[Christof]

Looking forward

I’m writing from my mother’s place and childhood home in the place one species calls Germany.
I have arrived after two busy weeks of courses, travelling, meeting customers, family and friends.
Busy times also in terms of activism and prepations of lectures and courses, and the whole time I’ve been hoping for opportunities for going all through the spodeck method.
Now I am still looking forward to get to it, yet coming weeks don’t look too promising either, specially when trying to do it properly and not just squeezing it in somehow.
At least I’d like to do it with the ability to pay a lot of attention, especially also when looking at the tool and evaluating it’s benefits, potential drawbacks and ways i can integrate it in my personal approach.
I look forward to tomorrow evenig.

[Christof]

Listenig to episodes

While in the later episodes it was almost possible to predict “soon he’s gonna ask” as Josh prepaired the stage, in the earlier episodes (when Peter and the Wolf were still around), it was sometimes like a “foot in the door” or a clumsy brute force approach, seeming not elegant or smoooth/fitting into the conversation.
There also was a difference that some guests knew what is coming.

A reaccurring pattern was talking abot how it went for otheres and that it became an invitation, up for the guest to decide if they want to.
it also changed from “doing something for the environment” to “doing something that will evoke these feelings”, which seemed a lot more inviting and guests repeatadly stated that they like the no-pressure/not being tld what to do approach.
As Josh also often mentions, the easy committement for one thing, often leads to other things (from “recycling” to “avoiding waste/packaging altogether”.
In a way I am excited assiting others and nudging them, at the same time it feels strange to take this role without being asked/invited to do so, as many people might still think that i want them to do something. And of course they are partly right about this, even though from my side it’s more of a hope, and motivated by me being motivated by their benefit.
I will need to figure ot how to be ok with doing this.

[Christof]

12 is so much, that I just knew that “ok: this week I’ll just use every opportunity and then some”.
Getting to 12 wasn’t really a problem as I was presenting at a the ICS24 (International conference for sustainable resource society), and there were plenty of opportunities to “quickly divert into a personal experience” during breakes and the “off-program” times.
Some phone calls and meetings with friends, family and other course members helped with the rest.
From all the conversations I only mentioned a few times that it is part of an excercise, and so my questions just became an integrated/normal part of our conversation.
Three times the people also asked me the same questions back, withoutr me even asking them to do it.

The funniest reported “nature moment” was from a friend who told about a night together with hos previous partner and they were in bed but didn’t have condoms.
He said the strange thing was that they still felt someho drawn to proceed anyway (but then didn’t). My friend said it was a very pure, primitive and somehow deeply with his own nature connected feeling.

[Christof]

Among the people with whom I had this conversation was my friend W.

I asked him because we had a moment when we shared lunch together.

Starting was easy, though I felt I should explain why I ask him this “Off-topic” question.

At first he was a bit unsure, maybe guarded, but then relaxed when I asked him to describe the place/situation in more detail so that I can “also be there”.

It honestly felt like an honour/privilidge to be taken through his words to the place he described, but at the same time I felt like an intruder, who only got there because I made W. tell me about it, not because he told me from his own motivation.

I could relate well to what he told me, the place, the feeling of dusk, the feeling of the crisp, slightly moisrt autumn weather.

He had difficulties describing the overall feeling, and we searched for words together, but only found a number of words which each were not precisely what he felt, but agreed that the experienced feeling was the one between these words.

It wasn’t hard, but felt unnatural/inappropriate entering a sacred, personal place with a script.

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