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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I guess I am with Artur on this one. The four principles are not
prescriptive but descriptive – they simply remind people of what will
happen anyhow whether or not the principles are ever mentioned. The only point
in mentioning them it to alert people that some strange things will probably
happen – which are actually not that strange. In fact just everyday life.
But B<i>e prepared to be surprised!</i> is definitely a horse of a different
sort. Not so much a fundamental principle as an invitation to fully participate
in all the wonderful things that will doubtless take place. When it first snuck
in to regular usage, I really don’t remember. There is no mention of it
in the brief version of the User’s guide which I did in about 1990 (<a
href="http://openspaceworld.com/users_guide.htm">http://openspaceworld.com/users_guide.htm</a>)
but I do recollect using the phrase early on. It just seemed to fit. By the
time I got around to writing the User’s guide in 1992, it was definitely
part of the package. I know that Brian loved it. Sort of went with his twinkly
eyes. Also very much the way he lived life – Surprisingly!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Harrison<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Harrison Owen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>www.ho-image.com (Personal Website)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Artur Silva<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 05, 2010 7:10 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Brian Bainbridge and the fifth principle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Chris (and all, in
Melbourne and elsewhere)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>I understand and respect
your desire to honor Brian, which I used to call a friend, even if we have
met only once. But one single face to face meeting is enough to develop a
solid friendship, especially when one is prepared to be surprised...</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>As you all know my
relationship with the principles is not easy, and I only can understand them
as "what always happens" if one opens space - or in what Harrison
used to call an "InterActive Organization".</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Anyhow, for me, "Be
Prepared..." is not something that always happens. Is a king of
recommendation to open oneself to the space being opened.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>My counter suggestion
comes like this: OST has 1 Law (and a very powerful one), 4 principles (if we
have to accept that...) and one recommendation (you may chose another name),
that from now on can be called "Brian's Recommendation".</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>What do you all (in
Melbourne and elsewhere) think about that?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Regards from a sunny
Lisbon - happy because I will soon met a lot of friends in Berlin and unhappy
as I will not have the possibility to met some others that will not come this
time</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Artur</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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--- On <b>Mon, 5/3/10, Chris Corrigan <i><chris@chriscorrigan.com></i></b>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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From: Chris Corrigan <chris@chriscorrigan.com><br>
Subject: [OSLIST] Brian Bainbridge and the fifth principle<br>
To: OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
Date: Monday, May 3, 2010, 9:49 PM<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Hello from Melbourne. I've just opened space at a
conference here with Viv McWaters, Geoff Brown, Anne Pattillo and Johnnie
Moore. We've got a two day, full on participatory conference on
evaluation with 179 people. 40 topics have gone up for our day and a
half OS.<br>
<br>
It's sweet for me being here in Melbourne, which for me is the spiritual home
of Open Space in Australia (would you agree Brendan? :-)). Of
course for me that impression largely comes from the fact that this was
Father Brian Banibridge's home, and I regret that I never made it here
while he was alive, only able to meet him over the years at various OSonOS
gatherings or when he stopped by our place on retreat or en route to
elsewhere.<br>
<br>
Brian of course was such a stalwart member of our community...he and Viv have
hosted trainings in Australia for years and of course they took the mantle of
hosting OSonOS X in 2002 after Laurel Doersam and I co-hosted it in
Vancouver. It's such a pleasure to be here working with Viv and our team in
this place, with Brian's presence very much in our mind.<br>
<br>
And so as way of honouring Brian in our own little way today we took the
unprecedented step of officially adding a fifth principle to the Open Space
canon. Of course the four principles are very important and probably
all we need, but Brian always posted a fifth one up when he worked: Be
Prepared to be Surprised. For years I have also made a
poster with that one on it and put it up in the room, but today in my opening
I elevated that most excellent phrase by making it the third principle of
five. It comes right after Whoever comes... and Whatever
happens... Be Prepared to be Surprised. And then When it
starts... and when it's over...lovely.<br>
<br>
It seems a perfectly natural place to put it, and, being here in
Melbourne, it seemed a perfectly natural act to just say out loud
"Open Space has 5 principles and one law..." Viv and I both
got a little shiver up our spine, our own little testimonial to a great
friend of our community of practice whose presence we miss dearly.<br>
<br>
So from now on it'll be five principles for me, and in reciting them I always
see in my own mind Harrison's call to simplicity, Anne Stadler's call to take
simplicity seriously (which helped Harrison get the principles right - that
IS the story, right?) and Brian's mischievous imperative to be open to
surprise.<br>
<br>
So as we prepare to gather here in Melbourne on May 11 for a little OSonOS
with 40 or so local OS-workers, and our community of friends and colleagues
gathers internationally in Berlin, Viv and I invite you to officially adopt
Brian's fifth principle not for sentimental reasons, but just because it
makes sense, and it lightens the invitation in just the right way.<br>
<br>
It's all good.<br>
<br>
Chris<br>
----<br>
Chris Corrigan<br>
<a href="/mc/compose?to=chris@chriscorrigan.com">chris@chriscorrigan.com</a><br>
<a href="http://www.chriscorrigan.com" target="_blank">http://www.chriscorrigan.com</a><br>
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