Michael M Pannwitz
boscop
Draisweg 1
D-12209 Berlin
mmpanne@boscop.de
Fon: ++49-30-772 8000
Fax: ++49-30-773 92 464
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open space am 4. Dezember 2000 in Köln zum Thema "Wie schließen wir die Lücke zwischen Jugend und Prävention?" |
Summary
- Born January 21, 1940 in Prague
- 1946 - 1958 elementary and highschool in Germany
- 1958 emigration to the USA
- 1958 - 1965 student of Zoology at Los Angeles City College (LACC) and at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) interrupted by a year in Paris (1962-1963)
- 1965 - 1969 member of the Peace Corps (2 years as a volunteer in Kerala, India followed by 2 years as a trainer at the University of Hawaii in Hilo and as public relations officer for the region of Southern California, Los Angeles)
- 1969 Consultant for Planned Parenthood World Population/New York in Los Angeles, Arkansas and Missouri (organising grass roots representation for family planning projects in urban and rural settings)
- 1969 - 1971 Executive Director of the Missouri Delta Ecumenical Ministry (community organizing, development of agricultural production coops, credit unions and self-help housing projects in the poorest rural area of the USA)
- 1972 - 1999 Social planner, organisational development consultant, trainer for community organizers and OD-consultants with the Protestant Church in Berlin
- Since September 1, 1999 independent consultant specializing in large group work (open space, future search) with a focus on assisting the development of infrastructures in organisations and communities for enhancing participation and self-organisation toward the Interactive Organisation (121 open space events facilitated)
- Co-founder of boscop (berlin open space cooperative) in 2000
Professional development
- Student of natural science (Zoology, Marine Biology) at LACC/UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Trained in Community Organisation (Saul Alinsky), coop management, poultry husbandry, cross cultural and language (Malayalam) at the University of California at Davis (Peace Corps)
- Trained in Parish Consultation (Church of Hessia, Germany)
- Trained in Community Organisation (Central Training Institute of the Protestant Church of Germany, Gelnhausen)
- Student of sociology / urban development (Free University, Berlin)
- Trained in Organisational Development Consultancy (Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute, Switzerland)
- Trained in Large Group Work (open space by Harrison Owen, Romy Shovelton and Birgitt Williams; future search by Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff)
- Trained in "Facilitating the Whole System in the Room" (Weisbord and Janoff)
Professional Organisations
- Section "Group, Organisation and System" in the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pastoralpsychologie (DGfP), Trainer, Supervisor, Teaching Supervisor until 2001
- Gesellschaft für Organisationsentwicklung Berlin/Brandenburg ( regional OD-Association) until 2000
- International Organisational Development Association (IODA) until 2002
- Future Search Network
- Future Search Alliance until 2002
- Open Space Institute USA
- Open Space Institute Canada
- eit, European Institute for Transnational Studies in Group and Organisation Work until 2003
- boscop (berlin open space cooperative)
Other activities
- Trainer for parish and organisational development consultants and community organizers
- Supervisor for parish consultants in training, for community organizers and for social workers in training
- Trainer of open space-facilitators (14 Trainings in Germany, Denmark, Russia, Austria, Hungary)
- Coach for professionals in leadership, consultancy and training positions
- Organizer of training events (metaplan method, communication skills, leadership, consultancy, community organisation, parish development, large group work such as open space and future search)
- Producer of open space-videos (open space in an elementary school; open space-technology)
- Facilitator for colleague-counseling groups
- Member of several colleague-counseling groups and learning exchanges
- Author and co-author of books and articles on community organising, development of corporate identity models for day-care centers, volunteer work, parish work, open space, future search
- Union organizer and union member (church workers in the Public Workers Union in Germany), past president of the section for Church and Church Welfare Organisations (Berlin) and past organiser of the trans-union alliance in the District of Steglitz in Berlin
- Activist in the Southern California Peace Council during the Vietnam War
Family
- Married, 6 children, 7 grand children
