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Chapter 15 – Seating Arrangements<br />

Other Complex Seating Arrangements<br />

See text for explanation.<br />

It is possible to create a highly influential seating arrangement when we wish to influence a particularly<br />

important, but as yet undecided individual. <strong>The</strong> first person or the main presenter (Pr) should sit headon<br />

with the “object” in the face-to-face competitive position (Ob). This competitive position aligns the<br />

“object” with the person he most expects to object with. Next, we add an affiliate (Af) to the objects<br />

left or right, that is, at the casual corner position to act as a friend, or to their side in the cooperative<br />

position (Co). <strong>The</strong> subconscious effect can be powerful if the positions are matched with the outlooks<br />

they should hold. That is, the cooperative position should play the advocate against the competitive<br />

position in cooperation with the object, except (of course) showing a bias towards agreement with the<br />

competitive position.

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