Yes Chris, it is an amazing success.
Exactly what I would expect.
But still amazing.
By the way, a search in the LIST archives reveals that Birgit, then
Bolton, has an entry in 1998 and you responded to it a week later... and
Lisa Heft has an entry in 2005 that started a string...
In all there are 415 matches.
Keep it going.
mmp
Am 02.08.2019 um 05:09 schrieb Chris Kloth via OSList:
This week I have been doing some work with Adam Foss and his Prosecutor
Impact program in Columbus, Ohio. USA. (See link below)
As part of this two week program we took 40+ prosecutors to Marion
Correctional Institution for the day. Most had never been in a prison.
Without going into the details, a group of 12 inmates organized a day of
activities to provide the prosecutors to explore what it might mean to
re-imagine the roles of prosecutors on the criminal justice system in
the US and in Ohio.
We entered a very large chapel in the prison and discovered a very large
circle of chairs. Imagine my surprise when Wayne, a lifer, said that
while he had been inside he had learned about a process called Open
Space Technology and entered into a brief review of the Principles and
the Law! He sent markers around the circle, explaining that they were
serving as both a talking sticks and ways to identify topics... an
approach that accommodated the security concerns reflected in prison
policies.
Purists might raise a number of questions about how the process was
planned and executed, but if the essence is opening space for people to
organize themselves to have several rounds of dialogue within the
Principles and the Laws... I call it an amazing success. If inmates and
prosecutors crying and embracing as part of the closing circle... I call
it an amazing success.
Before we left I asked Wayne how he learned about OST. He said he found
this "old green book" in the prison library!
I have been blessed to have experienced and convened many OST
experiences that left me feeling deeply touched, but I suspect this
session will always live deep in my heart as one of the most profound!
https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_foss_a_prosecutor_s_vision_for_a_better_justice_system/discussion
--
Michael M Pannwitz
Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany
++49 - 30-772 8000
[email protected]
Check out the Open Space World Map presently showing 486 resident Open
Space Workers in 76 countries working in a total of 141 countries worldwide
www.openspaceworldmap.org
At my publisher you find books and task cards on open space, most in
German, some in English, some as ebooks, some multilingual
https://www.westkreuz-verlag.de/de/Kommunikation
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