Exercise 2: Whose View?

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                           EXERCISE 2
                           WHOSE VIEW?

The "secret" of this method is that a problem may look different to
different people.

1. Ask yourself in whose view your problem is now stated.

2. Take on some other views, by imagining yourself as the person
who has the problem, your grandmother, your granddaughter, the
secretary general of the U.N., an undernourished person in a less
developed country, and so on.

3. Imagine yourself to be each of these people or, if at all
possible, go and ask them what they think the real problem is. 
Then summarize your findings.

• Lois M. Frey, UVM Extension, RR #4, Box 2298, Montpelier, VT 05602, (802) 223-2389, email: lfrey@sover.net
• "Group Development: Creating Group Effectiveness" by Duane Dale, DFD Associates, 99 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138-3402 (moving to 764 South East Street, Amherst, MA 01022 after 8/1/98);
• Bob Biagi, 142 Cherry Lane, Amherst, MA 01002 (413) 549-1412;

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