<div>Hi to everyone, </div> <div> </div> <div>In my view: if the peace and sustainable development are ever going to reign they depend on all of us, each and every one. So - I would suggest, if possible, to maintain all the communication related to these subjects on the level of the entire mailing list - because the new ideas or visions could come up with every mail. Looking forward to it. </div> <div> </div> <div>Ivana</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div><BR><BR><B><I>Gabriela Ender <gabriela.ender@OpenSpace-Online.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Hi Patricia, I like your idea very much!<BR><BR>Just a further thought: Maybe you could additionally invite to an <BR>OpenSpace-Online real-time conference on Peace - perhaps within this Peace <BR>Week or as an online follow-up for example 4-6 weeks later or as a
<BR>pre-meeting 6-8 weeks before your Open Space event - this could also enable <BR>further powerful complementary synergies. It would be even possible to have <BR>simultaneous online meetings in different towns and to immediately share all <BR>the conference documentations among all the nation-wide participants.<BR><BR>Here one application example, which was also connected with an 'Education <BR>for Sustainable Development Project' in one German Town (also an <BR>online/offline combination): <BR><HTTP: osnabrueck.html kundenstimmen html oso_en www.openspace-online.com><BR><BR>If you like the idea, write me. Let's see how I could support you.<BR><BR>Best regards from Berlin<BR>Gabriela<BR>www.OpenSpace-Online.com<BR>Free eBook:<BR><HTTP: www.openspace-online.com OpenSpace-Online_eBook_en.pdf><BR><BR><BR><BR>----- Original Message ----- <BR>From: "Patricia Haines" <LEVELGREEN@KAXY.COM><BR>To: <OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU><BR>Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 4:01
PM<BR>Subject: Opening Space for Peace Week '07?<BR><BR><BR>>I have an idea I'd like this group's thoughts on -<BR>><BR>> Taking inspiration from Harrison and Michael's experience, I've been <BR>> working with others in my<BR>> hometown (Ithaca, NY) to put together a series of events and gatherings <BR>> for what we're calling Peace<BR>> Week - Sept 11 through Sept 21st, the International Day of Peace.<BR>><BR>> Thanks to the email below, I'm now adding an Open Space on Peace to our <BR>> calendar.<BR>><BR>> I'll also be inviting members of the U.S. Partnership for the Decade of <BR>> Education for Sustainable<BR>> Development (global UN decade - see<USPARTNERSHIP.ORG> to offer up their <BR>> own versions of Peace Week.<BR>> Since the Partnership uses Open Space as a core process, if any of you <BR>> would like to join this<BR>> effort for your own hometowns, let me know. We'll be putting information <BR>> and
linkages up on the<BR>> Partnership website, Adult & Community pages - and, as I know you all <BR>> know, the synergy of doing<BR>> this together creates irresistable energy.<BR>><BR>> Your thoughts?<BR>><BR>> ----- Original Message -----<BR>> From: Harrison Owen <HHOWEN@VERIZON.NET><BR>> To: OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR>> Sent: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 08:37:26 -0500<BR>> Subject: Opening Space for Peace<BR>><BR>>> You may remember that last year Michael Pannwitz and I had the privilege <BR>>> of<BR>>> Opening Space for the Congress of Imams and Rabbis in Seville. The <BR>>> occasion,<BR>>> as I reported, was more than a little exciting and definitely not <BR>>> according<BR>>> to whatever "Plan" I might have had. That said, the gathering was also<BR>>> profoundly moving and powerful for the two of us and, we believed, the<BR>>> participants as well - at least that is what we saw,
and they said. Now<BR>>> almost a year later it was very nice to receive a note from an advisor to<BR>>> the King of Jordan and sometime Ambassador to the UN, which said in <BR>>> part,"<BR>>> It was wonderful in Seville and the great role you played changed the <BR>>> entire<BR>>> atmosphere, into what turned out lively, warm and cordial."<BR>>><BR>>> Had the event been only another community/corporate gathering, the words<BR>>> would have seemed nice but not particularly significant. But that event <BR>>> was<BR>>> filled with virtually every conflict and tension imaginable - and at <BR>>> points<BR>>> seemed quite ready to fly into a million pieces. The shift from <BR>>> catastrophe<BR>>> (as some were calling it) into "lively, warm and cordial" was, to put it<BR>>> mildly, mind blowing, and confirmed once again, if confirmation was <BR>>> needed<BR>>> that
opening space for peace can be very effective. And of course, the <BR>>> real<BR>>> heroes were not Michael, me or Open Space. The people did it all by<BR>>> themselves, as usual. Once they had the space to become what they already<BR>>> were - a vibrant self-organizing system searching for peace with <BR>>> themselves<BR>>> and their world, nothing else was needed.<BR>>><BR>>> As we sit at the edge of 2007 watching the so called "world <BR>>> powers/leaders"<BR>>> going in circles, seeking to control events and the lives of others with<BR>>> disastrous results, I find the experience of Seville to be nothing short <BR>>> of<BR>>> uplifting. To be sure we could all blow it this time around, but there is <BR>>> an<BR>>> alternative. It is also true, I think, that we in this funny little <BR>>> online<BR>>> community have a lot of work to do.<BR>>><BR>>>
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