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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Sandra – you have it right. I did “acknowledge”
a “lot of stuff in the air” – and carefully did not “name
the issues” – which as I said – I didn’t know or
certainly understand. But even if I had really known the issues and understood
them I would have been as vague as possible. Vagueness can be slippery, but it
creates a lot of space and people fill in the blanks as only they can do. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Oh yes – The People. Can you really
trust them? My experience is that you don’t have much choice, and one
thing you can trust is that given the space The People will make choices that
they perceive to be life enhancing. Of course, other People may have a
different perception and there are times when these perceptions are at odds,
sometimes catastrophically – productive of lots of chaos, confusion and
conflict. The usual response is to clamp down on the situation and bring The
People (whichever people) into line. The net effect is an intensification and
polarization of the situation. Opening space goes in the opposite direction –
creating an environment in which there is sufficient room to find common
ground. I think this is what Peace making is all about. If you are interested
in all of that you might take a look at my book, “The Practice of Peace.”</span></font></p>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Sandra Kriese<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, October 17, 2007
2:37 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: Alternatives for
Challenging Morning Circles</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>hello Doug and Harrison....</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>hmmmmmmm.......maybe naming wasn't the right choice of
words....although I wonder if there are times to name and times to
not....either can empower or disempower, I suspect.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>In fact, as a massage therapist I often happily join
in with a client's relief at having a label put on their condition, and then,
at some point, notice that we could begin to throw it away, if they'd like!
Both are necessary. I'm just there to "be with" what's there....</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Harrison used the words "acknowledged the tension
in the air". I assume he did that with language! :-) A "naming"
that empowered?? It seemed so.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Arny is brilliant and, I think, puts forth a subtle
and tuned-in method in theory and in some practice......and, yes, Harrison,
Process Work can be a lot of work, too much I agree...especially in the
Worldwork groups. Having come from that method, and having learned a lot
about processing edgy hot world issues, I did doubt that Open Space could allow
that kind of energy....the kind that wants to kill.....for real. I know that
artificial "safety" rules do not work and I am smiling at
myself....thinking that "open space" might not be able to allow what
a group brought forward! Funny, eh?</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>With Process Work group sessions (1990's), few
facilitators were consciously holding any kind of space. There's a holding of
the process but not the space. It was a kind of fluid, volatile, intense,
amoebic process....awesome in it's dynamic energy, but exhausting. Even
as I am writing this, I am feeling the difference compared to an Open Space
session where the space IS being openly held. Hmmmmm........now I have a
glimmer of the "what" that was different! </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>My family's history with World War 2 instilled a
gigantic lack of trust that "the people" could make good choices. I
am on a long journey to heal that, in myself especially. </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>I've been lurking and also learning a lot!</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>"Naming the tension" raises for me the
question whether that might just</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>be taking away from the people? I do not know. What do
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>For instance, there is this US slang for naming called
putting a</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>"handle" on something or someone. When we
name something we feel we have</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>some control over it. Have you ever noticed that when
we are ill, the</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>fact that the Doctor puts a name on our dis-ease
relieves our tension</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>and gives us hope?</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Naming something can stop our further inquiry into
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>yes? After the facilitator gave the name, did anybody
say, "Let's keep</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>looking at it, maybe it's not anger, maybe it is
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>So does naming help or open or close or something else
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Doug.</p>
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Sandra – I know of Arny Mindell and Process Work, and have deep respect
for both, but it is my feeling that he/they work much too hard at the Process.
But I guess that is what Work is all about? </span></font></span><span
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color:red'>My experience is that, given the space/time, the people will take
care of the business all by themselves. I acknowledge that this creates more
than a few “white knuckle” experiences for the facilitator –
but never have I seen it all go south (Americanism for “really bad”).
The people always come through, and my feeling is that we must
“hold” that space and time until they get the job done –
which they always do, at least so far. But it always helps (as a facilitator)
to take multiple Deep Breaths along the way as they (The People) work. Helps
with White Knuckles and all of that!</span></font></span></p>
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conflict, do for themselves what most facilitators would take on only under the
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Sandra Kriese</span><br>
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 12:47 PM</span><br>
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<span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b>
Re: Alternatives for Challenging Morning Circles</span></span></font></p>
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color:black'>I'm a newbie to the actual doing of Open Space, but have been on
the list for awhile. I am reminded, Harrison, of participating in large
Worldwork groups facilitated by Arny Mindell and his colleagues in Process
Work. What you did by naming the "tension" brought back a memory of a
very intense process around racism with 85 people from around the world. </span></font></span></p>
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color:black'>The facilitator named the floating "role in the
field"....the Tension, or Violence,... out loud to the group. Until
then it felt like the force of energy, was just escalating around and around
the room, gaining momentum. He just said something like "I am feeling such
and such in the air, is that so?". </span></font></span></p>
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color:black'>It was SUCH a relief and the named "role" was out and
seen by all. I have also been in a group where that force of energy was not
named and it literally possessed the most vulnerable participant, with edgy
consequences. I preferred the first way, for sure.</span></font></span></p>
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color:black'>What you did next was much quieter and self-responsible than what
happened in Process Work. But that "naming" of the role that no-one
wants to take on is so important.</span></font></span></p>
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of emotion that can be present in group....overtly or erupting from down below.</span></font></span></p>
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color:red'>Peggy my experience has been that everything works well in the
circle PROVIDED you really have the space and the time to allow it all work.
Specifically, in two really intense situations (one was the Israelis and
Palestinians I worked with in Rome) – when I knew there was some really
heavy duty baggage coming in the door I opened the space just about as much as
I could. Not to be mysterious, when the people arrived for the morning circle,
I greeted them and simply acknowledged the tension in the air. I didn’t
go into details, because I really didn’t know what they were, but there
was no question that the temperature was high and going higher. After that
acknowledgement I said something to the effect that I felt we were at a point
of choosing. We could all choose to go home (mad, sad, whatever) or we could
confront the elephant in our midst. To assist our choosing I proposed a one hour
break. People were invited to go wherever they wished, and at the end of an
hour, those who so desired could return, and we would take it from there. I did
not offer any opportunity for discussion, but simply left the circle myself.</span></span></font></span></p>
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color:red'>Precisely one hour later I came back, not having any sort of clue as
to who might be there upon my return. To my surprise everybody (Everybody!) had
returned and was sitting in their seats. I acknowledged their presence and
passed the talking stick (in the case of the Palestinians/Israelis it was an
Olive Branch). Two and a half hours later, or thereabouts – the stick
came back to me. It had been quite a ride with sharing at levels I could not
believe. Tears, anger, laughter – we had it all. And when it was all over
it turned into what I can only describe as a “hug-fest.”</span></font></span></p>
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color:red'>In both cases, we had anticipated going into Action Planning –
but there was clearly no way for that until we had dealt with the elephant.
Once done, however, the action planning rolled out in a very natural and
organic fashion. People just made deals and promises. Most surprising,
everything came to a conclusion at precisely the announced stopping time
– well more or less – because then we had lunch, and the plans and
promises continued throughout the meal.</span></font></span></p>
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color:red'>I must confess that in the first instance, it was pretty much of a
“Hail Mary” (Americanism for “desperation play.”).
Truthfully, I couldn’t think of anything else. But the second time around
it was very conscious and intentional on my part. I am not sure which one was
better, but the second situation surely felt better to me. More to the point,
given the same or a similar situation I would do the same thing again. My
learning was profound, confirming what I already knew, but tended to forget.
Open the space so the people can make their own way, and they will take care of
the business. Nothing else needed.</span></font></span></p>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Peggy Holman</span><br>
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Sunday, October 14, 2007 10:14 PM</span><br>
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<span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b>
Alternatives for Challenging Morning Circles</span></span></font></p>
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color:black'>Sometimes we know a highly emotional time is coming,
particularly in multiple day OS's. What best serves the group when we
know this is coming?</span></font></span></p>
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color:black'>After years of experiencing the rhythm of groups at work, I almost
always know when people are bringing "downloads" with them into the
morning circle. (It is particularly easy to predict when something
powerful happens the evening before.)</span></font></span></p>
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color:black'>For those who read the description of the Story Field Conference
(SFC), Wednesday morning was a turning point. The morning circle was
intense and very controversial, and for most, highly productive. As I
have reflected with other colleagues on the choice we made to use the morning
circle as a reflection space, I have wondered if our choice is what best served
the group. In my conversations, three alternatives emerged, each
with its strengths and short comings. I've shared them below. </span></font></span></p>
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size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'>When you know there will be lots to process in the morning, here
are three options:</span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'> </span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'>* Do it in the circle</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'>* Send the energy back out into the
breakout spaces</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'>* And a non-traditional thought:</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'>Take 30 minutes in groups of 4, then 30 minutes in the large
circle</span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'> </span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'> </span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><b><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>Doing it in the large circle</span></font></b></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'>The pros:</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'>* If it is a well hosted space, it can the safest space in
the room for those who bring a different voice. </span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'>* When there is as much to be surfaced, the benefit of it
being a collective experience can be a turning point, creating a deep sense of
shared experience and community.</span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'> </span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'>What can be lost:</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'>* People who find the space too intense check out.
If the gathering is held in a location that is easy to leave,
they would likely be gone for good. </span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'>* It sets up a dynamic that everything of significance needs
to happen in the big group</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'>* This significant opportuity for people to have the
experience of the fractal nature of conversation is lost</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'>* It breaks the lived experience that this is a system
in which the parts that care about someting are handling it on behalf of the
whole.</span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'> </span></font></span></p>
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<div style='margin-left:.5in'>
<div style='margin-left:.5in'>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'> </span></font></span></p>
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</div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><b><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>Keep the morning circle short and send the
intensity into the space</span></font></b></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'>The pros: </span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'>* People experience the fractal nature of conversation</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'>* People learn and experience that ideas can and do
filter back into the whole. </span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'>* It allows people to meet their own needs; those who are
focused on "let's get it done" can do so and not be subjected to
stuff they don't want to be subjected to. There is no tyranny of the
whole operating. Much easier to follow the law of two feet.</span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'> </span></font></span></p>
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<div style='margin-left:.5in'>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'> </span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'>What can be lost:</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'>* a different group of people check out - the ones who
have trouble speaking out because they don't have a safe space</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'>* some people take their angst into butterfly
conversations, which can help it come out in the larger whole. By going
sideways first in the small, helps clarity and confidence surface in the large
circle. </span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'>* A risk is that the conversations never happen. </span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'> </span></font></span></p>
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<div style='margin-left:.5in'>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'> </span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><b><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>Reflect in small groups that feed back into the
whole</span></font></b></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
color:black'>In the context of OST, it is the least known, since it isn't part
of the traditional form. (Variation: Having a home group, or
buddy; can be a volunteer function)</span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'> </span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
color:black'>The pros:</span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
color:black'>* It ensures some level of personal processing. </span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'> </span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
color:black'>What can be lost:</span></font></span></p>
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<div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
color:black'>* a risk is the most important angst is dissipated</span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
color:black'>* May be most comfortable because has a foot in both worlds,
allows processing time though it may not generate the benefits of
disturbance. </span></font></span></p>
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<div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
color:black'>* May be best way to suppress what might be creative
dissonance. </span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'> </span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'> </span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'>One last note from the Story Field Conference: my bias would have
been to send people out to handle their "stuff" via breakout sessions
and butterfly conversations. My colleagues - Mark Jones, Candi Foon and
Anne Stadler - felt that this would have caused the most marginalized voices to
remain silent. As you reflect on your own experiences, I'm particularly
interested in this aspect of dominant culture voices and those who are least heard
or seen.</span></font></span></p>
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size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:5.5pt;
color:black'>BTW, I don't think there are right or wrong answers on
this. Each alternative results in something useful and something
lost. I'm just interested in understanding the consequences of our
different choices so that we can grow in wisdom and consciousness.</span></font></span></p>
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