Good on you Viv and others, With the slightly murmuring risk that the G20 alternative movement might turn ugly (or perhaps be high jacked to that end by a minority), it is so important to be able to offer peaceful, strong and alternative ways of interacting, such an Open Space. As someone wiser than me has said (and I can't recall who it was), "the best critique of the bad is the practice of the better". Maybe we can dream that the G20 will one day be convened in Open Space.
Cheers Michael Wood -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Viv McWaters Sent: Sunday, 29 March 2009 8:19 AM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Re: Progressive Governance Conference (Chile '09) Hi all Thought you might be interested to know about we20 (www.we20.org) we20 is a grass roots gathering of small groups all over the globe around the time of the G20 Summit in London in early April. The idea came from a group of friends in London (probably having a chat over a beer - but I might have made that bit up ;-) Johnnie Moore who is a London-based facilitator using Open Space influenced some of the thinking around the way to conduct we20 meetings by suggesting Open Space (OK - I might have made that up too, but he's certainly involved). We can't afford to leave this global mess to just 20 'suits' in London can we? Globally we face a huge challenge. A global economic crisis. 7 billion mouths to feed. Uncertain futures. How does that translate to our region? So Geoff Brown and I will facilitate we20 gathering locally this coming Friday using Open Space to explore the GFC as an 'offer' to help us build resilient local communities. Check out this film for a quick intro: http://www.youtube.com/we20media we20.org will act as a hub for we20 meetings, a place to organise meetings, discuss plans and vote on the issues that matter. we20 are not aligned with any particular interests and will try to help implement ideas from we20 meetings. we20 meetings are being held by people like us across the world to create ideas for improving our lives. The G20 leaders meet in London on 2 April. 20 world leaders. 20 people together making plans that will affect our future. You may have ideas to change your neighbourhood or ideas to change the world. Whatever change you want to create - it matters to we20. Cheers Viv On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 1:35 AM, JL Walker <jlwal...@terra.cl> wrote: > In some way, in my metaphorically host condition of this summit, there are a > few questions that seems impossible for me don't asking it to all of you now > (and of course also applies with the G20 next week): > > What could happen if all this stuff goes around in an Open Space format? > > Don´t you think that its most profound purpose clearly deserve it? > > What could be the difference in the results? > > > > Appreciatively, > > > > Juan Luis > > > > PS: For more details about this event go to: > > > > http://www.policy-network.net/index.aspx?id=1930 > > > > http://pgc09.wordpress.com/ > > > > * * ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, > unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about > OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist -- Viv McWaters Beyond the Edge Pty Ltd PO Box 665 Torquay Victoria 3228 Australia + 614 1713 5406 * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
