Exploring blocks | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Rob Sandelin (floriferousmsn.com) | |
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 14:00:50 -0800 (PST) |
Dameron Midgette [mailto:dameron [at] body-knowledge.com] Wrote: Hi there! I've heard there is often a requirement in consensus processes that blocks must be considered valid, ie the group must decide that the concern is truly in the groups interest, and not a personal issue. Is this something you're familiar with? Blocking is a dicey and often emotional laden action. It puts most people in an agitated state to withhold support from the groups decisions. Facilitators of consensus best serve their group in my opinion if they have a plan in place for when blocks occur. Blocking can be explored gently with support to understand the full issue and there are techniques for doing this which can bring out good things for the group. To decide whether a block is holding the groups best interests takes some thinking before hand of what questions to ask, and when to ask them. I used to teach this kind of thing but no longer do so, Tree Bresson is a good teacher for these kinds of techniques. I would say the most difficult notion of consensus is separating your own desires out of your arguments for what is the best interest of the group. It is certainly not uncommon in my experience that this work is lacking in many blocking actions, and so the facilitator has the job of getting the group to define what directions its interests are served by and then comparing that to the actions of the blocker, AND doing so in such a way that neither the blocking individual, nor the rest of the group has unnessary emotional truama over it. If you follow the POISE method of facilitation you will seldom be left short as a facilitator in this situation because you would have planned for blocks, and thought ahead of time, how to deal with them. Rob Sandelin Former Facilitation Trainer Sharingwood Cohousing Snohomish, WA -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.7.2 - Release Date: 3/11/2005
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