PROCESS The comprehensiveness process has eight steps, one of
which is a thirty minute contextual lecture on Comprehensiveness.
The whole process takes two hours.
PRODUCT The product is a screen of comprehensiveness which has
ten categories under each of which are placed six issues. These
represent the comprehensive, indicative, "conscience"
of the participant. They are prioritized only in the sense of
immediacy.
PROCEEDURE Step One: the contextual lecture
Step Two: 10 minutes;
List eight events of the past quarter, then the issues that were
raised in the midst of them. Finally, list your brooding concerns
from the past year. Work intuitively, with the consideration that
an issues is the knob on which your pocket catches as you pass
through the door.
Step Three, 15 minutes
Place the twenty programs on the knothole, and make brief
notes on the intruding reflections, concerns and issues which
come to you in the midst of doing that.
There is no need to observe any particular order in writing them
down. The intruding issues may or may not relate to the programs
themselves. Do not try to make the issues follow the twenty programs
rationally, or exhaustively.
Step Four: 10 minutes: The Tangent
Hear the story read and engage in the conversation.
Step Five: 10 minutes
Place, without referring back to the first knothole, the twenty
programs on the knothole again, relatively quickly. Make note
one the intruding issues which now emerge into consciousness.
Push for self-consciousness about the intruding thoughts.
On completing the knothole, reflect on the relationships of the programs to each other and add any further issues which intrude. The issues need not be connected directly to the programs.
Finally, refer back to the first knothole and reflect on the shift
that has taken place. Add any other issues or concerns that now
occur to you.
This is a tangential process, don't push, don't probe, don't ask
what has been left out and don't take it too seriously.
Step Six: 20 minutes:
Begin to fill the 8 X 8 holding chart with issues randomly. There
is no reason to group or gestalt rationally although grouping
will naturally occur. Do not prioritize issues, but hold each
one equally on the chart.
Step Seven: 10 minutes:
Look at the Holding chart for groupings of issues. Pull them into
eight groups of eight issues each, held with a common title.
Step Eight: Arrange the issues in the 10 boxes of the Comprehensiveness
Screen.