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<br />Now,... is that the same story? It is certainly a warm and positive story, but it is incomplete, and <br />leaves out important information. If you made a decision to send a group of people up to this <br />meadow, would they have all the information they need? <br /> <br />Coalitions Form and a Battle Begins: <br /> The four people who were excluded find they have a <br />common purpose. They were not included, acknowledged, or their information listened to. They <br />form a coalition to get the attention of those who make the decision. They form a line facing the <br />“included group” and begin shouting their sentences at the same time to the others, wanting <br />attention and acknowledgment of their views. <br /> <br />All <br /> Rob: A porcupine walked into the meadow.” <br /> <br />Spoken <br /> Jon: “It was a bear, an angry bear just wakng up from a winter nap.” <br /> <br />At the <br /> Dawn: “This frightened the porcupine, so he climbed a tree to get away from the <br />bear. <br /> <br />Same time <br /> Debbie: The bear growled at the porcupine when he approached.” <br /> <br />This causes the “included group to come together as a block, expressing their point of view just <br />as loudly, and at the same time. No one listens, if they did it would just sound garbled. <br /> <br />All spoken <br /> Kathy: “It was a warm and sunny day.” <br /> <br />At the <br /> Laura: “He saw another animal in the meadow.” <br /> <br />Same time <br /> Crista: There he met a female porcupine who became his mate for <br />life.” <br /> <br />Again,the message is visually and intellectually clear to the larger group. If you exclude people, <br />do not hear or acknowledge their information, they will form coalitions and oppose you. In <br />doing so, while all the needed information is expressed, little of it is actually heard. <br /> <br />Including everyone, hearing the whole story, results in community. <br /> I bring back the <br />excluded members and they are integrated into the whole story. I remind them that the collective <br />statement includes all words expressed by the individuals in the group. The purpose of the <br />collective statement writer is to write the story. <br /> <br />A porcupine walked into the meadow. It was a warm and sunny day. He saw another animal in <br />the meadow. It was a bear, an angry bear just wakng up from a winter nap. <br /> <br />The bear growled at the porcupine when he approached. This frightened the porcupine, so he <br />climbed a tree to get away from the bear. There he met a female porcupine who became his <br />mate for life. <br /> 35 <br />