Metis, Improv, & the Right Hemisphere
Instar: A new series of events where we come together to find another way of having group discussions without turning into a brain on a stick.
I haven't been satisfied with a lot of group spaces I've been in, they often feel too segmented — keep the intersubjective practice over here, the intellectual conversation over there, the emotional processing o'er yonder...
I want to spend more time experimenting with mixing them, with finding what's possible in discussing things that feel important in a way that feels grounded and tends towards including and supporting human wholeness — rather than asking us to suppress or put aside so much of ourselves.
For meeting one, I want to start with exploring one of the qualities I'm hoping to cultivate through meetings like this: Metis. Namely, I want to explore Peter Kingsley's definition of metis, alongside Iain McGilchrist's ideas on the hemispheres of the brain, plus some dipping into a Netflix improv show that ties into this discussion.
If you want to come, it'll be helpful if you check out some of these beforehand:
Middleditch & Schwartz on Netflix.
My article here, which has a relevant section on what I mean by metis, plus some background on McGilchrist and a little bit about why I think the comedy special is relevant.
Any basic blog posts or summaries of McGilchrist's work.
Whatever you feel is relevant. This is a collective thing, does anything cry out to you as deeply immediately relevant?
I'm keeping seats on this thing limited, so please only sign up if you're pretty sure you can & will come