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Steve Saunders
29-02-2008, 02:43 PM
This is an emergent 6 sets of 6 questions surveying the spaces in between some threads. It's just a start ...

So what kind of space is the space (SWKOSITS) between EK and CS?

Finding the concept of 6 degrees of separation
Looking for something outside of CS that might pertain to a new way of achieving the purpose of CS
Realising some limitation or constraint in CS (or maybe just a desire to try something different (boredom?))
Completing a finished form of working with CS that feels exhausted of innovating
Teaching others the clean space forms
Applying the CS forms
Learning and exploring the CS forms

1SWDIKN?
The above is going back in time from between EK and CS towards CS.

So WKOSITS after finding EK?

Exploring a wide range of input out-of-field knowledge sources
Experimenting with navigating across worlds to move between the pronouns separated by the 6 degrees of separation (spatial, radial, angular, gestural, scaling forms)
Moving from spatial navigation into meta-driving (a move into “algorithms)
Moving to new forms of pacing emergence other than clean questions
Moving from space to emergent question forms
Moving into story and metonomic forms, escaping the F
Moving into moving forms (Steve)

2SWDIKN?

Emergence and EK are different philosophies inherently; the EK goes back to David’s information-centric world view from GMT and CS. That was “in service to the metaphor”, then “in service to the information”. EK became in-service to the algorithm, meaning that in the full expression, the K had to go; Emergence is the correct name for the full flowering of the work, whereas EK inherently keeps the legacy of information-centric thinking.

SWKOSITS between E and Moving Emerging?

Several conversations about measurement, Heisenberg and location/momentum with David, that were going nowhere at the time regarding momentum; they were only my interests,
Emerging stuck movements using space/EK question forms (David and Steven Christmas 05).
A long time of being left on the shelf
Renewed interest in Autumn 07; exploring Roget’s Thesaurus and different forms of understanding Grammar, Roget had 6 different categories, and I noticed the absence of “pre-verbs” as I searched prepositions for movement precursors.
Exploring simple E question forms from a location-measuring form, and initially adding an “ing” to a verb.
Further explorations, experiments and discussions with other people that helped with gaining inspiration. Gradually a new form of emerging moving emerges with a complete absence of spatial (location) thinking in the questioning. Teaching others this new form, and working with feedback.

3SWDIKN?

By inspecting how I moved through the space between E and EM, I can infer some of what happened between phases of David’s evolution of “Clean”.

SWKOSITS between CS and GMT?

Purely speculative and inferencing on my part, based upon some of David’s words on this to me about his inner child work and why he left it for so long.
Approximately worded as its a long time ago now, quote: “the inner child work was just too tough to teach ... the facilitator makes a lot of judgements and has to understand a lot more of the client’s reality ...”. From a few conversations, the work was hard on the F, it required great flexibility on the part of the F, and consistently, “just too hard”.
So David was looking for another way to achieve the result of migrating “B” to touch “A” or vice versa; the present way of working, while effective, suffered from difficult transfer of skills and from complex, interactive finding and moving aspects of self that required fast thinking imagining and innovating on the part of F (my version of David’s words to me).
David already knew geometry was important and he was an architect; he knew where the outer child might hide and he had used a lot of drawing/scaling kinds of work. so if he was going to move away from metaphor then he needed another way to move B and A. So, assuming that GMT primarily moved B, it was time to fix B and move A.
So the landscape was fixed by locating the focus of attention (which he already knew from his answer to “where do people go when they dissociate?”), and then fixing that and the A space, thus using psycho-active space to reconnect A and B.
Then the consequences of using space have to be addressed. The eyes need to be open to inform F as to directing questions, the delivery style has to change to reflect the needs, the question forms need to change to non-metaphoric, and the client definitely must not be entranced in the old way so the verbalisation must change.

4SWDIKN?
A pattern is emerging: perceived difficulty or limitation; a searching for other ways, adapting all aspects of F including the environment to suit the form of facilitation now being used; space, words, tones, movements, forms of questions or instructions, evolving FROM the prior form TO the new form, finally re-creating the new form in its own terms (making it self-referential and self-consistent in philosophy, protocols and form).

My analogy is when the programming language C was created. It was first written and compiled in Fortran. Once compiled it was then re-written in its own language C. Thus it became self-referential and self-consistent. Therefore, each of the aspects of Clean are individually self-consistent and have different philosophy, science, process, form, space and delivery. I’m getting curiouser and curiouser about the “in common” aspects - purpose and philosophy.

SWKOSITS between GMT and Ericksonian Hypnotherapy?

Even more purely speculative and even less inferential from David’s own words. Erickson’s work was the state of the art; NLP was a fairly poor model of that; and David made very short work of briefly looking at NLP. David was already using a homeopathic worldview and seemed to know about the projection and solutions to where people go when they dissociate. So he wanted to recover the child and hypnotic voice patterns and instructions were the prevailing approach. He did not want to intrude reality because of the consequences (hence his rejection of NLP so fast). So, he started to explore how to reduce the pain of the experience by diverting into metaphor. He did briefly explain this to me while we were travelling in a transit van near Glasgow! He illustrated by asking me to ask questions of him “in metaphor space” while he gave answers metaphorically (rocks, weights, etc)
So, from somewhere came a need to reduce the pain of re-experiencing - witnessing clients pain feels a likely source. And this sponsored the “kind of” metaphor move - to go at right angles to the story.
And then would have come developing and evolving the metaphor to enable it to move. This is documented really well in one of his newsletters with the bird-wing flapping curtains.
Working backwards, the insights of time, cosmology and separation of aspects of self must have already been in place. So therefore, its not about navigating to Erickson but seeing Erickson as a stepping stone from the knowing of the structure to the creation of GMT.
So therefore, the Q4 cosmological and ancestral is likely already present before the GMT - and this makes sense because its labelled furthest from Q1 (Q2 Child within - GMT, Q3 Space), and the question form is not metaphoric but time-travelling “where did you/that come from?” - a generalised timeline approach that uses the T-1 to T-6 frames to get to the T-7 outer child. His knowledge of the power of 6 goes right back to the beginning: T-1 back to just after the defining moment, T-2 before (biological), T-3 ancestral, T-4 cultural, T-5 land, T-6 cosmological.
So I’m reckoning that this model has very deep roots in Maori tradition: cosmology, the land, the people, the family, the personal history, the defining moment, the history since and the present.

5 SWDIKN?

I have a plausible theory of the developing route and some influences. I’m aware of gaping gaps and holes but I also feel that the basic flow is about right:

a) Tradition and learning from theories and practices of the time (q1), previous biological life.
b) Asking the fundamental question about dissociation.
c) Pulling back cosmology (q4)
d) GMT (q2)
e) Space (q3)
f) EK
g) Finally eliminating F

So, what are the gaps to the wounded child and words that hurt aspects?

1. Refinements, observations from people and clients.
2. Filling in the widened context as learning about clients happened.
3. Expansions, consolidations, thought experiments.
4. Facets of GMT and Q4.
5. Gaps of perception.
6. No gaps.

6 SWDIKN?
I feel like I’ve made a first sweep of the gaps, and that there are more comprehensive sweeps to happen. It’s only my perspective, and 5 or more other people’s perspectives on the gaps will start to generate a deeper picture and new networking connections.



Steven

Steve Saunders
25-04-2008, 08:50 AM
Emergent Knowledge had parents: the mother was Clean Space. The father; well this is like the movie "Twins" - several fathers were involved, principally "the six degrees of separation", but also more: "knowledge management" had culturally replaced "information management".

Granny was of course Grovian Metaphor Therapy. Grandfathers: architecture, necessity.

The infancy and childhood of Emergence was thus with the given name at birth "EK". As with the story of the "c" programming language though, E had to become self-referential, just like its parents, and thus reflectively changed its name by deed poll: "Emergence".

While honouring the roots in space and knowledge management, the full flowering of E is constrained by holding purely an ontological view (knowledge) of emergence.

The ancestral roots lie deep: working WITH the symptoms, minimum F projection, adjacency. These are the fundamental principles that apply across all the clean modalities.
And "clean" is only a component of this whole - clean language is a part of GMT, CS and EK and E, not the whole. Clean serves to enable the principle of minimising the intrusions of F, that is all.

Why make this point? Because over-emphasising one of the three pillars of this work weakens the others. The models behind GMT, SyM, CS and EK each impose their reality upon the client, to varying degrees. Each was designed with all three principles involved, but the tyranny of the model or algorithm might be as bad as the tyranny of the narrative.

Emergence, like its ancestors, seeks to enable the symptoms to do their job. The symptom is what is happening NOW. Adjacent to NOW is the next NOW, anything else moves further away from the present symptom doing its present job. So a clean question, presently the ultimate clean question is:

"and now what is happening?"

I propose that if sufferers of PTSD can cope with this question repeatedly used to resolve trauma, then so can anyone else for their presenting life problem. I realise this might dent the ego of facilitators, and also make redundant training, coaching and therapy, because a friend can ask this.

I invite any challenges or reasons or arguments as to why clean facilitation ever needs to be more complicated than this.

And please only comment if you have properly tried this question out, I'm really not interested at all in theoretical bull. Thanks.

Corrie van Wijk
25-04-2008, 01:19 PM
Steve: "The symptom is what is happening NOW. Adjacent to NOW is the next NOW, anything else moves further away from the present symptom doing its present job. So a clean question, presently the ultimate clean question is:

'and now what is happening?'."

Yes Steve indeed: anything that happens in the human brain happens now. Anything a client perceives, is perceived here and now. The brain reconstructs any experience right now.

So how does a client perceive anything that happened in the past? His mind will (now!) go back to a situation that happened before. Memories will (now!) trigger associated sensations, emotions and feelings. So now (!) he or she feels like before, more or less.

Let's look at the different approaches by three clean modalities:

If you can model that experience, by asking questions about location, qualities, etc., look at it and make a different evaluation about it, it will change the experience now.

Or you can find a space that knows something about that experience. Very often if you change spaces or spin around, you perceive (now!) a different sensory combination, which may (now!) trigger (down-load) different memories. The client moves around in space or perceives from a different direction, so you move the client around in space. If all these memories start to connect into a different combination, the perception of it (now!) may increase in entropy and thus differentiation, and change, resolving the symptom (now).

Or you ask the above question again and again, which means you move the client forward in time: each perception in the here and now will inevitably show some variation, which implies a change.

We all change, so what makes the difference between a faciliator that effectively knows which clean move to make and just a friend that is asking you the above question over and over again?

Or as you put it: "why clean facilitation ever needs to be more complicated than this."

1. If a client can solve his or her own problems, why look for a facilitator?
2. If a friend can do the job just as well, why find somebody else?
3. The reason why symptoms have to ring the alarm bell is because the body/brain doesn't manage to solve a problem or meet a need. The symptoms keep a system in place that serves as a temporary solution, not a permanent one that restores the health balance. But the temporay balance will do anything to stay that way as long as the problem doesn't get solved or the need met, so how do you as a facilitator create the conditions for it to be willing to give up, since so far the client obviously didn't manage to do that on their own?
4. Asking what is happening now may get you a long way, for some clients it will work all the time, for some clients it will work some of the time, but will it work for all clients all the time?

forumadmin
25-04-2008, 02:46 PM
Steve:
So a clean question, presently the ultimate clean question is:

"and now what is happening?"

I propose that if sufferers of PTSD can cope with this question repeatedly used to resolve trauma, then so can anyone else for their presenting life problem. I realise this might dent the ego of facilitators, and also make redundant training, coaching and therapy, because a friend can ask this.

I invite any challenges or reasons or arguments as to why clean facilitation ever needs to be more complicated than this.

And please only comment if you have properly tried this question out, I'm really not interested at all in theoretical bull. Thanks.

Also Steve from another thread:

YES, I AM SAYING THAT A BENIGN SUBTERFUGE HAPPENS. And not just in this work, in all human interactions - except those between Llamas!

And it is the facilitators job to be the wizard (your metaphor). You can be in denial of this, but David was not, quote: "David, the 6 questions don't always work." "They do when I ask them." Enough said?


So, can anyone facilitate cleanly or do they need to be a 'wizard'?

Steve Saunders
26-04-2008, 01:40 PM
Friend or Wizard?

Maybe a friend is a person who accepts the other as they are, and therefore judges not what is said or expressed, and who therefore is naturally clean in the circumstance.

The question has to do its work, clearly. A person who unwaveringly allows what happens to be and asks at useful timing the next question will probably achieve wizard results, wizard or not?

So maybe a friend in need is a friend in deed, an maybe a facilitator is present because there is no real friend available at that time?

I recall Crocodile Dundee on personal problems - "Tell Wallie, and within half an hour everyone in the Creek knows; no more problem." (approximate wording)

"Speak Friend and Enter." on the door to Moria (in elvish).

Steven

phil
26-04-2008, 02:25 PM
So, 2 means to be clean: a true friend who chooses to be clean for love and a facilitator who is paid to be clean. I like that distinction. I think there's always some degree of judgment going on; clean is about witholding the transmission of that judgment.

Re why it ever needs to be more complicated: I guess it should depend on what the client wants.

For someone who simply wants a clean environment with clean questions so they can self-model, what you describe is enough, I guess - if you can actually do it - keep out of the process as facilitator, I mean, not need the process or the client to develop in a particular way.


For someone who is looking for:
some leadership from the facilitator (F),
the application of F's intelligence,
F's ability to spot patterns and feed them back cleanishly from their position outwith the client's own personal system,
F's wisdom and experience,while also requiring that F stays clean in the sense of not transmitting their own metaphors and interpretations, then they may prefer to be facilitated via some of the top-down models that you seem now to pooh-pooh.

Often what happens in life is that the approach is chosen by the facilitator and not always because it's what the client wants, often because it's the way of working that the facilitator is interested in or comfortable with.

Phil

Steve Saunders
26-04-2008, 03:15 PM
Well pooh-pooh'ing might be a little strong projection? I have preferred middle-out modelling and design in engineering since about 20 years; bottom-up and top-down both have inherently greater flaws IMO, although places where they work fine, say in fixed structures like chips (where fixed means immutable in time, pre-defined and not going to change).

What does concern me from one point of view is the whole F "process" and minimising harmful transference, and from another; the client chooses the F who will give the life experience they want - however clean or dirty. And F comfort with process or way - how to choose a unique way for each person, now this is the fun challenge of being an F - always a new process ;-))

Now, every process has its allergic responder, so of course there are many ways required.

Spotting patterns through experience and insight is for me a highly enjoyable part of the work, so I will introduce more complexity - after all there are many good reasons: perceived value for money, perceived value of facilitation, perceived worth of wisdom or insight, that all add a beneficent transference FROM F TO the client! ;-)

The presence of judgement - there always IS unless the F is genuinely in a state of no-mind. Then I suggest there is no judgement. With-holding judgement does not stop the feeling being transmitted. This is why I believe clean ideally is facililtated by people who've done a SERIOUS amount of self development/analysis. ;-)

Oh well, back to the garden ...

phil
26-04-2008, 06:56 PM
Well pooh-pooh'ing might be a little strong projection?
Yeah, probably! I've noticed though that as you move from latest thing to latest thing, you tend to mildly 'dis' the former latest things: the various 'generations' of NLP, EK, Emergng Moving, now you're calling your latest thing 'Emergence', a term that could get confused with the much older study of that name. Maybe you could call it 'Steve', then you wouldn't have to keep renaming your latest thinking! :)


With-holding judgement does not stop the feeling being transmitted. This is why I believe clean ideally is facililtated by people who've done a SERIOUS amount of self development/analysis. ;-)



Didn't you just say that clean could be facilitated by a friend? You didn't at the time imply that they had to have done 'a SERIOUS amount of self development/analysis'. It's hard to guess what you do believe.

Phil

Steve Saunders
26-04-2008, 07:26 PM
A friend who really does accept another as they are has already done a serious amount of PD, or just been lucky I guess!

Emergence covers all aspects of Emergence, not just emerging moving or emergent knowledge - its the correct name for the full field thereof IMO.

When I see flaws in a model or technology or a PD approach it's worth pointing them out. If I'm dissing, then sorry, not intended as that, although in NLP one might say the communication is the result it gets (a flawed idea from a clean point of view?)

I'm not sure I'm dissing any of David's work at all - its awesome. And he got better and his approaches became more generally effective each time, so by consequence of emergence, the CS is more effective than the GMT and more transferrable, and likewise for EK compared with CS. It's like black and white TV to colour, to flat screen to integrated media systems etc.

Things get better if investment and right effort it applied, do they not? Do facilitators not improve with age?

And I do enjoy new approaches, yes indeed. Right now I'm playing with a complex model for the fun of it - its based upon how systems analyse real-world information that is all mixed up, and sort it into ordered groups that can be understood (I spent many years developing such systems, and there's a near-perfect match to this work - amazed I did not see it sooner!). From the perspective of enlightenment coming from right understanding, this is a neat process for helping people sort out their life. And its really fun involving chopping up lots of paper and colours etc.

Anyway, what else is an innovator supposed to do? ;-)

Steven

Corrie van Wijk
27-04-2008, 09:40 AM
Steve: "So a clean question, presently the ultimate clean question is:

'and now what is happening?'."

It is interesting that David's equivalent of this 'presently' clean question 'was': "And what is there now?" This one has location in it as well, and doesn't address movement: it is more like a shapshot.

Now wouldn't it be interesting if all of you practicegroup-members bring a friend and try this out:

1. "And now what is happening?" asked by a friend.
2. "And now what is happening?" asked by a facilitator.
3. "And what is there now?" asked by a friend.
4. "And what is there now?" asked by a facilator.

Please report to us on this forum (I'm curious anyway what you are all doing, haven't heard from any of you for some time.)

Hope to hear from you soon,

Sincerely,

Corrie

P.S. Much of the above discussion should be referred to in the separate threads on the role of the facilitator.

P.S. Steve to Phil: "And it is the facilitators job to be the wizard (your metaphor). You can be in denial of this, but David was not, quote: "David, the 6 questions don't always work." "They do when I ask them." Enough said?

My answer in the EK section (the thread 'some questions ...' was: "No-one ever claimed that a 'clean' approach means that there is no interaction at all between the facilitator and the client, just that by means of asking clean questions we try to minimize the facilitator's influence and to maximize the flow of the independent thought process of the client. There is nothing magical about that, and David would be the very last person to have any ambition in that direction. David claimed to be a brain mechanic, and indeed he was: if you find the exact time and location of a problem you can solve it right there and right then: it is a physical thing that needs to be fixed, there is no placebo-efffect involved."

"Enough said?" No, because this needs a context: David said that the 6 questions worked when hé asked them in the context of a boyish exaggeration to challenge others, that are 'lightyears away', as he put it, from being a a clean facilitator.

phil
27-04-2008, 11:32 AM
"And what is there now?" This one has location in it as well


Depending how you stress the question, it is possible to change the meaning of the question to reduce the 'where'-ness.

So if you ask 'And what IS there now?' has a different meaning to 'And what is THERE now?' and 'And what is there NOW?'

Phil

Corrie van Wijk
29-04-2008, 09:55 AM
David asked this question in a neutral way, so the client could wait for the most relevant aspect to emerge. (clean intonation!)

phil
29-04-2008, 10:12 AM
Did he? It's quite hard to do that - and not sound like a robot. I seem to remember his voice as quite musical, rising and falling. I'll have a listen to some recordings.

To be clear, when I said 'stress the question', I was meaning where we place the emphasis as we say the words. However strongly or mildly we do it, there is always some kind of emphasis - and the tiniest inflection affects the meaning of the sentence.

The subject of how a question is delivered makes another thread, continued here: Clean Delivery (http://www.cleanforum.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1400#post1400)

Phil

Steve Saunders
29-07-2008, 03:59 PM
So this thread started on the "betweens" between "before clean", "GMT", "CS", "EK" and after (E=Emergence, EM=Emerging Moving). The question then was "WKO space is the space between [...] and [...]?"

This time, let us consider "WKO moving is the moving between [...] and [...]?"

1. CS and EK?
Intruding 6 degrees of freedom, influencing from chaos/tipping points, systems, software and signal processing, algorithms, moving from space metaphor to emerging metaphors (sequences like 1,2,3, ... a,b,c ...), thinking, exploring, experimenting, from space to knowledge, from service to space to service to algorithm

2. GMT and CS?
from service to information to service to space

3. "before clean" and "GMT"?

4. EK and E?
from serving knowledge to serving emergence

5. E and EM?
from serving emergence to serving emerging

any more?