The Head Team Mulls about Self-Growth

Scene: the Head Office. The Vulcan and the Engineer sit at small desks. The Un lounges on a beanbag chair. The Canter and the Shudoff sit properly erect in straight-backed chairs. Others lounge in comfortable chairs.

Vulcan: The Boss wants us to mull about self-growth.
Engineer: To quote the Vulcan, what is the objective?
Explorer: SelfGrowth is the name of a website.
Networker: It provides links to other sites that offer help in self-growth.
Vulcan: The Boss wants ideas about how to make sites like that more helpful to people.
Shudoff: People should not look for help with self-growth. Growing happens naturally.
Un: Just as naturally as weeds in a garden. With the objectives natural to weeds.
Vulcan: A garden grows to suit the objectives of the gardener.
Storyboarder: As usual, the story starts with the goal.
Hunter: If you don't know what the goal is, you won't know when you've won.
Canter: If you don't know what the goal is, you can't tell when you've lost.
Vulcan: If you don't know what the objective is, you won't know when you're helping.
Un: Or when you've been helped.
Owl: Who? Whose goals are we talking about?
Engineer: The people who look for help in self-growth.
Canter: You can't help them. They want different things.
Vulcan: Self-growth is an abstraction. It means different things to different people.
Engineer: Then you concretize. You help one person at a time.
Canter: You can't help them if they don't know what they want.
Un: You can help them figure out what they want.
Vulcan: You can help them understand the possibilities. To see the choices.
Shudoff: You should not make them choose. Just tell them what they should do.
Un: Will they do it?
Shudoff: Of course not. But they can't blame you if they don't follow your advice.
Vulcan: They can choose to follow your advice. Or not to follow your advice. They cannot avoid choosing.
Un: If you don't choose, something else will choose for you. It's your choice.
Engineer: People might want help in choosing.
Un: Or in knowing what they are choosing.
Engineer: They might want help in finding the road to the goal.
Canter: They can't be sure they will get to the goal.
Engineer: They might want help in adapting.
Un: In negotiating with Reality.
Networker: In the bounce-back routine.
Canter: You can't call bounce-back a routine. People don't always do it.
Un: Only those who succeed.
Hunter: Have we succeeded?
Vulcan: We have only begun. We have found parts that might go into self-growth.
Engineer: We have cut the problem into bite-sized pieces.
Un: Success is when the parts come together. Just as with the head. Unity in diversity.
Organ music. Voice over. Tune in next month, when we hear the Canter say: "We can't help them. It's too complicated."