a practice for transforming conventional communication based 
     on fantasy, obligation, and assumed understanding into 
     an intimate presencing based in authenticity, 
     awareness, and assured exchange of meaning. 

        Triadic Communication 
Requires deep exploration of meaning examining language assumptions                                        
and achieving assured communication. 
Provides a third viewpoint that opens interactions to new possibilities 
Minimizes negative dynamics of dualistic assumptions that can interfere
     with really hearing what others are saying. 
Establishes a foundation for development and exploration of aware,                                   
intimate, evolutionary community. 

Triadic Communication as a practice is designed to increase awareness                                   
 and depth of communication. 
Its basic requirement is a willingness and intent to assure communication                                 
 rather than assume it. 
To increase our awareness and experience with assured communication,
     we must be willing to let go of our habitual assumptions 
     about the process of communication.
When we communicate with someone to whom English is a second language,               
     we tend to take care to make sure there is understanding;                                             
     but when English is the primary language we tend to assume 
     the meanings attached to the words of others are the same as ours. 
This is rarely true beyond the most simple usage. 

Triadic Communication allows the exploration of our 
     individual language assumptions, with the aim of 
     achieving mutually agreed understandings in meaning 
     and usage of language. 
This is accomplished by examining assumed meaning within                                                   
the increased awareness which a group of three affords. 

    The Basic Form of the Triadic Communication Practice 
The Triad, as a basic communication unit, consists of three 
     individuals meeting for about one to two hours, 
During each person's turn, or focus, they express an interest 
     and/or problem, which is heard and "fed back" without 
     interpretation or reaction by each of the two listeners                                               
     until the speaker agrees they have been correctly heard.
     With this basic assurance, each listener may then share 
     their own feelings, interpretations, perceptions or intuitions. 

         Why Triadic? 
The triadic form provides a space where hidden and unheard 
     material can be clarified not only to others, but to oneself. 
This expanded reflection allows a loosening and even a freeing                                             
from previous role functions. 
This process moves into exploration of self as individual                                                 
 and as atom in the group molecule . . . 
     moveing into an exploration of the group's collective 
     identity and archetype. 
This process has vast potential for changing one's life,                                      
     not only on the individual but on the collective level. 
Triadic Communication opens the consciousness and awareness 
     of the group as a whole.
It offers a group consciousness experience in a triad, which as 
     the smallest group sets a model for doing larger groups. 
However, these are just words on a page. 
To really understand it, one has to do the practice itself.


     Who should try Triadic Communication Practice? . . .why? 
Anyone, individuals or groups, who wants to move towards greater                                        
 intensity, freedom and creativity in their lives. 
Recognizing life is "a game," and the source of the game is culture, 
     we may see how we are controlled by rules of this cultural game. 

The Triadic Practice's immediate aim is to bring to awareness                                              
the rules we are playing by already; 
     to learn alternate sets of rules;                   
     and to prepare to play alternate games by our own choice.
This begins a process and support for deconstructing unwanted roles                                       
 and implementing positive and desired ones. 
In Triads we come to this awareness in societal group, 
     not just individually.
First we operate at the level of our common qualities and interests.                                      
 We actively explore good worldly interactions. 
Then moving towards authenticity, we are still operating                                                  
 within the grooves the culture provides.
But awareness starts to distinguish authenticity 
     from the conventional games we play.

Triadic Communication is also part of the early developmental stage                                       
of building aware community. 
Habitual ways of communicating need replacement.                                                           
We can set up different ways of sharing. 
Start developing a community body that is real. 
Allow enough real acceptance so that energy can actually move                                              
between the individual bodies. 
Then you have not just people you are compatible with, 
     but people you are free to be. 
We're ultimately talking about species evolution: 
     taking members of this species, and making available 
     the opportunity to awarely evolve into societal organism.