Tom Munnecke’s Eclectica

We had a great GivingSpace workshop in Ben Lomond, California, in the Redwoods north of Santa Cruz. Mac Odell facilitated it with his Appreciative Planning and Action (APA) which adds a “Do It Now” component to the Standard Appreciative Inquiry model. We were privileged to have Amer Araim attend, an Iraqi Imam of the Concord Mosque. Bliss Browne from Imagine Chicago was there, too. One idea which bubbled up was to connect school kids in the US and Iraq via a gift exchange, and within a week, Jon Larson had organized the effort, put up a web site, Love To Iraq, and we had our first shipment on the way. Our next workshop at Ben Lomond will be July 20-23, and there will be a two day workshop by Richard Gabriel on the topic of an Uplift Pattern Language.