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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" DEFAULT="FACE"><FONT SIZE="3" POINTSIZE="12" DEFAULT="SIZE">Dear Florian,<BR>
toward the end of May, I will have the opportunity to introduce 48 people from 14 European countries to open space-technology (a 4,5 day training in Weimar, Germany). <BR>
Since there has been a strange rumour that it is close to impossible to have open space in Spain, I would very much like to make your mail available to the participants.<BR>
May I?<BR>
peace<BR>
mmp <BR>
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On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 18:17:15 +0200, florian fischer wrote:<BR>
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>dear friends,<BR>
><BR>
>two weeks ago I opened and held space<BR>
>for an international meeting in the province of almeria, spain.<BR>
>as far as I know that was for the very first time<BR>
>OpenSpace (Espacio Abierto) was offered at andalucia<BR>
>(the autonomous region in the south of spain).<BR>
><BR>
>let me say my lot of thanks to all of you working as my background<BR>
>in facilitating groups (as well in facilitating myself in everydaylife).<BR>
><BR>
>special thanks to horst steinmeier from mexiko,<BR>
>gerard muller from denmark and ian barber from madrid<BR>
>for sending help enabling me to facilitate in spanish language.<BR>
><BR>
>the meeting was<BR>
>sponsored by the local working Partida Independiente Comarca de Nijar,<BR>
>intending to activate people for to take part at the regional-elections<BR>
>in the month of may. for the first time not only spanish people<BR>
>but as well people from other european countries (EU) have the right<BR>
>for voting in the regional elections where they are living full- or<BR>
>parttime.<BR>
><BR>
>when I came in contact with the party they had already started<BR>
>with meetings to present themselves in every village of the region.<BR>
>they did it in the the usual manner with<BR>
>two or three speakers in front of an audience:<BR>
>"the programm of the party is to listen to the people. please tell us,<BR>
>what is going wrong in your village, what is to be changed"<BR>
>people stood up accusing the actual government about a lot of things,<BR>
>the speakers wrote it in their notebook, some of the audience<BR>
>shouted against others in the audience -- it got louder and louder,<BR>
>.....<BR>
><BR>
>when I took part in one of those meetings I asked them<BR>
>instead of accusing the actual government and<BR>
>instead of promising change as a possibly new government<BR>
>to enable people for to develop solutions themselves,<BR>
>using the government afterwords mainly for to serve in realizing the<BR>
>solutions.<BR>
>as a way for to start into a new manner of development<BR>
>I explained Espacio Abierto.(I had to avoid any american word,<BR>
>because of the language of the acting american president).<BR>
> they invited me to go ahead together with them in preparing<BR>
>a meeting in the manner of OpenSpace.<BR>
>as headline for the invitation they decided:<BR>
>»my life as people of nijar (mi vida como nijareño y nijareña)«<BR>
>which is to say, that beside the nationality of birth<BR>
>everyone living in the region of Nijar is a Nijareño.<BR>
>in the view of spanish people that seems rather provoking, because<BR>
>there is not any experience in integrating immigrants from abroad.<BR>
><BR>
>the OpenSpace took place on sunday 6th of april<BR>
>from 9:00 a.m to 3:00 p.m. with handwritten<BR>
>reports for every of the 40 participants at the end.<BR>
>(including the essentials and the origin of OS)<BR>
>four people appointed going ahead as a working-group for solutions<BR>
>in the main conflict of whole the region<BR>
>between agriculture, tourism and protecting the nature.<BR>
><BR>
>at the end the sponsor marked that day<BR>
>as »the beginning of a new area for whole of andalucia,<BR>
>because for the first time in this country had been proved that people<BR>
>are able to discuss even deep touching conflicts in a peaceful way.<BR>
>the party will go ahead as well after the elections using Espacio<BR>
>Abierto<BR>
>for the development of the region.«<BR>
>it is ripling.<BR>
>florian<BR>
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>florian fischer<BR>
>begleitung im wandel<BR>
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>fax 0049.30. 2115943<BR>
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