We're at ten episodes! Double digits, folks! Wild.

This go-round, Gordon and Rachel explore process and information – not as a noun, but as a verb ("in formation").

Together, they delve into the meaning and movement/workings of process and what it means to be process-oriented.

Process is synthesis, is cascade, is reciprocal influnce influencing... what, exactly? Together, R & G explore the process of how things take form, shape, and come to mean something, and how process relates to our understanding of what it is to be human. Covered: self-perception and self as process, the role of the sensing body, developing witnessing mechanics and capacities that deepen our relationship with "in formation." Stick with us - while this stuff can be squishy, it's absolutely fascinating and perhaps foundational to our phenomenology and experience of being alive and relating - intrapersonally, and interpersonally.

Also explored: the interplay between information, perception, and the understanding of self (they emphasize the importance of cultivating a conscious and neutral awareness of one's own experiences and responses, and why this matters). Diving deep into choice and attention and intention, courage and fear, self-awareness what that really means. Gordon shares, a story of developing more embodied awareness of witness via process-oriented art therapy, and Rachel shares an experience of walking herself through a panic attack. They round it out with another why - the importance of developing meta awareness and embodied cognition as essential as we navigate an increasingly fracturing reality.

Somewhere in there, Rachel introduces her triadic consciousness model, and Gordon is intrigued. Another Chris Farley SNL reference shows up along the way as well.

Takeaways

• Information as "in formation," as a process and a verb
• Humans as complex processors, body-minds working with infromation and in formation all the time
• Metacognition redefined as meta awareness - YES
• Cultivating conscious awareness and why it matters
• The significance of developing meta awareness and navigating a fracturing reality

Chapters

• 00:00 Engaging with "In Formation"
• 02:55 The Meaning of Process
• 06:53 Process Orientation and Self-Perception
• 10:00 Sensing Body and Perception
• 15:01 Witnessing and Neutrality
• 19:59 Metacognition and Natural Intelligence
• 28:45 Exploring Metacognition & Meta Awareness
• 29:19 Embodied Semantics and Depth Meaning
• 30:19 Relationality and Sensing Body
• 31:33 Internal and External Relating
• 32:30 Choice and Intention
• 33:11 Courage and Fear
• 33:54 Self-Awareness and Witnessing
• 42:26 Story Time: Process-Oriented Art Therapy, Metawareness and a Panic Attack
• 57:56 Triadic Consciousness