<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="blue"><div>Heh. Hedging my bets for when the training wheels come off!</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><br></div><div><br>On 13-Jun-09, at 4:19 AM, Harrison Owen <<a href="mailto:hhowen@verizon.net">hhowen@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PostalCode">
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Chris – your second paragraph is a
masterpiece. And it is your birthday too! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">But I am curious. What’s faster and
deeper than Open Space? (“…than almost anything else.”)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b><st1:personname w:st="on">Chris Corrigan</st1:personname><br>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: Tips for presenting
Open Space to a Peace & Justice center?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt">Done a lot of work in this area, most notably with the Dalai Lama
Centre here in the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Vancouver</st1:place></st1:city>
area. We used Open Space to open up the Centre to connection and
collaborations with the community at large to see how everyone could get work
together. I've worked in a huge variety of social justice setting around
indigenous rights, human rights, youth, workers rights, fairness in the food
system, diversity work, you name it, all using Open Space to bring people
together to collaborate on issues for which they sahre passion and are willing
to take responsibility.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">My standard take on
things is to riff on the mantra of "when we don't know what to do, and we
need to involve lots of people and to trust their intelligence, passion and
responsibility, Open Space is the fastest way to get to work." World
peace and social justice remain, to the best of my knowledge, elusive states
which makes me think that the more hands and hearts we have in the mix the
better. An Open Space conference will quickly access this collective
intelligence and passion and build a field of relationships that will put ideas
to work. And it will do it faster and deeper than almost anything
else. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt">I'm sure many others on the list will give you other examples and
stories and maybe even a powerpoint or two, but my advice is have the
conversation with your sponsors starting with what they are trying to do, and
what they think will make that work sustainable after the gathering. Open
Space gets to the issues in 45 minutes and after a day or two you have a set of
relationships that will sustain the work long after the conference ends. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Harold Shinsato <<a href="mailto:harold@shinsato.com"><a href="mailto:harold@shinsato.com">harold@shinsato.com</a></a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">I'm presenting at the board meeting on Monday of the Jeanette Rankin
Peace<br>
Center to propose they use Open Space to initiate a Peace Conference in our<br>
region. Jeanette Rankin was the first woman in the US Congress, and she also<br>
voted against our entry into both World Wars (pretty much alone from what I<br>
recall).<br>
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Will the kind readers of this list provide any tips and pointers about<br>
making such a presentation? If anyone one has a slide deck they'd be willing<br>
to share, even better!<br>
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Thanks in advance!<br>
Harold Shinsato<br>
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