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<FONT SIZE="2" POINTSIZE="10" DEFAULT="SIZE">I sent the piece below to the searchnet crowd and thought you all should know about the Training in Potsdam, too.<BR>
Hold the space,<BR>
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Once I had been touched by it I was hooked. I didnt realize it at the moment it happened. In retrospect I know that it was the spirit of community and empowerement. It touched me at a gathering of village farmers in India at the moment their coop was born. I was there on a Peace Corps mission that had resulted from my determination not to serve in Vietnam. <BR>
This experience changed my life in several ways. Never again would I pick up on the study of zoology again. From then on I was on the lookout for work in which that spirit unfolded that made life so meaningful to me: Organizing production coops in the Mississippi Delta, union workers in Los Angeles, neighborhoods in Berlin and now facilitating large groups in organisational transformation. <BR>
Four years ago I heard about future search and open space. Immediately, I felt the spirit and set out to learn about them. Thats how I came to go to Mohonk for the Future Search Learning Workshop in 1996 with Sandra Janoff and Marvin R. Weisbord and the open space Training that Harrison Owen and Romy Shovelton conducted that same year in England.<BR>
Convinced that all my colleagues should be trained in these approaches I talked Sandra and Marv and later also Harrison into coming to Berlin. That was 3 years ago. The training with Harrison took place last November. It was fabulous with 64 (!) participants from Berlin, other german speaking places, Sweden, Netherlands and five colleagues from Russia, Poland and Bulgaria.<BR>
And now I am in the midst of getting the Future Search Learning Workshop in Potsdam organized. It will take place September 6 through 9, 1999. It will have the same structure as all the other Learning Workshops.<BR>
To me it is, however, very special.<BR>
It will be the first time that Marv and Sandra offer the workshop in Germany. In a Germany far different from what it ever was in the past. Even the recent past has seen Germany and especially Berlin in the greatest transformational process ever. And this time a transformation that promises hope and peace and international cooperation. A transformation in which I sense that spirit I talked about earlier.<BR>
The quality of the transformation and of our future will much depend on the growing ability of people to get in touch with the spirit of community and empowerement. Future Search is to me one of the important venues.<BR>
Therefore I am putting out a call to all of you not only in the German-speaking countries but to all European neighbors and all countries on our planet to let everyone know of the Learning Workshop in Potsdam. It is an ideal opportunity for people from all over Europe and the world to join and learn together.<BR>
It is especially important that all of you who read this be aware that Potsdam and Berlin are only 50 miles from Poland, Moscow is a two and a half hour flight from here, Prag five hours by train. The centre of Europe has moved about 500 kilometers to the East since the Berlin Wall came down. Please activate your eastern european networks. Let them know that we offer special rates to colleagues from Eastern Euope in case they have funding problems.<BR>
And, of course, come yourself, invite your colleagues and bring a client!<BR>
Sandra and Marv will be speaking English. My experience has been at gatherings like this that translation selforganizes and that people will decide on the language they will use in small groupwork.<BR>
We are meeting at a lovely waterfront hotel on an island right in the middle of Potsdam. September should be perfect weather. Berlin is just minutes away. The price is comparable to the rates at the Marconi Conference Center in California (the equivalent of about US$ 1600). More details from me, <FONT COLOR=0000ff><U>mmpanne@snafu.de<FONT COLOR=000000 DEFAULT="COLOR"></U>. Just drop me a note and I will send the registration form.<BR>
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Draisweg 1<BR>
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Tel.: 49 30 772 8000<BR>
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