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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Chris – Your blog is powerful and I feel so privileged to have my name associated with it in any way. Thank You. And for anybody else on the LIST who is wondering what to do with your life… Chris has a monumental answer. Just open some space is an cramped corner of the universe… for people in pain. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks Chris!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Harrison<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> OSList [mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Chris Grady via OSList<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 25, 2016 7:14 AM<br><b>To:</b> World wide Open Space Technology email list<br><b>Subject:</b> [OSList] Calais refugee camp/jungle - and the power of Open Space + a new veg principal<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>May I share this blog as I realise that I have just been immersed in an open space technology world whilst chopping veg to help feed the refugees from all over Europe and beyond who are camped on the edge of the English Channel.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.chrisgrady.org/blog/calais-warehouse-open-space-principals-the-right-veg/">http://www.chrisgrady.org/blog/calais-warehouse-open-space-principals-the-right-veg/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I would welcome any sharing or reflections which you might be able to offer. There are two other blogs from the same visit if you want to learn more about the amazing work of the Refugee Community Kitchen and the Jungle Books library/learning centre. Both should be completely unnecessary in this day and age, but as long as governments create limbo-land for human souls, charity is needed<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>In case it is more helpful, I offer the text only below.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.6pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>"I have just spent 3 days in and around the Jungle in Calais, and there are two preceding blogs circulating which look at the work of the <a href="http://www.chrisgrady.org/blog/calais-refugee-community-kitchen-many-many-carrots/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#8C1717;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>Refugee Community Kitchen</span></a> and <a href="http://www.chrisgrady.org/blog/calais-conversations-enhance-understanding-and-awareness-for-us-all/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#8C1717;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>Jungle Books</span></a>. These are just two parts of an intricate, fully functional, completely unexpected operation or organised chaos to bring the maximum level of life and hope to the 7000 people living in political and governmental limbo in Calais.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.6pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>When not knee deep in carrots, I work quite a lot with the system developed by Harrison Owen to help to run effective meetings and events called <a href="http://www.chrisgrady.org/open-space-facilitation-and-event-design/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#8C1717;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>Open Space Technology</span></a>. Over 20 years it has been used to help to ensure that each person is working most effectively when they are present in a space where they are collectively tackling an important issue about which they are passionate.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.6pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>I realised that, with the addition of a quick principal about veg/ingredients, the operation of the kitchen, and the whole interlocking of services and support across the whole of the Jungle, observe the basic four principals and one law which Harrison put forward. He will not be surprised by this. I was delighted to muse over it whilst chopping aubergines.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.6pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>The camp is totally supported by volunteers who arrive in waves or trickles and stay for days or months depending on their own external life commitments. On any one day or shift the organisers have to get used to the principal “<strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>whoever comes are the right people</span></strong>” – there is no time to wish for a few more, or worry whether they will stay long enough – we just get on with the job with whoever is there. The principal, once accepted, takes so much of the pressure away from wishing it were different. It ain’t. The challenge for us all, back here in Blighty, is to make sure the right people, whoever they are, know there will always be work and a welcome for them.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.6pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Principal 2 states “<strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>whatever happens is the only thing that could</span></strong>” – and as the Warehouse awakes to start work in the morning with preparations, deliveries, support services and care, they need to be aware that overnight the militaire may have closed a restaurant, or stopped 700 children being fed in a safe area, or decided that no building/repair materials can get through the gate. Whatever happens, outwith the immediate control of those ready to start work, has to be accepted. There are contingency plans between the organising volunteers for some eventualities, but in the main they roll with the punches. Behind the scenes there will be political and governmental negotiation, but on the ground the work continues relentlessly.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.6pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Open Space suggests that all topics or area of work should generate action points, so that “we” get stuff done. No point wishing someone else would sort the mess out, whoever is there at the moment needs to get on and deliver whatever is possible. “<strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>When it starts it starts</span></strong>” – and whilst the stew should have been on the simmering gas jets by 11am, there is a problem if the 30 bags of tomatoes are not chopped and ready, or even available on site. Then it can’t start. [Editor’s note — times and quantities are fictional…please don’t make stew with my timings or quantities…these are for illustration purposes only !]</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.6pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>And now I would like to add a specific principal for the kitchen, a variation on the 1<span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>st</span> principal, “<strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>whichever veg are in the fridge are the right veg</span></strong>” (or variations on that theme whether the department is distributing food, or helping to clothe the 7000 people in the jungle). The chefs have to be endlessly inventive. The donations have to keep flowing. The deals with “just past their best” suppliers, and larger business distributors have to be made, and without that it won’t start, and it won’t arrive in time. By a miracle, god’s will, power of the universe, skill or luck it just about keeps arriving. But that needs us to keep sharing the news in a positive and empassioned way, and reaching out to all contacts we can.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.6pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>The next and final principal which we use in facilitating an Open Space event is the one which suggests “<strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>when its over its over</span></strong>”. This can be very powerful. If a job takes ten minutes and we’d allowed 30 minutes, then finish it, clean up, wash the knives and chopping boards, and get on with the next task…there is always a next task. But similarly, this crisis of human limbo-land is not over. It has been going on for too long, and will continue until governments re-consider the waste of money and human life that they are causing by their failure to act together. It is not over, and so every day of the week, every week of the year, a hot meal is needed by 1700+ people in the jungle, and many more if the militaire keep up their strategies instructed from on high. Tonight I have booked my Eurostar cheap deal to get over again in October for a week because, I suspect, it will not be over. And if it is then I will have time to sightsee in Calais, and the North area of France. But I suspect I will be back in the kitchen with new friends (whoever comes) and jumping in a van to get “the right veg” from somewhere.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.6pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:12.6pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Although I have written two blogs in quick succession about just three days in Calais, this third blog is hoping to reach a different group of “right people”. People who might google Open Space or things like that, or read business networks. By reaching out with Calais Jungle as the heart, I am hoping to reach some new people.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.6pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:12.6pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>There is one Law offered by Harrison Owen to encourage the best use of Open Space, and it also applies to the Jungle. It is called the Law of Mobility or the Law of Two Feet.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.6pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:12.6pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Even as I type this I realise the awful impotence which the word mobility rises in my gut around this situation. We can use our two feet and we are mobile. Those that we serve and support have had their mobility removed by the limbo-madness that they are in. They cannot go back to their homes which we and our governments have helped to destroy, and they cannot reach their destination because of an unhealthy distrust of “foreigners” coming to swamp Great Britain.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.6pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>But we the privileged free citizens of the UK and other nations can use the law of mobility and go where we are most needed. That’s the point – we all have a part to play, and something we can do. But we may need to make a move to be most effective. I am afraid I don’t have “treasure”, but I do have “time” which as a freelancer I can offer. So my feet took me to Calais to help…and I didn’t need much talent to drive a van or chop carrots. Others may be time-poor but a bit more cash-rich, and there a short move to your bank account, or one of the online donation portals can have an immense good effect – such as <a href="http://refugeecommunitykitchen.com/"><span style='color:#8C1717;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>http://refugeecommunitykitchen.com/</span></a></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.6pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:12.6pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Within the Warehouse working area the law of two feet works seamlessly – if there are too many people around the carrots, and not enough people at the washing up, then the flow of volunteers move with just the tiniest prompt to down knives and pick up dish cloth. There is endless washing and cleaning, to ensure the best possible hygiene in the kitchen. One of the smallest jobs of the day is washing up the 150 plates and forks from the volunteer lunch – everything is like home, but scaled up to enormous numbers.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.6pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:12.6pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>So dear colleagues who use Open Space, friends who have been to D&D over the years, and those who know me from many other lives and ways. I hope you will have a think about how you can use your time talent and treasure, and your own mobility, to help those who are stuck in limbo so close to re-starting productive and UK tax paying lives here in this country A country that they all believe to be the most welcoming and supportive for a multi-cultural workforce and community.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.6pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>My final blog (which will be the 4<span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>th</span> of 3 – with homage to Douglas Adams) will follow when Anna is ready for me to shout about a plan/event she is thinking about.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.6pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:12.6pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Thank you for reading and sharing these blogs"</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Thank you so much Harrison, Phelim, and all those who have led me to understand Open Space. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Chris</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Chris Grady FRSA<br>Chris Grady.Org</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Gothic House, High Road, Great Finborough, Suffolk IP14 3AQ</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>07713 643971 <a href="mailto:chris@chrisgrady.org" target="_blank">chris@chrisgrady.org</a> skype: chris_grady</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.chrisgrady.org/" target="_blank"><br>www.chrisgrady.org</a> </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Chris Grady.Org Limited Company No 8827507 </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Directors: Chris Grady and <a href="http://www.kathburlinson.co.uk/" target="_blank">Kath Burlinson</a>,</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Associates 2016: Kate Taylor (Edinburgh) Tania Azevedo (London) Kate Reed (New York)</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br><b>CGO - 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