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Here is an edit to one part of my recent post:<div><br></div><div>One version of an "open space medicine wheel" has the four directions of leadership, vision, (self organizing) community, and (self managing) action, plus the transformational dynamic of repeatedly moving around the four directions. The symbols could be:<br style="text-indent: 0px !important; "><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; "><br style="text-indent: 0px !important; "></div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">For leadership, a triangle</div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">For vision, a circle</div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">For community, a square</div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">For management, a cross</div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">For transformation, a spiral</div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; "><br></div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">blessings</div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">Jeff Aitken</div><br><hr id="stopSpelling">From: magic.teams@hotmail.com<br>To: oslist@lists.openspacetech.org<br>Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:03:15 -0700<br>Subject: Re: [OSList] Visual Icons for the 4 Principles & 1 Law<br><br>
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<div>There is also a wonderful Jewish medicine wheel, described by Rabbi Gershon Winkler in his book "the magic of the ordinary". Because different indigenous medicine wheels have been developed with specific focus on a specific ecosystem, there is going to be a lot of variation! The Hebrew wheel uses the "four winds" which later became known as the four archangels: Gabriel, Uriel, Rafael, and Michael.</div><div><br></div>Regarding visual icons, I like to suggest five universal symbols as described by Angeles Arrien. While these interpretations of the symbols are not the same as hers, I think they work well.<div><br></div><div>One version of an "open space medicine wheel" has the four directions of leadership, community, (self organizing) structure, and (self managing) action, plus the transformational dynamic of repeatedly moving around the four directions. The symbols could be:<br><div><br></div><div>For leadership, a triangle</div><div>For community, a circle</div><div>For structure, a square</div><div>For management, a cross</div><div>For transformation, a spiral</div><div><br></div><div>Angeles wrote about the "four principles" in her book The Four-Fold Way. She articulates four directions of a wheel using these practices: 1) show up 2) pay attention to what has heart and meaning for you 3) speak your truth without blame or judgement 4) be open to the outcome. </div><div><br></div><div>For her, the "four principles" are universal principles of detachment, and they ALL live within the fourth direction: be open to the outcome. We therefore can find other aspects of Open Space to correspond to the other three directions, and these include the invitation, the theme, the bulletin board, the marketplace of conversations... Michael and Chris have written about this.</div><div><br></div><div>We can also relate the four principles to four directions, as in this thread, but notice that's another layer of the depths of Open Space! How would the above symbols relate to the four principles? </div><div><br></div><div>enjoy!</div><div><br></div><div>Jeff Aitken</div><div><br></div><div><br><hr id="ecxstopSpelling">Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:12:31 +0200<br>From: ria.baeck@vitis-tct.be<br>To: oslist@lists.openspacetech.org<br>Subject: Re: [OSList] Visual Icons for the 4 Principles & 1 Law<br><br>
As a sidenote, I just want to point out that there is not one
Medicine Wheel, but many, according to different tribes and
different parts of the globe...<br>
When you use one, it would be good to name where 'your' wheel is
coming from; as a way to honor the ancestors.<br>
<br>
My two cents on this beautiful Monday morning,<br>
Ria<br>
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On 17/04/11 23:34, Catherine Pfaehler wrote:
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy" lang="EN-GB">Dear Harold</span></font></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy" lang="EN-GB">To my humble
experience
with the medicine wheel, this feels exactly right,
it’s a grand idea.</span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy" lang="EN-GB">I hope Chris
Corrigan
feels called to answer, he works with the Native
Americans a lot. </span></font></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy" lang="EN-GB">The order of the
principles is not so important to me. And the wheel
doesn’t have to be
explained following it in the circle either. You can
go from one principle to
the other (in Harrison’s
order), jumping
around in the wheel (in your order). One can find a
direction per principle from
different perspectives, thus placing the same
principle in different possible directions
without this being a mistake (this is only my opinion,
perhaps there are more others
who have a clear picture of which principle must go to
which direction of the
medicine wheel – up to you which idea you want to
follow). Different
tribes of Native Americans also have different
explanations of the medicine
wheel and of the colours they use for a direction. </span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy" lang="EN-GB">As to possible
symbols
– perhaps the Native Americans or other native people
have found some
already which they would like to share? What comes to
my mind (following your
order of the principles) is</span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">-<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></font></span></span></font><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy" lang="EN-GB">North: draw some people, all going
into the same direction?</span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">-<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></font></span></span></font><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy" lang="EN-GB">East: a sunrise for action
starting?</span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">-<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></font></span></span></font><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy" lang="EN-GB">South: draw a smiley, and perhaps
also a smiley who is crying? Depict
some emotions, perhaps also a smiley who is afraid. Or
a bolt of lightning?</span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">-<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></font></span></span></font><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy" lang="EN-GB">West: a moon and stars for
quietness settling in, uniting
reflection with ending?</span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy" lang="EN-GB">What about “Be
prepared to be surprised” – my favourite, as it is so
wonderfully
paradoxical – could this be written in letters, on the
back? Or could you
use a question mark and an explanation mark next to
each other?</span></font></p>
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I’d
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><font color="black" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext;font-weight:bold">Von:</span></font></b><font color="black" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext"> Harold Shinsato [mailto:<a class="ecxmoz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:harold@shinsato.com">harold@shinsato.com</a>]
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Gesendet:</span></b>
Sonntag, 17. </span></font><font color="black" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext" lang="EN-GB">April 2011 18:43<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">An:</span></b>
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[OSList] Visual Icons for
the 4 Principles & 1 Law</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext" lang="EN-GB"></span></font></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">The
conspirators for the Open Space Technology facilitated
Missoula BarCamp put the
4 principles on the event t-shirt last year, and since
this year we're holding
it in a beautiful new building, the Native American
Center on the Missoula
campus of the University of Montana, the t-shirt idea
the
passionate/responsible person is pursuing is to use an
aboriginal style
iconography for the 4 principles and one law. (Maybe
think cave drawings.)<br>
<br>
I know the visual icon for the one law is two feet.
That's easy enough and
perhaps that could be in the center of this t-shirt
design. But what of the 4
principles? Any ideas?<br>
<br>
Whoever comes is the right people<br>
Whenever it starts is the right time<br>
Whatever happens is the only thing that could have<br>
When it's over it's over<br>
<br>
This might be a stretch - but what do people think
about correspondences to the
4 directions of the Native American medicine wheel?
The directions of
sunrise and sunset clearly seem to correspond to start
time and end time. I
wonder if whoever comes could be north and whatever
happens could be south?<br>
<br>
A quick google search turned up this image which
summarizes the aspects of the
medicine wheel (direction, element, color,
principles):<br>
<br>
</span><a href="http://www.nald.ca/library/learning/chikiken/pic63.gif" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">http://www.nald.ca/library/learning/chikiken/pic63.gif</span></a></font><span lang="EN-GB"><br>
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North -> Air, Animals, White, Receives Energy, Mental
Aspect, Wisdom and
Logic (Whoever Comes?)<br>
East -> Fire, Sun, Yellow, Determines Energy,
Spiritual Aspect, Illumination
and Enlightening (Whenever it starts?)<br>
South -> Water, Plants, Red, Gives Energy, Emotional
Aspect, Trust and
Innocence (Whatever Happens?)<br>
West -> Earth, Black, Holds Energy, Physical Aspect,
Introspection and
Insight (When its over?)<br>
<br>
Even the ordering seems to fit!<br>
<br>
Very curious as to folks thoughts - especially as to how
the convey the
principles through simple icons.</span></p>
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Harold Shinsato<br>
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</span><a href="http://shinsato.com" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">http://shinsato.com</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"><br>
twitter: </span><a href="http://twitter.com/hajush" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">@hajush</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
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