Hello my friends, I received the inquiry below yesterday from a colleague who is looking at the possibility of doing an Open Space with a group of Jewish leaders in St. Louis. He’s provided a brief description below.
If you are in St. Louis and are interested, please follow up with Tony. appreciatively, Peggy __________________________________ Peggy Holman Journalism that Matters 15347 SE 49th Place Bellevue, WA 98006 425-746-6274 www.journalismthatmatters.org www.peggyholman.com Twitter: @peggyholman JTM Twitter: @JTMStream Enjoy the award winning Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity Check out my series on what's emerging in the news & information ecosystem Begin forwarded message: > From: "Granillo, Anthony R" <anthony.r.grani...@boeing.com> > Subject: RE: OST facilitator - St. Louis > Date: December 17, 2013 at 2:44:33 PM PST > To: Peggy Holman <pe...@peggyholman.com> > > Peggy, since you’re the known entity with the listserv I’d appreciate the > help. I was in the Millstone Institute Fellows Program this year. The > program started last year so only two years old and still in the growing > pains stage of development around what it is trying to accomplish. A key > element is to develop a group of diverse Jewish leaders from various > communities of interest to the point where they can trust and be open enough > to work together across boundaries that can seem mutually exclusive to > working together. > > In order to do this the director of the program wants to create an > environment where people can challenge each other in a safe way without > eliciting feelings of judgment or attack that could result in people shutting > down or disengaging. A big part of that is building trust and getting to > know people on a human level. From my experience with Open Space it seemed > like a natural fit for this purpose, which the director acknowledged both > this year’s and last year’s cohort really struggled with and did not achieve > to the degree she hopes for. I suggested the possibility of using Open Space > as a good way to start that community building. That it could be a good way > to get a new group of people to take ownership of the opportunity they had > signed up for with a calling question something like this (it definitely > needs refinement): “How will we create for our cohort a place where we can > explore and challenge our core beliefs around Jewish leadership and community > that is safe and non-judgmental so that at the end of our time together we > will feel like one group with a common purpose.” > > The director was pretty interested in the concept and plans to discuss the > possibility with a consultant she works with on content development. I said > I’d try to do a little leg work myself to see if there was someone local to > STL that had experience in Open Space facilitation that could explain better > than me. > > > > --tony
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