Sharon Joy Kleitsch, founder of the Connection Partners, and Linda Sechrist, writer and editor for Natural Awakenings Magazine, call it the “Stone Soup Listening Tour”. Both are friends of Open Space, World Café and Art of Hosting, two very adventurous women who are passionately interested in what’s happening across the country around slow food, slow money, permaculture, Transition Towns, Awakening the Dreamer, Four Years Go, clean energy, green buildings and sustainable cities.
Like Open Space bumble bees, they will be opening space and meeting hundreds of folks as they embark on a 16-day tour across the Southern US. Their travels will begin in San Diego on September 7th and from there they move on to Tucson (9/9), Phoenix (9/10), Albuquerque (9/12), Santa Fe (9/13-14), Oklahoma City (9/16-17), Tulsa (9/18), Little Rock (9/20), Memphis (9/21), Nashville (9/22) and Chattanooga (9/23, ending in Greenville/Spartanburg (9/23). They describe the purpose of their journey as “listening to stories and engaging conversations, collecting and sharing the narrative bounty from each community” as they travel along and contribute them to the next pot. The much anticipated result: “a truly savory and soulfully good soup story that sustains all” – something to inspire, to connect people and energize further action. Through their various networks, they are connecting to regional non-profits, business, government and media leaders to support what they are doing in their chosen tour cities. They are appealing to folks in our OS community who would be interested to join and lend a hand in opening space for these “delicious stone soup” conversations. So if you feel sparked by the idea and live in one of the above cities, you can contact Sharon Joy at [email protected]. Suzanne -- Suzanne Daigle NuFocus Strategic Group 7159 Victoria Circle University Park, FL 34201 FL 941-359-8877; CT 203-722-2009 www.nufocusgroup.com [email protected] * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
