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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Garamond;color:windowtext'>Dear Rose dear
friends in Open Space<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Garamond;color:windowtext'>I once
facilitated a “similar” Open Space meeting. We had a planning
meeting where kids and teachers worked together. The theme they arrived at was “We
care – do you?” and beneath that there was a sentence that one of
the kids shared during our transfer in during the planning meeting “one
stick is easy to break but many together are hard to break and it’s the
same with people”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Garamond;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Garamond;color:windowtext'>I remember the
astonishment during these first minutes of the planning meeting – many didn’t
believe their ears. It’s so beautiful. Wise young people!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Garamond;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Garamond;color:windowtext'>Then the
OS-meeting was another story – there were pupils and teachers from
different schools, with special interest and who had taken on responsibility to
improve conditions such as bullying at their schools. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Garamond;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Garamond;color:windowtext'>The meeting was
very productive – although there was some tension at times –
especially because the adults had difficulties to let go. Which seems to have
happened to you guys too.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Garamond;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Garamond;color:windowtext'>I think that in
situations like the one you shared about it would be very good to have some
pre-work, especially with the school staff. Then I think starting with
storytelling would be a good too. But most especially, just as <st1:place
w:st="on">Harrison</st1:place> shared, I agree that we have to let go fully and
give those present the possibility to take part on equal terms taking
responsibility for themselves and their acts.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Garamond;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Garamond;color:windowtext'>Someone shared
about NVC – which I like a lot. Here in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Sweden</st1:place></st1:country-region> there is such a lack of
those skills in our schools – that might come in handy in situations like
this – and in everyday life too.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Garamond;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Garamond;color:windowtext'>Warm regards and
thanks for doing the important work you do Rose<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Garamond;color:windowtext'>Thomas Herrmann<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Garamond;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span lang=SV
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext;font-weight:bold'>Från:</span></font></b><font
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font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext'> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName>
[mailto:<st1:PersonName w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName>@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>För </span></b>Rose Tassone<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Skickat:</span></b> den 5 november 2009 00:51<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Till:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName>@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Ämne:</span></b> Bullying and OST</span></font><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=SV style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#403152" face=Candara><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#403152" face=Candara><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:11.0pt'>Hello everyone. I’m wishing to share my
experience of facilitating OST for the first time. It was held in a primary
school in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Perth</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">Western Australia</st1:State></st1:place>. 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></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#403152" face=Candara><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#403152" face=Candara><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:11.0pt'>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></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#403152" face=Candara><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#403152" face=Candara><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:11.0pt'>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></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#403152" face=Candara><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:11.0pt'>I would really appreciate any comments and/or
thoughts.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#403152" face=Candara><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:11.0pt'>Kindest regards<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#403152" face=Candara><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:11.0pt'>Rose Tassone<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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(+61) </span></font><font size=1 color="#0f243e"><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:110%;color:#0F243E'>0408 944 072<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Candara><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:110%;color:#0F243E'>e:
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