Whatever happens....

[ashley cooper]

Hello friends around the world,

Feeling those gathered in San Francisco, swimming in the hearty open space
soup, I find a myself pondering a topic I would host if I were there... a
topic I'd love to have a conversation around.

I'm curious about the wording of the principle, "what ever happens is the
only thing that could have". I know John Engle brought this question up in
the past http://www.openspaceworld.org/news/2007/05/11/whatever-happens/ and
I'm still curious about it.

I find that people sometimes use it as a block to reflection, a reason to
not look back and learn from what didn't happen because "whatever happens is
the only thing that could have." Yes, and...

I love the principle for the acceptance that it invites. And I struggle with
it because there is a sense of finality that it also invites (if you want to
let yourself go there). We did what we did and that's, that. Which is
true... And...

I appreciate how in Haiti they are playing with *What Happens is what
happens - learn and move forward. *I like the learn and keep moving part.
*
*Are there other ways that people phrase this principle? How do you invite
the spirit of acceptance and invitations to be with what is alive and
happening in the moment, while also inviting reflection and learning from
what has and has not emerged?
*
*If anyone at WOSonOS is reading this and you find this conversation
springing up in your face to face time, please do share your harvest with
us. I'm contemplating posting a skype session tomorrow morning on this
topic... and I've not yet been able to commit myself to being inside at the
computer tomorrow morning!!

Alive and grateful,
Ashley

*
*
==========================================================
OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
------------------------------
To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options,
view the archives of oslist at listserv.boisestate.edu:
http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html

To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs:
http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20080724/bf115729/attachment-0015.htm>