Dear Friends and Colleagues Last Fall I shared with you reflections on some work I had been doing in Palestine and Israel contained in a brief paper titled Almond Tree Flowers and Tears. Many of you expressed appreciation for the paper, so I make bold to share another small piece, this time about a most remarkable Open Space I had the privilege to conduct in Rome for 50 Palestinians and Israelis. The gathering was sponsored by the Italian Foreign Ministry and the Education for Life Foundation, and took place in early June. While virtually all of the news reports only unmitigated disaster, I found this brief time in Rome to be a small glimmer of hope. Can you imagine 50 Palestinians and Israelis sitting in a circle, passing and olive branch each to the other and sharing their deepest hopes and fears? It happened, and if you would like to know more click on http://www.openspaceworld.com/new_page_4.htm This URL will take you to our website, and while you are there you might enjoy some of the other resources available.
Under the heading of "Resources Available" I would like to bring to you attention a training program that my colleague Lisa Heft and I will offer at the end of September in San Francisco. We call it, The Practice of Peace. It is all about the transformative powers of Open Space and the ways in which you may use those powers to bring peace for yourself, your organization, and our troubled world. For further information, Please contact Lisa <[email protected]> I hope you will join us. Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, MD 20854 USA phone 301-365-2093 Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected] Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
