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<DIV><SPAN class=800543320-12082002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Lisa,
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=800543320-12082002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>From
were I see you are a brave and daring lady!. It is always much easier to
fight in clean settings (and have you ego "shoe shined")
....</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=800543320-12082002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>and
one more thing:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=800543320-12082002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I love
your stories. They always make me laugh and they always make me
learn</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=800543320-12082002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>thank
you</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=800543320-12082002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Tova
Averbuch</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=800543320-12082002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=800543320-12082002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Holon,
Israel</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=800543320-12082002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=800543320-12082002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="mailto:averbuch@post.tau.ac.il">averbuch@post.tau.ac.il</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=800543320-12082002> </SPAN>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Lisa
Heft<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 08, 2002 5:26 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> Open Space (sort of) at the
13th International AIDS Conference<BR><BR></DIV></FONT></FONT>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 35.75pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">Dear wise, thoughtful,
playful, kind and courageous colleagues –<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 35.75pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 35.75pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">I am now <SPAN
class=GramE>back</SPAN> from facilitating in and for the International AIDS
Conference, which was held in </SPAN></FONT><st1:place><st1:City><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">Barcelona</SPAN></FONT></st1:City><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">,
</SPAN></FONT><st1:country-region><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">Spain</SPAN></FONT></st1:country-region></st1:place><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'"> in July.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN class=GramE>An amazing
experience.</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
class=GramE>For one, the people who work against this horrific
epidemic.</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Scientists,
activists, parents, survivors, policy makers, sex workers, and people with HIV
disease – sometimes all in the same person.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You walk across to world to meet each
other (people come from every country and culture, from all over the globe,
from the poorest village to the biggest cities) and though you are each
unique, you share a common sense of sharing in life and death experiences –
you share an intimacy before you’ve even met.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was also a magical experience of
standing next to someone on the steps, turning to meet them and discovering
that you both do the same thing and that person is exactly the right person
for you to have met right then – Whoever Comes Is the Right Person and Be
Prepared to Be Surprised, indeed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Plus, we were blessed at Closing Ceremony to hear the eloquent words of
two former Presidents, Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN class=GramE>Both passionate
fighters for health, access and dignity for
all.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 35.75pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 35.75pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">As for the
facilitations: I’d come to facilitate <SPAN class=SpellE>skillsbuilding</SPAN>
workshops in 1) how to take in and process all the information overload of a
conference and 2) strategic planning for vulnerable communities.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We repeated the workshops in English,
Spanish and French for both topics (I don’t speak French, but I helped with
logistics and waved my hands a lot). For the Community Forum session before
the official conference opened, the conference also asked me to take on the
role of being the lead facilitator of a team of 30 international facilitators,
in a process which I inherited from someone who’d designed it – a process that
I didn’t wholly agree with.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How
would you help 1500 people from all places and languages network with each
other in two hours?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m sure you
have some OST-style ideas.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Their
(the pl</SPAN></FONT><st1:PersonName><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">anne</SPAN></FONT></st1:PersonName><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">rs of this community
forum) idea was to have everybody stand under a
b</SPAN></FONT><st1:PersonName><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">anne</SPAN></FONT></st1:PersonName><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">r of their <SPAN
class=GramE>continent,</SPAN> with a contact sheet in hand (their goal was to
make 5 contacts).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They also
wanted people to break into interest areas of: Prevention, Treatment and Care,
Youth and Young People, Gender and Sexuality, Vulnerable and Marginalized
Populations, Mobility and Migration.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Great <SPAN class=GramE>topics,</SPAN> and they reflect the different
issues identified by conference organizers. Originally 60 facilitators were
supposed to circulate to make sure that people made contacts one-to-one or in
groups of no more than three people and to encourage them to move on to
another group periodically to make their total of 5 contacts.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mimes would also circulate throughout
the gathering to help people find their way.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 35.75pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 35.75pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">So you can see how I put
this through an Open Space filter.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Not that OS is the only way; it’s just that their process seemed so
similar yet there was so much control that it might limit greater
possibilities.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, to make a
long story short (hmmm…all my stories are long stories…), we merged our
thoughts to create an adapted method, with a handout in three languages and
simple graphics indicating the 4 steps participants could take (Make a sign
with your question/issue/topic of passion/interest, wear it or wave it, people
of similar interest will find you, feel free to bumblebee around).<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We 30 or so facilitators wore signs
that said “May I help you?” in all the languages we spoke, and circulated
about in the m</SPAN></FONT><st1:PersonName><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">anne</SPAN></FONT></st1:PersonName><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">r of a host introducing
people of similar interests at one’s own cocktail party.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some of us facilitators added other
topics to their signs, such as ‘Ask me where the restrooms are’ and ‘Kisses,
50 cents)… Some participants made many marvelous connections; others felt they
never really knew what was happening and took care of themselves by going home
to rest (many had just arrived and were totally jet-lagged, and the morning
had been a series of speeches).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><SPAN class=GramE>A great success.</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Although I think it would have been
better with a ritual / formal opening and closing, as in Open Space
Technology.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So I experienced a
little ego-bruising when some of the great facilitators looked back at the
experience as perhaps needing a bit more opening and closure.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN class=GramE>Because in our
compromise with the original design, the organizers did not want Open
Space.</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I just snuck in
what I could of the OS elements.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>So it looked like I was the lead in a process I designed which was not
entirely transcendent.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
class=SpellE><SPAN class=GramE>Heh</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
class=GramE>.</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Lisa
lived.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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