Hello Alan
Thank you for sharing with everyone your thoughts on the Awakening the
Dreamer Symposium. I too am a symposium facilitator and have been an
OS practitioner for several years. I think many of us in the ATD
community are also OS practitioners. I am based in the UK and it is
quite usual here to open space at the end of the symposium. It is a
great way for the energies ignited in the room to converge around
actions...I hope you found this worked for you in your symposium.
In recent weeks we have also talked about the Transition Towns
Movement on this listserve...this is another community focused on
creating a new and better world after cheap oil. This community has
also embraced open space as its conversation tool...you can find
Transition Towns on www.transitiontowns.org.
As a facilitator and dialogue host with a passion for reconciling
people and planet I am finding that all conversation processes have
never been in more demand...It is magnificent to have these tools to
help us find our a way to a new way of being, conversing and doing
together....and I am full of gratitude to those who have nurtured
these ways over the last 40 years...With deep appreciation, Cliodhna
On 11 Apr 2009, at 02:05, Alan Stewart wrote:
Dear All
You may be interested to know of two lively groups which could have
significance for our work in general and particularly for some of us.
Both are concerned about what is required to change the trajectory
on which the modern world has been rocketing along - as a matter of
urgency. And ours is the kind of practice which would be of great
value in enabling inclusive participation on a grand scale to
achieve the transition to a more hopeful and harmonious future based
on environmental sustainability, social justice and spiritual
fulfillment.
One of these is the GTI - 'The Great Transition Initiative -
established by the Tellus Institute in Boston. An essay entitled
'The Great Transition Today - A Report from the Future' by the
leader of this group, Paul Raskin, is one that I have found to be
most edifying and inspiring. Particularly for the notion that we did
make it through to 2084 having developed widespread 'human
solidarity' and 'ecological sensibility' with a deep reverence for
the natural world. And that 'Massive participation in healing the
planet becoming a great source of pride for the global citizenry'
was the way this happened.
With a similar vision and different approaches is the Pachamama
Alliance which has developed the Awakening the Dreamer (ATD)
Symposium This is a well constructed way of alerting people in all
walks of life to four questions about 'Where we are?', 'How did we
get here?', 'What's possible for the future?' and 'Where do we go
from here? in regard to healing the little blue planet - 3rd from
the sun - which is our home.
Was there ever a group process more tailor made to address this last?
From my experiences, learning and ideals I see links between what
these two groups are doing and OST practice. With this in mind I am
going to Manila next week to co-facilitate the first ATD Symposium
in the Philippines, on Tues 14th.
And have alerted Spacenik friends there.
Could it be that OST becomes widely used for follow up to ATD
Symposiums after they have been presented to groups of many kinds
and size? I am now among nearly 1000 facilitators world wide who
have undertaken training and are registered to facilitate the
Symposium and will bring this potential to the attention of the
others.
There are of course plenty of other initiatives which are in tune
with the two I have mentioned here. I believe that our support for
those which we know about and find animating could make a
substantial difference to what is accomplished.
Wishing all a joyous Easter period wherever this is celebrated and
elsewhere too.
Go well
Alan
Dr Alan Stewart, PhD
Chairman
Mob: +852 9438 7680
Em: [email protected]
Web: www.multimindsolutions.com
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