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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>OST has worked; 34 issues were posted, 12
action plans were anounced and we (all the group and us) learned many
things.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Filiz, although she is not aware of that, was
wonderful!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Funda </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=filiz@bugday.org href="mailto:filiz@bugday.org">Filiz Telek</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, March 06, 2006 9:46
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> whatever one says,people do
whatever they want to do anyway</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV class=Section1>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This is the newest principle for
OS that Funda and I are proposing…after our experience in OS yesterday
</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Wingdings size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings"><SPAN
style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings">J</SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Ok, just around the days when we
have been contemplating on “whatever happens is the only thing that could
have”, I will share with you a brief reflection on this open space we
experienced, a first for me, Funda and for all who attended…and perhaps dwell
a little bit on what could we have done different or what can we do different
in the future…<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><st1:PersonName w:st="on" ProductID="Funda Oral"><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Funda
Oral</SPAN></FONT></st1:PersonName><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, whom you know from this list,
facilitated this meeting and I tried to support her to my capability. This was
the first time we opened space together in <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region>, so it was quite a historical day for
all of us, considering the work Funda has done in the last years to invite
people to open space in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region></st1:place>…<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Today we co-hosted a group of
people who are passionate about improving the public transport in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Istanbul</st1:City></st1:place>. Their immediate
focus was saving the traditional ferryboats of <st1:City
w:st="on">Istanbul</st1:City> which are one of the important symbols of
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Istanbul</st1:City></st1:place> that
reflects the spirit of this city. <SPAN class=GramE>Saving because the
municipality wanted to get rid of them to bring in new and fast sea
buses.</SPAN> So by taking a stand on the maintenance of these ferries, this
group actually is one of the real citizens’ movements in Turkey that has some
effect on local decision making…the theme of today’s meeting was to come up
with activities for 2006 to improve sea transport and saving the
ferries…<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">All in all it went well with a
little more chaos than usual…groups were formed, exciting conversations were
held, actions were proposed…and Funda did a great job in opening the
space…<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">However convergence was a little
disaster in my view, and good news is that I was hosting it
</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Wingdings size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings"><SPAN
style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings">J</SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>there could be many reasons for this
but I tend to blame myself or the group for the outcome. When it was
convergence time, we re-opened space where I invited people to announce the
actions they want to take. By the time I could finish my sentence, some people
had left the room, some wondering around, some chatting to the person next to
them, two people shouting at each other…I invited the group about 3 times and
nothing changed. At the end, someone read some proposed actions from the
previous <SPAN class=GramE>session,</SPAN> put them on the floor and people
who were interested signed up. By that time half of the group had left
already. Unfortunately we didn’t even have a closing, because we couldn’t
maintain the energy of the group anymore. The meeting finished an hour earlier
than the proposed time.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Now, whatever happens is the only
thing that could have. But for my own sanity, I need some practical help here.
<SPAN class=GramE>Because this seems to be the general group dynamics over
here and I am having a hard time as a facilitator to deal with it.</SPAN> Not
only it makes me feel incompetent, it makes me also lose hope at certain
points about being able to do any useful work over
here…<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">My main challenges are that people
don’t listen well, they don’t concentrate during a meeting, so they miss and
don’t follow the instructions and the groups are not able to converge. In all
of the meetings I attended so far, I found myself watching in awe how people
disappear before we are able to say, so this meeting is finished. And
naturally there is no conclusion. I then feel all the energy that was built up
during a meeting gets wasted before we could channel it into something
constructive…<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I have been told that being young
and female does not help in Turkish culture. I do not accept this as an
explanation. <BR>I would like to know whether any of you worked in a similar
cultural setting where it was difficult to shift the group energy beyond the
individual to the collective, where listening and focusing was a challenge…and
people proceeded the way they wanted to. To which degree do you or do you not
interfere? What do you do, when you propose a step and one (or more)
participant suggests something else before your next step? (<SPAN
class=GramE>this</SPAN> happens so often here, drives me crazy, even if you
say no, we cant really do that, people go ahead anyway) What are the
conditions for being able to <SPAN class=GramE>converge</SPAN> a group whose
energy is all over the place?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I am really interested in
improving the flow under the conditions I described above and I am asking for
practical suggestions…<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thank you!
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><EM><B><I style="mso-ansi-font-style: normal"><FONT
face="Rage Italic" color=purple size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: purple; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: 'Rage Italic'; mso-bidi-font-family: Vrinda; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-no-proof: yes">f
i l i z</SPAN></FONT></I></B></EM><EM><B><I><FONT face=Pristina color=purple
size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: purple; FONT-FAMILY: Pristina; mso-bidi-font-family: Vrinda; mso-no-proof: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></I></B></EM><B><I><FONT face=Pristina color=purple size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: purple; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Pristina; mso-bidi-font-family: Vrinda; mso-no-proof: yes"><BR></SPAN></FONT></I></B><FONT
face="MS Serif" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-no-proof: yes">approach
love and cooking with reckless abundance!<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-no-proof: yes"><A
href="http://www.barakam.blogspot.com/"><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">www.barakam.blogspot.com</SPAN></FONT></A><BR><A
href="http://www.bugday.org/"><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">www.bugday.org</SPAN></FONT></A></SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-no-proof: yes">
</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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