On Sat, 14 Oct 1995, Ross Colliver wrote:
> You say "he was aiming at your bat". That's part of what made for the long
> rally, and in my exprience, it's part of exceptional meetings: the others
> send something back that is their contribution, but they aim to connect to
> what I just said, no matter where it comes from.
I think Russ might have made a central point in describing an aspect of
the EXCEPTIONAL Meeting. People "aim to connect."
It's amazing me, after twenty five years of playing with collaboration,
how subtle collaboration is, how little understood, and how profound of a
gestalt shift it is to move from a competitive to a collaborative
framework.
I'm still not happy with the term Exceptional Meeting. It's better than
"Good Meeting." But it doesn't really point to the moment, the instance of
the exceptional. Not that I want to create any more jargon, but rather
better to understand the nature of this kind of self-to-other
transcendancing.
-- Bernie DeKoven meetings@california.com http://california.com/meetings.htm