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<p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Something I’ve been reflecting and writing on is Christopher Alexander’s
“A timeless way of building”...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Here’s a little clip from it and the 5<sup>th</sup> we’re
talking about... ;)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i>“This hinges on a simple scientific proposition: the
great complexity of an organic system, which is essential to its life, cannot
be created from above directly; it can only be generated indirectly.”-p162<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Letting the system get to work, with all voices heard, all views
invited, all tangents relevant – the fifth principle of Open Space emerges: “Be
prepared to be surprised.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Warm regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Andrew<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>--<br>
Andrew Rixon PhD<br>
Director<br>
Babel Fish Group Pty Ltd <br>
Skype: AndrewJRixon <br>
Mobile: 0400 352 809 <br>
Fax: (03) 8610 0162 <br>
Email: </span><a href="mailto:andrew@babelfishgroup.com"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>andrew@babelfishgroup.com</span></a><span
style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> <br>
URL: </span><a href="http://www.babelfishgroup.com/"><span style='font-size:
10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>http://www.babelfishgroup.com/</span></a><span
style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> <br>
</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><br>
Don't miss the next </span><a
href="http://www.babelfishgroup.com/CelebratingStoryConference"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>"Celebrating
Story: Bringing People and Work to Life"</span></a><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> conference. Oct 7th
and 8th. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US 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, 5 May 2010 9:10 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSLIST] 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 lang=EN-US
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'><span lang=EN-US> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US
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 lang=EN-US
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 lang=EN-US
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 lang=EN-US
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 lang=EN-US
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 lang=EN-US
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 lang=EN-US
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 lang=EN-US
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 lang=EN-US
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 lang=EN-US
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 lang=EN-US
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 lang=EN-US
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 lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Artur</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<br>
--- 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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