Meetings as psycho-physical processes

The following may be used as metaphors to explore alternative ways of understanding meetings:< [1. Respiration:]

The meeting may be viewed as composed of cycles of inbreathing and outbreathing of information in the light of yoga attitudes towards the ultimate significance of such processes.[2. Meditation:]

The meeting may be viewed as an exercise in collective meditation and group consciousness, with all the consequent problems of physical, emotional and mental alignment.

[3. Alchemy:]

The various alchemical processes explored by psychoanalysts may be used to model the progressive transmutation of the crude (material) perspectives initially present in the meeting.

[4. Group healing exercise:]

The gathering may been seen as a body to be healed and rendered whole.