Cross Cultural Facilitation

[EVERETT813 at aol.com]

Dear OS Folks,

Well, having read the thread to now, an idea popped into my white male 
brain---maybe we need to drop the word "facilitation" and "facilitator", since it 
usually implies a facilitator-centric mindset and model, and go with "open space 
holder" or something else like that.   If one is the "holder of space", one 
is definitely in the background, invisible to what is going on.   Maybe "Space 
Opener" is another useable nom d'plume? (bad French)   "Open Space Holder" 
might be invisible enough?

As for Therese's challenge, when I had stopped vibrating from all the loaded 
words, I thought it might be useful for the female psyche to deeply consider 
what it might be like to know that you would NEVER be able to give birth to a 
new life.   That the masculine participation in that event is now not even 
needed and was only very brief in earlier times.   Just rest there for a while 
before you continue.   

There are extremely deep fears of uselessness buried in the male psyche, 
which are kept at bay by a focus on external achievement.   The entire rest of the 
cosmos is deeply fecund feminine.   The masculine knows this and desperately 
tries not to be subsumed into nothingness.   Ponder that for a brief moment.   
No, think rather deeply about it.   Read a little Bly.   Be careful, you may 
get what you wish for and discover you don't like it, not at all.

Sincerely,

Paul Everett    


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