😱 Meaningless Time
💩 Meaningless Time (one that felt empty, pointless, shitty):
🌳 Personal Value that was suppressed (way you couldn't be/approach things/treat people):
...treat people with ...act ...approach things ...keep things
💍🛃 Expectations that suppressed the value (following social norms / promoting ideologies):
📈 Goals/Fears that suppressed the value (strategies to get certain outcomes):
Game: ⛪️ Here or 🏡 There?
🌳 Drop your personal value in here:
Check out the location pairs beneath. Is there one of the two that you'd clearly prefer as a context to live by your value in? If so, embolden it and write a short explanation: What about this environment renders you hopeful that you can live by your value there? What about the other leaves you pessimistic you'll express your value there?
If you don't have a clear preference between either of the two in a pair, move on to the next one.
Big dinner with your partner's extended family vs. Quiet dinner with your best friend
What about this environment renders you hopeful that you can live by your value there?
Academic conference vs Camping trip
What about this environment renders you hopeful that you can live by your value there?
Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting vs Facebook News Feed
What about this environment renders you hopeful that you can live by your value there?
Gallery art opening vs. Project Meeting
What about this environment renders you hopeful that you can live by your value there?
Masquerade ball vs Waiting in line at grocery store
What about this environment renders you hopeful that you can live by your value there?
Job Interview vs Rock band jam session
What about this environment renders you hopeful that you can live by your value there?
Rock concert with fans vs. Waiting at a subway station
What about this environment renders you hopeful that you can live by your value there?
YouTube vs Neighborhood Bar
What about this environment renders you hopeful that you can live by your value there?
⚙ Walkthrough Tour
Take five minutes to look through this list of structural features and to think through the four situations beneath. For each situation, take note of two (or more) structural features you notice.
What two structural features characterise a dinner with friends?
What two structural features characterise a team meeting?
What two structural features characterise a poetry reading?
What two structural features characterise facebook newsfeed?
👭 Where Would You Send a Friend?
Your friend is trying to live by fresh values they recently discovered.
Beginning with the value you find most interesting, ask yourself (and answer in the greyboxes hidden in the toggle) these questions:
- Which ideal place would you send them to, to practice living by this value? Because of which structural features?
- Where would you NOT send them, and why? Because of which structural features?
🃏 Jokering
Player one picks a scenario they want to disrupt. Player two play-acts their role in the scenario for about 30-60 seconds to set up player one with a game they can change. Once player one has made their move, they point out what structural features they changed. Take turns!
Pick A Scenario
🗣 Reflection
Think of the meaningless time you described at the beginning of the class—is there a way you could have flipped that situation? Is there a way you would approach it differently now, knowing of structural features?
Think of one setting where it seems particularly possible to live by a value of yours. What are the structural features of that space that seem relevant to that?
Think of one setting where it seems particularly difficult to live by a value of yours. What are the structural features of that space that seem relevant to that?
🕵 Homework: Fieldtrip!
Pick one or two places this weekend to analyse, with the help of structural features.
Where did you go?
What structural features did you notice?
Name a personal value that supported by structural features? Can you guess some values that would be difficult to practice?