Treat the naming as part of the grist, even if it's named badly (not neutral, wrong timing, etc.). --Tree
Naming often involves Distilling what's been going on into some succinct statement with concentrated meaning, passion, and impact. -- Tom
Often there's no way to know how people will take your effort to name what's going on, so if you're going to do it, you just have to dive in. -- Tom
As an insight or possibility rises to surface consciousness in a group, the tipping point is often marked by someone Naming it, and it suddenly is real to everyone. -- Tom
Naming is feedback for the group that magnifies a suppressed or emerging phenomenon into group consciousness. -- Tom
Often one will feel or think something at a personal level that is an expression of something going on at the group or cultural level, that should be brought into the group's consciousness. Trust your feelings as a potential sign of this. -- Tom
Sometimes we have to go deep in ourselves to connect with something we sense nearer the surface, so we can get clear enough about it to articulate it. -- Tom. Naming is only a 1st step, then we go deeper. --Tree
Often what needs to be said is above or outside of what's explicitly being talked about, which is the essence of what "going meta" is all about. -- Tom
Works best if the namer does GFA and if others do GFA toward the namer. --Tree
Often a Naming involves issues of oppression and privilege -- racism, sexism, etc. -- or cultural or organizational conflicts and tensions. A facilitator should be prepared for it to come up and/or invoke it if needed. -- Tom
Somehow seems linked, a little hard for me to articulate . . . something about holding space for naming, and after naming. --Tree
All Naming informs the group's mind, but how it is done, and what is done afterwards, has a lot to do with how "informational" it actually ends up being. -- Tom
Translation and Reframing are varieties of naming, putting something into different terms so that the naming is effective. -- wiki
Naming invites or provokes people to shift their viewpoint and, if done compassionately, requires that you be able to see things from their viewpoint, too. -- Tom
There are usually good psychosocial reasons why people aren't talking about -- or even conscious of -- things that could and should be spoken. Be present with that as you think about speaking it. -- Tom
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