the next 10 years sustainability will be exponentially won or lost
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> this will have been the consequence of 3 generations- but the half of
>>> the world under 30 are not
>>>
>>> being wholy included or invested in by the other 2 generaitons even
>>> though their action networks
>>>
>>> will see the consequences
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I see possibility of open space and invitation processes (in schools,
>>> colleges, other systems where elders  histiricallyexamine instead of
>>> co-create with youth)  as deeply interconnected with my hypotheses but
>>>  dont have much clue what to do next
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> chris
>>>
>>> www.globalyouth50000.com design a futures movement of movements owned
>>> by youth
>>> <https://medium.com/@johncaswell/the-global-youth-community-611c4f81910d#.joyn921w1>
>>>
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>>> [image: image]
>>> <https://medium.com/@johncaswell/the-global-youth-community-611c4f81910d#.joyn921w1>
>>>
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>>> The Global Community Of Youth
>>> <https://medium.com/@johncaswell/the-global-youth-community-611c4f81910d#.joyn921w1>
>>>
>>> An Open Platform For Youth Entrepreneurship
>>>
>>> View on *medium.com*
>>> <https://medium.com/@johncaswell/the-global-youth-community-611c4f81910d#.joyn921w1>
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>>>
>>> *From:* Birgitt Williams <birgitt at dalarinternational.com>
>>> *To:* christopher macrae <chris.macrae at yahoo.co.uk>; World wide Open
>>> Space Technology email list <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>; "
>>> oslist-request at lists.openspacetech.org" <
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>>> *Sent:* Sunday, 12 June 2016, 18:28
>>> *Subject:* Re: [OSList] who are the right people
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Chris,
>>>
>>> I was attempting to understand what you are asking about and I realized
>>> I did not understand. I would appreciate you clarifying some of what you
>>> have written.
>>>
>>> -if you are saying only global youth can mobilize on these issues if
>>> sustainability is to be our future, do you want intergenerational
>>> participation and if so, why? I ask this to attempt to understand who you
>>> would be inviting as you sort out 'whoever comes are the right people'
>>>
>>> -why is the goal to create something to do with a sustainable future? Is
>>> this not too low a bar? I ask this to attempt to understand a theme if you
>>> used OST.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Warmly,
>>>
>>> Birgitt
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 5:41 PM christopher macrae via OSList <
>>> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> "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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