[OSList] Fwd: Open Space faciliation in Dec 3-5th in Beirut, Lebanon
Franklin Quijano
franklinqjn at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 23 21:23:19 PDT 2018
Hello All,
Franklin Quijano here. May I share with you an invitation from Lebanon for an Arabic speaking OST facilitator.
Looking forward for a supportive response.
Blessings.
Franklin
Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Gimaidee Ann <gimaidee at gmail.com>
> Date: 23 October 2018 at 2:17:06 PM GMT+8
> To: froehlich at forumzfd.de
> Cc: Franklin Quijano <franklinqjn at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Open Space faciliation in Dec 3-5th in Beirut, Lebanon
>
> Dear Catrin,
>
> Hi! Thanks for sharing and giving me a glimpse of how the Forum ZFD event on the 3rd-5th of December would look like. I have to say that I am not a licensed expert of OST (Open Space Technology) and I and my local organization, Pailig Development Foundation, Inc. were just blessed to have been trained by Atty. Franklin M. Quijano, one of the OST licensed experts in the country. After our training, we have practically used OST in our strategic planning, community dialogues, and consultations on the Bangsamoro Basic Law on 2014 where the consolidated results where hand-in to the BTC Chair then Mohaqer Iqbal. As to experience in the Middle East, I only got the chance for 2 hours lay over at Doha International Airport J and that would mean, I can’t fluently speak any Arabic word except for a few common words such as shukran, “habibi” and the Islamic praise “Allahu Akbar”.
>
> On your 3 days event, it’s a great idea to bring together your colleagues especially local partners and other organizations working on community empowerment and mobilization with the purpose of learning from one another’s experiences. I got the chance to experience the same purpose at the Professional Exchange on Peace Pedagogy held recently at Zinzendorfhaus, Neudientendorf, Germany early October this year.
>
> Since you are considering OST as your process, are you already familiar with its purpose and principles? In my experience, all the things that you envision to happen in the event can be covered with the OST process as long as the Theme of the event is clearly defined, and asking the right/appropriate questions based on your theme. I would suggest that, everybody should be oriented first with the OST before using it. For example, on the first day in the morning you have the welcome address by (host/organizers) and rationale of the event) followed by a creative introduction of participants (can also include the expectation check), setting of house rules, then a brief orientation on the OST purpose and principles. Once everybody is on the same page on OST, the facilitator can apply the process with the event’s theme and well-crafted questions. The most crucial part here is the formulation of the theme and questions which would also stemmed from the goal and objectives of the event like the coming together, learning from another’s context /challenges /issues/motivations.
>
> I am willing to share with you what I learned and experience on the OST the best I can, and Atty. Franklin can do more whom I cc’d in this email and could probably refer you to his international contacts of OST licensed practitioners who could speak Arabic.
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> Have a great week ahead!
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Mai
>
> Gimaidee Ann "Mai" C. Moya
> Acting Managing Director
> Pailig Development Foundation, Inc.
> 0076 b/c Tino Badelles St., Palao, Iligan City | 9200 Philippines
> (+63) 917 716 9933 | (+63) 919 466 5846 | (+63) 223 8841
> gimaidee at gmail.com | gcadotdot at yahoo.com
>
> "God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself because it is not there. There is no such thing." - C.S. Lewis
>
>
>
>> On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 8:57 PM Catrin Fröehlich <froehlich at forumzfd.de> wrote:
>> Dear Gimaidee,
>>
>> I am referring to the email you received from Jayshree. I am Miriam's colleague and the person who is organising the conference in December.
>>
>> The plan is to bring different organisations that work on community
>> organising/mobilising together. forumZFD (a German-based NGO) as the
>> organiser is interested in bringing together some colleagues from Jordan
>> and Iraq, our local partners and other organisations working on
>> community empowerment/mobilisation/organisation.
>>
>> Our hope is that we will all learn from each other and hopefully decide
>> to support each other and share experience in the future. Ideally we
>> would love to help establish a network but we don't want to push this in
>> the center of the event as we first want to see what issues/challenges
>> and interests/motivations are in the room.
>>
>> I can send you more information later but I wonder if you would
>> generally be interested in potentially facilitating this and if you have any experiences working in the Middle East and if you can faciliate in Arabic.
>>
>> The event is planned for 3-5 December.
>> We believe that we need the first morning for introductions (maybe world cafe style or something creative). In the afternoon we would collect and discuss topics open space style.
>> On the second day we want to go deeper and have discussed different methods but not yet decided on one (maybe something like bar-camps with suggested topics by the participants might be cool for parts of the day)
>> On 5th of December we will probably offer different options like tours and visits or more in-depth working groups.
>>
>> It would be great to hear from you on that. Maybe you could already give me a rough indication of your fees and potential expenses and send me some references?
>>
>> With all the best wishes,
>> Catrin
>>
>>
>> --
>> forumZFD
>> Committed to Peace
>>
>> Catrin Fröhlich
>> Programme Area Manager - Community Mobilising | Beirut office (Programme Lebanon)
>>
>> Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst e.V.|Forum Civil Peace Service
>> forumZFD e.v.
>> منتدى خدمة السلام المدنية ج. م. (مرسوم رقم 4569 تاريخ 27/10/2016)
>>
>>
>> Moukarzel Bldg.(Ground floor) | Museum Square (Mathaf/behind monop') | Beirut | Lebanon
>> phone + 961 1 425 351 | mobil (LBN) + 961 71 90 25 42 | skype cat.frog
>>
>> http://www.forumZFD.de
>> http://lebanon.forumzfd.org/
>> https://www.facebook.com/forumZFDLebanon
>>
>> Executive Board: Oliver Knabe (Chair), Alexander Mauz, Sonja Wiekenberg-Mlalandle
>> VR 17651 Amtsgericht Köln
>>
>> Donations: IBAN DE37 3702 0500 0008 2401 01 BIC BFSWDE33XXX
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> Subject: FW: Open space
>> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 09:34:55 +0000
>> From: Boot, Jayshree GIZ PH <jayshree.boot at giz.de>
>> To: modalal at forumzfd.de <modalal at forumzfd.de>, Gimaidee Ann Cadotdot-Moya <gimaidee at gmail.com> <gimaidee at gmail.com>
>> CC: jayshreeboot at yahoo.co.uk <jayshreeboot at yahoo.co.uk>
>>
>>
>> Dear Miriam, Dear Mai (nickname of Gimaidee),
>>
>>
>>
>> I am very pleased indeed to introduce you to each other and can exchange with each other for inspiration on peacebuilding, and particularly to answer your questions regarding Open Space Technology (OST). (note: I am therefore forwarding the email from Miriam to Gimaidee.) I can assure both of you that you can have a fun and fruitful exchanges on many topics.
>>
>>
>>
>> Gimaidee is Acting Managing Director of Pailig Development Foundation, Inc, my former partner organization. She is familiar with forumZFD and met one of your colleagues when she was trained at the Forum Akademie last year.
>>
>>
>>
>> I recommend Gimaidee as we had utilized the OST together on many occasions in GIZ CPS projects in Mindanao. Gimaidee is also in contact with a Filipino accredited OST consultant who had guided us, Mr. Franklin M. Quijano. He is an alumni member of the Pailig Academy for Grassroots Democracy and offered us experiential training and mentoring on OST.
>>
>>
>>
>> I hope that this will suffice in opening up a conversation between you both.. ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>> Fyi Miriam, So lovely to hear from you. I have cc’ed my private email into this message. Mark and I shall be leaving the Philippines in December. I actually am only at work for 2 more weeks in early December. So hope to keep in contact with you through my personal email address.
>>
>>
>>
>> Lots of love,
>>
>>
>>
>> Jayshree
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Miriam [mailto:modalal at forumzfd.de]
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 9:35 PM
>> To: Boot, Jayshree GIZ PH <jayshree.boot at giz.de>
>> Subject: Open space
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Jayshree,
>>
>>
>>
>> How are you? How is everything in the Philippines? Its Miriam. We met during the facilitation meeting of Zena-Gabrielle Hailu and the RFT in Palestine. I remember that you once spoke about the "open space format" during the facilitation workshop. It happens that my team is preparing a conference with such a format. I was wondering if you know any great facilitators specialized on open space?
>>
>> Would be great hearing from you! We are grateful for any help.
>>
>> Best wishes from Beirut,
>>
>> Miriam
>>
>> --
>> forumZFD
>> Committed to Peace
>>
>> Miriam Modalal
>> Project Coordinator | Beirut office (Programme Lebanon)
>>
>> Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst e.V. | Forum Civil Peace Service
>> منتدى خدمة السلام المدنية ج. م. (مرسوم رقم 4569 تاريخ 27/10/2016)
>>
>> Moukarzel Bldg. (Ground floor) | Museum Square (Mathaf), Beirut | Lebanon
>> phone + 961 1 425 351
>>
>> http://www.forumZFD.de
>> http://lebanon.forumzfd.org/
>> https://www.facebook.com/forumZFDLebanon
>>
>> Oliver Knabe (Chair), Alexander Mauz, Sonja Wiekenberg-Mlalandle
>> VR 17651 Amtsgericht Köln
>>
>> Donations: IBAN DE37 3702 0500 0008 2401 01 BIC BFSWDE33XXX
>> Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH;
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