the dark side of circle practices

[Harrison Owen]

I guess I am in the darkside of the darkside. What is/are circle
practices -- in the West or anywhere else????

Harrison
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From: "chris macrae" <wcbn007 at easynet.co.uk>
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Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 2:57 PM
Subject: the dark side of circle practices


> From some recent experiences, I have realised that it would be jolly
> useful to have some open space guidelines for circle practitioners in
> the west who never quite get to open space but also believe in the
> 'democracy' of speak when you have the talking stick, and gong when the
> group needs a timeout
>
> The strength and weakness of circle culture (divorced from other rules
> of open space) is that it takes everyone's equal right to chat about a
> context to democratic extremes. I realise that this is useful where the
> eldest are the most confused; but its not always useful in the case
> where the youngest are the least systemicly connected either in their
> own experiences or in the stories they are able to tell representing a
> diversity of views (beyond that the person actually holds)
>
> Enough said to start a conversation, or do I need to amplify?
>
> Cheers, chris macrae
>
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