I have both hypnosis and Circling skills. I understand hypnosis to be about having a specific behavior change that you want as outcome.
When doing Circling your focus is not on specific behavior change. It’s more like meditation about being in a certain state together.
How about instead we try to ramp up our critical faculties and talk about models and evidence?
I consider Circling to have been very useful at getting some models of other people.
After doing Circling at the LessWrong community weekend, one person said that they discovered in both Circlings in which they are that something they thought was unique about their own experience was also shared by other people.
Many models aren’t shared when you ramp up the critical nature of an exchange. Circling is about sharing of models about how people relate to their own experience that’s valuable both for understanding oneselves and understanding other people. It’s not about changing the models that are there even when they can change when you give them explicit attention.
As far as the state goes, after a hypnotic trance state it makes sense to say “Now come back” to get people to be “awake” again. That’s not the state in which Circling goes.
I frequently have meditations seen to go into that space, but when meditating or guiding a meditation I usually intent to lead to a more present state as well.
I have both hypnosis and Circling skills. I understand hypnosis to be about having a specific behavior change that you want as outcome.
When doing Circling your focus is not on specific behavior change. It’s more like meditation about being in a certain state together.
I consider Circling to have been very useful at getting some models of other people.
After doing Circling at the LessWrong community weekend, one person said that they discovered in both Circlings in which they are that something they thought was unique about their own experience was also shared by other people.
Many models aren’t shared when you ramp up the critical nature of an exchange. Circling is about sharing of models about how people relate to their own experience that’s valuable both for understanding oneselves and understanding other people. It’s not about changing the models that are there even when they can change when you give them explicit attention.
As far as the state goes, after a hypnotic trance state it makes sense to say “Now come back” to get people to be “awake” again. That’s not the state in which Circling goes.
I frequently have meditations seen to go into that space, but when meditating or guiding a meditation I usually intent to lead to a more present state as well.