Trica,
Go to http://portlandplan.org/
This was a Town-wide Open Space to address the citizen's issues regarding Land
Use Planning.
Sponsored by Three civic groups and the Town of Portland, Connecticut
The video was done by high school tech students and so there is a little "break
in the action" but it picks up at minute four.
Sixty seven townspeople attended the November 3rd 2 1/2 hour event and held 10
working sessions.
Elwin Guild
Future Development International
On Friday, February 14, 2014 4:35 PM, Tricia Chirumbole
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all!
This is part 2 of a request for fodder for my discussions with the new mayor of
Pittsburgh, PA re: Open Space inspired civic engagement initiatives. They
watched the video of the Harrisonburg, VA mayoral Open Space summits and said
they were, "very cool", but apparently wanted more "proof".
The scoop: Good news so far! I was in the Mayor's office last week and learned
that they are very sincere about wanting to develop a civic engagement
platform, and they even said lovely things like they don't want it to be
top-down and they want participation in actual community development - not just
feedback/town halls.
They also mentioned early on that they could use "something like this" for
internal work - citing low morale from the last mayor who left in scandal and
the fact that some of the people have probably worked there for 30 years and
never been asked their thoughts on anything.
Request: They are interested in more examples of governments sponsoring this
type of citizen-directed and designed civic engagement.
Three specific questions: 1) How do we make sure people feel safe?; 2) How do
we ensure that there are no repercussions for people sharing openly? (in
reference to an internal Open Space); and 3) How do we get a diversity of
people to participate?
I gave responses to all of these that I think made sense, but any references,
videos, examples of government external or internal open space work would be
MUCH appreciated! I think any level of government in any country would do.
Thanks so much for reading this lengthy epistle! May you share and feel the
love today and always :)
Tricia Chirumbole
Open Space Facilitator, Certified Scrum Master
Mojo Collaborative
www.mojocollaborative.com
571-232-0942
skype: tricia.chirumbole
twitter: @themojozone
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