Protocolbot
6e7c03b373
CRITICAL (3 files replaced): - Removed pipe-ceremony (sacred Anishinaabe ceremony) - Removed condolence-ceremony (restricted Haudenosaunee ritual) - Removed land-back-rematriation-gathering (named living Ohlone individuals) - Added: indigenous-council-circle, grief-tending-council, land-stewardship-council (non-sacred governance protocols) - Added: truth-and-reconciliation-circle (to replace removed duplicate) HIGH (6 fixes): - Palaver Tree: removed 'West African' from title - Cabildo Council: renamed from generic 'Community Council' - Brotherhood Reasoning: removed exoticizing 'ganja-assisted' framing - Talking Stick Circle: broadened from Ohlone-specific to pan-Indigenous - Buddhist Debate: replaced controversial NKT source with Sera Monastery - Oxford Citizens' Assembly: corrected attribution to Oxford City Council MEDIUM (11 fixes): - Nyabinghi: noted East African roots of the term - Shellmound Walk: reframed as contemporary practice - Jmaa/Imbizo/Ronda: noted gender evolution toward inclusion - Utari: clarified as kin network term, not practice name - Samata Melan: clarified as Ambedkarite-inspired contemporary practice - Ancestor Reverence: removed defensive 'not superstition' framing - Bod Kyi Gtam: improved source specificity - Restorative Conference: named specific Indigenous traditions - Open Space: specified Liberia context for Owen's inspiration LOW (14 fixes): - Added macrons to Māori words in pōwhiri - Contextualized coca leaf in ayni/minga - Added specific tags (fijian, tongan, samoan) to talanoa - Improved source URLs for yangban, xeer, indaba, meidung - Removed duplicate appreciative-apology (kept the better version) - Clarified council-practice as contemporary synthesis 99 files changed, net 100 protocols in library.
44 lines
1.9 KiB
YAML
44 lines
1.9 KiB
YAML
id: bod-kyi-gtam-story-council
|
|
title: Bod Kyi Gtam Story Council
|
|
description: >-
|
|
A Tibetan practice of using narrative (gtam) in council and teaching to
|
|
convey ethical and practical wisdom, where an elder tells a story whose
|
|
meaning the listeners draw out themselves. Rooted in Tibetan Buddhist
|
|
and folk traditions of teaching through narrative rather than
|
|
proposition.
|
|
source: Tibetan narrative teaching tradition / Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies
|
|
source_url: https://www.tibetology.net/
|
|
tags: [tibetan, story, council, narrative, buddhist]
|
|
forked_from: null
|
|
image: null
|
|
steps:
|
|
- headline: Convene for the story
|
|
description: >-
|
|
The elder or teacher convenes the group — a family, a council, a
|
|
class — and announces that a story will be told. The listeners
|
|
settle.
|
|
- headline: Tell the story
|
|
description: >-
|
|
The elder tells the story without explaining its meaning. The
|
|
narrative is left to work on the listeners; the teller does not
|
|
moralise.
|
|
- headline: Sit with the story
|
|
description: >-
|
|
After the telling, the group sits in silence. Listeners let the story
|
|
settle; they do not immediately analyse or extract a lesson.
|
|
- headline: Invite reflections
|
|
description: >-
|
|
The elder invites reflections — what the story brought up, what it
|
|
asked. Listeners speak from their own encounter with the narrative,
|
|
not to agree on a single meaning.
|
|
- headline: Close without resolution
|
|
description: >-
|
|
The gathering closes without a forced resolution. The story is left
|
|
to continue working; its meaning is not pinned.
|
|
outcome: >-
|
|
The group receives wisdom through narrative that resists reduction to
|
|
proposition, with each listener drawing their own meaning.
|
|
practice: >-
|
|
The discipline is not to explain the story. If the elder moralises, the
|
|
form collapses into lecture. Let the silence after the telling do its
|
|
work. |