<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello Rose,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for your courageous, open inquiry and for sharing your learning with all of us.</div><div><br></div><div>A decade ago, I worked with a group of what we Arizonans call "middle school" students on a year-long project that was focused on building community capacity (a very abstract idea, even to most community leaders :). What I remember about the first meetings was the tremendous developmental differences, especially between the awkward 12 year-old boys and the 14 year-old girls who loved to flaunt their beauty and their social power. </div><div><br></div><div>The project was funded by the "get the kids to stop smoking" folks who were willing to experiment with a project design that focused on resilience rather than trying to stop bad behavior. Early on, the school principal saw the wisdom of having a self-selected design/planning team that was made up of students, teachers, parents, administrators, community leaders, etc. </div><div><br></div><div>The principal had already recruited community leaders and had invited everyone in the school to come to the first planning meeting. She was surprised and delighted at the number of students (around 30 as I recall) who showed up to be a part of this team. The students outnumbered the adults three to one. With such large numbers at the first meeting, the only thing to do was open the space for self-organized planning. The students took the lead in many cases, perhaps because the adults were deliberately stepping back or perhaps because it was clear that the students were the experts on middle school culture and what would work best to encourage the largest number of students to get actively involved in their project, which became an Appreciative Inquiry into community resilience.</div><div><br></div><div>I loved watching a very shy 12 year-old boy team up with a dynamic 14 year-old girl to design the questions they would use for interviews with community leaders. </div><div><br></div><div>Warm wishes from a brilliant Phoenix morning,</div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; 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font-weight: normal; "><span><span><span><span><span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Handwriting'"><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89">Christine</font></i></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 128, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89">Christine Whitney Sanchez</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89"><i>Collaborative Wisdom & Strategy</i><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">480.759.0262 </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89"><a href="http://www.christinewhitneysanchez.com">www.christinewhitneysanchez.com</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0); font-family: Webdings; font-size: 32px; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Webdings; color: green; "></span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89">Skype: christinewhitneysanchez</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/ChristineWhitneySanchez">http://www.facebook.com/ChristineWhitneySanchez</a></font></div></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></font></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On Nov 4, 2009, at 4:50 PM, Rose Tassone wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Candara, sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 49, 82); "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Candara, sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 49, 82); ">Hello everyone. I’m wishing to share my experience of facilitating OST for the first time. It was held in a primary school in Perth, Western Australia. Surveys administered by the principal earlier in the year had parents and students report that they were most concerned about bullying at this school. The principal identified the question “What do we need to do to respect each other and get along?’ 73 students, ages 8 to 12, 6 educators and 3 parents accepted the invitation.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Candara, sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 49, 82); "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Candara, sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 49, 82); ">This is what I observed during the OS event: A student was pushed out of her group when she went to the breakout space even though she was the one who had initiated the topic; students were physically fighting, pushing each other and name calling; students who were being butterflies chose to run around, disrupt and tease those in the groups even though there was a drawing activity available to them; the groups tended to compete with each other on how many pages they could fill with lists of dos and don’ts of how to treat each other. The energy of the morning was one of palpable violence and two students were suspended. Teachers who had been briefed by the principal to allow chaos at the event, so that children could self organise, finally had to intervene because of duty of care issues.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Candara, sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 49, 82); "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Candara, sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 49, 82); ">Looking through the Book of Proceedings the students appear to have all the knowledge of how to respect each other and get along, though their behaviour during the event did not depict this. At the debriefing the principal mentioned that the behaviours that were shown are what normally occur every day in the schoolyard as they self organise around individual survival. So it appears that the proverbial ‘Lucy’ is more than likely a 10 year old bully!<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Candara, sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 49, 82); "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Candara, sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 49, 82); ">I would really appreciate any comments and/or thoughts.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Candara, sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 49, 82); "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Candara, sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 49, 82); ">Kindest regards<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Candara, sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 49, 82); ">Rose Tassone<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Candara, sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 49, 82); "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Candara, sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 49, 82); "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Candara, sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 49, 82); line-height: 16px; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13px; color: rgb(15, 36, 62); ">m: (+61)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13px; color: rgb(15, 36, 62); ">0408 944 072<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Candara, sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 49, 82); line-height: 16px; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13px; color: rgb(15, 36, 62); ">e: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:rosetassone@iinet.net.au" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">rosetassone@iinet.net.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Candara, sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 49, 82); line-height: 16px; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13px; color: rgb(15, 36, 62); ">p: po box 358 leederville wa 6903</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13px; font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif; color: rgb(15, 36, 62); "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Candara, sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 49, 82); line-height: 16px; "><span style="font-size: 6.5pt; line-height: 9px; font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif; color: black; "> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Candara, sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 49, 82); "><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Candara, sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 49, 82); "><o:p> </o:p></div></div>* * ==========================================================<a href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu</a>:<a href="http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist</a></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>*
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