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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=540182422-29082002>Dear
Birgitt.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=540182422-29082002>Today
I facilitated an Open Space meeting which was really about mentoring. Well I
guess in fact they all are. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=540182422-29082002>Anyway, I am part of a mentoring program for newly
arrived refugees in a nearby town. We are 9 mentors and 9 refugees (with
similair profession, mentoring each other. This evening 14 of them (+ 2 from the
community who are connected to the project + a politician from a refrencegroup)
went into Open Space to explore where to go from here and how to develop the
program further.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=540182422-29082002></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=540182422-29082002>We had
access to a translator in the opening. Most of the participants understand
Swedish well enough but those who needed translation placed themselves next to
the translator. I also had the principles and the law translated to Kurdish
(Sorani) and Arabic posted next to the Swedish ones. Unfortunately I didn´t
manage to get the Persian ready in time, but I was excused for
that.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=540182422-29082002></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=540182422-29082002>We had
two sessions of one hour each and a wonderful time together. The agenda was
built. Actually the first to raise a subject was an elder man who does not speak
much Swedish. He read his topic and the translator helped us understand. That
session was convened in Kurdish, the rest in Swedish. As I heard examples from
some of you, everybody had the chance to choose language for his/her topic.
Participants helping each other out during the sessions. The discussions covered
all from more social contacts and finding work to exploring the term
integration. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=540182422-29082002></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=540182422-29082002>It was
a lovely experience of self-organization. After the opening everybody went to
get some food (in the same room), talked, mingled, talked some more and all of a
sudden everybody was seated. The closing took about half an hour and I think
everybody felt quite strengthened after this evening. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=540182422-29082002></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=540182422-29082002>I have
looked for an opportunity to trying to open space in this context, and I am
greatful I got this. I would really love to open space in this way for
community development in our segregated suburbs. Not bad to be given a voice and
having ones language back at the same time.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=540182422-29082002></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=540182422-29082002>By the
way I will make digital copies of the principles and the law and see if they
somehow fit onto the openspaceworld website, like your suggested Michael
P</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=540182422-29082002>Good
Night</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=540182422-29082002>Thomas
Herrmann</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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size=2>-----Ursprungligt meddelande-----<BR><B>Från:</B> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]<B>För </B>Birgitt
Williams<BR><B>Skickat:</B> den 29 augusti 2002 20:40<BR><B>Till:</B>
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B>Ämne:</B> Request for stories about
mentoring, and a reminder about the conference for the International Alliance
for Mentoring<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face="Arial Narrow" size=2><SPAN
class=260181518-29082002>Dear friends and colleagues,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=260181518-29082002><FONT face="Arial Narrow"><FONT
color=#0000ff size=2>September 27th is the date for our on-line conference
regarding mentoring using the new software</FONT></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff
face="Arial Narrow" size=2> OpenSpace-Online®.* OpenSpace-Online® was<SPAN
class=260181518-29082002> </SPAN>developed by our colleague Gabriela Ender and
her team OpenSpace-Online GmBH</FONT><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
face="Arial Narrow" size=2> in Berlin, Germany and released in May 2002. They
have captured the essence<SPAN class=260181518-29082002> </SPAN>and principles
of an Open Space Technology meeting. September 28th and 29th are the days in
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA for the second annual conference for the
International Alliance for Mentoring. The meeting format is Open Space
Technology facilitated by our colleague Judi Richardson from Nova Scotia
Canada. Meals will be done in Open Space, facilitated by colleague Eiwor
Backelund from Sweden. Information about the conference is at <A
href="http://www.openspacetechnology.com/iam.html">http://www.openspacetechnology.com/iam.html</A>
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<DIV><SPAN class=260181518-29082002><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
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<DIV><SPAN class=260181518-29082002><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
face="Arial Narrow" size=2>The International Alliance for Mentoring is an
intentional conscious Open Space Organization in its early stages. If you are
interested in our story as a conscious Open Space Organization to date please
see <A
href="http://www.openspacetechnology.com/iam_story.html">http://www.openspacetechnology.com/iam_story.html</A>
This is one of the current intentional conscious Open Space Organizations. I
am learning through this experience and experiences with other organizations,
what is required in terms of initial structure including "givens" to provide
enough form to enable the organization's development. With IAM, we
experimented with the least possible amount of structure---only one
"given"--to see if this was enough coupled with passion, for the development
to progress.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face="Arial Narrow" size=2><SPAN
class=260181518-29082002>We also ask you to submit to us any stories that you
may have regarding mentoring. We will add these stories to this year's "book
of proceedings". Some may be used in a book, and for these we will seek your
permission to do so. Our vision is the promotion of mentoring (as a verb) to
influence the future of humanity. I am interested in mentoring by an
individual to an individual, by an individual to an organization (for me, a
lot of the consulting work that OST facilitators are doing is "mentoring"
rather than consulting), and I am interested in stories of organizations
mentoring other organizations and/or organizations in a mentoring
relationship with each other. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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size=2><FONT face="Arial Narrow"><FONT face="Arial Narrow" size=2>Blessings to
you and to all with whom you make Genuine Contact,</FONT></DIV>
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<P>Birgitt</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P><SPAN
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<P class=MsoAutoSig><FONT color=#0000ff face="Arial Narrow" size=2>view the
calendar for upcoming training at <A
href="http://www.openspacetechnology.com/training.html">http://www.openspacetechnology.com/training.html</A></FONT></P>
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believe that Spirit matters and people are precious. I know that organizations
incorporating these values have exciting, tangible results including wealth,
prosperity, and abundance. Daily, these organizations attend to their health
and balance. Participating in the Genuine Contact program takes you on a
learning journey of HOW to achieve the healthy and balanced organization (the
conscious Open Space Organization).”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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