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<DIV><SPAN class=619161420-28062002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Still
catching up on back e-mails Larry. Thanks for sharing this story. The
infighting, finger pointing and toxicity created in our publicly funded systems
sure need a lot of healing. It sounds like a good start.
Congratulations.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=619161420-28062002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Michelle</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Larry
Peterson<BR><B>Sent:</B> 9-Jun-02 10:35<BR><B>To:</B>
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> Education Healing
(long)<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=Section1>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I have to share a story while I’m still vibrating with
the excitement and energy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(I’ll
improve the writing and detail for the next OSI Canada Newsletter coming out
soon).<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">I just finished leading a
2.5 day 350 person Open Space event on “Realizing the Promise of Public
Education” that was wonderful. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT><st1:PersonName><FONT
size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Judy
Gast</SPAN></FONT></st1:PersonName><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> and
</SPAN></FONT><st1:PersonName><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Audrey
Coward</SPAN></FONT></st1:PersonName><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> volunteered to give
super help for a topic they cared about.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Some other folks who have taken OS workshops and facilitate events were
there, Eric Lillis and Louise <SPAN class=SpellE>Pinet</SPAN> as participants
and </SPAN></FONT><st1:PersonName><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Susan
Langley</SPAN></FONT></st1:PersonName><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> and <SPAN
class=GramE>Ruth<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Baumann</SPAN>,
both trained facilitators, were also the
sponsors.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">For the past 10 years
Public Education has been under substantial threat in
</SPAN></FONT><st1:State><st1:place><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Ontario</SPAN></FONT></st1:place></st1:State><FONT
size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">,
like in many places.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What was
touted as one of the best systems in the world has been cut to the bone and
teachers have been taken on buy a government with strong leaning toward a
private system.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>During that time
the Teacher’s Federations have fought among themselves and the umbrella
Ontario Teachers’ Federation has had to substantially downsize (in the last 6
months).<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">In the face of all this
there has been a poisoned, confrontational climate among the
stakeholders.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To begin to address
this, the Ontario Teachers Federation initiated a series of 2.5 hour community
forums in 1999.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was asked to
design them and to train teacher-facilitators to use a process of small group
discussions where teachers listened with no presentations.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The 38 communities that have held the
forums across the province recruited a diversity of participants to the
dialogue – and dialogue not outcome was the focus.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you might expect, the “outcomes” of
those forums, what people have done as a result of the conversations <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>and networking have been exciting both
for the communities and for the participants, including the
teachers.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">These past few days, OTF
held a Provincial Forum.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Because
of the downsizing, they cut the expectation to 200 participants.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Because of great recruiting 320 people
from across the province came.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">The event began with some
presentations, not my preference but what was necessary for the sponsors.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I then opened and held the space and
the participants self-organized some amazing, healing, joyful, strategic and
momentum building conversations.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The participants were from across
</SPAN></FONT><st1:State><st1:place><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Ontario</SPAN></FONT></st1:place></st1:State><FONT
size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">:
parents, teachers, administrators, trustees, provincial activists, federation
activists with education, food banks, healthy schools, small business people,
aboriginal education leaders, a few Ministry of Education folks, black
activists, etc.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">For most it was their
first experience of Open Space but they carried with them some of the values
and skills from the Community Forums.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>There was some attrition by the closing on Saturday morning, as
expected, but those who stayed told of life affirming and changing
experiences: healing conversations between parents and teachers, between those
working from different perspectives on how to move forward, between local
union leaders and business people.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>One woman was moved by here community forum a couple of years ago to
run for trustee, and won.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She
described how she was moved by the Open Space to stand up for her community in
ways she could not have imagined.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Students loved it.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">It was a delight and
another step down a path.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>More
community forums are planned in areas that have not held them or to take the
conversations to a new level where they have been held.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The next Provincial Forum in Open
Space will be held in a year with a hope to double the size and it will be
right before Provincial Elections.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">It’s a story I needed to
tell my friends this morning.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Thanks.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Larry<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><st1:PersonName><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-no-proof: yes">Larry
Peterson</SPAN></FONT></st1:PersonName><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="mso-no-proof: yes"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-no-proof: yes">Associates in
Transformation<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><st1:place><st1:City><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-no-proof: yes">Toronto</SPAN></FONT></st1:City><SPAN
lang=EN-CA style="mso-no-proof: yes">, </SPAN><st1:State><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="mso-no-proof: yes">ON</SPAN></st1:State><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="mso-no-proof: yes">, </SPAN><st1:country-region><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="mso-no-proof: yes">Canada</SPAN></st1:country-region></st1:place><SPAN
lang=EN-CA style="mso-no-proof: yes"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-no-proof: yes">416.653.4829<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-no-proof: yes"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-no-proof: yes">larry@spiritedorg.com<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-no-proof: yes">www.spiritedorg.com
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-no-proof: yes"><SPAN
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