<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449340876353_157042">Is it possible to Open Space Education? </div><div class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449340876353_157044"><o:p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449340876353_157046" class=""> </o:p></div><div class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449340876353_157039">I had almost given up asking this question when I was bowled
over by this 23 year old chinese lady Amy the week before Independence Day 2015.
It was her first trip abroad and she was interviewing anyone she could from
over 50 nations at the 20th year of the creative children festival celebrated on
the Mall Washngton DC. Her favorite interviewees were the children but there
were also elders like Samara Ethiopian-American owner of the 5
billion person elearning satellite yazmi, or Bangladeshi Naila for 15 years
muhammad yunus first female director of grameen mobile phone, or William a
Chinese America retiree who has spent quarter of a century building friendships
out of Chillicon Valley (Stanford), or Taddy Blecher founder of the Mandela
extranet and the free university of entrepreneurship for the underprivileged.
Amy seemed to grow about 10 years in self-confidence by the end of her 10 days
in DC, but as she flew back to <st1:country-region id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449340876353_157048" class="">China</st1:country-region>
I never really expected to see the likes of her again</div><div class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449340876353_157050"><o:p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449340876353_157052" class=""> </o:p></div><div class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449340876353_157054">3 months later i got a whats app message, it was Amy: is there anyone more innovative I can
interview on my second trip. I said the only person i can think of is Harrison Owen
in <st1:state id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449340876353_157056" class="">Maryland</st1:state>. She said what? Why
didnt I see him first time? I said he lives summers on a boat in <st1:state id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449340876353_157058" class="">Maine</st1:state>.
She said what? </div><div class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449340876353_157060">...Thankfully they had lunch on her second voyage abroad. And
he said to her if you are happy to cancel rest of our DC trip, why not come to
Beijing and observe open space china with me. Amy gulped: am I a right person?
of course, yes please. At the airport she said to me <i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449340876353_157062" class="">I will be back</i> and next
I want to interview a leader of a social business college. I said what? But while
Amy was observing <st1:place id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449340876353_157064" class="">Harrison</st1:place> magic in <st1:city id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449340876353_157066" class="">Beijing</st1:city>,
i was being debriefed on some research at the <st1:place id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449340876353_157068" class=""><st1:placename id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449340876353_157070" class="">Vatican</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449340876353_157072" class="">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>. Their information was
that the only college leadership team in <st1:country-region id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449340876353_157074" class="">USA</st1:country-region>
they had found to be up for the pro-youth curriculum transformation of Pope
Francis was in <st1:place id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449340876353_157076" class="">Brooklyn</st1:place>, thanks to the extraordinary
female Dean there.</div><div class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449340876353_157078"><o:p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449340876353_157080" class=""> </o:p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449340876353_156997">
</div><div class="" dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449340876353_157082">So here we are last week with : a short video of Amy's first
gig in <st1:place id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449340876353_157084" class="">Brooklyn</st1:place> and the Dean's review. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztwZi_g2F-8&feature=youtu.be" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449340876353_157131">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztwZi_g2F-8&feature=youtu.be</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/eel-comes-brooklyn-new-york-joann-d-rolle-ph-d-?trk=mp-author-card" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449340876353_157210">https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/eel-comes-brooklyn-new-york-joann-d-rolle-ph-d-?trk=mp-author-card</a> What will happen next could be fun... </div></div></body></html>