Consciously establishing the basis...

of each interaction.

Context is the agreement-based framework for every human interaction.

In any interaction there is always a Context at work, whether you are aware of the Context or not.

If you are not aware of the agreements in the Context of your interaction, then Standard Human Intelligence Thoughtware is active and the unconscious Context of the general population prevails. This may be what you want. Then again, perhaps you want something different from this.

Perhaps you have heard the Possibility Management phrase: "The Space determines what is possible."

Perhaps you did not yet hear: "The Context determines the qualities of the Space."

The Context you Set in a Space determines what is possible in that Space. This is amazingly big stuff to experiment with.

For example, the Context set be the Spaceholders for a Firewalking Space make it possible for participants in that Space to walk barefoot across glowing hot oak-wood coals. How do I know this? Because I did it. I could feel the Space shift from ordinary Space to Firewalking Space. This same Space navigation skill applies everywhere in life, and especially in relationship and project meetings!

Setting Context is the first skill in Taking Radical Responsibility For Space, Creating Space, Holding Space, Navigating Space, Shifting Space, Navigating Space.

You may have heard the Possibility Management phrase: "Something completely different from this is possible right now." What this mean is that when a Possibilitator takes Radical Responsibility for the Context of a Space, then by re-negotiating agreements about the Context of a Space she can reinvent what is Possible in that Space.

If you discover that changing the Context of a Space changes what is Possible in that Space, you gain a practical understanding of another Possibility Management phrase, namely: "If you want to change the results, but cannot change the circumstances, then change what is possible."

Changing the Context of the Space is one of a Possibility Manager's ways to change what is possible. There are many others, but in some ways you could say that Managing Possibility begins with Managing Context.

Taking Radical Responsibility for the Context of an interaction when no one else does is not Fair. For example, one would assume that in any group, team, family, meeting, etc. the job of creating and managing the Context should be shared.

However, as a Possibilitator, Study Group Spaceholder, Possibility Team Spaceholder, Possibility Coach, Possibility Mediator, Possibility Psychologist, Feelings Practitioner, Edgeworker, Riftwalker, Possibility Trainer, etc. taking Radical Responsibility for the Context of an interaction proves to be extremely useful.

Some skills relating to Managing Context include:

1. Noticing Context
2. Distinguishing Context
3. Choosing Context
4. Declaring Context
5. Committing to a Context
6. Taking A Stand for the persistence of a particular Context without being fanatical or Cultish about it
7. Landing Distinctions in a Space
8. Culture To Culture Conversations
9. Vacuum Learning
10. Being Unhookable
11. Being Unreasonable
12. Going Nonlinear
13. Using the 9 Gaps

Purposefully developing these skills is central to your effectiveness as a Possibilitator.

In certain cases - especially in the Trainer / Evolutionary professions - it is necessary to consciously interact with certain 'energetic configurations' that interfere with a person's ability to be Present and Attentive as themselves in a small NOW and a small HERE.

The following distinctions may help you more effectively facilitate healing and transformation Processes for your Clients.

1. 'Thoughtforms' from others - particularly by keeping your Center, Grounding Cord, and Bubble Of Space activated so as to protect yourself and not end up carrying around the burden of thoughtforms from others (such as opinions, Judgements, praise, and Mixed Emotions such as jealousy, Projections, Expectations, Resentments, etc.) rather than letting them have their energy back where it belongs.
2. 'Vampire entities' that come to feed on you whenever you become Reactive due to Trigger Phrases. By speaking a Trigger Phrase to yourself in your mind (such as, "They get the good stuff and I don't," or, "There is no place for me," or, "I will never make it," or, "They don't respect me," etc.), you open the door for any hungry Vampire Entity to come in and feast on you as an 'all-you-can eat 24/7 buffet'. The feeding may go on for days or weeks, making you reclusive, exhausted, despondent, and hopeless.
3. 'Presiding Deities of Spaces' are found in almost any room where people commonly use a name for that room, such as living room, school room, library, bar, center of town, graveyard, shrine, temple, healer's office, etc. To honor the Space and to make the Presiding Deity of the Space an ally rather than a threat, it helps to intentionally acknowledge the presence of - or consciously 'greet' - the Presiding Deity of the Space. Most people do not do that, and then can be used by the Deity as it pleases, usually as some kind of food or entertainment. When you greet the Presiding Deity, it is 'seen', no longer invisible, and will leave you alone or perhaps even support you
4. 'Demons' are energetic-habit-constructs that a person adopts usually long ago (childhood, sometimes in a 'Past Life') as a Survival Strategy, perhaps through signing a 'contract',
5. 'Angels' are pretty much NEVER what they appear to be.

It is as dangerous to enter a conversation, a meeting, or a Gameworld without first detecting its Context as it would be to sail towards a harbor at night without knowing where the rocky shoals are located. Your ignorance can sink your chances of finding your way home.

Detecting the Context of a conversation is straightforward. It may feel scary to detect the Context - especially if you bring the Context out from being swept under the carpet and put it on the table for examination and discussion - but the actual job is not difficult. It is magical but it is not magic. You can do it. In fact, you do not ever have to stop detecting the Context of conversations, wherever you go. Detecting Context

Context is identified through having a Metaconversation, that is, by having a conversation about the kind of conversation you are having.

One of your 3 Powers is Asking. A Metaconversation begins the instant you seriously Ask (and Hold Space for answers to...) Context Detecting Questions such as these given below.

27 METACONVERSATION QUESTIONS TO DETECT CONTEXT:

1. In whose Gameworld is this conversation taking place?
2. Under whose auspices (organization name or authority) is each person participating? Who is each person representing? Themselves? Or some Are there any secret groupings such as families, secret affiliations, ? Which Gameworld is each person representing?
3. Whose Space is this? Who has Authority to select the Context of this conversation?
4. Do we agree on a single Context for this Space? Or is this a Mixed-Context Space? (which usually leads to Context War or stalemate)
5. Are ALL those with relevant Authority here? Is there anyone with Authority not in this conversation Space? (If so, this is probably a waste of time.)
6. Does each person have equal Authority here? Or is there a spectrum of different Authorities? Who decides each person's Authority? Can that agreement be changed by people in the Space? (If not, then an external Authority takes precedence, and we go back to Question 5.)
7. Is this unrestricted Collaboration? Or is someone being paid money to be there? (If anyone is being paid to be there, who is paying them? The payer has power and influence as an external Authority. This meeting could be a waste of time because the payer has already made the decisions.)Is there any Assumption that we are all supposed to bow down to some external Authority?
8. What is the Purpose of this interaction? What are we trying to accomplish here? (e.g. Make a plan? Make a decision? Make a discovery? Create a healing process? Hear a status report? Loosely collaborate? Build something? Change something? Waste time?)
9. Are we playing a 'finite game' or an 'infinite game'?
10. What are the central Distinctions being used? Are certain Distinctions forbidden?
11. What is the currency of the Space? (Distinctions? Value provided? Transformation? Something material?)
12. What are the Rules Of Engagement in this Space? What is allowed and what is not allowed? How does it go?
13. How will the Space be Navigated? (Is whoever shouts the loudest allowed to speak? Only the 'leaders' speak? Is there a Spaceholder?)
14. What is the power structure used here? Pyramidal? Hierarchical? Circular? Toroidal? Spiral?
15. Who has Status here? Are there 'slaves' (employees)?
16. Are Feelings and Emotions differentiated and distinguished in the moment they arise? Why or why not?
17. What Principles are at work here? (Shadow Principles (unconscious, Gremlin)? Bright Principles (conscious, Possibilitator)?)
18. Is it possible to be a Victim? Which of the 2 Dramas do we create together here?
19. Is EVERYONE's Gremlin consciously distinguished in the Space? (If not, there is probably unconscious agreement that this meeting or conversation is being used as a Gremlin Feeding Frenzy Space.)
20. Is it possible to Win or Lose in the competition? What resources are scarce? (Time? Energy? Money? Attention? Recognition?) Which of the 3 Games are we playing here? (I win, you lose? Win-Win / Lose-Lose? Winning Happening?)
21. How many of the 5 Body intelligences are called in as Team resources? (Physical? Intellectual? Emotional? Energetic? Archetypal?)
22. In which culture is the Point Of Origin of this conversation anchored? Matriarchy? Patriarchy? Archiarchy?
23. Are Beliefs given ANY credence here? Yes or No?
24. Are Assumptions given ANY reality here? Yes or No?
25. Are Expectations given ANY power here? Why or Why Not?
26. Is Emotional Reactivity given ANY space, time, attention, or energy here? How is Emotional Reactivity handled? (e.g. The Purple Card)
27. Is there a meeting structure agreed upon or not? Hierarchy? Sociocracy 3.0? Non-Violent Communication? Parliamentary Procedure (Roberts Rules of Order)? Torus Technology?

Perhaps you are invited to participate in a conversation or gameworld in which a Context has already been set that differs from the the Context of the culture you would love to live in, in other words, different from your own personal culture. What should you do?

UNCONSCIOUS OPTIONS

1. Be a Context Chameleon, which means to camouflage your true Context and be adaptive, pretending as if you accept their existing Context.
2. Sulk, complain, blame, or create some kind of Low Drama that creates a problem.
3. Make some weak excuse and leave the Space, refusing to have the conversation but not being honest about it.

CONSCIOUS OPTIONS WITH PERMISSION

1. Explain that you will not participate in a meeting or interaction with the existing Context, and inform the other people that you are willing to either negotiate a change in the Context, or you will leave the Space.
2. Make offers or efforts to change their Context into your Context.
3. Shift the meeting or conversation into a Context Creation Skillbuilding Workshop.
4. Act as if you are a reporter researching material for an article or book and arrange to interview the spaceholders about the Context of the organization.
5. Put your question about whether or not you should participate in this meeting as the first item on the agenda of the meeting.
6. Use the group intelligence to figure out other options you (and each person) could choose from.
7. Introduce the Gameworld one step at a time to such Practices as Conscious Attention, Noticing, Splitting Attention, Self Observation, Inner Navigation, and Whole Permaculture.

CONSCIOUS OPTIONS WITHOUT PERMISSION

1. TAKE THE SPACE INTO BREAKDOWN within a Transformational Context that you are Holding and Navigating.
2. MAKE A CRACK IN CERTAINTY for the whole Gameworld (often through Feedback and Coaching from peers within the Gameworld).
3. PULL THE RUG OUT from under the current Context (often through a whole group Experiential Distinction Process such as Box and Being Process, or, I Cannot Commit To You Because Process + I Want You In My Community Because Process, or through a Big Picture Context view of their Gameworld such as the Gaia view).
4. SUBVERT THE CURRENT CONTEXT for example with the Poop On The Table Process, or, or, by using your Low Drama Detector, or combining your Bullshit Detector with Dragon Speaking. Make the current Context no longer valid. In other words, build a new Gameworld that makes the existing Gameworld irrelevant.
5. SLAY THE JABBERWOCK for example by Landing Distinctions In The Space about Gremlin, or White Widows, or Patriarchy, or Every Generation, or Psychopaths. 
6. GO NONLINEAR into a Transformational Spaces that you are Navigating.
7. GO UNREASONABLE for example by using your Jakobs Ladder to shift the Space into Archetypal Domains for whoever can go with you there. Do it in front of everyone. Most people cannot go there, but they will not understand what you are doing or where you are going so they will not be able to stop you. After you come back, very carefully share the Jewels that you found in the Archetypal Domains with everyone so they receive the benefits even if they could not go along on the journey.
8. BECOME A SEED of Archiarchy, of Transformation, of Nonlinear Possibility, of Experiential Reality, and plant yourself into their Gameworld. Then grow the new Context full on.