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A few nights ago I ran a Coherence Therapy & IFS discussion group in SF with @nopranablem. I enjoyed the energy!
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I marketed this event as
a mix of both feelings content and technical content.
And I think that did describe it well. I really like social interactions that combine
abstract, technical discussion, and
intuition, feelings, and playfulness.
I spent the summer in SF, and from attending events then I realize that I don’t really like random hangouts. And I also don’t like dissociated technical discussions. And I also don’t really like purely feelings-y or meditation-y stuff. But I really like their synthesis.
It’s this kind of energy that I love about SPARC and ESPR (summer camps for talented teenagers I’ve been involved with and been staff for). My friend Kipply attended SPARC and later described it as “feelings camp for math campers”.
This is also the kind of energy that I loved about the program in Prague I was at for the last two months. Over lunch we would talk about the extent to which meditation can be explained by the theories of predictive processing and active inference. Or how recent AI advances can be nice metaphors for human cognition. Or how self-fulfilling prophecies affect cognition in counter-intuitive ways.
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That’s the energy. But how do I put it into better words to attract like-minded people to future events? Some ideas:
holistic curiosity
interdisciplinary pursuits of passion
technical inquiry that is grounded in intuition
introspection for the mathematically inclined
trying to understand the world with all the available tools
introspective social events for the technically-minded
abstract/ technical discussion and intuition/ feelings/ playfulness
What else? Do you have any ideas?
Thanks to Priya for help editing this post. Thanks to R for wording help.