I guess I am in the darkside of the darkside. What is/are circle practices -- in the West or anywhere else????
Harrison ----- Original Message ----- From: "chris macrae" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 2:57 PM Subject: the dark side of circle practices > From some recent experiences, I have realised that it would be jolly > useful to have some open space guidelines for circle practitioners in > the west who never quite get to open space but also believe in the > 'democracy' of speak when you have the talking stick, and gong when the > group needs a timeout > > The strength and weakness of circle culture (divorced from other rules > of open space) is that it takes everyone's equal right to chat about a > context to democratic extremes. I realise that this is useful where the > eldest are the most confused; but its not always useful in the case > where the youngest are the least systemicly connected either in their > own experiences or in the stories they are able to tell representing a > diversity of views (beyond that the person actually holds) > > Enough said to start a conversation, or do I need to amplify? > > Cheers, chris macrae > > * > * > ========================================================== > [email protected] > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of [email protected]: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
