<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">This looks interesting indeed!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">I must admit I struggle to engage with most online things from here in Australia, so I am not sure how involved I might be, but I love the movement and the question.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">This course I am also about to start, from U.Lab, might be of mutual interest: <a href="https://www.edx.org/course/u-lab-transforming-business-society-self-mitx-15-s23x#.VKo9ZiuUfLx" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px;font-family:'Lucida Grande',verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px;padding:1px;color:rgb(0,51,204)">https://www.edx.org/course/u-lab-transforming-business-society-self-mitx-15-s23x#.VKo9ZiuUfLx</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Cheers</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br><div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small"><font color="#663300" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><b><i>John Baxter</i></b></font></div><div style="text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small;font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><i>Cocreation Consultant & CoCreate Adelaide Facilitator</i></div><div style="text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small;font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><a href="http://www.jsbaxter.com.au/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">jsbaxter.com.au</a> | <a href="http://CoCreateADL.com" target="_blank">CoCreateADL.com</a></div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small"><font color="#444444" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">0405 447 829</font><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);display:inline"><font color="#444444" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> | </font></div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">@</span><a href="http://twitter.com/jsbaxter_" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif" target="_blank">jsbaxter_</a></div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small"><i>Thank you to everyone who came, helped or spread the good word about <b>City Grill</b>!</i></div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small"><i>Summary and links: <a href="http://cocreateadl.com/localgov/grill-summary/" target="_blank">cocreateadl.com/localgov/grill-summary/</a></i></div></div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Ben Roberts via OSList <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b><span style="color:black">Dear colleague (with apologies for cross-posting),<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:start;word-spacing:0px"><span style="color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px"><span style="color:black">As we move into 2015, are you profoundly concerned about climate change, serious resource depletion, and other major threats to civilization? Do you believe that we face an urgent and challenging opportunity to transform our social systems and cultures that are generating those crises? Are you interested in what conversational professionals - mediators, conveners, facilitators and your other fellow advocates and practitioners of dialogue, deliberation, and process - could do to catalyze powerful collective shifts that address these disturbing and exciting transformational possibilities?<br><br>If so, know that you are not alone. We and many others feel as you do, passionately. So many people responded to a post about this by Tom Atlee on the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation discussion list that three of us called for further conversation and more than 50 signed on, half of whom participated in an initial conference call on December 15. With this invitation, we're reaching out to thousands more in our field to see who else feels called to this vital adventure.<br><br>So now we ask you to join us in pioneering a dialogue and deliberation (D&D) “community of inquiry and action" during January 2015, online using the “hackpad” platform and live virtually (using phone and video conferencing), to more deeply pursue this urgent question that a few dozen of us have<span> </span><a href="http://www.bit.ly/DandDTrans" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">already begun</span></a><span> </span>exploring:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:start;word-spacing:0px"><b><i><span style="color:black">What do we, as members of the dialogue and deliberation community of practice, have to be and do to enable our most positive transformational impact, in the face of emerging global crises which fundamentally challenge our business-as-usual habits and systems?</span></i></b><i><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px"><span style="color:black"><br>We know there are a number of ways to come at this question, so we are using January to explore different possibilities, while building relationships among those of us who have passion about this topic. You’ll see below that we’ve scheduled a number of virtual meetings, using different methods, all in this one month—both in direct audio/video dialogues and in online written conversations—in an effort to meet all our different needs as D&D agents of social transformation.<br><br>You are welcome to participate in as many or as few of the “synchronous” events listed below as you like—and you are encouraged to participate any time in<span> </span><a href="http://www.bit.ly/DandDTrans" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">the online dialogues underway in the hackpad forums we've provided</span></a>. Each virtual event can stand on its own, and each may have different outcomes—some perhaps quite unexpected—but we suspect that insights and energies emerging in each one will reverberate in all the rest. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.25in;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px"><b><span style="color:black">January 6, 2-3:30 ET </span></b><span><span style="color:black">—</span></span><span style="color:black"> a virtual <b><i>World Cafe</i></b> for continuing whole-group exploration of our convening question (above), and other related ones, in stimulating small groups. The optional "harvest" at the end will continue until 4:30 pm ET. Later in January we'll have another virtual World Cafe, at an evening or weekend time to be announced. Before, during, and after these events<span>, </span>you can also<span> </span><a href="http://www.bit.ly/DandDTrans" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">share ideas on hackpad (starting now).</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.25in;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px"><b><span style="color:black">January 9, 20, 30 (various times--<a href="http://www.bit.ly/DandDTrans" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">see hackpad</span></a>) </span></b><span><span style="color:black">— three virtual</span></span><span style="color:black"> <b><i>Bohm Dialogues</i></b>, providing space for deeper reflection and relationship building, available on a reservation basis.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.25in;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px"><b><span style="color:black">January 13, 2-3:30 ET</span></b><span style="color:black"> <span>—</span> a virtual <b><i>Open Space</i></b> event <span>to enable anyone to convene a group to pursue an inquiry or activity about which they have passion. If you have such a passion, you can <a href="http://www.bit.ly/DandDTrans" target="_blank">introduce it on hackpad</a> before, during, or after the audio-video even</span>t (starting now). Later in January we'll have another virtual Open Space event, at an evening or weekend time to be announced. Immediately following each virtual Open Space event there will be an additional hour of virtual group sharing and group reports.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:start;word-spacing:0px"><span style="color:black"><br>As we go through the above activities together, we'll be gaining first hand understanding about how processes we have usually experienced in person translate into virtual environments, and about the pros and cons of the on-line tools we will be using —topics about which we expect to reflect more later in January. Bearing in mind that this environment and these online tools may be new to many of us, we will go out of our way to provide as much technical support as we can in this process. And, we also beg in advance your forbearance and honest feedback as we explore this new territory together.<br><br>More information about these offerings, as well as ways to get started in the community of inquiry right now, can be found <a href="http://www.bit.ly/DandDTrans" target="_blank">here on the Welcome hackpad.</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><br>What happens beyond January—with all of us together and/or in various subgroups—is up to each of us. As hosts, we are designing the January experience to encourage various follow-up opportunities to emerge according to their own energy. This particular cycle of engagements will end at the end of the month, having provided value to all who have been part of this community during that time. But what happens next will depend totally on the passion felt by you and the other participants, and the responsibility and creativity you bring to your conversations with the other passionate folks you meet in the process. <br><br>So we welcome your participation and look forward to what will emerge here. The more of us pursue this, the more we will learn and the more action will result, moving us all forward. Let us know if you have questions or comments.<br><br>And make sure to<span> </span><a href="http://myaccount.maestroconference.com/conference/register/SJQ6VBHESBQ8OD" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">register here if you think you may participate in any of it</span></a>, so we can plan for how many of us may join the adventure.<br><br>Ben Roberts and Linda Ellinor<br>(for <a href="https://hackpad.com/About-the-DandDTrans-Inquiry-oG0LLT20JlU" target="_blank">the “convening team”</a>)<br><br><br>PS: Alongside this collective inquiry and our associated community-building efforts, we are offering a self-organized daily opportunity to explore the deeper meaning of randomly selected cards from <b>the Group Works deck</b> set of life-enhancing conversational design principles. Our<span> </span><a href="https://hackpad.com/Group-Works-Card-of-the-Evening-DandDTrans-Inquiry-WzwxQeIX8WY" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">recent experiments with this</span></a><span> </span>have been delightfully engaging. If you wish to be on the email list for notices about this, please let Ben Roberts know via a reply to this email.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:start;word-spacing:0px"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#4f6228">Ben Roberts<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#4f6228">The Conversation Collaborative<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#4f6228"><a href="http://www.conversationcollaborative.com/" target="_blank">www. 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