ethos

The big room cic was created 2019 from a viewpoint that says: ’that which is marginalised and left unseen, unheard and unknown leads to the internal wars we wage within ourselves and finds expression in the external wars we wage with others and nature '.

The big room cic was established as an invitation to explore what separates and divides us from ourselves, nature and others.

The big room cic is a space where all states of awareness, voices and frameworks of reality are important without exception or exclusion.  

The ethos of the big room is not based on any fixed ideas of right or wrong, in or out, but in a dynamic that finds its truest and fullest expression in the following precepts:

• tolerating the tension of conflictual material and exploring it rather than trying to fix an outcome

 

• engaging with feelings and the impact of history rather than excluding these from interactions

 

• developing the skills to work with our individual and collective wounds . 

 

• bringing awareness to the complex dynamics of rank, power and privilege as they play out between us, rather than trying only to correct or ignore them

 

• unpacking the intransigence of polarised ‘us’ and ‘them’ perspectives, to discover both what we have in common, and how our diversity is needed for a deeply democratic and sustainable society (i).

We cannot disown our rank and the privilege and power that comes with it but we can own our humanity.

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(i) based on 'The world in here and out there: Processwork Facilitation as Therapy and as Worldwork' : Iona Fredenburgh and Leah Bijelić

“Where the grown people? Is it us?"

 the character Violet Trace in Jazz 

- author: Toni Morrison.