Intentional Society: Remixes and Metamixes
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Connected to last week's thoughts regarding skill learning integration and integration more broadly, I want to name out loud that the middle of this season looks to be headed in the direction of "remixes" or "mashups." (At first I wrote "practice remixes", but that isn't broad enough...)
Combining things can be done to produce new-never-before-seen experiences, but in this arc we're aiming rather to produce interpolation-contexts of learning and integration in our skill/behavior/change/being acquisition journeys.
Some remixes are "practice A with practice B" e.g. Circling with Clean Language this week. Bringing CL into Circling is an activity of the shape "bridging our CL learning thus far into a different context where it's not the (only) focus". In this case, the context of Circling is still fairly focused/tight but the "bridging" shape ultimately connects all the way out to "life in general" and how we are in our self-state (which is, that the core of "us" we identify with can be considered the as attributes and behaviors we bring with us across many different environments/contexts).
So another layer of remix is, "practice with not practice" since we need to integrate and transfer across that boundary layer also. Once again, we're not just our best selves within Intentional Society space — or at least, we wouldn't consider it a very successful project if that's as far as things went! Remixing across that inside/outside line can happen partly inside (e.g. simulating outside context inside a Community Session) and could also happen via extending IS "outside of itself" in some way. If we were in-person that might look like doing a service project or a block party or a community outreach to blur that context. Got any good ideas for how to "step outside the box" while geographically distributed?
Is a remix of a remix and an original just another remix, or maybe a metamix? Hey, Everything is a Remix — and that goes for music and for the Dream Mashups of our emotional brains. Our biological actually-neural networks are recurrent (looping back outputs to inputs, not just feed-forward), and whatever we're doing as a group is a unique experience inside each of our brains in each unique unfurling of the entire universe as input to this very moment.
Cheers,
James