Re: 99congress venue change

Devi Jankowicz (anima@devi.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 2 Jul 97 23:38:31 +0100


Beverly Walker writes:

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>One of the many things I learned in the women's movement was that
>non-hierarchical groups were hierarchical, just like explicitly organised
>ones. The difference was that power was implicit, not explicit, and if you
>wanted to change things this often ended in apparently personal attacks which
>would have been avoided in a system which provided for change in a less
>personal way.

Yes. I learnt the same from non-directive, content-free, process-oriented
encounter groups... don't challenge the group's raison-d'etre as
personified in the group facilitator!

An informal international steering group would seem to make sense; and
here's another vote of support for Joern's kind offer.

Cheers,

Devi Jankowicz

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