Context (4)

[Corrie van Wijk]

Steve (notes from a session with David):
"The precise orientation and body posture is required to access a particular experience.
Slight changes in twist, angle, elevation, range, feet, hands, back, neck, knees of the client observer."

In a clean space set-up much attention is given to the right relationship between A and B: is it the right distance, height, angle, etc. As the client starts to think about it, the space between A and B, referred to as C, usually already becomes psycho-active. I like to think of C as 'context', 'contextere' literally meaning 'weaving together'. C holds A and B together, often in a way that is not working.

What would happen if you image [A + B] in another [(kind of) C]?

I've been experimenting with this in my threads on context: the same text works different for me in different contexts: one context was more inspiring for me than another.

So probably taking [A+B] into another context may give you ideas of how to deal with it, which is different from taking another perspective within the space of C, or going 'outside the box' of C into D.

[Steve Saunders]

Mathematically, Corrie, moving an A+B into a different context is somewhat easier than humanly? How do you move A+B but not their associated C+D?

I assume one would set up ABCD and then relocate AB in that fixed psychoactive space. and why do this?

Another approach is "mapping" - not cartography, but the associated of one set of points to another set of points through a matching process. This like applying the metaphor from one life area to another life area, by first defining the topologies and second mapping from one to the other.

For me, this is now NLP, and no longer "clean" - it is moving the "signals" from one context into another one, thus scrambling the landscapes, spaces and mixing the metaphors. Although it might have educational applications.

So what is your purpose in exploring context changes for A+B's?

[Corrie van Wijk]

You're right: it wouldn't be clean if the facilitator did it, but a client can do whatever they like, including imagin'ing' my A+B in another C.

[Corrie van Wijk]

Steve: "Another approach is "mapping" - not cartography, but the associated of one set of points to another set of points through a matching process. This like applying the metaphor from one life area to another life area, by first defining the topologies and second mapping from one to the other."

Isn't that what you're doing already in a set-up: transferring real life into a therapy session?

What if you take the therapy set-up back into real life?