ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the development of Reflexive Inquiry (RI) interventions over time, in a context of hurt and conflict in a community. It highlights some structured exercises from consultancy work with a male religious order. The chapter shows how these structures express an RI orientation through connection back to the RI principles. Participants resisted the responsibility but the consultants held their ground and challenged the avoidance, arguing that the community had complained about the difficulty in holding on to their own learning. The community shared a long history of discomfort with difference and with engagement. The community agreed, with relief that the consultants were concerned for the fragile, but with hope that they were helping them to move out of their stuckness. The chapter suggests that new ability would be shown if the community could treat apprehension and hope as in relationship of co-existence and that these qualities not be embodied in persons but the community hold responsibility for both.
