[OSList] OST as a way to go in addressing climate change and other perils

Wed Apr 10 08:07:50 PDT 2019

Good luck!

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I am just catching up on 2 months of OST list emails, therefor this is short notice (for today or/and next Wednesday).

We are hosting OST calls pre- and post the conferences "Climate Change and Consciousness" www.ccc19.org and „Imagine Convergence“ http://imagineconvergence.com/

Everyone interested in this topic AND in ways to integrate and ground the energy from such transformational conferences is invited!

Marai Kiele 

(on behalf of Conference Weavers)

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Integrate and ground the energy from transformational conferences
held in March and April 2019

 <https://tara-approach.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2675e915b77fe92f2a34caeed&id=7018c7bc85&e=b7f12f1f7c> Conference Weavers
in partnership with 
 <https://tara-approach.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2675e915b77fe92f2a34caeed&id=5e8d862eba&e=b7f12f1f7c> Imagine Convergence 
and
 <https://tara-approach.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2675e915b77fe92f2a34caeed&id=a140b70008&e=b7f12f1f7c> Climate Change and Consciousness 
Vision Holder/Convener Stephanie Mines 

present: 
 Now What?!

A participatory conversation with peers to carry the energy of 
upcoming or recently completed conferences out into the world 
via the networks and local hubs that are connected to them
Open Space Zoom conversations on April 10 and 17 (and more)
Noon-3pm US Pacific/19:00-22:00 UTC
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Special guest conversation-starter on April 10:
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Note: if these dates/times don’t work, you can identify other options between April 11-20 when you want to join a small group conversation on a topic of your choosing

 <https://tara-approach.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2675e915b77fe92f2a34caeed&id=c7cfb223f8&e=b7f12f1f7c> Register here

Am 19.02.2019 um 00:36 schrieb Alan Stewart via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>:

 G’day Fellow Spaceniks and other Kindred Spirits 

The items below may be of interest to you.

They are about the looming perils of climate change and associated ways to consider and act on them, recently come to my attention. 

I have followed such matters keenly since I attended a presentation by James Hansen <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/19/james-hansen-nasa-scientist-climate-change-warning>  while living in Hong Kong a decade ago. 

My question: Could bringing Open Space Technology (OST <https://openspaceworld.org/wp2/> ) approaches be a vital means to address constructively the issues we face as global humanity in the now Anthropocene with its perils and opportunities? 

See: 

Opinion | Time to Panic - The New York Times <https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/16/opinion/sunday/fear-panic-climate-change-warming.html> 

Using Open Space to address climate change matters

https://jembendell.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/deep-adaptation-retreat-uk-2019/

We need to have a paradigm shift in how we view society and life.

https://americanminion.blog/2018/12/16/we-need-a-paradigm-shift/  

Also:      <https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/#sf-1> Fourth National Climate Change Assessment

(To add:  Here is a report, entitled  <http://www.multimindsolutions.com/?page_id=41> Vision, Values and Vibes which illustrates my credentials as a Spacenik!) 

Tall orders indeed! Yet are there any means at hand other than OST <https://openspaceworld.org/wp2/>  with its underpinning premises and highly practical approaches to addressing complex issues - now needed urgently to create a viable living for succeeding generations of we humans and other inhabitants of our tiny, fragile planet home?

With young people, particularly school children, crying out for necessary action: 

https://www.euronews.com/2019/02/07/this-is-the-climate-generation-thousands-of-students-join-netherlands-protest

Next such events are happening all around Australia on March 15, 2019. 

To conclude:

While I feel a need and associated responsibility – given the particular experiencing I have had over nigh on eight decades of being an earthly denizen (including participating in seven 'World Open Space on Open Space' gatherings, beginning in 1998) - to bring these perspectives to your notice … 

It is, in my mind, for you younger Spaceniks to make what you will of them. Given that what I have drawn attention to here is likely only another way of expressing what you are already aware of.  

Bearing in mind that,  as with great works of art, "Which cannot be taken in at a glance" Linguist I.A. Richards, so it will be in your grand adventuring ahead.  

Looking forward, indeed.👍

Al  

Al (formerly Alan) Stewart, PhD
Process Artist 
Facilitator of conversations that matter and participatory fun

Senior Fulbright Scholar 

Blog:  www.conversare.net <http://www.conversare.net/> 

Member:  American Society for Cybernetics <http://asc-cybernetics.org/>  

Member:  <http://www.ntmu.com.au/> National Trouble Makers Union

Residence: Adelaide, South Australia, since 1975 
With time away in the USA (1981) and Hong Kong (2005-2011)  

_________________________________

  <http://www.multimindsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/logo1.png> 

"Whenever we treat each other well good things happen."
Al Stewart

PS. If you feel in need of inspiration, you may wish to look out for  - perhaps through your local library - a book of photographs entitled 'The Family of Man'. "The greatest photographic exhibition of all time ..." 

This was published in the early 1950s. And was subsequently exhibited in many countries. I saw one of these, at age 14, in what is now Harare in Zimbabwe. It had a profound influence on me. 

You may also find this little story  <http://www.multimindsolutions.com/?page_id=537> to be uplifting. ☺

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