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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>George:<BR>Your
post has lured me out of many months of lurking slumber...Thanks! I resonate
with your comments and my previous gestalt training taught much the
same...<BR><BR>Awareness and acceptance of as much of the polarities/boundaries
of the group/individual choices/self leads to 'the creative point of no
difference'. In this state, you can appreciate and accept the value of any
choice or emerging direction, without being attached to any one outcome
particularly. We too often referred to this as increasing our 'response-ability'
(increased capacity to respond)!<BR><BR>Between stimulus and response also comes
awareness and mobilization. Some people don't take 'it' in (denial), some people
block their own energy building... If we find our way to response (action) then
comes satisfaction and withdrawal. Some people cannot reach satisfaction
(responding in the same old way and getting same old unsatisfactory results) or
have problems withdrawing (leaving too fast or staying too long).<BR><BR>When
we, as facilitators, hold the space for the group (and the individuals therein)
to explore this process in a personally response-able way (don't do for them
what they can/will do for themselves), then people experience their own blocks
(as their own blocks) and somehow find a way to complete the cycle.<BR><BR>When
this cycle is complete and healthy (on any one figure or issue), then it can
recede and space is opened for awareness of new stimulus and increase in
response capacity... When the cycle isn't completed, we tend to repeat the
interrupted pattern over and over... It's like we keep re-creating it, in order
to have an opportunity to complete the cycle.<BR><BR>The process is only natural
and most people are naturally inclined to move in this direction, I think. After
all, it is well grounded in our physiological propensity for homeostasis and our
perceptual tendencies toward closure.<BR><BR>Glory
Ressler</FONT><BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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