The Ritual Of Disguise

I immersed myself deeply within my practice for mastery of  Witnessing the Self by using varied methods such as note-taking, reflective recording, and video documenting. I have tried to be aware and observant of myself and the relationship I have been building with my experiences and actions through these methods. It was while I was developing my own tools to document my experiences   that I revisited Theory U by Otto Scharmer. Otto Scharmer in his theory speaks of 'Presencing',   which he describes as an act of seeing from the source, and as a state where we step into our real being, who we really are, the authentic. The core idea in this concept is to shift the perception of the source of a new emerging possibility. Scharmer's depiction of Presencing is plotted on a 'U' graph which moves into Enaction and Institutionalization. This depiction of future possibility was not relevant to my current inquiry hence, I decided to tweak the tool to suit...

The second part of the Adorning and Witnessing was designed as a Conversation Circle, using a few exercises the participants discussed the nature of experience, meaning-making, and relationship with the adornments. Participants were asked to share their observations and insights about the experience in the following format - What was Interesting and What was Important.  a) Important was defined as - Powerful, Salient, Principal, Major  b) Interesting was defined as - Engrossing, Absorbing, Gripping, Compelling, Engaging.  The insights and observations shared were mapped on a large sheet of paper that covered the conversation table. Q cards were used as prompts to further the inquiry. As a final activity, they were asked to put up  Post - It's that answered 3 questions -  a) What will you talk/think about?  b) What will linger on for you?  c) What will stay with you?  Exemplars of feedback from participants - ...