LAUREN E. C.

Community of Practice: On Paper Pencil and ink on paper   

Community of Practice: Witnessing           There were two portions to this exercise. There was witnessing and there was opening. The witnessing exercise was definitely a challenge. It's difficult to eliminate all emotion or presumption from an action and state it purely as a fact. For example, I picked up piece of paper and put it into the trash can. However, Conrad described it as me "cleaning". Now, he didn't do the readings, so I didn't expect him to obey the nuanced requirements for verbiage, but it was fascinating to see how easily something could be interpreted without us realizing it. Anyone would have assumed I was cleaning up, but that may not have been my experience in moving the paper. It was this that really solidified the idea of making presumptions about others based on your own limited experience, and how closed that can be to others' experiences.            The second exercise was when we created nests and spoke...