Chapter 10
Use the Attic program when you suspect that the past is stalking the present, and needs to be outed.
What the consultant hears about the past is not true. But no one is lying. The past is a fugitive, always on the run. Don’t try to understand its demonisation or idealisation too directly – stories take all before them. Awkward contradictions are shrugged off. The door is shut in your face.
The unique intervention here – Memory Lane – is a consulting process sitting on the back of a set of facilitation skills. These facilitation skills are not insignificant: they require the authority of a ringmaster, the aesthetic ...
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