Patricia, could you say more about that Cornell course? Was it a rare
sort of course? I know social work programs have community development
tracks, but I haven't heard of adult ed programs with a focus in
community development, but I did my grad work 20+ years ago, so maybe
it just wasn't out there at the time. (My self-designed M.Ed., at a
state college in Vermont, was in "teaching and counseling" with a focus
on parenting education and counseling for adults, but almost all my
work since then has been in community development.)
Diane Brandon
Eliot, Maine
www.keysregion.org
On Mar 15, 2006, at 7:19 AM, Patricia Haines wrote:
Good idea, Harrison - the Cornell course on adult education and
community development used to
include introductions to various kinds of participatory program
planning, including Future Searches,
but no one ever mentioned Open Space or World Cafe or any of the other
more relatively recent
processes. The person who taught that course has now moved on.
HOwever: would anyone be interested in joining me in proposing a
session on Open Space for the Adult
Education Association's national conference next year? this gathering
is for academics mostly, with
a few academically-oriented practitioners. Don't know where it's
taking place but I'll look it up.
----- Original Message -----
From: Harrison Owen <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:52:26 -0500
Subject: Re: great succes for Open Space in the Netherlands
Carla -- you also give all those academic types a small push. You
might ask
why it is that the Academic Community has so far managed to ignore
OS? Here
is something that is 20 years old with 60,000+ applications in 100
Countries. This is the perfect opportunity for a little PhD research.
These
folks could become famous!
Harrison
Harrison Owen
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From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Vliex,
Carla (cvl)
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 6:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: great succes for Open Space in the Netherlands
Hi all
Last week we had a meeting with about 20 OD consultants in the
Netherlands.
Some who lecture about OD at University, some who do research on OD
and some
who work as OD consultants (like me). I was invited to write an
article an
how Open Space works and why it works according to my experinces with
Open
Space. I used many of the things I have read over the years on the
list!
The article is going to be published in juni in one of our more
prestige
journals (for the dutch: Management en Organisatie). And there will
be a
national congres on Open Space and other inteventions who really are
interactive (appreciative inquiry, Future Search, and much much more)
I was very honoured not only to be asked but that Open Space is
goging to be
even more 'hot' in the Netherlands.
So if there are some reflections on the the next two items, it would
help me
very much to rewrite some parts of the article:
- why does Open Space work? (those academic boys and girls over ?here
want
to know something about theoretical background and start looking very
upset
as I told them that it just works).
- as Harrison wrote in his book Open Space; exapanding our now, Open
Space
has very ancient backgrounds (meeting in a cirkel, breathing,
starting en
ending 'time' and son on). What is more to say about these ancient
ways of
meeting?
Anything or everything is welcome
warm regards
Carla
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