Wheatly Dialogue LO10366

Carol Sager (sagerent@world.std.com)
Mon, 07 Oct 1996 12:09:35 -0400

Replying to LO10347 --

Thanks VS.

In trying to approach dialogue as such through building relationships. I
think the insights you note below are extremely interesting to me and they
suggest several other conclusions in additon to those you mention.
Connecting to your ideas, the thoughts that come to mind are -that as
"bodies in motion" We can stay in motion. Or, we can try to propel or
direct the journey to some end and in a particular way. Some of us appear
to "know" the "end" or the direction to take and the vehicle to get there.
Others seem less sure. Who will get "there" faster or better? Is this an
important question to ask? Where is there? What vehicle? Personally,
whatever vehicle we use - walking, jet propulsion, etc.-the principles
that guide are through relationships built. Whatever actions we take(or
don't) these relationships will stretch boundaries which in turn will
redefine what we think of as "future."

Virginia I. Shafer wrote:

> >From the gut...
>
> >"How do you take a system as a whole and then approach change?">
> >If we view the system as a whole and then attempt change, do we not have to
> >address the component pieces and the way each relates to the whole? Isn't
> >this a move back toward a reductionist approach?

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