Workflow - Definitions Flashcards - Sheet 1
Ability
One’s capacity to decide upon and perform meaningful actions.
Accessibility
The existence and clarity of a path between an object and a relevant intention.
Acknowledgement
An acceptance of an experience. A reflection of an object’s meaning to the degree that is available and accessible to consciousness.
Action
An attempt to influence change. May include varying degrees of play and work.
Adversity
An object or set of objects perceived as blocking, impeding, or obscuring the development of a meaningful intention. The object may be a state of conditions.
Agency
The degree to which we may create and decide non-reactively.
Artist
A person or group of persons who frame an experience. Does not exclude one from being an audience or member of an audience.
Associations
Thoughts, emotions, memories, symbols, images, patterns, or any other sense that comes to mind when an idea is in attention. Evidence of some form of connection or momentum of pattern, though its nature may not be consciously known.
Attention
An active observation of the contents of consciousness.
Audience
A person or group of people who consider, use, or participate in a work of art. Does not exclude one from being an artist, and vice versa.
Availability
The existence of an object relevant to an intention.
Avoidability
The absence of an object or a path to an object irrelevant to an intention.
Basic
A simple experiential component of an object or group of objects. May be considered an object itself.
Boundary
Anything delineating one side from another, be it a line or a description.
Cleanliness
The degree to which one arranges the environment to allow and promote agency.
Concrete Intention
A simple doable intention with a clear vision.
Confidence
A trust in one’s ability. A developed sense of one’s own capacity to meaningfully decide and act, such that it may be relied upon.
Constructive Intention
An intention felt as lacking in play but decided as useful to develop play either later or for other meaningful intentions.
Courage
The willingness to create flow within or through acknowledged adversity.
Craft
A field of knowledge or skill.
Crafting Conditions
An act of creating an organizational structure for an intention or its session.
Creative Intention
An intention with an unclear vision.
Creative Question
An attempt to resolve an unclear reality from present experience.
Creative Session
A session developing a creative intention.
Creative Space (Playground)
A designed set of conditions fostering play.
Creative Task
A task drafted towards realizing an unclear vision.
Creativity
A guidance of play in resolving an unclear vision.
Decision
A choice between intentions.
Dedication
The regularity with which one uses courage and confidence to cultivate meaning.
Distillation
A development of the intention to understand what is most basic to our own experience of an object or group of objects.
Elegance
Beauty and strength, often simple in nature, highlighted by the relief of invisibility. The highest marker of organizational maturity.
Error
A perceived deviation from a path toward vision.
Flow
A union of play and work in a process of self-actualization and fulfillment.
Focus
A process of aligning and sustaining attention upon an object.
Grouping
A process of organization in which items are placed within a same or similar category due to similarities between them.
Guide
An object, presenting to experience, assigned the purpose of calling or directing attention.