I know that for me, when being taught or teaching a concept that I prefer to have people think critically, as opposed to be forced into a formula. I’m sure if I had been at the seminar, I would have been rolling my eyes and working on a way to take an excellent concept and restate in a way that didn’t make it into a formula. For me, to take the word “gospel” and use it as the basis of a methodology for mediation is akin to to stating that a particular method is somehow divinely ordained. While the G.O.S.P.E.L. acrostic is certainly sound, I would never use the acrostic personally.

I’ve always appreciated your ability to make me think, to guide a discussion or concept to a solution, without making it a hard and fast process.

I’m not sure if it’s a generational thing, but then again, I typically don’t fall into the paradigms of my generation.

I guess I was surprised from the others I talked to assuming it was an accurate assumption, or at least the more they thought about it, it made sense to them.

So that is why I was throwing it up to get further response.

I am in agreement with you, just throwing the issue out there.