I leave tomorrow morning for Kathmandu Nepal, where the first order of business will be to facilitate a four-day conference for reimagining the future of that country. We’ll have about a hundred community leaders coming in from every district of the country. Given the difficulties with travel these days in the midst of the conflict there, I expect that these will be exceptionally passionate folks. My connection to them is the Imagine Nepal program, a replication of Bliss Browne’s Imagine Chicago.
The design is interesting. The practical question is how can they do more Appreciative Inquiry in Nepal, but the desing is four consecutive one-day Open Space events. Four Appreciative Inquiry subthemes: Discovering, Dreaming, Designing and Delivering the best possible future for Nepal. On the last day, we’ll do a bit of an OpenSpaceTech training and spend a good chunk of the day considering how OST can support and inform the Delivery of the Designs made on Day 3.
In case you haven’t heard, things have been pretty rough in Nepal lately. Sure hope we can do some good in the midst of it all, and don’t know what else we could do other than Open some more Space for Appreciative Inquiry.
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