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     %TEACH COLLUSION ADDICT CODEPENDENT PREVENTION 910707

     Collusions,   addictions  and codependencies  operate
tacitly,  implicitly, covertly;  rarely do they operate in
fully open, overt, explicit ways.

     Each  community needs to promote health  by  building
into   the  generally  accepted  patterns  of   parenting,
religious education, and secular education from pre-school
through   terminal   degree  programs   many   educational
activities  which  are devised to mitigate  the  potential
power of collusions,  addictions and codependencies.  Such
activities  will  best be planned and carried out  in  the
light  of an honest and open understanding of the key ways
in   which  collusions,   addictions  and   codependencies
undermine personal and communal integrity and health.  For
each  such way there may well be instituted activities  to
mitigate  the potential power of that way's disintegrative
effects  upon  individuals and communities  as  organisms;
keeping the following considerations in mind.

     1)    Because  disintegrative ways  undermine  secure
contexts in which it is safe to be open and honest;  there
needs  to be instituted activities designed to create  and
sustain such secure contexts.

     2)     Because  disintegrative  ways  undermine   the
expression  of  subjective  experiences  and  perceptions;
there needs to be instituted activities designed to elicit
and  support  appropriately such  expressions  openly  and
honestly offered.

     3)  Because disintegrative ways undermine expressions
of  divergent  creativity;   there need to  be  instituted
activities designed to en-courage potentially embarrassing
expressions openly and honestly offered.

     4)    Because  disintegrative ways  work  to  promote
conformity   through  attempts  to  control   perceptions,
languages,   emotions,   desires,   intentions  and  their
expressions;   there  needs  to be  instituted  activities
designed  to  disavow  control and conformity;  so  as  to
induce  open and honest expressions of unique  individuals
respecting each other as such.

     5)     Because  disintegrative  ways  work   tacitly,
covertly,   implicitly and dishonestly;  there need to  be
overt commitments made and honored to institute responsive
activities to mitigate the power of disintegrative ways---
in  many contrasting ways which are  clearly  articulated,
overt, explicit and honest.

     For   each   recognized   debilitative   feature   of
collusions,  addictions and codependencies we need to seek
to  devise  and include in family,   church,   school  and
business  life many contrasting activities to mitigate the
power of the debilitative features. Such activities should
be  recognized as having been designed to promote personal
and communal integrity and health.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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