A First Step From Rome

Julie Smith jsmith at mosquitonet.com
Thu Jun 13 10:26:12 PDT 2002


Meg,

Thanks for translating my muddledness into coherent thought.   Nicely
done and much appreciated.

Julie


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Harrison, Julie and OS friends

Conflict resolution and peace making (with references to Ken Wilber);
Wasn't it Einstein who said that a true problem can never be solved from
the same state in which it was created? I think conflict resolution is
about "translation" - finding more effective ways of being/ doing, while
essentially still in the same paradigm. Peace making is about
transformation - developing/ growing to a new place from whence the old
conflicts dissolve. And in fact, both are our natural state. It's just
that they do different things.

And the facilitator as a tuning fork / being fully present - evokes and
embodies a subtle reminder of these transformative passageways. Of
course passageways, like birth canals, aren't easy. Hence conflict may
be magnified, at least for a time. After all, that is what is going on.
I wonder if one of the greatest gifts of the facilitator is their
appearance of confidence/ faith in the participants. Going through that
birth canal, you may not be sure if you can make it. Having someone else
provide that sense gives one the hope that their might just be something
at the other end!

Meg Salter

MegaSpace Consulting
416/486-6660
meg.salter at sympatico.ca
www.megaspaceconsulting.com
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