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Hi Kai,<br>
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Clicking on your link from your first post, I realized - yes - you
were a bit of a legend here in the past for your work opening civic
discourse as an elected official in the U.S.<br>
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I know that many of us are passionate about bringing more open space
into civic dialog, and I'm extremely grateful for you showing a
successful model of doing this.<br>
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I'm responding mostly out of enthusiasm for your posting this
offering to the OSList, but I'd love to hear more from you.<br>
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Would you say more about "Government is not the most credible or
competent convener", and how you sense "We The People" could do the
job? I really thought that's what our Government in the U.S. was
supposed to be. We The People, as stated in the U.S. Constitution.
Surely you must have some special insights doing this convening work
from inside Government?<br>
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Thanks!<br>
Harold<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/8/17 10:40 PM, Kai Degner via
OSList wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Greetings-
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<div>How about 1,000 community OS's?<br>
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<div>I know too few of you, but am a fellow OS convener and am
happy to be back on the OSlist. I just finished 8 years on
a local city council (Harrisonburg, VA, USA) and five months
running for congress (VA6). More importantly, I've convened
over 25 community summits using OS in that time. And I had
lunch with Harrison on Tuesday (see photo, I'm on the left,
Bruce on the right).</div>
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<div>Briefly, I believe the dialogue, democracy, facilitation,
leadership, business, and communications worlds frequently
promote people taking turns talking as sufficiently useful
for quality discourse. We often underemphasize and take for
granted individual and group listening skills, and there
could be value in focusing on how to "let people feel
listened to" rather than just "let people talk."</div>
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<div>My time in elected office let me see the opportunity for
OS to contribute to what I'm calling "civic listening
infrastructure." How can/does a community listen to
itself? Where are its open spaces?</div>
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<div>Government is not the most credible or competent
convener, neither is a candidate, nor is an elected
official. We The People could convene We The People, with a
little help from the people who know OS. </div>
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<div>The way the Peace Corps or Army Corps builds
infrastructure, I am starting <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.listeningcorps.com">The Listening Corps</a>
in hopes of inspiring and/or supporting people committed to
honing individual listening skills and then facilitating
group listening. OS is a power tool on the group listening
tool belt.</div>
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<div>I'm hosting a webinar at three times this week to teach
some simple listening skills and invite participation in The
Listening Corps. <b>You are cordially invited. <a
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href="https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/rt/6047065842932730372">Link</a></b></div>
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<div>For discussion purposes, I'm curious how the connection
between OS and civic listening lands with this group. Does
sparking community OS's on locally-chosen topics seem like a
useful way to address the political, class, and cultural
divides ? What could be possible if we joined to create
1,000 such events in our communities?</div>
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<div>Thanks for listening -</div>
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<div>Kai</div>
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<div><i>Thanks for listening! - </i><span
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<div>Blogging, teaching, and musing at<a
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href="http://www.KaiDegner.com"
target="_blank"> www.KaiDegner.com</a></div>
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