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Us and Them

Who’s Gonna Do the Dishes? Welcome back to our account of this week’s listening circle. We say ours because we acknowledge how everyone may remember each session differently, find other points more relevant or may have attributed varying meanings to the words shared in the circle. Every week, when we both try to list our recollection of the session, we encounter these discrepancies.  Perhaps this happens more than we think but we don’t tend to write down a shared reflection of a social event and attempt to agree on what is published. It has been an interesting practice to challenge assumptions, to listen even after the listening exercises have ended and to speak from an awareness that the aspiration for a neutral account of the events is a fallacy. Likewise, actively listening to everyone’s thoughts to remember them and write them down days later is honouring the individuality of every participant, the value of their contributions and the uniqueness of their experiences. The storie...

Reflections on the Reflections - 'Us and Them'

Reflections on the Reflections (Or: Some Not-Particularly-Original Bonus Content That Nobody Asked For)  By Caspar Tuesday’s session was my favourite so far, a perfect atmosphere of openness, playfulness and sincerity. It was inevitable that we would wind down productive rabbit holes and collectively carve out only a few of the infinite aspects of what might be encompassed by ‘Us and Them’. But I think we were onto something, and the themes that sprung up that mighty fine evening have been chasing me ever since, especially in politics.  For instance, this was at the top of my YouTube feed the next day… … and this was in my inbox, regarding the counter-protest protecting immigrants from right-wing protestors, which took place earlier today. And when I arrived at said protest, I couldn’t shake off an icky sticky feeling, the words of a Listener on Tuesday ringing in my ears. This Listener had expressed a felt tension between, on the one hand, wanting to strengthen the ‘Us’ in or...