Hi there Christine:<br><br>To my mind, it needs a bit more passion to come to a convening question. If I was working with the sponsoring group I might convene a smaller meeting of a few key community people and ask something like "What could this group of people offer to our community that isn't being offered?" In other words, with a precious opportunity in front of you, what is the highest good we could do together? That might even be the question for the OST, but a little deeper invitation development and support will go a long way to attracting a crowd big enough and motivated enough to catalyze action.
<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Chris<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Zelle Nelson</b> <<a href="mailto:zelle@knowplacelikehome.com">zelle@knowplacelikehome.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div style="">Hi Christine,<div><br></div><div>Out of an short (3 hour) OS following a speech given by presidential hopeful Col. Robert Bowman in the summer of 2004, the Kindness Campaign -
<a href="http://www.thekindnesscampaign.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.thekindnesscampaign.org</a> was created and has been sustained to the present in Asheville, NC. I don't have the actual invitation - Gayatri Erlandson (Lee) created the actual invitation, but I will include a summary of topics created from this OS if that helps.
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<div><br></div><br></span> </div><br><div><div>On May 20, 2006, at 6:48 PM, Christine Whitney Sanchez wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"> <div><span><font color="#008080" face="Book Antiqua">Hi Dear OS Friends,</font>
</span></div> <div><span><font color="#008080" face="Book Antiqua"></font></span> </div> <div><span><font color="#008080" face="Book Antiqua">I'm in conversation with a potential sponsor for a large 1.5 day OS event next October, the purpose of which is to connect people for self-organized community action (non-specific at this point). The crowd is expected to be folks who live and work in a metro area and who may have a tenuous connection through one of several sponsoring organizations - but who have not had such a large scale experience with other members of their community.
</font></span></div> <div><span><font color="#008080" face="Book Antiqua"></font></span> </div> <div><span><font color="#008080" face="Book Antiqua">The planning team is meeting in a week or so where the sponsor will pitch the idea. She's pretty convinced that OST is the way to go but has the familiar concern that people who don't work together or are not part of an intact group can often come up with fabulous ideas that peter out quickly or never go anywhere at all.
</font></span></div> <div><span><font color="#008080" face="Book Antiqua"></font></span> </div> <div><span><font color="#008080" face="Book Antiqua">Among other things, I would like to offer the planning team a collection of especially generative convening questions from similar events that resulted in new action groups forming and concrete contributions to a community.
</font></span><span><font color="#008080" face="Book Antiqua">Any links to similar OS events would also be very helpful. </font></span></div> <div><span><font color="#008080" face="Book Antiqua"></font></span> </div> <div>
<span><font color="#008080" face="Book Antiqua">I'll compile the responses and feed them back by the end of next week. Thanks in advance for your help.</font></span></div> <div><span><font color="#008080" face="Book Antiqua">
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