“I have entitled the article ‘Toward Communal Discernment’quite deliberately. Many of the workshops in which I have participated have not reached the point of engaging in true communal discernment either because no question for discernment arose or because of lack of time or because other things needed to happen first. I suspect that many attempts at communal discernment falter for lack of the prerequisites outlined by both Futrell (1970 and 1972) and Toner (1971). Since both of these men have provided relatively detailed outlines of the actual process of discernment
they use once these prerequisites are attained, I want to concentrate on the process of moving toward that attainment.”

Source: https://www.theway.org.uk/Back/s058Barry.pdf