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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Much love from sunny <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Calgary</st1:place></st1:City>,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Joanna Fletcher<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Lion Life Coaching<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>The principles in Italy<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><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 <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region></st1:place>
- at least in my experience (from the latter to the first one).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>3. Whenever starts.....: this is the Italian
principle, as <st1:place w:st="on">Harrison</st1:place> 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".<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><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<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><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 <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><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:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><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>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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