<div dir="rtl"><div dir="ltr">Hi Tony,</div><div dir="ltr">Thanks for the link and invitation<br>I still haven't had time to delve into the details, but it sounds intriguing.<br>I would mostly love to learn about the transition - as you call it - from an idea in to action<br>Thank you so much and all the best,<br></div><div dir="ltr">Sagit</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="rtl" class="gmail_attr">בתאריך יום ג׳, 7 בינו׳ 2020 ב-9:56 מאת Tony Budak via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div><span><span>Here is
an opportunity to use OST for learning together about the
Commons Transition to describe a series of ongoing actions
that reflect the needs and creative input of civil
society. What are the components of such a transition, and
how do they turn into concrete actions? </span></span></div>
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<div><span><span>You are
invited to attend or host a Time for a Commons Transition
study group, message me or Click for details;
<a href="https://primer.commonstransition.org/#home" target="_blank">https://primer.commonstransition.org/#home</a></span></span></div>
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<div><span><span>Thanks
again for creating our tomorrows,<br>
Tony Budak, Lead Convener at TimeBank Mahoning Watershed</span></span></div>
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<div>On 1/6/2020 6:42 PM, Michael M Pannwitz
via OSList wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Dear ho,
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the cybergremlins did not interfere.
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I received your message twice via OSLIST.
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Stuff still seems to work.
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Have a great day
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mmp
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Am 06.01.2020 um 23:21 schrieb Harrison Owen via OSList:
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<blockquote type="cite">I tried this as a response… the
cybergremlins intervened, so here goes another!
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ho
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Sagit … I confess that my response to your note was equally, or
perhaps mostly… a response to the present moment. This is not
the first time that Planet Earth in general and/or your
particular part of the world has hovered on the edge of serious
chaos. Each of us may hold whatever opinion(s) we wish, and I
certainly have mine – but several facts are indisputable: Nobody
really understands what’s going on, even less do we understand
where it might be headed, and most of all -- nobody has the exit
plan. Under these circumstances, and while we hold our breath, a
little conversation with our fellows might be in order. But how?
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There are some 8 billion of us on the planet, divided at least 8
billion ways … not all of them happy. Having a useful
conversation under the circumstances seems rather impossible.
Doubtless there have been processes, procedures and structures
developed for human beings to pursue their issues by less than
violent means. But all of them seem rather inadequate right now.
We do not have sufficient facilitators, interveners, therapists,
parliamentarians, process re-engineers, conflict resolvers, etc…
for the job, and even if we did have the number, the necessary
time for positioning and preparation doesn’t exist.
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Are we out of options? Maybe --- or then again there may be an
option we’ve had all along and never quite took seriously.
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Some people call it Open Space, which could make it sound like a
novel procedure or process to be applied immediately and
globally. In my experience those words sound nice, maybe even
comforting, but do not describe reality. Open Space is nothing
new, strange or different – it is precisely what we have been
doing for the past million years, or however long it is that
/Homo sapiens/ has been doing whatever it does. From the very
beginning we sat in a circle, posted our wishes and dreams
(sometime on the wall of a cave), opened a market place to trade
and share our ideas… and then we went to work. Sometimes these
circles formed on a more or less regular basis (weekly market
sort of thing) but the really critical and important ones
happened when they happened … but always when there was an issue
that grabbed peoples’ attention, that was so complex that nobody
could figure it, involved so many different sorts of folks that
nobody could count their kind, stirred great passion and usually
conflict, and had to be dealt with NOW.
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<br>
Over time there was a move to institutionalize this primal
circle and give it a name like Senate or Parliament. And it
didn’t take long for some to think they were in charge. Often
this worked rather well and it seemed like the established order
was maintained. Every so often, however, A BIG one would come
along and suddenly we were back to basics. Even in the 21^st
century that can happen.
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So how do you have a meaningful conversation with 8 billion
people? We have the means, and it comes with our genes. I
suppose the issue of the moment is to get out of the way, and
let it happen. Doing that may well open the door to a whole new
understanding of who and what we are, where we are going and how
to get there. We even have an electronic assist that our
precursors could never have dreamed of. To all of this I can add
my own personal experience – that never in 30+ years, often in
extreme conflict situations have I seen any sort of physical
violence and ALWAYS witnessed the previous combatants in
respectful relations with each other… sometimes surprisingly so.
They shed common tears, danced together, laughed and even hugged
each other. They did it all by themselves with no prompting and
no assists. Wonderful!
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But what about now? How to get the ball rolling, so to speak?
Truthfully, I really don’t know. I can also imagine that it will
happen, if only because it has happened before. If anybody out
there is searching for a mission, something useful to do with
their life and talent … opening this door might well be a good
place to start. Or there are other possibilities I would really
rather not think about.
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<br>
Harrison
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