Shine a light on people’s demons and they’ll think you created them.
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I have switched to letting them explore their own mind caves and letting them bump up against the daemon and then asking them what happened.
Kinda like backseat therapizing . Not as much credit but also not as much blame either.
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Yes, well said. I think of it as creating a space of trust and safety that affords the individual self-discovery, rather than impose it.
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yeah and for me it's ideally a space without hierarchy, where even the facilitators are participants in some way.
as someone who's sat in Council Circles before, i really like this model : waysofcouncil.net/what-is-counci
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Interesting. I do think the self-improvement in isolation, or working on yourself with one other person in private is not ideal. We’re all part of social systems and are wired to self-regulate as part of a group, so I can see how a council would be powerful.
super powerful, and seemingly an endangered species in many communities. but definitely need both individual discernment and group council. a good blended example is something like a Quaker clearness committee
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearness
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one more thing i'm learning is that when it comes to something like ecological collapse it's nearly impossible to process alone. actually i'd say it's a mental health risk. we need to work through collective trauma in community to help ground these truths in a new shared reality
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