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Annamarie Pluhar Pluhar Consulting http://www.pluharconsulting.com 802.451.1941 802.579.5975 (cell) On Oct 9, 2013, at 3:59 AM, paul levy <[email protected]> wrote: > The invitation is to improve the parkland and the river running through it. > > A hundred people from the local community come - from park rangers to girl > scouts, from local residents to environmentalists. > > The Open Space runs from 9am Monday until 7pm Friday. > > The facilitator opens the circle and refers to the agenda on the wall. The > breakout areas are not defined - just the times, and these only are > suggested, running from 7am to 7pm each day. > > The market place opens. Someone gets up to offer a session. The park ranger. > > I'm going to be dredging the river for rubbish on Tuesday for three hours at > 2pm > > Someone else gets up. A local resident. I'm going to do some clearing of the > bushes near the playground. General tidying up, some pruning. The gardener > will be coming along to to help. It's tomorrow from 9am until lunchtime. > > Someone else gets up. The head of the Neighbourhood Watch scheme. I'd like to > lead a discussion on local security and then go knocking on doors with > leaflets about it. Thursday all day. > > Someone else gets up. A local resident. Who wants to learn to fish? I can > take up to seven in my boat on Thursday from 3pm. > > Soon there follow other sessions. Someone offers a talk on local wildlife and > identifying edible plants in the wood. Someone else wants to start a petition > for some new climbing equipment in the park. Someone wants to lead a > discussion about river safety at night. Someone else, a gardener, wants to > repaint the tool sheds in the gardens and calls for help. > > The programme fills up. The group breaks out. > > We go to work. > > The closing circle is on Friday. There space in the venue remains open and > there's a catch up circle on Wednesday for those who want to come. > > On Friday, the closing circle takes the form of stories told of successes, > frustrations and there are a few slide shows of what we have all achieved. > > All in all, more has been achieved in a week, on less budget. All of this > work would normally have taken a year to plan and carry out. The community > decide to meet again in three months time. > > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
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