In memoriam: Genevieve Bergeron Nathalie Croteau Anne-Marie Edward Maryse Laganiere Anne-Marie Lemay Michele Richard Annie Turcotte Helene Colgan Barbara Daigneault Maud Haviernick Maryse LeClair Sonia Pelletier Annie St-Arneault Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
The New York Morning News correspondant Rosecrans Baldwin chooses his own assignment: walk the length of Manhattan. He starts out at 5am and in the course of walking the 13.5 miles of the island’s length he seizes upon a moment where even in a huge metropolis, the city can belong to the citizen: Sometime in the early morning, just before Central Park, I called my wife because I was simply too happy to contain myself. I had to tell her something, but I couldn�t put it into words. Perhaps I had never been so alive. New York can be like …
There has been an interesting discussion about outcomes at the OSLIST, the listserv for the international community of Open Space practitioners. It began with a challenge from a cynic who asked “show me one instance where Open Space has resulted in a better world or a better product. ” That sort of line. My initial response to the question was, as it always is, to deconstruct the notion of “results” and “outcomes.” Process work of any kind is by definition, process work. The outcomes are not always immediately tangible because process work is not the same as manufacturing. That is …