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Hello Gordon and the ToP Facilitation Team, <br>
<br>
Wow! Nice video, good connection, Yes...destiny seems to be calling.
<br>
Thank you for sharing.<br>
<br>
Evelyn Kurihara Philbrook<br>
Taipei, Taiwan ROC<br>
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On 5/17/2012 3:45 PM, Gordon Harper wrote:
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<big><font face="Comic Sans MS">I know that many of us are engaged
in some way with the Occupy movement, and it's a subject worth
talking about. We've had Occupiers in our facilitation
training here in Seattle, and Molly Shaw and I have worked
with several of their projects. <br>
<br>
I caused something of a disturbance in the Force (who, me?)
this January. I announced at the annual ToP conference in
Sacramento that I thought we might have some things to learn
as well as to share about grassroots facilitation through
dialogue with the Occupy movement--and that I had therefore
invited about fifteen Occupiers from Seattle and UC Davis to
our gathering for an interchange session. <br>
<br>
This came about because I had mentioned to some of my
troublesome friends here in Seattle that I would be attending
this conference and then learned that a number of them would
be on a trek visiting other Occupy groups along the Pacific
coast during that same time. It became very clear to me that
God intended for our two groups to connect.<br>
<br>
The ToP leadership team put this on the schedule as a small
Open Space option on the last afternoon of our conference. It
would be while most attendees would be completing </font></big><big><font
face="Comic Sans MS">action planning in </font></big><big><font
face="Comic Sans MS">their task forces for the year ahead. <br>
<br>
However, when I asked that morning for how many were
interested in being part of this Occupy encounter, over 90% of
the hands in the plenary shot up. The leadership team died:
there went the prime working time for all that planning. (I
may never be invited to another ToP conference.)<br>
<br>
Nonetheless, despite shooting me looks that would have dropped
a more sensitive soul in his tracks, our leaders rebounded
gracefully, declared it a consensus that the whole conference
would adjourn to the hotel veranda outdoors for this event and
that the scheduled planning would simply start earlier, over
lunch that day.<br>
<br>
As you'll see from the video, I had a ball doing this. This
included participating in a little direct action after the
session, led by the Occupiers, at the Capitol Mall a few
blocks away (what's called a Guerrilla Mic Check, to use the
technical term--not something included in this clip. The
marching that opens the video is of us on our way to cause
that trouble). No, no one got arrested doing it.<br>
<br>
Joanna Kohler was our videographer, and Marti Roach and I
worked with her on the editing. You'll recognize a number of
Order colleagues in the group, as well as interesting ritual
activity, a great witness, clearly stated rubrics for
participation and team facilitation being created on the spot
by people who have just met one another. <br>
<br>
Enjoy--and, if you share my sense of its importance, let's
talk more about just what is going on with this movement and
why we maybe should pay attention to it.<br>
<br>
</font><font face="Comic Sans MS"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<br>
Gordon</font></big> <br>
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