Douggins attempts to create a Microcosm, with future intent on sharing thoughts previously reserved in solitary confinement. How do we allow our readings, writings and art forms to be received? … [Read more...] about A Microcosm Post is Borne
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Complexity is to making sense (reconciling our senses with this reality)
Note: Thank heavens and hells that we are here, we made it. Borne through of the wide eyes to bear witness, though nearly blinded in the shock. We have crossed the nominal horizon into the timescape 2021 by the skin of our teeth. And yet there's much more to come, ahoy. Hope this era hardens our plushy flesh like a callous so we can move through worse with as yet rougher grace. … [Read more...] about Complexity is to making sense (reconciling our senses with this reality)
Fractal Praxis and Covid-19, Pt. 3: Choosing for Holistic Pattern Improvement
--Check out parts 1 and 2 of this series here first.-- I admit this term “fractal praxis” may seem vague, as I advocate for engaging with any issue at “the pattern level.” And that can mean a vast range of possible shapes of behavior. And that's because we're dealing with whole systems. Yet this is not an “anything goes” theory. This is a theory and a methodology of … [Read more...] about Fractal Praxis and Covid-19, Pt. 3: Choosing for Holistic Pattern Improvement
Fractal Praxis and Covid-19, Part 2: Enacting Belief, Encoding Histories
In the first piece in this series on managing Covid-19 responses in accordance with fractal praxis, I wrote: “In the midst of uncertainty, the best medicine is an all encompassing strategy. What general patterns will tend to reduce unwanted outcomes?” Ultimately what patterns you choose to include and disinclude in your lifestyle reflects your beliefs. My household may … [Read more...] about Fractal Praxis and Covid-19, Part 2: Enacting Belief, Encoding Histories
Fractal Praxis and Covid-19, Pt. 1: Uncertainty, complexity and choice-making principles
This is part 1 of 3 in a series about how the Covid-19 pandemic illustrates the relevance of fractal praxis, an original theory-technique system developed by Caroline Savery based on whole systems thinking. (Jump to Part 2, Part 3) The phenomenon of the global spread of the Covid-19 virus illustrates a reality that this society commonly seeks to obscure: uncertainty is … [Read more...] about Fractal Praxis and Covid-19, Pt. 1: Uncertainty, complexity and choice-making principles
How I generate conversations that transform
this was written just after an especially liberating-ecstatic coaching session with a client through the Plenty Pact model. set up an exploratory session with me if you are yearning for dialogue that transforms. *** Conversations that transform. I produce them. (We produce them, through our braided unfolding cognition.It is the very process of making meaning of … [Read more...] about How I generate conversations that transform