An Informal Exploration of Facilitation, in Hungary, in an improvised format "BEING TOGETHER" - HOW WE CAN FACILITATE MUTUAL ATTUNEMENT AND ACCORD IN THE MOMENT There is a pathway which any group of people can traverse - from our "normal" state of sociality and appropriateness - towards a greater candour, openness, spontaneity and honesty. It entails the risk of vulnerability, and therefore the risk of being misunderstood, ignored, or rejected. We can support one another in such risks, and we can slowly build trust that a better way of being together can be developed as we go along. This process has been named "building community" by a best-selling author and psychotherapist in the United States of America, Dr M. Scott Peck. A group of us in England have been working with this method for many years, and we would like to teach it to anyone who is interested - in a 4-day workshop near Budapest, April 22-25th 2009. Our learning process will follow the actual process of building community. In other words, we shall be learning to actually do this; but we shall have periods also of learning to reflect upon the process, and to talk about it intelligently. We shall also learn about what it takes to facilitate the same process: in our own group, or in other groups that we want to facilitate. So this is a 3-fold agenda: To build our own community over these 4 days. To reflect upon the process of what we are doing. To learn how to facilitate the process in ourselves, and in other people. How will you know if this workshop/training is for you? You need to have a real commitment to learning about human relationship and how we can improve it; it also helps if you have a broadly accepting attitude towards your own emotions and intuitions. And especially, if you are willing to accept and make room for the emotions and intuitions of other people. We should also point out that the pathway towards community (in the way we have learned to traverse it), requires that we be learn to tolerate emotional and cognitive dissonance, anxiety, ambiguity and being willing to accept the unexpected. (This is the price it takes: if we want to build a relationship with any person who is really new to us.) It is in the nature of things, that the rewards for such risk can not be guaranteed - but the potential rewards include a feeling of grace, acceptance, love, peace, a heightened sense of being alive, and even joy. If this is something you would like to practice with us, please come and join us. To find out more about it, phone Mike Roth on 07787 987342 or send an e-mail