<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Very nice to read again...</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15.833333015441895px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15.833333015441895px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>Thanks Peggy... and Chris!</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15.833333015441895px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15.833333015441895px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>Artur</span></div><div><br></div> <div
style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Peggy Holman <peggy@peggyholman.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> World wide Open Space Technology email list <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, September 14, 2012 3:11 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [OSList] ost in community building/organizing<br> </font> </div> <br>
<div id="yiv398064351"><div>It's a fabulous story. You can get the whole book:<div>http://www.bkconnection.com/changehandbook</div><div><br><div>or just the OST chapter:</div><div>http://www.bkconnection.com/ff_details.asp?ID=9781605090290</div><div><br></div><div>or the unedited text of Chris' story from the draft of the chapter is below.<div><br></div><div>Peggy</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
<div class="yiv398064351MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><i style="
"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">Opening Space
in Community</span></i></div><div class="yiv398064351MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">In January 2005 under the auspices of the federal
government’s Urban Aboriginal Strategy (UAS), 275 people met in Prince George,
British Columbia, Canada to address the complex needs of the inner city
Aboriginal community in that city of 80,000.<span style="">
</span>They used Open Space Technology to identify priority areas and create a
consortium of projects aimed at making a difference in a community riddled with
poverty, violence, addictions and health issues.</span></div><div class="yiv398064351MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">But this was no ordinary
gathering.<span style=""> </span>The 275 people included
regular citizens, youth, elders, disabled folks, folks with mental illness, the
poor and dyslexic and the rich and educated.<span style="">
</span></span></div><div class="yiv398064351MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">The sponsoring agencies, a
loose committee of service providers, government and local Aboriginal groups
set the stage for the success of this event.<span style="">
</span>They decided that the UAS should not be controlled by the existing
agencies and organizations.<span style=""> </span>To solicit
community leadership, the agencies committed to turning the UAS over to the
community.<span style=""> </span>That willingness and openness
made a huge difference on the day.<span style=""> </span>In
the pre-meeting, phrases like "we need new ideas to grow" and
"supporting community leadership" became touchstones for the media
campaign that formed the invitation.<span style=""> </span>The
sponsors stated their desire to be completely transparent in how this process
was to unfold.<span style=""> </span>They even committed to
publishing a summary of the OST results in the local paper.<span style=""> </span>Over three weeks these messages were repeated
in local media with the starling results.</span></div><div class="yiv398064351MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">The agenda was set within
the first hour of the day and the first of 55 discussion groups met on a huge
range of issues. By the end of the day the group had produced a 63 page
proceedings document with summaries from 41 groups.<span style=""> </span></span></div><div class="yiv398064351MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">On day two, about 100 people
returned to work on projects.<span style=""> </span>People
reviewed the previous day’s proceedings, space was opened again and people were
invited to post invitations to champion new projects.<span style=""> </span>Participants were asked for passion to be
tightly bound to responsibility on this day as they deliberated on how to “get
it out of the room.”<span style=""> </span></span></div><div class="yiv398064351MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">Project champions came
forward from a wide spectrum of experience and background, from poor single
mothers to City councilors.<span style=""> </span>Twenty-four
project postings were made and these convened into 19 groups addressing a wide
variety of community issues.<span style=""> </span>All of them
found support from existing organizations and in just one and a half hours,
partnerships were made, action plans drafted and in some cases, goals,
objectives and visions were written. One group became so close that when they
were finished, they stood in a circle for a minute tightly holding hands and
prayed together. All of this was self-organizing, all of it happened in Open
Space.</span></div><div class="yiv398064351MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">Within three weeks of the
Open Space event, most of the champions had hosted follow-up meetings and
attracted funding sponsors and other resources.<span style="">
</span>By six weeks after the event the project champions had formed a
collaborative decision making body that would oversee the strategy and make
funding recommendations to the federal government. </span></div><div class="yiv398064351MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv398064351MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">(Thanks to Chris Corrigan,</span> <span style="font-size:12.0pt;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.chriscorrigan.com/">www.chriscorrigan.com</a>, for this
story.)</span></div><div class="yiv398064351MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></div>
</div><div><br></div><div><br><div>
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text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap:break-word;"><div>_________________________________</div><div>Peggy Holman</div><div><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:peggy@peggyholman.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:peggy@peggyholman.com">peggy@peggyholman.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="yiv398064351Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; "><div style="word-wrap:break-word;"><span class="yiv398064351Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap:break-word;"><span class="yiv398064351Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:
Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap:break-word;"><div>15347 SE 49th Place</div><div>Bellevue, WA 98006</div><div>425-746-6274</div><div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.peggyholman.com/">www.peggyholman.com</a></div><div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.journalismthatmatters.org/">www.journalismthatmatters.org</a></div><div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "><div><br></div><div><b>Enjoy the award winning </b><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://peggyholman.com/papers/engaging-emergence/">Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity</a></div></div><div> <br>"An angel told me that the only way to step into the fire and not get burnt, is to
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<br><div><div>On Sep 13, 2012, at 7:05 PM, Chris Corrigan wrote:</div><br class="yiv398064351Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>There is a story in The Change Handbook in the Open Space chapter that I wrote about organizing in an urban native community in Prince George Canada. That might be a good reference.</div><div><br></div><div>Chris<br><br>---<div>CHRIS CORRIGAN</div><div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.chriscorrigan.com/">http://www.chriscorrigan.com</a></div><div>+1 604 947 9236</div></div><div><br>On 2012-09-13, at 3:14 PM, Raffi Aftandelian <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:raffi_1970@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:raffi_1970@yahoo.com">raffi_1970@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 14pt; "><div><span>fellow
spaceniki,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>can anyone be of assistance to my friend david mccain?</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 20px; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 20px; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>thanks,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 20px; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>raffi</span></div><div> </div><div>powered by ubuntu
10.4</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Hi. I'm David McCain and I'm a MA Candidate in the Sustainable Communities Program at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ. I have participated in a number of OSTz (several led by Raffi - thanks for posting this, Raf:) and I am considering organizing one regarding a community center that is looking to expand its operations in Flagstaff. I'm very interested in connecting with OST folks in the area and finding information on OSTz that have been held in a "community organizing" framework. This information would would help me compose a research paper on the project.</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:
12px; "><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">I have two requests:</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><ol style="padding-left: 40px; margin: 1em 0px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><li>Are you aware of any information describing the use of OST for "community-building/organizing"? I'm thinking that proceeding books or journal articles are two possible sources.<br></li><li>Are you aware of OST practicioners in Flagstaff, AZ or Phoenix?</li></ol><div style="padding: 0px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Please email me with your responses at <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:dm836@nau.edu" target="_blank"
href="mailto:dm836@nau.edu" style="color:rgb(35, 71, 134);outline:0px;">dm836@nau.edu</a>.</div><div style="padding: 0px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Peace,</div><div style="padding: 0px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Dave</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>OSList mailing list</span><br><span>To post send emails to <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br><span>To unsubscribe send an email to <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br><span>To subscribe or manage your
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