Cross Cultural Facilitation
EVERETT813 at aol.com
EVERETT813 at aol.com
Sun Oct 2 20:23:55 PDT 2005
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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