The irony of the venue name in this story, "Harrisonburg" just makes me
laugh! You just cannot make stuff like this up.
On 2/14/14 5:09 PM, Harrison Owen wrote:
Tricia -- "Proof" will never be forthcoming. Reason is simple. Every
Open Space is unique. What happens in one place is not a firm
indication that "it" can/will happen again. So whenever anybody says
they want "proof" -- my answer is that it can't happen, won't happen,
and if it did they would never believe it anyhow. In this case... what
happened in Harrisonburg happened in Harrisonburg. Pittsburg, of
course is unique! So what else is new? However, maybe a conversation
Mayor to Mayor might help? Kai Degner (who did all of that) is no
longer Mayor of Harrisonburg, I believe. But he is still there, a good
person, and probably would respond positively to an email
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> . I know him. He
knows me. Good luck.
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[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Tricia
Chirumbole
*Sent:* Friday, February 14, 2014 10:35 AM
*To:* World wide Open Space Technology email list
*Subject:* [OSList] Request for Government-sponsored Open Space stories!
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
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