[OSList] The 5th Principle / Sardinia

[Lisa Heft]

Bernd - thank you for your thoughts on implicit and explicit and for  
your eloquent reminder that 'wherever we open space in the sense of  
OST. There are no other places. There is only a HERE.'

I appreciate this exploration -and- I, too, would not personally add a  
5th Principle. First, because less is more. Second, because Open Space  
allows one to be...here...now.
So the process shows right place eloquently already.
I do not have to say it.
One less thing, and one more remembrance that telling a fact does is  
not the thing that makes a person feel it. Being in an experience does.

However I do enjoy this exploration...

 From a sunny Spring morning in California,
Lisa

Lisa Heft
Consultant, Facilitator, Educator
Opening Space
lisaheft at openingspace.net


On May 24, 2011, at 5:13 AM, Bernd Weber wrote:
>
>
> <snip>

> YES of course: WHEREVER IT IS, is the right place
>
> But here comes my
> ----
> NO:
> ----
>
> I want to differentiate between implicit and explicit. I can easily  
> accept that the RIGHTPLACE thing is or might be an implicit principle.
>
> <snip>
>
> So, of course this 5th "principle" makes us aware, that Open Space  
> does and did happen at places, we never would have thought, like  
> Harrisons story about Claudias story made clear to me, that there  
> have been many OS events in revolutionary movements throughout  
> history, alright.
>
> But wherever we open space in the sense of OST. There are no other,  
> places. There is only a HERE. So whats the use ot make "Wherever it  
> is, is the right place" a fifth principle?
>
> And there is a very nice meta-principle that Harrison repeatedly  
> used, and I think it IS important: "Let us think about one less  
> things to do". The meta-principle of minimal intervention, the old  
> great idea of Occhams rasor.
>
> So my conclusion is:
>
> Yeah, great storytelling. And maybe some more understanding of  
> "underlying things" with regard to Open Space, but we do not need to  
> have a 5th principle and to bother future participants with such a  
> principle that does not help to inhibit bad habits of communication  
> in Open Space.
>
>
> Bernd/Bernard
> Colombo/Sri Lanka
>

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