Gloria Lee Remembers Synergy

"There was so much going on (1970). There was Kent State, Anteater (social activist)
going down the railroad tracks (on a motorcycle), students throwing
rocks at the president. There was a group that wanted to get rid of
the Vietnamese Studies Program. It was funded by the CIA, I think."

"Everybody would participate in everything. We could try out all of
the roles at Synergy. This was a new form of government. We used group
process and consensual decision making. No coercion and all must be in
agreement. Hands were either held high or low or in the middle. People
were intensely listening. Active listening. We got trained by the
people who developed it. There was values clarification. We were
responsible for prevention training."

"Someone came in (to Synergy) with a drug crisis and usually you would
never see them again. We only made a little crack in the egg. Our
model was about self-responsibility. The medical model was to go to
the doctor and say "fix me." We were facilitators. That's what they
called us.The university liked our work.They needed us because so many
students were tripping on drugs. The hospital did not know what to
do."