[Oe List ...] Tribute to Wayne Nelson

[Terry Bergdall]

Wayne's work on the deep underpinnings of ToP, and all ICA-related
programs, and ways to make it accessible to a new generation, is one of his
passions that I truly appreciated. It is an important project to keep
alive.


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:50 AM, jlepps at pc.jaring.my
<jlepps at pc.jaring.my>wrote:

>  The tributes to Wayne that have come in catalogue many of his multiple
> and admirable qualities.  He was a gifted facilitator, an extraordinary
> community developer, an artistic woodworker, a consummate story-teller, a
> skilled outdoorsman, and a talented IT guru. That barely scratches the
> surface, but it's difficult at the completion of a life to formulate an
> appropriate tribute to one of such diverse abilities.
>
> There's one, however, that needs additional mention: Wayne was also a
> philosopher of considerable prowess. The question which he pursued with
> passion and intensity was: What are the philosophical roots of the ToP(R)(Technology of Participation) methods? And he didn't mean Bultmann,
> Niebuhr, Tillich, and Bonhoeffer. He meant their ancestors. He meant
> Heidegger and Husserl, Kierkegaard and Sartre, Bergson, and Hume and many
> others. And he was working to document how their insights influenced and
> shaped what became our methods and how these foundations might guide us in
> the future.
>
> The aim of his research was to prevent the ToP methods from becoming
> perfunctory or shallow and reflecting only superficial pop-psychology. As
> he said, *"That's not us, and I believe our approach is significantly
> unique and valuable enough to carry it firmly into this century.  This
> ontological, participatory approach to group work is totally necessary if
> the world is to move forward."* (2 May 2011)
>
> Wayne has written a 35-page paper entitled "ToP Foundations: Facilitating
> the Consciousness of Consciousness of Consciousness." That title clearly
> indicates Wayne's passion for getting to the substance of what we're all
> about. As he put it,
> *"Where have these ideas come from? What do we have now? Where can they
> take us?" *
> Those pages are the Introduction and first chapter of a book that now he
> will not complete. It would be a fitting tribute to this great colleague to
> have them published for the ToP Network.
>
> We will greatly miss this man of passion and depth.
>
> --Ann and John Epps
>
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