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Relational Implicit

What we mean by Relational Implicit is the emergence of meaning in our interactions. We explore it as an embodied experience (somatic implicit), as a shared experience (shared implicit), and as the glue that binds societies together (collective implicit).

This exploration takes place within the context of a shift:
– from a model where people are seen as individual units, to the psychology of interaction;
– from a top-down, cognitive model to a bottom-up model where much is implicit as opposed to explicit.

Implicit means intangible. It does not mean ethereal. We are talking here about embodied experience.

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Felt sense & relational implicit process

A felt sense is something that happens really fast, below the radar of awareness. It’s in the same general category as a hunch, an intuition, or a gut feeling.

Implicit relational knowing: Interaction & the emergence of meaning

The phrase implicit relational knowing was first used to describe the way babies know how to watch and respond to their mothers.

Somatic Implicit: Embodied experience & felt sense

We implicitly respond to experience as we live it. These responses can be called self-states. They are a bottom-up, whole-organism response, as opposed to a top-down response

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Shared Implicit: The space of interpersonal connection

What happens in the space where interpersonal connection takes place? To the untrained eye, it’s an empty space.

Collective Implicit: The myths that bind us together

Myths are the glue that binds societies together, small tribes as well as countries or supranational entities.

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