Intentional Society: From edges to stages with mixed results
To get involved with Intentional Society, start with an orientation call! Join in this Saturday August 21st, 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Daylight Time (4pm Eastern, 8pm UTC)
Having explored edge cases and edge-finding for three weeks, last Sunday we tried zooming out - way out. We tried out a role-playing practice together, spending a few minutes trying on and speaking from several different value sets (roughly as characterized by the Spiral Dynamics colors) via archetypical sentence stem prompts.
Confusingly, fascinatingly, complexly, the experience was quite different for different people! People perceived the stages differently, felt differently about the inter-stage differences, and had different relationships to the role-playing aspect. For me to try to distill it further, right here and now, I think would be more invention than description - so I won't. I'll respect the illegibility of that complexity and, if you want to know more deeply, I'll invite you to come partake and make your own meaning next time. 😉
There's a complementary converse to "bringing people into an experience of stages" that's begging to be tried this week - bringing stages to the experience of people. It's an autobiographical kind of challenge to perceive the developmental frames we've used throughout our lives. Not the events or transitions that usually mark our life stages, but the ways we've understood ourselves-and-the-world.
Grounded in practice, relational in nature, not an academic exercise, embodied sensing and reflecting. (That's me reminding myself of how we can go about it in line with our principles.) This feels a bit like sailing in foggy seas at the moment - but we've got our instruments and our eager trusted crewmates, and each day is a new adventure.
Cheers,
James