Description of Challenge
In organisations and communities, we spend a lot of time organising, planning and
making decisions. In the process, we risk becoming functions, rather than human
beings with all our glories and challenges. Our emotional realities are always present
and if we don’t consciously make space for them, they will unconsciously take center
stage. It might take many hours to take a simple decision, because underlying
relationship issues have not been acknowledged.
“When you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow
you through.” Kirsten Gillibrand
Solution
In the practice of Forum, we come together in ongoing groups to share deeply and
authentically what is alive in us. With skillful facilitation, an atmosphere of safety is
created, which enables us to step out of our comfort zone and into deeper levels of
vulnerability and creativity. We also start to see ourselves as an integral part of the
whole and not an isolated fragment. As witnesses, we build the capacity to hold more
of the richness and diversity of human experience without being triggered and without
judging.
References
Handout: Forum
http://www.zegg.de/en/community/zeggforum.html
Submitted by: Kosha and Robin
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