<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Lovely inquiry.<div><br></div><div>What about four principles, one law, and an invitation.</div><div><br></div><div>love</div><div>Sheri</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Optima; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Optima; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Optima; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Optima; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Optima; font-size: medium; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Optima; font-size: medium; "><div>Sheri Herndon, M.A.</div><div><div>Social Architect & Designer:</div><div>Innovation, Collaboration, Social Networks</div></div><div><a href="mailto:sheri@speakeasy.org">sheri@speakeasy.org</a></div><div>206.371.4874</div><div><a href="http://www.twitter.com/sheriherndon">www.twitter.com/sheriherndon</a></div><div><br></div></span><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. </div><div>To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” </div><div>– R. Buckminster Fuller</div><div><br></div></span></div></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On May 6, 2010, at 11:17 AM, Jenifer Toksvig wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div> <font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt">I agree that “Be prepared to be surprised” is not a principle, but is an important part for me. Two feet is clearly a law. The principles are exactly that. Is BP2BS a guideline? (And did I just give it a nasty txtspk acronym? Apologies.)<br> <br> Trying to imagine how one might say it: <br> <br> “Open Space has four principles, one law, and a guideline.”<br> “Open Space has four principles, one law, and a suggestion.”<br> “Open Space has four principles, one law, and… an afterthought.”<br> <br> Or how about this:<br> <br> “Open Space has four principles, one law, and a warning!”<br> <br> Jen x<br> <br> </span><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Jenifer Toksvig<br> </b><a href="never@acompletelossforwords.com">never@acompletelossforwords.com</a><br> </span></font><font color="#7B007B"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br> </span></font><span style="font-size:11pt"><font color="#007F7F"><b>MThe:UK / LIPA Conference<br> </b>How are we shaping the future of musical theatre?<br> June 2010<br> <a href="http://www.lipa.ac.uk/content/EventsPublicPerformances/Conferences/MusicalTheatre2010.aspx">http://www.lipa.ac.uk/content/EventsPublicPerformances/Conferences/MusicalTheatre2010.aspx</a><br> </font></span><span style="font-size:12pt"><br> </span></font> </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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