Welcome to the club Yaari! My experience, repeated more times than I hate to think about -- is that the most combative, combustible, argumentative folks are the "Peace-niks. Give me a bunch of engineers, elite military, Corporate Executives anytime. There might be a lesson here? I think it could be about being doctrinaire. Everybody is for "peace" and each person knows PRECISELY the RIGHT way to get there -- and they will fight to the death for their position. May be a little bit cynical, but for sure those folks could use a little Open Space. Who knows -- Peace might actually break out. Thanks for opening the space. We all need it.
And I think that "lesson" may be taking hold. Witness the sort of openness in the "Arab Spring" and the "Occupy Whatever." 5th Principle at work, I think. Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Dr. Potomac, MD 20854 USA 189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer) Camden, Maine 20854 Phone 301-365-2093 (summer) 207-763-3261 www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com (Personal Website) To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of yaari pannwitz Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 9:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OSList] Open Space for Non-Violent Communications puh! ... this-one was quite a rough ride ... for the participants and a challenge for myself facilitating it. in the end i was happy that it went for three days including reading & augmenting and action-planning ... so the group had time to find her peace at last (i believe). it left me fairly exhausted and assuming that non-violent communication can become quite violent some times. surprise? i guess not! "non-violent" love yaari -- yaari pannwitz tucholskystr. 30 10117 berlin +49 15771987461 This just in (my inbox) from some good folks in Germany. Sounds like a good cause, and if interested, please follow up. Yaari (Michael Pannwitz’ son) will be facilitator, so I know you will be in good hands. Harrison *********************************************************** Dear friends, partners, interested people, we invite you to our open space meeting called Changing The Way We Connect 28.-30.10.2011 in Berlin, Germany What – We are going to open space and time for work, ideas and exchanges about Non Violent Communication and Open-Space-Technology. The invitation goes out to those who have a passion to concern themselves with these topics. open space – On an open space meeting participants decide on the agenda and work on their own themes together with others and sometimes on their own. On an open space everybody works completely self-paced and on one's own responsibility. On our last day all discussions and the agreed next steps will be published in a documentation. Where – Hobrechtstraße 35, 12047 Berlin, Germany When – Friday, 28.10.2011 from 13.00 h registration 14.00 – 19.00 h conference (open space) Saturday, 29.10.2011 9.00 – 17.00 h (open space) Sunday, 30.10.2011 9.00 – 13.00 h next steps (open space) Costs – 50 Euro per adult Deadline – register until 21.10.2011 (latest) at <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]. Who is inviting – We are a learning partnership under the Grundtvig program of the European Commission. There partners from five countries: erziehungsweise e. V. (Germany), Livet (Denmark), Stichting De kleine giraf (Netherlands), Fundacja Życia Bez Przemocy (Poland), Sungurlu Directorate of National Education (Turkey). Organizer – erziehungsweise e. V. _______________________________________________ OSList mailing list To post send emails to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org _______________________________________________ OSList mailing list To post send emails to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
