Wednesday, October 23, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Sensitivity course emphasizes touch
By JUDI DIEBOLT Kansan Staff Writer
"Trust, Touch and Tenderness," a "free university" course in sensitivity training will meet at 8 p.m. Thursday at 1827 Missouri St.
David and Christine Leonard,
originators of the course, call it a
"blind leading the blind experience
in sense relaxation."
"Basically it is a series of sensory exercises. For example for maybe two or three minutes we just sit there and tap our heads—then we pause for a few moments and think about what we've just experienced," Leonard said.
The course is based on the work done at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, Calif. The institute experiments in sensitivity training. It was founded on the premise that sensory awareness will create better understanding and communications.
"Our society is generally pretty sick about a lot of things, especially about such things as touching. There is a feeling that touching must be either sexual or homosexual. We just want a bunch of people to come who want to share an experience—people who just want to know that it's good to be touched," said Leonard, Lawrence senior.
"Part of society's problem lies in the fact that we think too much to become aware of all the physical things in life. This course will be a very general therapy for over-civilization," Leonard said.
Leonard's wife Christine related an incident which she felt acutely dramatized the need for such a course.
"Last week I was talking to a neighbor woman. When I first
met her, I noticed she had a Wallace sticker on her car and I thought—oh God. Then I began to really get to know her and like her. And one day as we were talking I just touched her arm and she pulled away."
"It really frightened me to think that our society is so cold and views touching as something perverted," she said.
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When asked if he anticipated any problems during the session, Leonard said, "I can't think of any. I don't know what they'd be. The act of coming to the session is voluntary and leaving is voluntary."
"We just want it to be fun and to be an experience in selfgrowth."
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A. Edgar Benton and Emmett Butler will speak at general sessions of the Lawrence convention of the Kansas State Teachers Association, Oct 31 and Nov. 1, said a spokesman for the KSTA.
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On Oct. 31, Benton, a Denver attorney, will discuss "Teacher Militancy—Long Overdue," the spokesman said.
Butler, a Newton, Iowa, public relations consultant, will speak the next day on "The Challenge of Change," explaining the teamwork needed for attaining goals, the KSTA spokesman said.
Other scheduled speakers are: George L. Cleland, director of instructional services for the State Department of Public Instruction, Topeka; Clark E.
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