Actually, I think the Medicine Wheel idea works out rather well, but you might have to change the order of The Principles. And truth to tell, if you did that you would have the order I gave them in The User's Guide. But I guess any order would do J
"Whoever comes." North -- Leadership (we are all leaders) "Whatever Happens." East - Vision (Vision just shows up not as an intellectual activity. It's what we do.) "Whenever it starts." South - Community (Real community creates its own time. The clock is incidental) "When it's over." West - Management (As in the end thereof - No need for it. Real "Sunset Law") Well I guess it sort of works. But when you get to the iconography I'm not so sure. If you go to Page 153 of the User's Guide (3rd Edition), you will find my version of The Medicine Wheel in Open Space. Harrison PS Angie Arrien and I played around with something like this many years ago, but I don't remember how it went exactly. Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Dr. Potomac, MD 20854 USA Phone 301-365-2093 www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com (Personal Website) To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Harold Shinsato Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 12:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OSList] Visual Icons for the 4 Principles & 1 Law 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.) 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? Whoever comes is the right people Whenever it starts is the right time Whatever happens is the only thing that could have When it's over it's over 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? A quick google search turned up this image which summarizes the aspects of the medicine wheel (direction, element, color, principles): http://www.nald.ca/library/learning/chikiken/pic63.gif North -> Air, Animals, White, Receives Energy, Mental Aspect, Wisdom and Logic (Whoever Comes?) East -> Fire, Sun, Yellow, Determines Energy, Spiritual Aspect, Illumination and Enlightening (Whenever it starts?) South -> Water, Plants, Red, Gives Energy, Emotional Aspect, Trust and Innocence (Whatever Happens?) West -> Earth, Black, Holds Energy, Physical Aspect, Introspection and Insight (When its over?) Even the ordering seems to fit! Very curious as to folks thoughts - especially as to how the convey the principles through simple icons. -- Harold Shinsato [email protected] http://shinsato.com twitter: @hajush <http://twitter.com/hajush>
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