Practise and participation fit

Anna-Marie has found that this practise and/or joining ecological enquiry circles or sessions is generally a good fit for people that:

• Enjoy being curious about their and others’ experiences, language, worldviews, cosmologies, and stories*, and are willing, when helpful, to have these challenged.

• Are comfortable being emotionally uncomfortable in consented-to situations and can communicate with self-awareness and accountability when in emotional discomfort.

• Share the perspective that when in good mental health, we human creatures generally have agency over which thoughts we focus on and which actions we take.

• Are willing to take accountability for how their participation impacts others.

• Enjoy being guided rather than being taught, and enjoy contributing and co-creating rather than consuming.

Anna-Marie has found that ecological enquiry and/or joining ecological enquiry circles or sessions is generally not a good fit for people that:

• Already have an enquiry practise that works well.

• Are content with their worldviews, cosmologies, language, and stories and, don't want to explore and/or challenge these.

• Don’t share the perspective that when in good mental health we human creatures generally have agency over which thoughts we focus on and which actions we take.

• Being in enquiry is a distraction from what’s more important in their life right now.

• Enjoy a traditional teaching environment and the teacher-pupil relationship.

*worldviews = stories about this world, and the role of human creatures as a member of it, cosmologies = stories about the universe, and the role of human creatures as a member of it, and stories = the language, ideas, conclusions, and myths that arise in the meeting between human mind and material reality.