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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thank you Paul - your experience report
opened some major doors of possibility for me!<br>
<br>
I'd love to hear more. So you didn't need a morning news every
day. Did new sessions appear each day, did sessions get moved
around, or was it mostly settled after the first marketplace on
Monday?<br>
<br>
Was there documentation beyond just people sharing stories? How
did the thinking and ideas (and powerful success) of this event
get moved forward in time?<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
Harold<br>
<br>
On 10/9/13 1:59 AM, paul levy wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">The invitation is to improve the parkland and the
river running through it.</p>
<p dir="ltr">A hundred people from the local community come - from
park rangers to girl scouts, from local residents to
environmentalists.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The Open Space runs from 9am Monday until 7pm Friday.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The facilitator opens the circle and refers to the
agenda on the wall. The breakout areas are not defined - just
the times, and these only are suggested, running from 7am to 7pm
each day.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The market place opens. Someone gets up to offer a
session. The park ranger.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I'm going to be dredging the river for rubbish on
Tuesday for three hours at 2pm</p>
<p dir="ltr">Someone else gets up. A local resident. I'm going to
do some clearing of the bushes near the playground. General
tidying up, some pruning. The gardener will be coming along to
to help. It's tomorrow from 9am until lunchtime.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Someone else gets up. The head of the Neighbourhood
Watch scheme. I'd like to lead a discussion on local security
and then go knocking on doors with leaflets about it. Thursday
all day.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Someone else gets up. A local resident. Who wants to
learn to fish? I can take up to seven in my boat on Thursday
from 3pm.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Soon there follow other sessions. Someone offers a
talk on local wildlife and identifying edible plants in the
wood. Someone else wants to start a petition for some new
climbing equipment in the park. Someone wants to lead a
discussion about river safety at night. Someone else, a
gardener, wants to repaint the tool sheds in the gardens and
calls for help.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The programme fills up. The group breaks out.</p>
<p dir="ltr">We go to work.</p>
<p dir="ltr"> The closing circle is on Friday. There space in the
venue remains open and there's a catch up circle on Wednesday
for those who want to come.</p>
<p dir="ltr">On Friday, the closing circle takes the form of
stories told of successes, frustrations and there are a few
slide shows of what we have all achieved.</p>
<p dir="ltr">All in all, more has been achieved in a week, on less
budget. All of this work would normally have taken a year to
plan and carry out. The community decide to meet again in three
months time.<br>
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