ANST - Confrontation in the SCA

[Mark.S Harris]

Gunnora said:
> If you truly value the Dream, then immediately commit yourself to direct,
> polite, business-like discussions with people with whom you have
> differences as your FIRST recourse, **ALWAYS**.  For that is how people in
> large groups may interact productively.  And that is how we will preserve
> the Dream.

Gunnora has elaborated a bunch more on this topic before. While I don't
want to start a big argument about an argument, I think some folks might
find this article on the subject of handling conflict in the SCA useful.
While I don't find all of the ideas in this article practical, there are
enough good ideas in here to have changed the way I consider resolving
conflicts and for me to make it recommended reading for those in
the Society.

This article is in the SCA-SOCIOLOGY section of the Florilegium.
Confrontation-art  (9K) 12/20/99    "Gunnora's Rules for Confrontation" 
                                       by Mistress Gunnora Harakarva.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/SCA-SOCIOLOGY/Confrontation-art.html

For those who after the recent arguing here or situations elsewhere,
find their dream a bit smudged, perhaps reading these stories will 
help bring back some of the polish that was there before.
Fndng-T-Dream-art  (7K)  5/27/00    "Finding The Dream" by Colin of
Tighan.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/SCA-SOCIOLOGY/Fndng-T-Dream-art.html

magic-moments-msg (41K)  2/ 3/00    "Magic moments" experienced in the
SCA.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/SCA-SOCIOLOGY/magic-moments-msg.html

SCA-as-family-msg (24K) 11/28/99    Sometimes the SCA is more like
family.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/SCA-SOCIOLOGY/SCA-as-family-msg.html

Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net
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