{"id":230,"date":"2004-09-26T22:32:53","date_gmt":"2004-09-27T05:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smallchangenews.org\/wordpress\/?p=230"},"modified":"2004-09-26T22:32:53","modified_gmt":"2004-09-27T05:32:53","slug":"imagine-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/09\/26\/imagine-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagine Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--109626689386138169--><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imaginechicago.org\">Imagine Chicago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;ll do a bit of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalchicago.net\/wiki\/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceTech\">OpenSpaceTech<\/a> 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.  <\/p>\n<p>In case you haven&#8217;t heard, things have been <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?hl=en&#038;ned=us&#038;q=nepal&#038;btnG=Search+News\">pretty rough<\/a> in Nepal lately.  Sure hope we can do some good in the midst of it all, and don&#8217;t know what else we could do other than Open some more Space for Appreciative Inquiry.  <\/p>\n<p>Developing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/09\/26\/imagine-nepal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Imagine Nepal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","tag-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}