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on the eve of war and my appointment with the student body representatives of our neighborhood highschool (some 40 very much alive young women and men) tomorrow morning I send hugs and good wishes for your open space on April 10.<BR>
The theme of the os last November to which tomorrows gathering is the follow up was "Lebens(t)raum Schule" (meaning both "Life-dream school" and "Living-space school")...it was their third 2,5 day weekend retreat in open space (Irmi Gruensteidel and I facilitating).<BR>
As I am preparing for tomorrow my wife peeked around the corner reminding me that all the kids will be out demonstrating in the streets tomorrow morning ..... at the same moment a mail dropped in telling me that there will be 4 of the students to help with setting up the room and organizing food and drink an hour before the gathering begins.<BR>
Well, I think there is nothing better than being in open space tomorrow morning.<BR>
peace<BR>
mmp <BR>
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On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 14:17:42 -0500, john engle wrote:<BR>
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>This past Saturday I had the delightful opportunity of participating in an<BR>
>Open Space with roughly 110 Haitian High school students and 10 teachers and<BR>
>school administrative staff.<BR>
><BR>
>The theme, translated from Haitian Creole to English, was, "What can we do<BR>
>to ensure that there is authentic harmony between girls/women and boys/men?"<BR>
><BR>
>We were at The Louverture Cleary School which is a private boarding school<BR>
>for kids who have been assessed as being academically gifted and who come<BR>
>from desperately poor neighborhoods and households.<BR>
><BR>
>I have been doing two to three Open Space meetings with teachers and<BR>
>administrative staff each year for the last several years. This was our<BR>
>first Open Space with students. What excites me most is that two young<BR>
>teachers-both in their mid twenties-who have participated in previous open<BR>
>space meetings, initiated, organized and facilitated the event.<BR>
><BR>
>It emerged from the school's custom of doing an annual two day program for<BR>
>female students celebrating international day for women. This year, the<BR>
>female students joined together and said to the teacher responsible for the<BR>
>program something like this: "If the purpose of our celebrating<BR>
>International Day of Women is to move forward in realizing a society that<BR>
>honors the rightful role of women, than the boys have to be a part of the<BR>
>program, because they are a big part of the problem."<BR>
><BR>
>Madame Louis, their teacher, worked with other teachers and students to come<BR>
>up with a two-day program involving all students in grades 9-12--girls and<BR>
>boys--calling it: "Celebrate People." They designated Saturday morning, the<BR>
>second day, from 8:00 am to 12:00 noon as being a time in Open Space. I only<BR>
>learned about all this after the theme had been created. The two teachers<BR>
>responsible for the program, one a Haitian women and the other a United<BR>
>States-ian man, with encouragement from school's leadership, wanted to<BR>
>facilitate. They simply contacted me to get some pre-meeting coaching and<BR>
>help with setting up the space.<BR>
><BR>
>The meeting was done outdoors in their school's courtyard, protected by<BR>
>trees from the hot tropical sun.<BR>
><BR>
>There were two different time periods, more than 20 subjects posted, notes<BR>
>from the majority of small group discussions turned in, a talking stick type<BR>
>exercise from 11:35 to 12:05, and nothing but positive comments about the<BR>
>morning in Open Space.<BR>
><BR>
>On April 10, the entire school-200 students and 30 teachers and staff are<BR>
>invited by school's leadership to attend a full day in open space on a theme<BR>
>something like: "What needs to be a part of our apprenticeship to ensure<BR>
>that we will be prepared, when we graduate, to help our country move<BR>
>forward?"<BR>
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