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In a university course intended to help students to Graciously-Help-Others - - - to
Understand and Mitigate their Own-Alienative-Conflicts:

 1. The lecture-style of instruction - - - Will-Not-Be-Helpful.

 2. Viewing the leader/facilitator of the class as the unquestioned-authority in the
    class - - - Will-Not-Be-Helpful.

 3. Seeking to agree upon correct-responses to prescribed-canned-questions - - -
    Will-Not-Be-Helpful.

 4. Focusing upon prescribed: Assumptions, Attitudes, Approaches, Thinking, Questions.
    Recitations, Reasoning, Conclusions, Relationships, Communications, etc. - - -
    Will-Not-Be-Helpful.

 5. Preoccupations with Alienative-Thoughtless-Reactions to Alienative-Conflicts - - -
    Will-Not-Be-Helpful - - - if those Preoccupations do not lead-beyond-themselves 
    into the Gracious-Ways-of-Shalom and into True-Lovers' Reflexive-Relationships
    within the Sanctuaries built and maintained in Gracious-Ways for all people seeking
    to become involved in Open-and-Honest-Dialogues about how to cooperate with each
    other to insure that all of our most basic-authentic-needs are fulfilled through
    cooperation and colaboration of all who are involved.

In such a course it Will-Be-Helpful TO:

 1. Involve students in small-group-conferences during class-time about possible
    foci for small teams-of-students focusing upon matters of common concern to them.

 2. Involve students in research into traditional and web-oriented resources to learn
    about evolving conceptual-frameworks-for helping people to Mitigate-Their-Own-
    Alienative-Conflicts - - - rather than depending heavily on outsiders to try to:
    Settle, Arbitrate, Resolve, Negotiate or Intrude-Into THEIR-CONFLICTS; and to
    compare and contrast the evolving conceptual-frameworks and their fruits-to-date.

 3. Involve students in small-groups working outside-of-class-time on research and
    on activities in the "real-world" to learn about how to help other people to
    Mitigate-their-Own-Alienative-Conflicts - - - and to report on their experiences
    and what they learned from their experiences in terms of changes in their own
    personal: attitudes, assumptions, convictions, beliefs, intentions, expectations,
    and intentions.

 4. Focus participants' attention upon the Essential-Foundations of both Persona-and-
    Communal Integration-Processes and Present-Integrities within the Whole-Crew of
    God's Astronomically-Tiny-Space-Ship-Earth which is Essentially-Isolated from
    all other significant Material-Objects as regards potentially-useful Material-
    Resources like: air, water, minerals and sources of concentrated material fuels.

 5. Focus upon issues of great interest to the particular students, and upon what 
    significant steps they can take together to address those issues in gracious
    ways which might help participant-victims in Alienative-Conflicts to Mitigate-
    their Own-Alienative-Conflicts; rather than wait for outsiders to attempt to:
    Settle, Arbitrate, Negotiate, Resolve or otherwise End their Alienative-Conflict
    chosen by the outsiders.

 6. Focus upon why it is difficult to identify just how and why a particular Tragic-
    Alienative-Conflict has generated alienation; e.g., due to different people's 
    different, but not yet fully recognized and/or understood:

    a. Assumptions, Presuppositions, Biases, Prejudices, Provincialisms, etc.
    b. Perspectives and Points-of-View,
    c. Injuries, Diseases, Handicaps, Anxieties, Terrors, etc.
    d. Economic-Deprivations and Victimizations due to Minority-Status,
    e. Attitudes and Alienative-Response-Patterns,
    f. Deprivations of fulfillments of true, healthy and essential humane needs,
    g. Unusual, but for them very real true needs,
    h. Different ways of perceiving and describing realities in helpful ways,
    i. Creative-Abilities and potentials for integrative leadership positions,
    j. Confusions about: facts, hypotheses, descriptive-laws-and-proven-theories,
    k. Confusions about virtues, vices, ideals, ideologies, paradigms and religions,
    l. Reliable and unchangeable patters in objective processes and interactions,
    m. Responses to Exponential Growths-and-Decays in Resource-Consumptive-Processes,
       due to Finite-Resources, as within God's Astronomically-Tiny Space-Ship-Earth.