Chapter 10

Taking Responsibility to Not Take Responsibility

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

G. C. LICHTENBERG

As a facilitator of dialogue, your responsibility is to get group members to take responsibility for themselves and their choices about how they talk to each other. It is not your direct responsibility to get them to tell the truth. Nor is it your direct responsibility to get them to see their judgments or to examine their assumptions. Those choices are theirs to make, not yours. It is not even your responsibility to get them to make new choices. Your only responsibility as their facilitator is to create an opportunity for them to be aware ...

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