This why I love Estonia. Chris
-- CHRIS CORRIGAN Harvest Moon Consultants www.chriscorrigan.com Art of Hosting - Participatory Leadership and Social Collaboration, Bowen Island, BC November 11-14,2013 > On Nov 28, 2013, at 12:46 PM, Mikk Sarv <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think I told briefly about it in 2009. The home page of Let’s Do It > describes the history of it so (http://www.teemeara.ee/en): > > The day of civil actions is a day of collective action that has been taking > place in different forms all over Estonia since the year 2008. In 2008 people > gathered together to clean Estonia from illegal garbage, in 2009 people > gathered together to generate good ideas and from 2010-2013 there have been > several different actions (Estonian: talgud) all over Estonia. Every > community, organisation or active citizen decided by themselves what needed > to be done and asked other people to join according to that. > > After the first year of action in 2008 May 3rd, when 50000 people cleaned > more than 10000 tons of illegal garbage, the second year in 2009 was aimed to > get ideas for further years and actions. One of initiators of the action, > Toomas Trapido was familiar with Open Space. The User’s Guide was published > in Estonian already in 2005, so it was easy to suggest OS for idea > generation.People were asked to sign up to become local facilitators. The > trainings were arranged in different parts of Estonia. I did two trainings, > Piret Jeedas and Robert Oetjen were trainees too. Altogether about 700 > facilitators were trained, they facilitated OS-like meetings all over > Estonia, about 12 thousand people attended and generated lots of ideas, how > to improve their local surroundings. Many of these ideas are implemented. Of > course, the trainings were too short - some 4-5 hours only. Some of > facilitators got more interested in OS and they have continued facilitation. > For most of them it was just an amazing experience of the self-organisation > in work. > > Greetings from Estonia! > > Mikk Sarv > > > >> On 28 Nov 2013, at 15:39, Harrison Owen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Mikk – I do love you AND WHY have you not told us about the Let’s Do it >> program? I can’t believe I just missed it. It is truly wonderful with lots >> of opportunities for learning, I know. It also seems rather like what >> Suzanne and Chuni did with Creative New Jersey and also what Phelim did with >> the D&D program all around the UK. Multiple, connected OS’s for a purpose. >> Tell us more! >> >> Harrison >> >> Harrison Owen >> 7808 River Falls Dr. >> Potomac, MD 20854 >> USA >> >> 189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer) >> Camden, Maine 04843 >> >> Phone 301-365-2093 >> (summer) 207-763-3261 >> >> www.openspaceworld.com >> www.ho-image.com (Personal Website) >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST >> Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org >> >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mikk Sarv >> Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2013 2:53 AM >> To: World wide Open Space Technology email list >> Cc: Arno Baltin >> Subject: Re: [OSList] Anyone from Estonia here? >> >> Let’s Do It campaign’s second year in Estonia was started with OS trainings >> for 700 local facilitator, it was followed up with one-day Open Spaces all >> over Estonia, attended by more than 10 000 participants. >> >> Mikk Sarv >> >> >> On 27 Nov 2013, at 16:29, Ben Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Hmmm… I’ve become interested in Estonia too of late, because of their >> amazing “Let’s Do It” campaign, which has launched a global movement: >> http://youtu.be/A5GryIDl0qY >> >> Peace, >> Ben >> >> Ben Roberts >> The Conversation Collaborative > _______________________________________________ > 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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