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Session Summary
Council Track:Other as Self
Session Title:Dealing with Humiliation in Human Affairs
Session Convener:Don Klein
Shared humanness with Hitler? Hard to recognize because of our won biases. Shared potential for good and bad-not putting on a mask, but accepting own bad potential. Humiliating enemy allows us to antagonize against them. Respect begins in the family-how people relate to each other. Besides identity, people defend collective identity fear is feeling at base of conflict. Alternatives to roles of victim and victimizer? What do each of the participants bring? People try to externalize blame.
Seeing other as same as self reduces anger at them, might allow us to be more energetic. Uses lot of energy to judge and be angry. AN open door to create respect. Being judgmental is mechanism for creating humiliation. We can recognize we are judgmental and by recognizing it not be so driven by it. Become aware of ego-hooking process while it happens so as not to get caught in it. Not take self too seriously.
Best practices or lessons learned from our previous experiences on this topic and our conversation here:
1)Don't take yourself seriously 2)we all share humanity and recognizing this can be a basis not to humiliate the other 3) Being judgmental is a form of humiliation of the other, but by being aware of this tendency we can not get hooked on it...
What we will do following this conference, individually and collectively, to keep our work going:
Reaching out to other with compassion.
Creative thinking and new ideas that have emerged:
p>Being peace is more effective than praying for peace. Compassion and love for oneself especially when we have "messed up" is key to peace within and to others.All materials Copyright (c) 2007 Building a Culture of Peace Conference
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