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

[Jamie Colston]

Hello everyone,

I have been thinking of this too and I think that my plan is to start
hosting monthly open spaces in the place where I live around a question
that speaks to this and the other multitude of system breakdowns we are
experiencing.
Having witnessed and now supporting lightly the youth climate alliance
locally, it is really clear that we need open space regularly to be able to
bring together everyone to see what is possible.
If anyone lives near Bath in the UK and wants to speak about this, or if
there is a sense that we could do something together as a community in our
own communities I would be interested in exploring this.
I am thinking devoted and disgruntled but around whole system change, micro
to the macro.
Get in touch if anyone is interested in exploring.
Best wishes and good luck to us all

Jamie

On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 at 23:37, Alan Stewart via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

>  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/
> <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/
> <https://americanminion.blog/2018/12/16/we-need-a-paradigm-shift/>*
>
> *Also:     **Fourth National Climate Change Assessment*
> <https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/#sf-1>
>
>
> <https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/#sf-1>(To add:  Here is a report,
> entitled
> <http://www.multimindsolutions.com/?page_id=41&preview=true&preview_id=41&preview_nonce=1f89ef96f3>*Vision,
> Values and Vibes* <http://www.multimindsolutions.com/?page_id=41> 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
>
> Member:  American Society for Cybernetics <http://asc-cybernetics.org/>
>
> *Member: **National Trouble Makers Union* <http://www.ntmu.com.au/>
>
>
> *Residence: Adelaide, South Australia, since 1975 With time away in the
> USA (1981) and Hong Kong (2005-2011)  *
>
> *_________________________________*
>
>
>
> *"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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