Working the shadow side of organizations - implications for facilitation

Johnnie Moore, in a typically thoughtful post entitled "A rambling post about the shadow side", highlights the challenges for facilitators in dealing with shadow-side issues that emerge - by accident or design - during organizational workshops and other meetings. His feelings are echoed by others' comments on the post. And I added my own 'two pennyworth' on this critically important aspect of organizational dynamics - and its implications for facilitation.

For the record, my  comments and Johnnie's response are reproduced below.