Patterns & Metaphors
Meetings as psycho-physical processes
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The following may be used as metaphors to explore alternative ways of understanding meetings:
[1. Respiration:] The meeting may be viewed as composed of cycles of inbreathing and outbreathing of information in the light of yoga attitudes towards the ultimate significance of such processes.
[2. Meditation:] The meeting may be viewed as an exercise in collective meditation and group consciousness, with all the consequent problems of physical, emotional and mental alignment.
[3. Alchemy:] The various alchemical processes explored by psychoanalysts may be used to model the progressive transmutation of the crude (material) perspectives initially present in the meeting.
[4. Group healing exercise:] The gathering may been seen as a body to be healed and rendered whole.
