Wow, Kai! I`m so inspired with the video`s you just shared, and the insights and ideas you bring up here. The time is just right for this! I also think about how can vi support capacity building in listening skills and dialog skills wishing OS.
All the best from Norway- a beautiful winter - morning Hege PS: (The link to the webinar is not active) > 16. jan. 2017 kl. 04.26 skrev Michael Wood via OSList > <[email protected]>: > > Dear Kai > > Love the vision - YES, YES, YES. > > Michael Wood > > Perth, Western Australia > > On 1/8/17 10:40 PM, Kai Degner via OSList wrote: > > Greetings- > > > > How about 1,000 community OS's? > > > > I know too few of you, but am a fellow OS convener and am happy to be back on > the OSlist. I just finished 8 years on a local city council (Harrisonburg, > VA, USA) and five months running for congress (VA6). More importantly, I've > convened over 25 community summits using OS in that time. And I had lunch > with Harrison on Tuesday (see photo, I'm on the left, Bruce on the right). > > > > Briefly, I believe the dialogue, democracy, facilitation, leadership, > business, and communications worlds frequently promote people taking turns > talking as sufficiently useful for quality discourse. We often > underemphasize and take for granted individual and group listening skills, > and there could be value in focusing on how to "let people feel listened to" > rather than just "let people talk." > > > > My time in elected office let me see the opportunity for OS to contribute to > what I'm calling "civic listening infrastructure." How can/does a community > listen to itself? Where are its open spaces? > > > > Government is not the most credible or competent convener, neither is a > candidate, nor is an elected official. We The People could convene We The > People, with a little help from the people who know OS. > > > > The way the Peace Corps or Army Corps builds infrastructure, I am starting > The Listening Corps <http://www.listeningcorps.com> in hopes of inspiring > and/or supporting people committed to honing individual listening skills and > then facilitating group listening. OS is a power tool on the group listening > tool belt. > > > > I'm hosting a webinar at three times this week to teach some simple listening > skills and invite participation in The Listening Corps. You are cordially > invited. Link <https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/rt/6047065842932730372> > > > > For discussion purposes, I'm curious how the connection between OS and civic > listening lands with this group. Does sparking community OS's on > locally-chosen topics seem like a useful way to address the political, class, > and cultural divides ? What could be possible if we joined to create 1,000 > such events in our communities? > > > > Thanks for listening - > > > > Kai > *** > _______________________________________________ > 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 > Past archives can be viewed here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] _______________________________________________ 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 Past archives can be viewed here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
