Thanks, Chris C., for raising this conversation and to all the others who participated till now. It is a very insightful conversation circle.
It reminded me of the words of the Guide that I quote freely - "in many cultures we talk about a circle of friends and not about a square of friends" (or a U-shape of friends, for that matter). Within this metaphor, the circle reminds me of - wholeness, intimacy, sense of the group and diversity (of members). And a lot of other things that have already been referred. Being myself a "reflective practitioner" I think it is not enough to practice something - to understand and improve we must reflect on it. The circle is for me one of the most important - if not the most important - of the "foundations of OST". I have proposed somewhere a possible list of some others ( http://www.openspaceworld.org/network/wiki.cgi?FoundationsofOST ), and would like to invite a similar conversation on some of them. We tend to concentrate too much of our conversations on the "principles", and I have my doubts about them. Maybe if we concentrate more on the other foundations, we will be able to conclude if the "principles" are really "principles", if they are results (corollaries?) of the topology of the other "foundations" or if they are just one more thing not to ;-) My two Eurocents With warm regards to all Artur * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
