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my main learnings at the Forum in Vienna were:<BR>
-to really make some progress in the field of migration and xenophobia we should forget integrating migrants or foreigners but focus on the conditions that would foster productive and happy colaboration and development<BR>
-one of the conditions that make sense to me (and there are certainly a host of others) are the "intercultural opening" of organisations, systems, agencies, corporations, unions, political parties, neighborhoods, bodies of government, foundations, eit, the fs-network......all systems in our societies....without the focus on "integration" but with the focus on "richness in diversity" <BR>
-another one is the focus on "open labor force" because I think that my and our experience in daily life is the workplace, working together in whatever form in a transcultural labor setting will create a culture of the future without "programs" (in this arena the transnational corporations could be important partners as they discover that it means a cutting edge advantage to have a multicultural workforce, creativity, resilience, discovering new approaches, etc. is simply limited in homogeneous groups)<BR>
-another one is the developemt and use in all walks of life of "participation enhancing" infrastructures, right, you probably guessed it, the introduction and much more widespread use especially of such tools as future search and open space (theGerman Government has just issued a report of the Enquete Commission on the "civil society" with the support of "participation enhancing infrastructures" as one of their central findings)<BR>
-another impulse I got is to look at my own work, my network (berlin open space cooperative - boscop), my trainings (an international os-training is coming up in Weimar in May 2003: what are we investing in having a training and assistance team that will concretely reflect these findings in its structure?)<BR>
-in Vienna, I had the experience of talking to people like myself about issues such as migration and xenophobia without migrants being present, now that I experienced as very limiting...I will work on other kinds of settings when myself responsible for organizing meetings, conferences, open space, future search<BR>
-and a dream I have is to live and work and to participate in that completely open (to many:threatening, to others:challenging, to others:promising) experiment of the European Expansion (not colonilization) with a dozen or so "foreign, alien, different, etc." countries, cultures, systems, etc.mingling into the "existing" mixture of in many ways "foreign, alien, different, etc." European Union....and that again in the context of a world community<BR>
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What I find comforting in this "mess" is that people like you and all of my colleagues are involved with their heart in these questions, searching without recipes.<BR>
I am sending our dialog to the fs and os networks where many strands of discussion and search are running synchroneously around these issues.<BR>
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Keep in touch<BR>
michael<BR>
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PS: I am also sending this to colleagues who were in Vienna .... they are sure to report on other learnings in this arena.<BR>
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<B>From:</B> Ktraderleigh@cs.com<BR>
<B>Date:</B> Wed, 18 Sep 2002 19:03:06 EDT<BR>
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Hello Michael. I am a member of future search net work and saw your note to Begnt re the future search conference in Sweden (which I attended), the reason I am writing you however is because I was interested in your comments on the conference you are attending in Vienna EIT on "Migration and Xenophobia in Europe"... I am very interested in what some of the leanings are from that conference and what European institutions are doing in response to it. I live in the US and do a lot of work on cross cultural issues and will be talking with a group at the US State department which includes some Europeans so I am most interested in what is happening. If you have any comments that you can share with me I would be most pleased to hear from you. <BR>
PS the Sweden conference was wonderful. <BR>
Karyn Trader-Leigh <BR>
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