When I walked into the room, I noticed the haphazard arrangement… 3 short rows of 4 chairs each here… a circle of chairs over there… a couple of comfy couches and chairs surrounding a coffee table in that corner… 4 chairs around a small table… and some chairs in random locations, as if shaken up like a cupful of dice and somehow landing on their feet. I sat in the front of the 3 short rows. Other people were arriving, sitting down in various places in the room. We were waiting for the session to begin. After a while, something entered my awareness… at the circle of chairs, there was a lively conversation. At the comfy couches, there was a lively conversation. At the chairs around a table, there was a lively conversation. But in the rows of chairs… we had greeted each other as we sat down, but we were not now engaged in conversation. I turned to the people near me in the rows, pointed out what was going on in the other circles, and suggested that we turn our chairs into a circle. Lively