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However, this can happen if both participants and facilitators focus on the real agenda of
learning. Due to the pressure from participants, and/or some unresolved authority issues of
their own viz. need for power and acceptance etc. it is not unlikely that facilitators can also slide
into the trap of fulfilling the expectations and try to meet image/expectations and in the process

not live up to the values of the human process laboratories or other development programmes.
This has to be consciously resisted and the focus on purpose and values maintained irrespective
of the price in terms of comfort and acceptability.

Uma Jain, a fellow of IIM, Ahmedabad, has made significant
contributions in the field of applied behavioral science in India for
the last four decades in her roles at ISABS including President,

Director ODCP and currently the Coordinator, Western region and
at NTL, USA including Vice-chair of the board. Using self as an
instrument of change, she has done pioneering work as a
practitioner as well as writer. She conceptualises from data
generated in action research making her writings easily
applicable, meaningful, and transformational. Her passion for
building a world more sensitive to diversity and gender issues has
led to her recent book Demystifying & Dignifying Singlehood: Life Journeys of Single Women
Across the Globe, published by Libri Publishing, UK with NTL Imprint.

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