Tuesday, December 6, 2016

The Mystery of the Double Circle Process


 Two years have past without a breakthrough in the interest among my friends and colleagues concerning the Double Circle. Malcolm Gladwell uses the term revisionist history and talking about how events of the past can be seen in the light of present circumstance quite differently than  the circumstance when  this subject was first conceived.  To give you an example the double circle was developed by accident in 1978.  Since then it appears  that some things we never even thought about have come into science and spirituality that brings me to revise my thinking.   From Rupert Sheldrake we are hearing about the field-effect between animals and even plants for that matter.  How do schools of fish and flocks of birds move in unison?  How can we  sense that someone is standing behind us.  Dr.  Sheldrake, who was a biologist, has offered a method for examining the phenomena of flocks of birds and schools of fish and people standing behind us.  But the supportive person Double Circle Group offers a rich soup for further discovery in this area.  Through Gladwell and others we are finding more and more about how we arrive at decisions in his book called Blink.  For example, how does a supportive person manage to assist the person in front of him participating in group interaction in the inner circle?   What does this supportive person need to know?  In rapid group interaction how can they possibly find out about the person they  are supporting?    In these instances  even the mistakes become a rich source of discovery.  Another question might be why have the supported person dyad  anyway.  Of what use is it.   Well, I presume that pairs can learn to  function effectively without much training at all.  As a matter of fact  the pair does not have the sharp ego edges that a single individual has and thus can be more easily digested by the group is large.   But is the pair able  to go beyond the capabilities of a single individual.    Think what this would mean in the workforce.  Rather than hiring one person you hire two people  and your reason is  that they function better than one person.

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