This morning I opened space for a large faith based social service organization here in Cleveland (Ohio) with 30 people, most of whom had never been through the process before. Three rounds of the most marvelous questions emerged around the theme of how we provide services as a faith based organization to a very faith diverse community.
Participating were board members, staff, community leaders, funders, and area clergy from partnering congregations. It was a ground breaking conversation where we saw attitude boundaries soften and openness to new levels of understanding. I introduced/experimented successfully with the "Two hands of dialogue": 1. Greet similarities with appreciation 2. Greet differences with curiosity and creativity. We even had the need and opportunity to use Canadian Tables and other ongoing inspiration I continue to be graced with in this online community of OST practice. A beautiful experience in all. jack _/\_ jack ricchiuto www.designinglife.com two.one.six/ three.seven.three/ seven.four.seven.five. * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
