[OSList] FW: Visual Icons for the 4 Principles & 1 Law

[Harrison Owen]

Actually, I think the Medicine Wheel idea works out rather well, but you
might have to change the order of The Principles. And truth to tell, if you
did that you would have the order I gave them in The User's Guide. But I
guess any order would do J

 

"Whoever comes."  North --  Leadership (we are all leaders)

"Whatever Happens." East - Vision (Vision just shows up not as an
intellectual activity. It's what we do.)

"Whenever it starts." South - Community (Real community creates its own
time. The clock is incidental)

"When it's over." West - Management (As in the end thereof - No need for it.
Real "Sunset Law")

 

Well I guess it sort of works. But when you get to the iconography I'm not
so sure. If you go to Page 153 of the User's Guide (3rd Edition), you will
find my version of The Medicine Wheel in Open Space.

 

Harrison

 

PS   Angie Arrien and I played around with something like this many years
ago, but I don't remember how it went exactly.

 

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[mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Harold Shinsato
Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 12:43 PM
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Subject: [OSList] Visual Icons for the 4 Principles & 1 Law

 

The conspirators for the Open Space Technology facilitated Missoula BarCamp
put the 4 principles on the event t-shirt last year, and since this year
we're holding it in a beautiful new building, the Native American Center on
the Missoula campus of the University of Montana, the t-shirt idea the
passionate/responsible person is pursuing is to use an aboriginal style
iconography for the 4 principles and one law. (Maybe think cave drawings.)

I know the visual icon for the one law is two feet. That's easy enough and
perhaps that could be in the center of this t-shirt design. But what of the
4 principles? Any ideas?

Whoever comes is the right people
Whenever it starts is the right time
Whatever happens is the only thing that could have
When it's over it's over

This might be a stretch - but what do people think about correspondences to
the 4 directions of the Native American medicine wheel?  The directions of
sunrise and sunset clearly seem to correspond to start time and end time. I
wonder if whoever comes could be north and whatever happens could be south?

A quick google search turned up this image which summarizes the aspects of
the medicine wheel (direction, element, color, principles):

http://www.nald.ca/library/learning/chikiken/pic63.gif

North -> Air, Animals, White, Receives Energy, Mental Aspect, Wisdom and
Logic (Whoever Comes?)
East -> Fire, Sun, Yellow, Determines Energy, Spiritual Aspect, Illumination
and Enlightening (Whenever it starts?)
South -> Water, Plants, Red, Gives Energy, Emotional Aspect, Trust and
Innocence (Whatever Happens?)
West -> Earth, Black, Holds Energy, Physical Aspect, Introspection and
Insight (When its over?)

Even the ordering seems to fit!

Very curious as to folks thoughts - especially as to how the convey the
principles through simple icons.

-- 
Harold Shinsato
harold at shinsato.com
http://shinsato.com
twitter: @hajush <http://twitter.com/hajush> 

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