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| Why Chairs? Chairs locate us. They situate us in relationship to one another. When we sit together we tend to talk together. When we sit well together we tend to talk and think well together. They symbolise hospitality and welcome, when we say… Would you like to take a seat… They symbolise reflection, sharing, dialogue, when we say… Let’s sit together… Sit with me … Sit beside me…Please sit here… They symbolise an intention to resolve an issue when we say… Why don’t we sit down and talk about it… They symbolise contemplation when we say… Let’s sit with it… They symbolise care of another when we say… How is this sitting with you?
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What Disciplines are Supporting This? Transformational Psychology - Voice Dialogue and the Relationship with the Aware Ego Process - the participant identifies the primary self that is acting as protector (to their vulnerability) and the disowned self (triggering the vulnerability) that is being played out by the other person in the nominated relationship (See: Voice Dialogue - Hal & Sidra Stone) Emotional Intelligence - identifying and evaluating patterns of thought and behaviour that are ineffective in dealing with certain situations in nominated relationships and testing and simulating new patterns of thought and behaviour that are identified as being more effective Appreciative Inquiry - discovering the value of the current situation - dreaming of what it could become - designing what is possible - delivering and actioning a process for the future Applied Theatre - embodying, simulating, observing, experiencing in the context of ‘what if’ Transformational Learning - making meaning that is embodied, experiential and applicable to the everyday, and as such appealing to the logical and the emotional and to the concrete and the conceptual Clear Communication - an expansion of descriptiveness, curiosity, awareness and appreciativeness Story - making meaning through narrative
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