a basic homogeneous language for sharing and understanding spiritual experiences and for arriving at Communal-Societal decisions based on these experiences. c) If directee both insecure and being challenged, talk it out, follow approach as in a), and wait for challenge to reappear later Use of literal text: Gives more focus; Surfaces operative theology; Establishes a common ground that: Gives framework for understanding discernment in pluralistic culture while still keeping in touch with consistent tradition; Empowers others with practical technology for decision- making for future use one-on-one and with groups. Endnotes For The Disposition Days 1.The preparatory phase for the notation- [19] Exercises journey, presented in this manual, presumes that a directee either has already received guidance and development in prayer or is able to make use of these structures easily. If this is the situation of your directee, these first six chapters represent a revisiting, a solidifying of the methods and structures presumed at the beginning of the Exercises journey. If this is not the situation of your directee, these first six chapters represent, in a collapsed form, the work of preparation that may take a longer period of time than that presented in this manual. One of the very useful approaches that I have not given in this manual for this preparatory phase is the `blessed-history' approach. This approach became accessible to spiritual directors through the work of John J. English, S.J. , and the Guelph Centre of Spirituality at the time when many people in North America became