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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Good point Joanna! The effective meaning of
words is most often to be found in the ears of the listener – no matter
what the speaker may have intended. And that meaning can and does change. And
with that change, very often comes new and deeper understanding –
sometimes surprising new understandings.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>I think this is really true with the 4
Principles and The Law. On first hearing, I suspect most people take them to be
funny (odd) or outrageous. Maybe, outrageously funny. I am not sure how much
our (the facilitator’s) explanations change any of that. More to the
point, I am almost certain that most people (participants) don’t remember
exactly what we said anyhow – but they do seem to remember the principles
and the law. Probably because we have them posted around and about. Maybe I am
stretching a bit, but I think that the original definitions are almost beside
the point. What counts is the sort of dialogue that seems to go on between the
participants and the principles/law over time. People find meaning, then new
meaning, then deeper meanings as they go along. And our part in all of this
seems to have less to do with the 15 minutes of fame we have up front (Thank
you Andy Warhol!) than with the way we are over time. In a word, the most
powerful statement/definition of the 4 Principles and One Law, so far as we are
concerned, is our being – the way we are. The first principle comes alive
(maybe) when we treat each participant as absolutely the RIGHT person. The 2<sup>nd</sup>
Principle comes alive (perhaps) when people experience us as being totally in
the present moment (absolutely present and totally invisible) – with Zero
concern for what could have been, might have been, should have been…</span></font></p>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Joanna Fletcher<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, May 11, 2007 12:45
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: whatever happens...is
personal!</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hello! [smiling and
waving]</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I’m loving this
discussion, and have a tiny contribution – that it seems clear from what
people have said that everyone, facilitator and participants alike, hears the
principles as they are. The principles cannot exist as dry, objective, concrete
concepts; it’s impossible, because they must always be filtered through a
unique individual’s perception. Resist them, fear them, embrace
them…the reaction depends on the person.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>This is one of the things
I love so much about storytelling – every listener hears a different
story, the one they are ready and able to hear, and learns and grows from
there. Stories, and people, are designed that way.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Much love from sunny
Calgary,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Joanna Fletcher</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Lion Life Coaching</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=3
face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>The
principles in Italy</span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'> This is how normally people reacts to
the principles here in Italy - at least in my experience (from the latter to
the first one).</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>4. When it's over......: It's definitely
the principle that hits more the imagination of the people. My feeling is that
happens cause this principle invites people to break some of the rules that they
can't normally break during their daily life.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>3. Whenever starts.....: this is the
Italian principle, as Harrison has always said. People don't seem to be really
caught by it, probably cause this principle is so strongly part of Italian
culture that for most of the people is simply "a fact of life".</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>2. what ever happens.....: same experience
as most of you, a lot of the people reacts to this principle with a bad feeling
- they perceive it as an invitation to be fatalist. More then a time it has
happened to me that during the talking stick people have commented this
principle, saying that in the opening they had a bad feeling while at the end
they had understand the real meaning of it.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>1. Who ever comes .....: normally people
seem quite neutral about it. And some times my feeling is that they perceive it
as a sort of justification of the work of the organiser - something like
"I apologise for the absence of some important actors, it's not my fault
and please don't be influenced by it". So in some way they perceive it as
the exact opposite of what it should be.</span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=3
face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Presenting
and explaining the principles and the law</span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Few weeks ago I was discussing about how to
open the space with a colleague, and she was saying that in her opinion the
presentation of </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>the principles should not take too long
– exactly cause they are simply “facts of life”, everybody
knows them. And that their presentation is useful only to make clear that the
big issue of an OST is the NOW. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Now this is exactly the opposite of what I
have been doing in this years (and she was suggesting me to change my way of
opening the space). When I open the space I spend quite a lot of time
introducing the principles. I do this cause:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>- I want to give participant the right
(control) comprehension of the principles.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>- Even if the idea that the principles are
"facts of life" is fascinating and probably deeply true, when I
introduce the principle I normally end up with a sort of final invitation that
sounds like "even if this principles and the law may appear to you not
very important or even a little bit extravagant, be aware that they are really
serious and that the productivity of this open space will depend strongly by
your ability to follow the principles and apply the "one law" of the
open space. You all know how difficult is to let them go </span></font><font
face=Wingdings><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Wingdings'>J</span></font><span
lang=EN-GB>.</span></p>
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