Cohousing-L Mailing List: Refining concerns / needs/expressing feelings

[Racheli Gai (racheli]

Sharon wrote (in part):

>While core needs may not change, they manifest very differently in
>response to different situations. We have lots of members who believe
>that expression or discussion of feelings is entirely inappropriate in
>meetings.

You have LOTS of members who object to showing/discussing feelings in
meeting?!  This doesn't sound good.  We have some, but luckily not many...  
and I think that even some of these saw (to some extent, at least) the
error of their ways after every process consultant we worked with told us
that allowing feelings to show, and using it as a source of information is
a crucial part of the decision-making process.   Ignoring people's
emotions often seems to make progress on an issue virtually impossible.

R.


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