RESEARCH
“A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.”
(Marie Curie)
The MOMO Centre creates an environment where consensus research takes place in such a way that all participants gain. The gathering of information is an extending, cyclic feedback process using ongoing organization and readjustment to integrate new experiences.
Researchers worldwide have noted that such feedback settings are similar to the natural feedback processes of a living organism. They are especially useful in healing and therapeutic situations, and although they do not necessarily bring absolute and single answers for specific problems, they produce a predictable matrix of feasible possibilities.
Observational consensus is a relating interchange between participants that has inherent creative potential. Nobody can be bullied into accepting a majority opinion without proper feedback and synthesis. The participant’s personal implementation of new information is as important as the theoretical input from the expert who supplies the information. In other words, experts merely set up a matrix for the exchange of knowledge and experience in a particular field. Participants are free to give personal views without losing face amongst those who have more facts.
Participants are often invited to extend associative thoughts into more abstract dimensions based upon symbolic patterns before they channel their observation towards personal and emotional aspects of their own life. This extracts energy from inner unconscious processes and shifts it towards collective outer realities. In other words, to enquire into the more universal aspects of a particular subject, a participant’s mind is focused upon interaction with the outer world, without threat to the personal identity. Participants thus form a comprehensive foresight before they start with personal evaluation processes.
A participant is also free to compare and analyse personal knowledge and experience within the wider consensus without discarding her/his needs in favour of a statistical majority. Participants therefore have numerous opportunities for interchange and are free to make personal adjustments without a sense of anomaly or censure.
The principle of best practice is another guiding principle used to reach consensual research results and presents us with a sound ‘midpoint formula’ in the light of current opposition between alternative and conventional viewpoints. This is the only way to create an integrated pattern from diverse and often directly opposing sets of statistical or laboratory evidence.
All research information will be used to develop the centre’s integrated theory of health, available to professionals and patients alike.