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The process arts include things such as facilitation, meditation and community organizing (and name-brand processes/theories/networks such as NonviolentCommunication, OpenSpace). Even more than a list of particular processes though, process arts is an awareness that however one is doing something, that is one particular way, and one could do it any number of other ways.
It's analogous to PerlLanguage's motto - There More Than One Way To Do It!
This could apply to any field - cooking, sky-diving, etc., but we tend to use it just for fields having to do primarily with humans. There are both differences and similarities in process arts across all scales - intra-individual, couples & groups, families, neighborhoods, tribes, towns, cities, regions, continents, globally.
Some relevant resources:
The movement/field/concept has been emerging as a significant phenomenon in recent decades (centuries? consider the scientific method and amendable constitutions), but BrandonWilliamsCraig? (http://bdwc.net
) coined this term in 1996. His Beamish Process Arts Consultancy became the Beamish Process Arts (501c3) community (http://www.beamish.org
) and then Association Building Community (http://abcglobal.net
).
Created 2006 Jan 27 Fri PM