Inspiring Youth
ChrisCorrigan has been doing some really great work in OpenSpaceTech with young people in Vancouver, BC. Some powerful stuff posted in the TrainingPracticeWorkshopProceedings. The following comes from a youth-led working session on MakingBCaModelforN8VEmpowerment (N8V=Native). I found this bit particularly heartening…
Current people in leadership positions need to be ‘held up’ by us commoners. I want to make U a better leader in whatever way I can. We can no longer afford to act as though our elected chiefs and hereditary chiefs possess all the answers and hold a magic wand to make things better. Community development takes a community. I understand that we need a strategy do this and it may take many years to achieve. I can do it. I’m young. Just teach me and others how to do this. I don’t want to reinvent the wheel. Tell me your 20 year plan, and I’ll implement it. I’ll hold you up.
Would love to connect young leaders in Vancouver and Chicago — and Chicago youth and Chicago leadership — in some combination of OpenSpaceTech meetings and online working space!