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    %INTEGRATIVE PEOPLE COMMUNITIES INTIMATE HONEST 960502

     Integrative  people and communities recognize,  name,
describe  and  talk  about the  inter-relationships  among
intimacy, vulnerability, honesty and gentle kindness.

     Disintegrative   people   and  communities   DO   NOT
recognize,   name,   describe  or talk  about  the  inter-
relationships among alienation, defensiveness,  collusions
and coercive violence.

     Integrative  people and communities recognize,  name,
describe  and talk about the contrasts between the  above.
Disintegrative  people  and communities DO NOT  recognize,
name,   describe  or talk about the contrasts between  the
above.

     True   intimacy   entails  honesty,    vulnerability,
gentleness  and  kindness  in balanced  ways  among  those
involved.

     Alienation,  defensiveness, collusions,  coercion and
violence   are  associated  with  dishonesty,   deception,
secrecy and seduction.

     Communities  which  DO NOT  provide  healthy contexts
within  which people are free to be safely open and honest
regarding their most  meaningful  and significant intimate
relationships---thereby  encourage  alienation, defensive-
ness, collusions, coercion and violence.

     Communities  which DO provide healthy contexts within
which  people feel and are  free  to  be  safely  open and
honest  regarding their most  meaningful  and  significant
intimate relationships---thereby encourage reconciliation,
conflict   resolution,    peace-making,    responsiveness,
gentleness and healing.

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