Whatever happens....

[John Engle]

"WHATEVER HAPPENS IS WHAT DID" is the poster i use in english and  
orally, i add, "Learn and move forward."

this is what i landed on based on, i think, Doug Germann's weighing in  
when i was feeling the need to change it.

so far it seems to have worked nicely. it's short, catchy, and avoids  
pushing the fatalistic button that some have in the circles that i work.

john


On Jul 24, 2008, at 12:28 PM, ashley cooper wrote:

> 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
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