Editing New World Alliance (section)

==== "Political Awareness Seminars" ====
These were day-long or weekend experiences designed to make participants more deeply aware of the political process and their own potential for using it to heal society.<ref name=Olson />  To some observers, the seminars functioned primarily to build self-confidence.<ref name=Lipnack />  To Olson, they helped participants discover and merge their visions of a better society, and explore how to implement them.<ref name=Olson />  To the authors of ''Spiritual Politics'', the key part came when participants were asked to act out their feelings toward their political adversaries – and were then told to reverse roles.  "Many deep insights resulted," the authors wrote, "with participants discovering [they] often had problems similar to the ones they accused their adversaries of having."<ref>McLaughlin, ''Spiritual'', p.&nbsp;109.</ref>