Talking Stick and Spirituality LO20233

rpbrb (mpicg@inetworld.net)
Sun, 20 Dec 1998 07:21:04 -0800

Replying to LO20220 --

Marshall Rosenberg, "Compassionate Communications" facilitators use a
stuffed doll giraffe and a stuffed doll jackal. Without going into the
exact meaning, one could use one of the dolls (preferably not the jackal).

rex paris
mpicg@inetworld.net

>Does this mean that customs remain forever locked within their historic
>origins? Or is the example of using the microphone (as a replacement for
>the talking stick) the way customs cross boundaries? At the same time the
>microphone seems to avoid the perils of offending the peoples whose custom
>is being imitated, it seems to also remove some of the deeper significance
>(the difference between the talking stick and the microphone - the
>transition from custom to pure tool) that could make the use of the
>practice even more effective.
>
>Is there any middle ground?
>
>Bill Braun <medprac@hlthsys.com>

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