> From: "Mark L. Peal" <mpeal@mms.org>
> Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 11:04:29 -0400
> ....In the leadership role you've undertaken, your task is to
> raise the group's adaptive capacity. Making progress is going to require
> changes in values, attitudes, or behavioral habits. This takes time. Use
> your familiarity with the group's work, and their trust in you, as a
> containing vessel for the learning process. Then you can gradually raise
> their capacity to do their own adapting to face their own challenges.
> Eventually, you're not the heretic with exotic answers, but someone who
> can help the group find their own solutions.
Mark,
Great point! I'd like to ask what your phrase, "containing vessel",
means. Psychotherapists use similar terms (a "holding environment" comes
to mind), and I'm wondering if you're referring to the same kind of thing.
In your view, how does one "gradually raise [someone else's] capacity to
do their own adapting"?
Regards,
Jeff
--Jeff Brooks <BrooksJeff@AOL.com>
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