Hi Chris. I like the frameworks offered in the Art of Hosting which help create the context for conversations like this - one is called 'Two Loops of Change' showing a loop of the declining system and a loop of the system growing to replace it. Deborah Frieze has some videos on it.
https://youtu.be/ZcyHKKc2LVg When drawn out on the floor, people can literally stand in the spot on the loops where they see their work - hospicing the old, creating or midwifing the new, helping folks make the leap, etc. People seem to have no trouble knowing that systems are dying all around and new are trying to emerge. (Could be a small sample size tho.) Makes for good conversation and context for a good open space etc. Jeff "the people who come are the right people" but sometimes doesnt that depend on how much work has been done on the invitation process to include all sides including those who may not know they are part of the broeken systems i guess when an open space is about a local community issue its relatively simple to see whether everyone has been included but my main concern is on issues only global youth can mobilise if sustainability is to be our future - and yet while i am interested in movements that empower youth (sytarting with creating jobs) i also see sustainability -whether we win it or lose it - as an intergenerational compound crisis - does the generation of trump or clinton understand how much they have presided over designing non-sustainable systems? has mass tv media becomes such an intergenerational liar that we no longer have enough bases for intergenerational trust? what 5000 people invitation to open space would maximise a movement of networks to combat the national rifle association at least on selling assault guns- here are these systems that seem so broken - are we deceiving youth in implying that enough elders will ever come to celebrate youth's best endeavors I also have a suspicion that eg hackathons viralise their invitations and get extraordinary collections of young participants in ways that open space invitation agents may need to get smarter at - if intergenerational space is to be convened as much as the coming decade of tipping points will require just thinking aloud- any views? chris macrae www.globalyouth50000.com _______________________________________________ OSList mailing list To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org Past archives can be viewed here: http://www.mail-archive.com/oslist@lists.openspacetech.org
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