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THE COMPREHENSIVENESS SCREEN PROCESS

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.

PROCEDURE

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 issue 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 consensus. Push for selfconsciousness 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.

Step IV

Tangenting MOVEMENT COMPREHENSIVENESS PROCESS Part 1

THE STORY

There, Just at eye level, lurked a huge yellowandblack orb spider, whose web was moored to the tall spears of buffalo grass at the edge of the arroyo. It was her universe, and her senses did not extend beyond the lines and spokes of the great wheel she inhabited. Her extended claws could feel every vibration throughout that delicate structure. She knew the wind, the fall of a raindrop, the flutter of a trapped wing. Down one spoke of the web ran a stout ribbon of on which she could hurry out to investigate her prey.

Curious, I took a pencil from my pocket and touched a strand of the web. Immediately there was a response. The web, plucked by its menacing occupant, began to vibrate until it was a blur. Anything that had brushed claw or wing against that amazing snare would be thoroughly entrapped. As the vibrations slowed, I could see the owner fingering her guidelines for signs of struggle. A pencil point was an intrusion into this universe for which no precedent existed. Spider was circumscribed by spider ideas; its universe was spider universe. All outside was irrational, extraneous, at best, raw material for spider. As I proceeded on my way along tne gully, like a vast impossible shadow, I realized that in the world of spider, I did not exist.

Moreover, I considered, as I tramped along, that to the phagocytes, the white blood cells, clambering even now with some kind of elementary intelligence amid the thin pipes and tubing of my body the conscious "I" of which I was aware, had no significance to these amoeboid beings. I was, instead, a kind of chemical web that brought meaningful messages to them, a natural environment seemingly immortal if they could have thought about it, since generations of them had lived and perished and would continue to so live and die, in that odd fabric which contained my intelligence.

(from The Unexpected Universe

By Loren Eiseley)

Tangenting Step IV

MOVEMENT COMPREHENSIVENESS PROCESS Part 2

THE EXERCISE

Hold your hand in front of you, and look at it

As you look at it:

How many lines do you see?

How many of the bold ones?

How many fine lines are there on the palm?

How many on your whole hand?

Focus on one part of your hand:

What is below the surface of the skin?

Muscles. Nerves. Tendons.

How many veins running below the surface?

What minute organisms are coursing through

the blood in your hand?

How many different types?

How many different forms?

How many altogether, in the entire body?

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.
PROCEDURE	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 issue 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 consensus. Push for selfconsciousness 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.