Satir workshops

If the foreign element (or its backers) is sufficiently powerful and persistent to create a critical mass of discomfort, the organization enters into chaos. From the Merriam Webster Dictionary: chaos is a state of things in which chance is supreme; it is a state of utter confusion; a confused mass or mixture. In this state, the system is disarranged; predictions no longer valid, expectations are not fulfilled; things seem to be totally out of control.

People/systems may react to chaos in a number of different ways: by engaging in random behavior; by seeking stability at any cost, by trying to revert to earlier patterns of behavior, or by searching for magical, sweeping silver bullet solutions -- anything, anything, to re-establish some form of normalcy will do (unless someone is skilled in surfing chaos).

• If chaos is perceived as some "death" of Old Status Quo ... For more detailed "stuckness" we can use the following four preliminary stages of death that individuals can get stuck in (Elizabeth Kubler Ross): denial, bargaining, anger, or depression .
• When trying to manufacture the transforming idea as opposed to being aware and fully present during chaos. Obtaining and firing the latest silver bullet is a distracting temptation, one that needs to be avoided. Taoists say, "My barn having burned to the ground, I can now perceive the moon".
• If you try to avoid or control it you will prolong it. Best thing to do seems to be to relax, enjoy the ride, try a bite here of some thing new here, and of some there. Be like Alice in Wonderland, relax, have fun, enjoy and hold the space for the transforming idea. As facilitator, use an alpha state, but not without guard.