Thank you, Eiwor. Yes, you are right. There is a lot of conflict stuff in the church. Thats why i really have to work om this part. I´m now in contact with Cia, so thats great.
Hege :-) 30. mai 2013 kl. 10:21 skrev [email protected]: > Dear Hege, I am smiling when I read your mail. When is the church not in > conflict? I would advice you to talk to Cia Brinkåker, another GC trainer. > She has worked in the church most of her life and is now working with youth > in a small parish in southern Sweden. You can find her through the GC list or > on Facebook. > Good luck > Eiwor > > Skickat från min HTC > > ----- Reply message ----- > Från: "Hege Steinsland" <[email protected]> > Till: "World wide Open Space Technology email list" > <[email protected]> > Rubrik: [OSList] OS and conflict > Datum: tors, maj 30, 2013 09:38 > > > Daer OS list. > > I`m going in to a process in the Church of Norway. I`we done some pre-work to > look at the situation, using the medicine wheel. The 17 th of june we will > have a pre-work for 5 hours to plan the OS meeting, where, when, theme, who > to invite and so on. > > Now I´we been aware of a conflict situation, that have made some people draw > back from being active in the church. This is still going on, and it involves > the leader that hired me. I´ve been told from here earlier that she is > having a conflict, but we haven't talked formally about it according to this > OS - planning. > Yesterday someone else, that I told about this OS process was really > inspired, and wanted to join in - but then said it might be difficult because > of this conflict situation. > > This is the church in five municipalities that have merges to one > organization, one and a half year ago. Now they experience some «noise» in > the organization. Not everyone are happy, information does not flow good > enough and there is an issue about responsibility. > > I know that there have been conflicts in other of these churches as well a > few years ago. There might still be wounds that are not healed because both > of them ended kind of dramatically. I did some work with them earlier, and > than some of this came up, so I have a feeling its still there. > > In the church of Norway we have one democratic leaderstructure parallel with > the pastorale structure, so there are both a priest with responsibility for > the pastorale work, a lay leader with responsibility for employment, economy, > buildings and so on, quite involved with the total work in the church. There > are also board of selected people with a certain responsibility, so the > leaderstructure is quite complicated. I´we been preparing this job with the > group of three leaders, the priest in charge, the lay leader, and the > selected leader. > > I´m going to use the circle of sorrow in the pre work. There might come up > that there are conflicts, sorrow and anger. But it might be quite different > things, from different areas. > > I ask myself questions like > How much and how should I focus on this in the pre- work. What should I not > do here? > How do I know if we should plan the OS meeting, or if there are other things > to do first? > And if there are things to do first - what tools will be useful and suitable? > > I´m asking for advices, tools, things to be aware of in this situation up > front, and during the work. I think this is very important, and I find it > difficult and challenging. > > Grateful for some help. > > All the best from > Hege in a sunny Norway > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
