[Dialogue] ToP Methods

Wed Oct 7 08:17:03 CDT 2009

Great QUESTION, Jim! Are we changing lives or just making a 'fast buck' in the market? I struggle with the question of evangelism, but like the WORD.
Dick

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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 05:26:50 -0700
From: jfwiegel at yahoo.com
To: dialogue at wedgeblade.net; oe at wedgeblade.net
Subject: Re: [Dialogue] ToP Methods

So, here is my question:  Looking at facilitation as we developed it and compared to address your life pedagogy like in RS-1 and then compared to the impact which Joe could generate on individuals and groups -- are these all the same thing, or quite different things?

If more or less the same, how would you describe this at its best?  Has this style of evangelism evolved and become refined or has it gotten watered down?

If different, how, and which are needed these days?
 Jim

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From: W. J. <synergi at yahoo.com>
To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at wedgeblade.net>; dialogue at wedgeblade.net
Sent: Tue, October 6, 2009 7:17:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Dialogue] ToP Methods

You can see why there were different Gospels in the Bible, and that was long before Wiegel was summoned to the Holy Land to preach his revised standard version of the Facilitator's Gospel. "Experiential Aim"? Where did that come from? Isn't that the new Liberalism creeping in to dilute the authentic EI Orthodoxy? Everybody who knew JWM knows it is "Existential Aim" -- and you better believe it really addressed your existence just to be around the Old Man.And the "O" in ORID -- wasn't that originally just "Impressionistic"? And wasn't "R" originally "Subjective"? And wasn't "D" originally "Theological"? So ORID = ISIT?Ah, the problems of generational transmission of the authentic received canonical tradition! (Big Clue: I'm
 laughing!) Marshall
>From where I sit, ORID reminds me of King Henry's death sentence pronounced on Thomas Becket: "Will no One RID me of this meddlesome priest?" Or something like that.
From: James Wiegel <jfwiegel at yahoo.com>
To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at wedgeblade.net>; Colleague Dialogue <dialogue at wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 3:33:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] ToP Methods

As I recall, these were an old, old idea.  When we were putting together the ToP curriculum with those horizontal bubble tables we added in Rational Objective and Experiential objective to the manuals -- after 3 or 4 years someone expressed confusion between Rational "Objective" and Experiential "Objective" and "Objective" as in ORID, so when the manual was redone we changed to Rational Aim and Experiential Aim.

In actuality, though, there is a very rich and wise diversity in the ways by which ToP facilitators actually focus and prepare themselves.  It would be a great contribution to our craft to hear from many people how they do this . . 
 Jim

Coincidence is the spiritual equivalent of a pun.  G. K. Chesterton

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From: Wayne Nelson <wnelson at ica-associates.ca>
To: Colleague Dialogue <dialogue at wedgeblade.net>; Order Ecumenical <oe at wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 3:23:46 PM
Subject: [Oe List ...] ToP Methods

Here’s a memory question – maybe something you heard.

When, how and why did we introduce the ideas of using Rational and Existential aims when we prepare for a facilitated event or a training event?

Does anyone know that history? I’m curious.

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