[OSList] Creative New Jersey -> Gathering Ground

[Suzanne Daigle]

Dear Jeff, Peggy and all!
A short note now that will be followed by something longer a little later.
Creative New Jersey is an Open Space love story that Chuni Li and I had the
privilege to be part of. It is one of my most treasured client engagements,
one that lives up to what we often say in this work. That after it is done,
they will forget we were ever there. Because they owned it, they lived it
and they ran with it. And indeed they did!

This past year I have been consumed by a project near and dear to my heart.
I’m in the process of writing a very intimate and personal book on Open
Space. Not done yet but soon. The title: “Open Space on the Open Road: A
Love Story”. The 2-day Open Space that took place is featured in one of the
chapters.

A silver lining from this New Jersey tale is the life long friendship that
ensued between Chuni and I which includes her family. For days many times
over, I stayed at her home as we worked on this project.  Later,  many
other colleagues from around the world also stayed at Chuni’s home hosted
by the extended Li family after the annual Peace and High Performance
gathering in January in New York. What memories all because of this
wonderful event.

And because Harrison Owen had this crazy idea to put Chuni Li and I
together more than a decade ago. Some time later, people from this group
would invite Harrison to do a Ted Talk in New Jersey, the wonderful Dance
of Shiva. A gang of us were there in the audience to hear it.
https://youtu.be/APD7oQ3xrSA

Chuni may also want to weigh in on this Creative New Jersey story from her
perspective. I just wanted to share the back story and savor the memory a
bit more before thin telling the tale of what happened there.

With much love to all on this list, after a joyful Thanksgiving, with
Hanukkah just past and Christmas soon at our door.

 Apologies that I’ve not been on the list much in recent years.

Suzanne





On Monday, December 6, 2021, Jeff Aitken via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> "After 10 years of convening communities around critical issues,
> silo-busting, and building and strengthening local networks, our new
> identity embodies Gathering Ground’s sharpened focus on nurturing and
> amplifying community-rooted solutions woven across socioeconomic divides."
>
> From their site and video, their "adapted" format seems to consist of one
> day of OST for topics and conversation, and then a second day of groups
> getting into collaborative action. Good stuff.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2021, 6:31 PM Jeff Aitken <r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From afar, this project looks so powerful! Celebrating 10 years using
>> "modified" OST for community conversations all around the state of New
>> Jersey in the USA. Now it has been renamed Gathering Ground.
>>
>> I'm curious not to have seen any mention on the oslist. Does anyone know
>> anyone on the inside, who can tell any stories?
>>
>>  https://youtu.be/E7AfwdpY6-M
>>
>> https://gatheringground.us/category/gg-team/
>>
>> - Jeff
>>
>>
>>

-- 
Suzanne Daigle
Open Space Facilitator
NuFocus Strategic Group

FL 941-359-8877
Cell: 203-722-2009
www.nufocusgroupusa.com
s.daigle at nufocusgroup.com
Twitter @Daiglesuz
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