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A Final Project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master’s Degree in Conflict Facilitation and Organizational Change, Process Work Institute, Portland, OR, November 2008
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http://www.processwork.org/files/Finalprojects/Burkhardt_B_November_2008.pdf
Abstract: According to Arnold Mindell, the world suffers from a lack of facilitative awareness. This essay examines how Mindell’s work seeks to make facilitation (in all of its forms) more present. While facilitative awareness tends to be identified with professional or other designated facilitators, this awareness can in fact be developed and used by anyone, anywhere. With this in mind, Mindell introduces the concept of the participant-facilitator who, unlike the professional facilitator, facilitates challenging every-day situations from the position of a participant. Mindell’s written work provides the basis for a theoretical discussion of the participant facilitator. Personal stories and field studies document my own engagement with the concept and with the skills and shifts in awareness that participant.-facilitation requires.
Keywords: Process work; worldwork; facilitator; participant-facilitator; awareness
Abstract: According to Arnold Mindell, the world suffers from a lack of facilitative awareness. This essay examines how Mindell’s work seeks to make facilitation (in all of its forms) more present. While facilitative awareness tends to be identified with professional or other designated facilitators, this awareness can in fact be developed and used by anyone, anywhere. With this in mind, Mindell introduces the concept of the participant-facilitator who, unlike the professional facilitator, facilitates challenging every-day situations from the position of a participant. Mindell’s written work provides the basis for a theoretical discussion of the participant facilitator. Personal stories and field studies document my own engagement with the concept and with the skills and shifts in awareness that participant.-facilitation requires.
Keywords: Process work; worldwork; facilitator; participant-facilitator; awareness