Dear Patricia I believe such a gathering as a positive effect. Many of the Developmentally Disabled (DD) Adults are in situations in there life where they are "monopoly contract service receiver". If there is a problem then they often have few avenues of action, and the ability to use some of these actions may be affected by the disability. Sometimes there is also violence and abuse, opening space may relive some pressure that is suppressing the reporting of such incidents.
At my trip to the Nordic OSonOS in Norway I had a discussion on the need to open up space for people that are receiving service from institutions like prisons, schools, homes, day-centers. And somehow give a good follow up where the disadvantageous service receive could have a voice and an avenue for trans-formative action. There are plenty of themes that come to mind, and there are different openings in the authority levels that need to be contacted and invited to invite for different themes, perhaps a sponsor group could help us there. p.s. I belive many list readers did not see your message as it is in the subject thread of "Open Space and Authority". I have placed a new subject line tread of "Open Space for Developmentally Disabled Adults" -- Has anyone done an OS with developmentally disabled adults? I'm starting to work with the Self-Advocacy Association, and think such a gathering could be transformative. - Patricia Haines, Ithaca, NY _______________________________________________ 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
