[OSList] 1,000 OS's for 'Civic Listening' (and HO in his hat)

[Harold Shinsato via OSList]

Hi Kai,

Clicking on your link from your first post, I realized - yes - you were 
a bit of a legend here in the past for your work opening civic discourse 
as an elected official in the U.S.

I know that many of us are passionate about bringing more open space 
into civic dialog, and I'm extremely grateful for you showing a 
successful model of doing this.

I'm responding mostly out of enthusiasm for your posting this offering 
to the OSList, but I'd love to hear more from you.

Would you say more about "Government is not the most credible or 
competent convener", and how you sense "We The People" could do the job? 
I really thought that's what our Government in the U.S. was supposed to 
be. We The People, as stated in the U.S. Constitution. Surely you must 
have some special insights doing this convening work from inside Government?

     Thanks!
     Harold

On 1/8/17 10:40 PM, Kai Degner via OSList wrote:
> Greetings-
>
> How about 1,000 community OS's?
>
> I know too few of you, but am a fellow OS convener and am happy to be 
> back on the OSlist.  I just finished 8 years on a local city council 
> (Harrisonburg, VA, USA) and five months running for congress (VA6).  
> More importantly, I've convened over 25 community summits using OS in 
> that time.  And I had lunch with Harrison on Tuesday (see photo, I'm 
> on the left, Bruce on the right).
>
> Briefly, I believe the dialogue, democracy, facilitation, leadership, 
> business, and communications worlds frequently promote people taking 
> turns talking as sufficiently useful for quality discourse.  We often 
> underemphasize and take for granted individual and group listening 
> skills, and there could be value in focusing on how to "let people 
> feel listened to" rather than just "let people talk."
> My time in elected office let me see the opportunity for OS to 
> contribute to what I'm calling "civic listening infrastructure."  How 
> can/does a community listen to itself?  Where are its open spaces?
>
> Government is not the most credible or competent convener, neither is 
> a candidate, nor is an elected official.  We The People could convene 
> We The People, with a little help from the people who know OS.
>
> The way the Peace Corps or Army Corps builds infrastructure, I am 
> starting The Listening Corps <http://www.listeningcorps.com> in hopes 
> of inspiring and/or supporting people committed to honing individual 
> listening skills and then facilitating group listening.  OS is a power 
> tool on the group listening tool belt.
>
> I'm hosting a webinar at three times this week to teach some simple 
> listening skills and invite participation in The Listening Corps. *You 
> are cordially invited. Link 
> <https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/rt/6047065842932730372>*
>
> For discussion purposes, I'm curious how the connection between OS and 
> civic listening lands with this group.  Does sparking community OS's 
> on locally-chosen topics seem like a useful way to address the 
> political, class, and cultural divides ?  What could be possible if we 
> joined to create 1,000 such events in our communities?
>
> Thanks for listening -
>
> Kai
>
>
>
> ​
> ​
>
> -- 
> /Thanks for listening!  - /Kai Degner
>
> Blogging, teaching, and musing atwww.KaiDegner.com 
> <http://www.KaiDegner.com>
>
>
>
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Harold Shinsato
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