<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">"WHATEVER HAPPENS IS WHAT DID" is the poster i use in english and orally, i add, "Learn and move forward."<div><br></div><div>this is what i landed on based on, i think, Doug Germann's weighing in when i was feeling the need to change it.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>john </div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 24, 2008, at 12:28 PM, ashley cooper wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Hello friends around the world,<br><br>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. <br> <br>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 <a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/news/2007/05/11/whatever-happens/" target="_blank">http://www.openspaceworld.org/news/2007/05/11/whatever-happens/</a> and I'm still curious about it.<br> <br>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... <br><br>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...<br><br>I appreciate how in Haiti they are playing with <em>What Happens is what happens - learn and move forward. </em>I like the learn and keep moving part.<br><em><br></em>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?<br> <em><br> </em>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!!<br> <br>Alive and grateful,<br>Ashley</div> * * ========================================================== OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu: <a href="http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html">http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html</a> To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: <a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist">http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist</a></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>*
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