[Dialogue] Social process triangles

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I hope someone from the archives committee is saving this kind of e- 
mail exchange. I seems important academic information.

On Jan 19, 2011, at 8:40 AM, Wilson Priscilla wrote:

> As I remember (vaguely) Gene Marshall did a lot of the work on the  
> imbalances. Someone might want to get in touch with him.
> All this talk of Summer '71 reminds me of a lot of my tears. At the  
> beginning of that summer, our dear mentor, JWM, assigned me (only  
> me) as the print shop. I recall S'71 as the summer I grew up. I did  
> learn to run three Gestetner machines at once. LeRoy Philbrook saved  
> all of us by getting the show room floor of Addressograph Multigraph  
> several nights for all night printing. We would never have made it  
> to the final plenary without that.
> Anyone remember the "around the room" march to collate for that  
> final plenary?
> I know this isn't about the triangles content...but just a reminder  
> that much blood, sweat and tears were in their creation. And yes,  
> Jenkins book is worth having.
>
> Many years later...Joel and I worked with our clients to make some  
> of the terms more understandable, but not change their dynamic  
> meaning. We have those printed in The Facilitative Way.
> The Social Process and the Other World were our greatest  
> contributions to life in my mind.
> Priscilla Wilson
>
> On Jan 19, 2011, at 8:59 AM, Wayne Nelson wrote:
>
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>> If what John Baggett said about the ideas of religion and culture  
>> mediating homeostasis and the role of religion and ethics in  
>> shaping social processes is accurate, that does help unravel the  
>> mystery of the imbalances. I’ve never quite been able to get past  
>> the content on that question to see the structure of the thinking.  
>> I helps me make sense of the social processes in a new way.
>>
>> Does anyone know more about the thinking behind ‘imbalances’?  It  
>> makes sense when you say it and it is a good container for the  
>> ‘meta-thought’, but I’ve never really had a clue about the  
>> foundations of the mental model.
>>
>> \\/
>>
>> "W. J."  wrote:
>>
>>> Then there was the origin of the 'unbalanced' triangular model, in  
>>> which we tried to articulate how each of the categories in a  
>>> triangle--foundational, etc., etc. was dominant/tyrant, etc., etc.
>>>>>
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>> < >  < >  < >  < >  < >
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