Hello, folks - The following is a message from a filmmaker and Open Space facilitator who is interested in planning a visit to various places in the world to learn more about Open Space and peace work and also share her passion for saving the Tasmanian forests.
She is putting together a proposal (this week, so please contact her right away) - perhaps some of you may wish to contact her to help or host her. Thanks, Lisa Please respond directly to her at: [email protected] __________________________________________________________________ I am a filmmaker and an Open Space practitioner (newly) in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. I have been making films about Tasmanian forest issues for about five years now, in an attempt to raise awareness about our forest industry (mainly woodchips) and the loss of magnificent tall forests and rainforests to woodchipping and plantation establishment. What I see as the main problem now is that our community is at loggerheads over the issues. The main company involved is sueing lots of individuals, and the rhetoric of war abounds. I would love to bring some peace to the area and have people listening to each other as fellow human beings, and I see Open Space as the technology that can allow that. I have just seen the grant paper and decided at very short notice (one week short of the deadline !) to put in an application to the Churchill Trust for a Fellowship that would pay travel and living allowance for an eight week period and allow me to visit other countries and people in order to learn what I can about Open Space and peacebuilding and then bring it back to Tamania and Australia and apply it here. I've just looked on the OS website and seen that there is a program called The Practice of Peace : A Program for Peacemakers with Suzanne Maxwell in New Mexico in September of this year - I plan to register for this program and make it the starting point of the tour. From there I'm open to visiting any country where I could further this aim. I'd also love to bring with me some of my films and those of other filmmakers to show what is happening here in Tasmania and to learn what I can from other people and places about possible mechanisms for having the whole community embrace and practice sustainable forest management. (I'm particularly interested in indigenous people and their way of being with the forest. I've been involved with the Gondwana Forest Sanctuary Campaign for the southern hemisphere and have dreams of making films around indigenous people and forest in the next year or so.) If any of this strikes a chord with you I'd love to hear from you, or if you know of someone who might be a likely candidate for a visit, maybe you could forward this to them, bearing in mind that the application is particularly in the context of Open Space. A rough plan (thrown together today ! ) is : USA Sep 18 - 30 Canada Oct 1 - 10 Europe Oct 11 - 31 Israel Nov 1 - 10 India Nov 11 - 25 This is actually 10 weeks and more time and countries than the program advises, but I can apply to build in some of my own time in there as well. And I would then plan to be in India for a couple of months (in Kerala) if I am able to extend before heading back to Australia with all the goodies ! I'm putting in my application, with a schedule, this week, so a quick response would be really appreciated, otherwise I'll be doing some creative schedule writing. At this stage it is only a brief and rough outline they are looking for - so I am really only needing quick expressions of interest - lengthy, interesting emails are also welcome ! Hoping this is of interest to you, and to hear from you soon All the best Shivanii Shivanii Moving Lens Productions www.movinglens.org.au [email protected] ph +61 3 6229 8857 * * ========================================================== [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
