At the very beginning of this dialogue experiment I suggested that one
person make process comments every few days and then as a whole group we
can discuss it at the end -- which is the end of October. Rick said he
did not have the time to do it so I said I would do it. That is the
purpose of this message -- but not to start a discussion of the process.
It's a dirty job but someone has to do it! I am aware of a reluctance to
join because of perceived right and wrong ways of doing it. The
guidelines were meant to be guidelines not laws and I will try to stick to
the guidelines in my comments about process.
The guidelines are:
Guidelines
> - speak from the heart, from the gut, moreso than from the head
> - speak to the center, rather than to any one person
> - speak when moved and when ready
> - pause... allow others' words to land before speaking
> - brevity... but not at the expense of spontaneity
One of the guidelines was to come from the heart/gut instead of the head.
I have been struck by the fact that this has been done a lot. I would say
roughly 60% of the messages hit me as more from the heart/gut. The amount
of advocacy has been relatively low compared to other threads although it
is still very present. A suggestion for folks -- if you want to keep the
experiment going -- is to not respond to questions that people post with
what you believe to be the right intellectual answer, but to challenge
yourself to answer from your heart/gut. So stop before you write an
answer and ask yourself how you feel about the question... What does it
mean to ask that question...
Another way of dealing with this is to challenge your own beliefs and
disclose what happens as a result of that process. The subject is
interesting because I believe it is on the edge of what we as a species
are dealing with developmentally -- how do we think and operate in ways
that we have never seen done before? So the dialogue process can really
lend itself to us if we are willing to really challenge our assumptions
and beliefs.
Most have been speaking to the center although at times one person has
been addressed. Those too are the messages which hit me more as advocacy.
I believe all are speaking when moved and are allowing words to land. For
the most part the brevity guideline has been stuck to and places where is
hasn't the story telling has been great. Let's keep the experiment
running but challenge ourselves even more to be less head more heart/gut.
If anyone wants to respond about process before the end of the experiment,
please do so to me and not to the list. Thanks....
Sherri
sherri@maloufinc.com Tel:603-672-0355
LMA, Inc Fax:603-673-7120
--sherri@maloufinc.com (Sherri Malouf)
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