<div><div dir="auto">Hello everyone,</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I have been thinking of this too and I think that my plan is to start hosting monthly open spaces in the place where I live around a question that speaks to this and the other multitude of system breakdowns we are experiencing.</div><div dir="auto">Having witnessed and now supporting lightly the youth climate alliance locally, it is really clear that we need open space regularly to be able to bring together everyone to see what is possible.</div><div dir="auto">If anyone lives near Bath in the UK and wants to speak about this, or if there is a sense that we could do something together as a community in our own communities I would be interested in exploring this.</div><div dir="auto">I am thinking devoted and disgruntled but around whole system change, micro to the macro.</div><div dir="auto">Get in touch if anyone is interested in exploring.</div><div dir="auto">Best wishes and good luck to us all</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jamie</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 at 23:37, Alan Stewart via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><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 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>
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<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>
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