Unintend Consequences, Collateral Damage and Truth Telling

[Lisa Heft]

Yes, Harrison -

You said:
<Lisa -- On the subject of leaving the circle (in Rome we were not in a
room) . . . Please note that I said I was leaving AND that I was coming
back in an hour. Further - that anybody who cared to continue might join
me, and those who felt otherwise should make their own plans. Obviously
I didn't say it as bluntly as that, but that was the meaning, which i
think they got. I am also very clear that doing what I did is not
something to be done  either lightly or routinely. But when the space
closes down I felt that I should take extraordinary measures to open it
up. This is absolutely the opposite of disengagement. At least I think
so, and that is the way it felt. I was totally engaged, though obviously
absent.>

I totally 'got' that you were fully engaged, and also knowing you and
having seen you work I know that you would have found just the right way
to say what you were doing without in any way leveraging it or implying
anything by it.  I also feel that people in the circle would have by the
words you chose felt your engagement even in the act of temporarily
leaving the circle.  I see it as an invitation that you made (offering,
not withdrawing)...

Lisa

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