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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Hello, all –<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>So last week I supported a great new
facilitator of Open Space in his first OS ever.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Robby Hill is 20 years old, and when I was
asked to bring Open Space to a national conference – but specifically to
the aged 24-and-under participants within that conference -- I wanted to find
and support a facilitator who was of the age and culture of the young people we
were serving.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>This was for the Creating Change conference,
put on by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (a US national organization
which helps policy-makers, educators, legislators and activists work for gay,
lesbian, bisexual and transgender peoples’ equal rights, equal access and
safety from hate violence).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Last
year, the youth participants at this skills- and community-building conference
said that they were frustrated by not finding workshop topics that reflected
their needs. They didn’t see themselves reflected in the choice of
keynote speakers or panelists, and they didn’t feel that the dynamic of
the conference invited them to contribute their own wisdom and
experiences.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span class=GramE>A
great opportunity to bring in Open Space.</span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>So: the greater conference was 5 days,
the OS for youth was a conference-within-that-conference and it ran for 3 of
those days.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>I sought high and low for a 24-or-under
facilitator (asked all my colleagues, who asked all their colleagues) and did
not find someone who already was experienced in OS -- but I found someone who
really is ‘one of us’ – he gets it, and brings a lot to it,
and simply needed to learn the method but understood the whole essence of
it.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>So we co-trained and learned
together over the past 2 or 3 months – he read the User’s Guide and
my other ‘Open Space Idea Book’, we spent many hours sharing
thoughts about it all and rehearsing in my home (walking the circle with my cat
Lucy as a participant), and last week he jumped into Open Space.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>And of course, he was a natural.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Robby facilitated, and I had designed
the time and materials (my other cat Ethel helped with the sign-making), all
with his input.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I also was present
in the room (helping hold space, helping move chairs, peeling off bits of tape,
scribing closing circle comments and so on – I was the 50-year-old wearing
the ‘Honorary Young Person’ button – a treasured gift from
young people at another recent conference).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>I think one of the hardest things to do is
an OS in a conference that runs parallel to a more traditional conference
format – but is not the format of the entire conference that day.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>It means that not everyone starts at the
beginning each day (when the facilitator offers the guidelines and a look at
how the day will go), new people are wandering in throughout the day before and
after going to other workshops, and you never know how many people will come
(how many notes-taker forms, how many discussion areas to set up) – you
can just guess (and plan for many so you will be flexible for any number).<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>We had 15 discussion areas.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>The OS each day was from 2pm to 7pm
(Opening Circle and Agenda co-creation, <span class=GramE>3<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>1</span>-hour sessions, then Closing
Circle).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>The greater conference had
about 2500 people in it; there were about 250 youth delegates, and about 50 of
those came to the Open Space (the oldest was 24 and the youngest was 15). Great
workshops were happening at the same time so there was plenty to go to.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>We had a fine big room, and we made
extra signage to invite people (invitation being key, as always – we had
little pocket cards to pass to young people we saw throughout the conference,
signs in the hallway, a sign each of us co-facilitators wore on our name badges
saying ‘ask me about the Open Space youth conference’, a huge
welcome sign with directions and guidelines for late-comers just inside the
door, and more).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>We (and indeed all
of the participants in the OS) made sure to be aware of any new folks wandering
into the room to include them in the process and share the guidelines with
them, plus we had a sign-in sheet at every discussion area that the session <span
class=SpellE>convenor</span> could pass around and hand in with their
discussion notes.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>In that way we
could track who attended and collect their contact information so we could get
their Book of Proceedings back to them post-event (there were no mechanisms to
create it at the event itself so they will receive their Book within 2 weeks
post-event).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Here was their theme for all 3 days (again:
it was the Creating Change conference):<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<div style='margin-left:.25in;margin-right:641.25pt'>
<div style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;
padding:0in 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt'>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;border:none;
mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><font
size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;border:none;
mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><font
size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>What do I need <span class=GramE>to</span><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;border:none;
mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><font
size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;border:none;
mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt'><span
class=GramE><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><font size=2 color=red face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:red;font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal;font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>share</span></font></i></b></span><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><font
size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'> / <font color="#339966"><span style='color:#339966'>express</span></font>
/ <font color="#ff9900"><span style='color:#FF9900'>learn</span></font> / <font
color="#9900ff"><span style='color:#9900FF'>resolve</span></font> / <font
color="#00ccff"><span style='color:#00CCFF'>witness</span></font> / <font
color=fuchsia><span style='color:fuchsia'>explore</span></font> / <font
color="#993366"><span style='color:#993366'>feel</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;border:none;
mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt'><span
class=GramE><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><font size=2 color=lime face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:lime;font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal;font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>build</span></font></i></b></span><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><font
size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'> / <font color="#999999"><span style='color:#999999'>begin</span></font>
/ <font color="#3366ff"><span style='color:#3366FF'>support</span></font> / <font
color="#cc6600"><span style='color:#CC6600'>release</span></font> / <font
color="#333399"><span style='color:#333399'>co-create with you</span></font> <o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;border:none;
mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;border:none;
mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt'><span
class=GramE><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>to</span></font></b></span><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;border:none;
mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Create Change / <u>Be</u> the Change<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;border:none;
mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><font
size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Here were some of the topics participants
posted:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=GramE><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>[ *</span></font></span><font
size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>
See a few definitions of vocabulary words and acronyms before my signature,
below.]<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;
tab-stops:list .75in'><![if !supportLists]><font size=2 face=Wingdings><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;
mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>§<font
size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Is it Vital to Keep the
Labels in the Queer Community or is it Courageous to Be Your Own Person and Try
to Break Away from the Category Boxes?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Do Youth Really Care about
Same Sex Marriage?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Conservative and Queer<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>The Effects of
Institutionalized Homophobia<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Field Trip to the Quiet
Room [the conference had a quiet room]<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>What are the Events,
Discussions and Programs that LGBT Youth Want to be a Part Of?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Sex / Drugs / Alcohol
–- Out of Control?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Body Image in the GLBTQ
Community.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I’m Big and
Beautiful <span class=GramE>But</span> Why Am I the Only One Who Knows
It?!<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>“Plus Size”
Acceptance in the “Community”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Do You Know Your Rights as
a GLBTQQI Youth?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>The <span class=SpellE>Heteronormity</span>
of Identity Politics – How Current Political Movements Have Ignored /
Rejected “Unacceptable” Members of the Queer Community in an
Attempt to Attain “Equal Rights”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Excluding Youth from the
Bigger Picture<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Beyond Binary Thinking
– Paradox and Contradiction<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Being Queer and Out in High
School<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>As a Minority within a
Minority Can You Really Feel 100% Included? How Do You Create a Diverse Safe
Space that is Comfortable to All?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Lack of Youth Activism Due
to Complacency<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Asian Pacific Islanders in
the Queer Community<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><span class=SpellE><font size=2
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in the Queer Community<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Queer Youth and Religion<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Relationships and Money<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Isolated Queer Populations
– What Problems are <span class=GramE>Faced</span>?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>For Closing Circle on Day 3, I facilitated
the development of (so Robby could participate for this part – he
facilitated the rest of Closing Circle) the co-creation of a group poem.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Some of you saw that at OSonOS in
Halifax – it’s something I use for OS or non-OS events or
workshops, when it would be good to include in closing a co-created definition
of diverse-yet-shared experience.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>You divide the group into 3
(best with groups of about 24 or less – which can be a small group
selected out of the larger event group).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>First, everyone writes in
silence on their own slip of paper.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Group A writes a phrase,
sentence, word or words that respond to an instruction like “write
something that defines or expresses the challenge / hardship /
struggle”.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Group B – “If
you could shout at it, what would you shout?”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Group C –
“Write something that is a message of hope and spirit.”<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>(<span class=GramE>of</span> course the
3 things can vary with your setting/event/needs but this poem has to be
something about which the group feels passion).<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Then you invite each group
to gather together, and in their small groups to put their slips of paper in an
order that sounds good to them.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>§<font
size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Then you reconvene the full
group and, standing shoulder-to-shoulder in closing circle (or at the front of
the room or wherever), in the order of their slips (A 1-6, B 1-6, C 1-6 for
example), each person reads their own line in order as the whole group hears
their co-created poem.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Here is the poem created by the young gay,
lesbian, bisexual and transgender activists at the Creating Change
conference-within-a-conference in Open Space:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Confusion, wondering,
looking, being silenced by age / ignorance.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><span style='mso-tab-count:
1'> </span>You
don’t know the struggle I face every day.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Finding my identity when
everyone has this image of what we need or have to be.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>It’s hard when the
bigot is inside your head; when you love every dyke in the world<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><span style='mso-tab-count:
1'> </span><span
class=GramE>except</span> for yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Life is almost unbearable
from the pain.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Some people just
don’t understand.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>I’m the one that I
want!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Do not hate, appreciate!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>I’m me!<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><span style='mso-tab-count:
1'> </span>Not
you, not who you want me to be, even sometimes not who I pretend to be. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><span style='mso-tab-count:
2'> </span>Just
me!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Be open!<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Be honest!<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Share!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Every revolution is
impossible<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><span style='mso-tab-count:
1'> </span><span
class=GramE>until</span> it happens…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><span style='mso-tab-count:
2'> </span><span
class=GramE>then</span> it becomes inevitable.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Maybe normal is bad but
when I don’t feel normal I’m sad.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><span style='mso-tab-count:
1'> </span>I
know I’m a girl now I just have to wait on the world.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Everything is exactly as it
should be.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>The Law of Two Feet –
motion and responsibility!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Photos of these fabulous young people
creating change can be found at:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><a
href="http://www.openingspace.net/gallery/agora.cgi?cart_id=6584162.28703*al3c08&xm=on&product=Youth_Open_Space_at_Creating_Change">http://www.openingspace.net/gallery/agora.cgi?cart_id=6584162.28703*al3c08&xm=on&product=Youth_Open_Space_at_Creating_Change</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>(<span class=GramE>or</span> go to <a
href="http://www.openingspace.net/">http://www.openingspace.net</a> and click
on “Gallery” in the upper right-hand corner of the page).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Needless to say, Robby was fabulous, and so
were all the participants.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Closing
Circle comments included:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:65.25pt;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>I
admit I am a very narrow-minded person. I came here with my own set of
truths.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>But participating in this,
I have gained so much knowledge about other things that are also true.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I think it will help me as a better
activist.<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:65.25pt;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:65.25pt;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>I
learned a ton today - I was exposed to so much.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>What was most valuable was to be put in
touch with a lot of people experiencing adversity for who they are.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I have such deep respect for your
courage.<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:65.25pt;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:65.25pt;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>I
learned how people can be so fantastically different and still hold the same
views.<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:65.25pt;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:65.25pt;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>If I
would have done today what I normally do - keeping everything on track - I
would never have learned so much.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I
learned an amazing amount of totally unrelated but infinitely useful things.<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:65.25pt;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:65.25pt;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>I
think this Open Space youth conference is really cool.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Not just what everyone has said, which I
agree with, but also because of the environment -- you can just be yourself and
not be judged too harshly.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>It makes
me want every day to be like this.<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:65.25pt;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:65.25pt;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>What
I’m taking away with me is not only some awesome friendships, but also
the feeling that not everything has to be on a set path.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I don’t have to have everything
planned for things to go right.<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:65.25pt;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:65.25pt;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Being
the youngest presenter here, I didn’t think I could contribute anything,
because I’m only 15.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>But when
I came here, I realized I have things I can contribute.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>People had questions and I was surprised
I could answer them.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>You all have
so much information and experience and I am intimidated by that.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>But I realize I have information and
experience, too.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>This has been the
opportunity of a lifetime, and everything I’ve learned here I can take
home with me.<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:65.25pt;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>My hat is off to Robby and his young
colleagues who are co-creating a world where everyone is loved and where
everyone can offer their gifts to the world.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>And that is what Open Space invites.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Take care,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Lisa<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>- - - - -<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>* Here is a bit of vocabulary for those of
you who may not be familiar with these terms, in case any of these topic titles
might sound unclear to you.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I am by
no means a linguistic expert and sometimes the very struggle to define these
terms brings forth a rich dialogue about issues of discrimination, assumption,
identity, misnomers and pride – but below I attempt to give a bit of
description for those of you for whom these words are very new or unknown in
your country’s language or home community.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>“Queer”
is a word used by many as a slur, a hate word, for homosexuals.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Some homosexuals (I notice it is largely
folks from urban areas and often younger generations) ‘take back’
the word ‘queer’ to use it for their own label, to de-hate it, as
it were, to own it as one’s own self-named term with pride.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Some individuals find the use of this
word unsettling (many deaths have been caused by homophobic individuals using
this word as they commit hate violence), others find it empowering.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:12.0pt;
background:white'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>“Out” or “Coming Out” is
being open about one’s sexual identity – not pretending to be
heterosexual.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>For example, when
your peers talk about their relationships, you join in the discussion by
talking about yours, too.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span
class=GramE>‘Coming out’ means not hiding it any more –
‘coming out of the closet’.</span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:12.0pt;
background:white'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>“Transgender” is a word used as an
umbrella term encompassing a diversity of gender expression including people
who dress as the opposite gender, or people who find their gender identity in
conflict with the parts they were born with, or any range of expression or
identity crossing the line or merging, changing temporarily or permanently
through dress or surgery or hormones or choosing gender-neutral pronouns (this
is not about sexual identity, it’s about one’s own gender,
specifically).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:12.0pt;
background:white'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>“GLBTQ”…and a lot of other
letters – these are acronyms for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and
Questioning (or Queer).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>In an
attempt to be both inclusive and appreciative of diversity (using just the term
‘gay’ may only sound like gay men) many organizations and
individuals use some variation of this acronym to identify this diverse
community.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black;mso-no-proof:
yes'>___________________________</span></font><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
color=blue face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:blue;font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal;mso-no-proof:yes'>L i s
a<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>H e f t<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:blue;mso-no-proof:
yes'>Consultant, Facilitator, Educator<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:blue;mso-no-proof:
yes'>O p e n i n g<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>S p a c e<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-no-proof:yes'>2325 Oregon<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-no-proof:yes'>Berkeley, California<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-no-proof:yes'>94705-1106<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>USA<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-no-proof:yes'>+01 510 548-8449<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-no-proof:yes'><a
href="mailto:lisaheft@openingspace.net"><font color=black><span
style='color:black'>lisaheft@openingspace.net</span></font></a></span></font><span
style='mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-no-proof:yes'><a
href="http://www.openingspace.net"><font color=black><span style='color:black'>www.openingspace.net</span></font></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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