<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I said a few weeks ago how much I was loving the roll call responses - how they reminded me, every day, that I'm part of a truly global community of folks passionately committed to facilitating change in the direction of equity, justice, collaborative vision, and self-responsibility in the context of community.<div><br></div><div>This is exactly why my organization intentionally models the Folk School tradition, which has been experiencing a re- enlivening since the breaking up of the Soviet Union, the European Union's conundrum of distinct cultural identity/cohesion, and now globalization for sustainability rather than banking.</div><div><br></div><div>A story of self-organization since the 1840s -</div><div><br></div><div>thanks to you all!<br><br>LEVEL GREEN - working on local and global levels to foster just & sustainable community through collaborative
initiatives in hospitality, education and the arts, in the democratic spirit of the 150 year-old Danish Folk School tradition. 1519 Slaterville Road, Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 339-9472<br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 11/29/09, Erik Fabian <i><erik@DOUBLEHAPPINESSNYC.COM></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Erik Fabian <erik@DOUBLEHAPPINESSNYC.COM><br>Subject: [OSLIST] Reflecting on the Roll Call<br>To: OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>Date: Sunday, November 29, 2009, 5:01 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Hi all,<br><br>1st thing: I don't mean to stop the Roll Call if folks would still like to chime in. Feel welcome.<br><br>2nd: I was quite struck by the 100+ voices that have called present so far in the Roll Call. Your <br>responses reoriented my sense of scale on this list and created a fascinating moment where I <br>didn't know what was going to happen next...I felt
like I watching a filibuster or something. <br><br>I was also struck by the sense of willingness to continue to be present in this OSLIST conversation <br>despite disagreements, other options, shyness, busy lives, etc. That felt like some kind of bedrock <br>to me.<br><br>The momentum has slowed and the thread has mixed back into the stream of multiple <br>conversations on the list. I have also started to hear some reflection from Michael (here: <br><a href="http://tinyurl.com/ygupaax" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/ygupaax</a>) & Harold (here: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ykx3scs" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/ykx3scs</a>) and so it seems <br>appropriate to put out a broader invitation to reflect on the Roll Call.<br><br>I suppose I should say, I viewed the Roll Call responses in the context of a couple weeks of debate <br>about OS, where the online OS community should find its home, differing values around online <br>communication
styles, and thoughts about OS and change.<br><br>Peggy asked an interesting question recently: How do the Open Space principles help us both <br>support and resist change and what does that mean for the evolution of OST and opening space? <br>(<a href="http://tinyurl.com/yzg8nh9" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/yzg8nh9</a>)<br><br>So I invite anyone, anyone who was present or silently sat aside, who would like to reflect on the <br>Roll Call to feel welcome to do so, and to perhaps consider the Roll Call in the light of recent <br>debates on this list or Peggy's question about change and the future of OS.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Erik<br><br>*<br>*<br>==========================================================<br><a ymailto="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU" href="/mc/compose?to=OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a><br>------------------------------<br>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options,<br>view the archives of
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