Facilitators for the common good

At the Giving Conference Ruthann Prange convened a session which looked at creating a gather of facilitators for the common good. Her inspiratino for this was the tremendous offers of help from professional facilitators who showed up to facilitate the Listening to the City project in New York after 9/11.

Now a nice synopsis of this has been published at the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation newsblog.

I’ve had it in the back of my mind to perhaps undertake a conference in the Vancouver area of facilitators for the common good. Anyone out there intersted in getting something going? I’m thinking of an Open Space gathering perhaps at the Canadian Memorial Cetre for Peace. The Open Space I’m envisioning would be a project-based gathering where we come together to share ideas and opportunities for us as facilitators to contribute to the common good in the world around us. It would be about designing and implementing projects together. Thoughts?