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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 07:36:57 -0400
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Subject: [oslist] Conversations From Siberia
I have been having wonderful conversations with Elena Marshak from
Siberia. I think she is on the list here, but perhaps a little afraid to
come out. With her permission I am posting some of our conversation just
to give you the flavor, to encourage her, and in the hopes that this
wonderful community will support her in her efforts.
Harrison
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Using the possibility to talk to you I want to say my congratulations on
what I've read about Open Space in the book of Peggy Holman and Tom Devane -
The Change Handbook, which Peggy presented to my friend Marina and me in
Berlin last september of Future Search Learning Workshop. My knowledge of OS
is very small, just the part of it which can be used in FSC and your article
in this book. I'm translating this book to Russian - just for myself and my
friends but think about publishing it. I like your article very much and
started to ask Peggy many questions so she got me on your OSlist.
The question which interested me after reading law and principals of OS in
FS hand book of Marv.Weisbord and Sandra Janoff and in your article that the
role of facilitator is 20 minutes instruction before OS real start to work.
So if excluded the presentation of participants just saying law and rules -
that's it?
our people are afraid of interactive methods and we are still work on
promoting something like FSC and we provide 3 of them this february and
march. the experience is very interesting though hard for me - not to talk
except giving tasks. As we provide more training before in management like
Strategic Planning, Marketing and so on though interactive with a lot of
tasks.
Today we talk with our local government people and they want us to provide a
sort of discussion on parnersthip of NGOs and local governments on the 29-th
of June. Two sections will be traditional - 13 lecturers and ours will be a
sort of interactive. but for 2.5 hours, and the topic of my group will be
implementation of the programs - the most hard one for Russians... so I was
thinking if it is possible to work on somehow new ways, or I have an
alternative to ask the participants questions like HOW they think we can do
implementation (better) what is needed to be done and what are the problems
to be solved, though we usually try to avoid problems and talk more of what
people want to do. Can you give me some advice?
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Thank you for your answers. I really had a heart beating when I heard about
this OS workshop in Moscow - but that is 3000 kms
(about 2000 miles) so it I could I would really run there, but I learned
about this opportunity a week before dead line of 17-th of May and I could
not make all things at this short time... Well, I know, when you look for
excuses - that is not a constructive way of thinking - I really sorry I
could not. Michael Pannwitz proposed me to organize such a workshop for
autumn in Novosibirsk, and he is ready to come. but organization also mean
money, and real organization - who, when, where - you know also 6 W and we
have a lot of plans for autumn, so we need to find the window for doing
this.
Now I"m working with local government officers on Partnership with NGOs and
I will have 2.5 hours in my session to talk about implementation. We mean by
this realization of the social programs. I'm looking for better way of doing
it and asking myself the same question as I saw in your OSlist - whether it
is possible to do something with OS technology.
Best wishes
Elena Marchuk, Ph.D.
Director of the Regional Development Center "Ceres"
Novosibirsk
"Elena A. Marchuk" <[email protected]>
Harrison Owen
7808 River Falls Drive
Potomac, MD 20854
USA
phone 301-469-9269
fax 301-983-9314
website
www.mindspring.com/~owenhh
Open Space Institute websites
www.openspaceworld.org
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