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Emergence of Integrative Processes in a Self-reflective Assembly

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Emergence of Integrative Processes in a Self-reflective Assembly


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Printed in Transnational Associations, 1978, 5, pp. 271-276  [PDF version].
See also: A Congress that Dared the Unthinkable: report on the First New Age Congress (Florence, 1978)
and Introductory statement reproduced from the congress programme


Emergence of Integrative Processes in a Self-reflective Assembly
Self-reflective plenary: unity
Reaction and premature synthesis
Self-reflective plenary: harmony in diversity
Conceptual synthesis
Conclusion
Speculative Postscript: Where's the Cathedral?
From Group Consciousness to Conscious Groups
Affinity Groups at the Congress

At a congress with rather unusual characteristics the organising group decided to stand back and thus oblige the participants in plenary to make the quantum leap in attitude from being there to be served passively by the organising group to being, making and evolving the Congress themselves as a conscious whole. The consequences of this dramatic decision and the processes which were elaborated in plenary are described here