<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span> </span>G’day Fellow Spaceniks and other Kindred Spirits <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The items below may be of interest to you.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">They are about the looming perils of climate change and associated ways to consider and act on them, recently come to my attention. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">I have followed such matters keenly since I attended a presentation by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/19/james-hansen-nasa-scientist-climate-change-warning" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">James Hansen</a> while living in Hong Kong a decade ago. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">My question: Could bringing <b><a href="https://openspaceworld.org/wp2/" target="_blank">Open Space Technology (OST</a></b>) approaches be a vital means to address constructively the issues we face as global humanity in the now <b>Anthropocene</b> with its perils and opportunities? </span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"></span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"> </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">See: </span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/16/opinion/sunday/fear-panic-climate-change-warming.html" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Opinion | Time to Panic - The New York Times</a><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Using Open Space to address climate change matters<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><b><a href="https://jembendell.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/deep-adaptation-retreat-uk-2019/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://jembendell.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/deep-adaptation-retreat-uk-2019/</a></b><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">We need to have a paradigm shift in how we view society and life.<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><b><a href="https://americanminion.blog/2018/12/16/we-need-a-paradigm-shift/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://americanminion.blog/2018/12/16/we-need-a-paradigm-shift/ </a><br></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b>Also: </b></span><a href="https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/#sf-1" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b>Fourth National Climate Change Assessment</b></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/#sf-1" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"></span> </a><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">(To add: Here is a report, entitled <a href="http://www.multimindsolutions.com/?page_id=41&preview=true&preview_id=41&preview_nonce=1f89ef96f3" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.multimindsolutions.com/?page_id=41" target="_blank"><b>Vision, Values and Vibes</b></a> which illustrates my credentials as a Spacenik!) <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"></span><br></p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span> </span></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b>Tall orders indeed</b>! Yet are there any means at hand other than <b><a href="https://openspaceworld.org/wp2/" target="_blank">OST</a></b> with its underpinning premises and highly practical approaches to addressing complex issues - now needed urgently to create a viable living for succeeding generations of we humans and other<span></span> inhabitants of our tiny, fragile planet home?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">With young people, particularly school children, crying out for necessary action: </span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="https://www.euronews.com/2019/02/07/this-is-the-climate-generation-thousands-of-students-join-netherlands-protest" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://www.euronews.com/2019/02/07/this-is-the-climate-generation-thousands-of-students-join-netherlands-protest</a><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Next such events are happening all around Australia on March 15, 2019. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><b>To conclude:</b><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">While I feel a need and associated responsibility – given the particular experiencing I have had over nigh on eight decades of being an earthly denizen (including participating in seven 'World Open Space on Open Space' gatherings, beginning in 1998) - to bring these perspectives to your notice … <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">It is, in my mind, for you younger <b>Spaceniks</b> to make what you will of them. Given that what I have drawn attention to here is likely only another way of expressing what you are already aware of. <span><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Bearing in mind that, as with great works of art, "Which cannot be taken in at a glance" <i>Linguist I.A. Richards</i>, so it will be in your grand adventuring ahead. </span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span></span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span></span>Looking forward, indeed.</span><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">👍</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Papyrus;color:rgb(51,51,255)" lang="EN-US">Al </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(51,51,255)"><span></span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Al (formerly Alan) Stewart, PhD<br>Process Artist <br>Facilitator of conversations that matter and participatory fun<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Senior Fulbright Scholar <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Blog: <a href="http://www.conversare.net" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">www.conversare.net</a><span class="m_-6611824537723897470m_-862289322274760703m_-5255391644456719937m_-1212429210528718023m_-5387264657129362411gmail-m_-897783810684197517gmail-m_-5856580509713552207m_6336251231909951762gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><br>
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</span>Member:<span> </span><a href="http://asc-cybernetics.org/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">American Society for Cybernetics</a> <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;color:black" lang="EN-US">Member: </span></b><a href="http://www.ntmu.com.au/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN-US">National Trouble Makers Union</span></b></a><span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;color:black" lang="EN-US">Residence: Adelaide, South Australia, since 1975 <br>With time away in the USA (1981) and Hong Kong (2005-2011) </span></b><span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;color:black" lang="EN-US">_________________________________</span></b><span><span></span></span></p><br><div><img src="http://www.multimindsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/logo1.png" width="200" height="41"></div><div><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;color:black" lang="EN-US">"Whenever we treat each other well good things happen."<br>
<i>Al Stewart</i></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><br><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;color:black" lang="EN-US"><i></i></span></b><b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span>PS. If you feel in need of inspiration, you may wish to look out for - perhaps through your local library - a book of photographs entitled<b> 'The Family of Man'. </b>"The greatest photographic exhibition of all time ..." </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span>This was published in the early 1950s. And was subsequently exhibited in many countries. I saw one of these, at age 14, in what is now Harare in Zimbabwe. It had a profound influence on me. <br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span>You may also find this <a href="http://www.multimindsolutions.com/?page_id=537" target="_blank">little story </a>to be uplifting. ☺<br></span></span></p><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span> </span></span></p><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>