Greetings fellow listers. My colleagues and I were graced with the opportunity we¹ve longed for.
We presented a keynote (Mac¹s version of powerpoint) presentation to Haiti¹s Minister of Education this past Friday evening and followed it with an hour and a half open space meeting. Our theme: Education: Improvement through transformation...How can we do it? The Minister, Gabriel Bien-Aime, was accompanied by several of his staff. The dialogue in the small group discussions was great and all involved expressed their enthusiasm. There were about 20 of us and the entire meeting was filmed by Ministry¹s videographer. They also interviewed Fremy Cesar and I the following morning for the Ministry¹s weekly television program which is aired nationally. The small group I participated in which was proposed by one of the members of staff: ³What steps do we take to engage all sectors of society toward improving Haiti¹s educational system?² We¹ll see where it all goes. It was made possible by a Haitian man who is the Minister¹s friend and who participated in Haiti Open Space on Open Space this past June. Our presentation also included the two other methods that my colleagues use in schools and various groups in Haiti: Reflection Circles and Lectio Divina. I¹ll keep you posted on progress. John -- http://circlesofchange.com participatory learning & leadership http://harvesttime.cc harvesting for justice that all may have enough http://beyondborders.net changing lives through education and exchange email: j...@johnengle.net telephone: 202-236-6532 John Engle P.O. Box 337 Hershey, PA 17033 * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
