Dear HO,
oh yes, wake them up.
Carol is just 15.3 mi down the road from you, says Map24, so it could be
easily and effectively handled analog... Tova and Avner require another
approach.
Have a great weekend
greetings from Berlin where tens of thousands of us have a ball
expanding space for refugees and Berliners to thrive in
mmp
PS: Tomorrow afternoon several grade school Syrian girls will be over
for bicycle training...
On 18.02.2016 22:45, Harrison Owen via OSList wrote:
Good Go Thomas....! And if you want to connect with folks who have done
what you are proposing to do, talk to Tova and Avner in Israel and or
Carol who happens to be here in the US. All are on OSLIST... but not
regular. I could wake them up, I think. Bottom line is just open space
with whoever cares – and get out of the way. It does work! JAnd of
course there are lot of others to consult with around the globe.
Harrison
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*From:*OSList [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf
Of *Thomas Herrmann via OSList
*Sent:* Thursday, February 18, 2016 5:34 AM
*To:* 'World wide Open Space Technology email list'; 'GC list'
*Subject:* [OSList] How to shift a destructive "information-meeting" to
a constructive dialogue meeting?
Dear friends in Open Space/GC-list
I have decided to focus my time and energy, as much as possible, to
contributing in a critical area here in Sweden. Last year we received
160 000 asylum seekers. Of course this means some challenges but also
lots of fantastic opportunities. Many many people are engaging as
volunteers, villages who have “been sleeping” for decades wake up etc etc
One of the challenges is that neighbours often become afraid when new
asylum camps are opened near where they live. Or homes for lonely
refugee children (35 000 came last year). There are so many rumours
going on, and shit is spread on social media – so many “normal” people
are very much afraid from stories they heard – often false ones but also
that single events create pictures in people’s heads.
In my hometown one school which was being rebuilt to house lonely
refugee children was burnt down Land we had many fires like that all
over the country L
What the authorities usually do when a new housing is to open is to
invite the public to a “information-meeting” where they put some
politicians, the CEO of the company running the camp, some officials
from the municipality in front of a crowd of people who are worried and
some are even outright hostile with racist ideas. You can imagine what
usually happens… I was in one of those meetings a couple of weeks ago,
it was horrible.
I think the usual impact is:
·Increased fear and hostility towards people coming to our country from
war zones.
·Increased mistrust to the politicians and municipality.
·People at the front get more or less badly hurt.
Not a very good result. In fact it’s outright dangerous to arrange these
kind of meetings. But mostly they don’t know better. Which is quite
surprising to me as there are thousands of trained facilitators in our
country.
Since some time I have been working with colleagues in our Open Space
and Genuine Contact communities to create alternative ways to have such
meetings. We have some good ideas but would also like to hear what comes
up for you? Normally these meetings are conducted in the evening, length
of 2-3 hours. Normally they are not well planned and not facilitated
other than trying to control them. They are called “information
meetings” which says a lot.
So I’d love to hear your experiences, ideas, suggestions…
Thomas Herrmann
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