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My practice parallels Michael’s – non-intrusive presence, which is different than absence. Whenever there is any kind of awkwardness in the group, I just stay present to it with faith in the self-organizing qualities of any living system that emerge naturally unless someone tries to interrupt it. I also don’t ask people to express expectations in the beginning and set a tone off fluidity where people feel free to come and go, so anyone coming in later comes in a fairly seamless way. <BR>
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I’ve also experimented recently with a different approach to introductions where I have people mill around and interview someone they don’t know or don’t know well. This is done mainly in groups sharing enough common languages to do this. Then I have them do what my social network colleagues call “closing the triangle”. They then introduce their new people to someone they already know. It’s always chaos in the best sense of the word as people reconfigure into small groups where the energy is awesome. Then we open the space where the field is richer for the process.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#808080"><FONT FACE="Papyrus, Times New Roman">jack ricchiuto<BR>
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