Yes, I think it is the only way to think about it. As we need to go with what we have and that was just the 'practice' for them as they could not imagine that if started, it comes to a real work. but too little time for such a big topic.
thank you for your talking I hope we shall come to a real Forum, and more time as we plan 1,5 hours plannary session, then the whole day of work, but for approx. 300 people (need to find a facility yet), and then the next day - if not convergence, that more detailization of some projects, they are speeking about uniting of some, but I'm not sure, that people will be happy with that. yes, some topics are 'close' but they have authors, and when united, ... nobody so let's see, if we can proceed. The openning process was shown on TV, education channel, but when windows - you can't see anything, so I don't know whethe it is good or not. The work in groups was OK, but our movements around - was auwful (we made it in turn with Marina - it is fun) hope, that it is not spoiling the energy. in a week will be the closing session shown, and I hope it will be much better, as it will be 'darker' best wishes elena P.S.I love the method! We could not start it properly, as one of the new born organization brought champaign, and we could not stop the new president inviting people to have some 'tea' at the beginning and they were shoing us our flip chart with "Be prepared to be surprised!" and then we couldn't stop people working as our time was finishing and we need to make a closing session... that is very Russian. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ethelyn & Harrison Owen To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 6:25 PM Subject: Re: Democracy and Open Space (in work) - long, sorry At 10:40 AM 9/5/2002 +0700, Elena Marchuk wrote: So yesterday we gathered 40 organizations, and the topic the organizers come with was: "Interaction of NPOs and local governments in building Civil Society" How do you think such a topic - a very general one - could be 'discussed' in the OST. Though I tryed while oppening to ask the question like: So, now we need to find out why do we need to interact and what is Civil Society then... I find that if you convert the statement to a questions, it all works better. So -- What are the issues and opportunities...??? The fact that folks came up with a lot of stuff that seemed very general is no problem, and actually I thought some of it was very particular. They would go as deeply as they could. And should you find that there are some issues which are no where near "action" I would think about another Open Space but just on that issue. If they cared they will come. 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 www.mindspring.com\~owenhh [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected] Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
