That' s what's important, not who gets stroked for what. Around the world different groups of people are coming together to explore the nature of group relationships. These aren't group therapy sessions. They're an attempt to understand how our individual and collective presuppositions control our interactions with each other and to explore the possibilities for collective creativity. The physicist David Bohm, who devoted his last years to the investigation of dialogue, described it this way.
Discussion means batting it back and forth like a ping pong game.
This suspension is often less a willful act on the part of the group's individual members than it is an effect of dialoguing itself. Because there are so many diverse points of view flying around in a dialogue, everybody's opinions and judgements can end up getting suspended. These nonnegotiables can't be reasoned out, but they may be suspended and transformed, as Ed discovered, through the process of collective creativity. Ed's group consisted of about twenty individuals who met once a month in an apartment in a major city. They agreed to have no leader, no agreed project, no set topics for discussion.