> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://annamarieswan.gitbook.io/ecological-enquiry/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://annamarieswan.gitbook.io/ecological-enquiry/practising-ecological-enquiry/practise-and-participation-fit.md).

# 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**:

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

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* 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.
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\*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.
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