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The gathering may be "objectified" in terms of any of the following: Agenda, critical pathway, system diagram, Programme matrix, event timetable, programme or topic "tracks".[2. Risk:]
Participants may prefer to assess their participation in terms of "risk tracks". Some may be entirely conventional low-risk lecture/discussion type events. Others may be designed to make the participant take or defend a position as a person. Others may involve the participant in some personal transformation process; and some may be high-risk experiments which may fail, as experiments do, providing lessons for the future.
[3. Socio-political analysis:]The gathering will lend itself to description and interpretation in terms of power politics and societal dynamics.
[4. Psycho-cultural analysis:]The forms and expressions of the gathering can be seen in psychoanalytical terms with necessary archetypal confrontations.
[5. Special theories:]The transitions in the event may be best understood by some in the light of the mathematics of catastrophe or chaos theory.