SYNERGY-NET on http://mall.turnpike.net/~pflaump RE: Human Synergistics (International) [log in to unmask] What I am doing on the URL is to experiment with groups within existing technology and explore the possibilities of future technologies. Now people can communicate by E-mail, as we are doing. We could join Chat groups, a newsgroup, or newsletter on synergy, some of us have I-phone, CuSeeMe, et al. Netscape now integrates E-mail, newsgroups, (listserv mail), and will have FTP very soon (I guess). What about Synergy in this technology The system itself is a product of synergy, a lot of people doing different things but connected to the WWW, and the process takes off like crazy ? Most human interaction involves non-verbal, visual and sense perception clues. We piece together our realities using the vast resources of body-mind experience, conscious and un-conscious perceptions - tone of voice, body language, context, transference, projection, syntax, and the more we know about bio- chemical and neurological aspect of perception and information processing the more wonderful human social perceptions become, but they are internal and subject to vast and uncertain error. So, we have a human animal evolved on the basis of groups, of group dynamics involving language and empathic symbolic projections called synergy. Can some of this energy be done at a distance on the tools now possible or will it happen in the near future with better tools. Have you looked at remote work-groups and how a "meeting", joint effort work at a distance ? Building constructive styles, affiliative, humanistic, support groups working together but physically apart must be very different than face to face. I have developed a set of group activities designed to encourage the Constructive styles you find in your research make for productive groups. The activities are designed to work through the aggressive and passive barriers that prevent groups form "turning on". Any teacher knows when the light is turned on, when the groups takes off, there is excitement in the air, and synergy happens. Can we promote that outcome ( in a statistically significant way ) in a sample of groups ? Can it be done at a distance ? Your methods seem to depend on the awareness of problems helps in solving problems. Sure, but the next step are structured activities that encourage the desired outcomes - by practice in open and creative groups. How do you learn anything, practice, practice, practice. How do you change perceptions, by changing the ecology, the climate, the environment and giving people experience in the new methods, atmosphere, in the new world order. The new economy require creative, innovate people. The old school system produces factory workers, who don't know what to do when they have no instruction, and it's never been done before. I am doing everyday something never done before. So are thousands, or millions of others. It's not an orderly, step-by-step process and we need help, the support and creativity of a group. And a high tolerance for mess, sloppiness, mistakes, and false starts. 7up. (what happened to # 1 to 6) No one get's it right from the beginning. Classroom techniques, workshops, and even remote Web based activities may work well enough to make a difference. SYNERGY-NET on http://mall.turnpike.net/~pflaump is where YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free. ** Peter E. Pflaum Ph.D. , Headmaster GLOBAL_VILLAGE_SCHOOLHOUSE 225 Robinson Road, New Smyrna Beach, FL 32169-2176 (904) 428-9609 [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] ***************************************************************** SYNERGY-NET on http://mall.turnpike.net/~pflaump is where YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free. ** Peter E. Pflaum Ph.D. , Headmaster GLOBAL_VILLAGE_SCHOOLHOUSE 225 Robinson Road, New Smyrna Beach, FL 32169-2176 (904) 428-9609 [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] *****************************************************************