Australian General Semantics Society
"Self-Reflectiveness "
Sunday Seminar 26
February 2006
Presenter: Laurie Cox
How to use it to reduce argument, criticism
and conflict from a Caro viewpoint
1. Preliminaries
Coming together,
catching up ...
2. Self-reflectiveness
~~~ Luncheon (per kind favour of Gavan) ~~~
~ Close ~
Australian General Semantics Society
"Self-reflectiveness
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1. Preliminaries
Coming together, catching up ... Always an
important feature of our gatherings, as the social web that binds us transcends
many ideological-doctrinal differences.
2. Self-Reflectiveness
1.
General
news & coffee being served up by Gavan. Laurie said he would be
missing the March and April AGS meetings due to his eye surgery. His
doctors told him he will need 10 weeks to recover. The surgery is
scheduled somewhere around March 15th.
2.
Laurie
had a list of 90 trigger questions. These trigger
questions included: self reflexiveness, "In therapy we deal with
inferences by inferential means", Korzybski's
four step abstraction model, language habits and re canalisation, consciousness
of abstracting, definition of "fact", circularity of knowledge
and objectification. We covered about 4 or 5 of these in the morning
and the energy levels and participation was high. Liz Collins put in
some valuable contributions on canalisation. Gavan commented on how well
Pauline was contributing to the discussion..
3.
Then
we had a lovely barbeque lunch outside on Gavan's back lawn. Cooked by
Gavan. Topics at lunch ranged from trusting ones own senses through
to how to make a film.
4.
We
then went on our after lunch walk while Gavan slaved over a hot tub of dish washing water...
5.
Immediately
after lunch Laurie set aside 1 hour to discuss his latest projects with the
group. The group was very quiet during this talk.
6.
Then
Laurie got back to a few more of his trigger questions and the energy levels
picked back up again.
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