What do people actually experience in the moments they describe as being seen or met?
Participatory sense-making: An enactive approach to social cognition
Adjacent
Introduces participatory sense-making: an enactive account of how people understand one another, in which their bodies and the dynamics of their interaction play a part, not only what happens in each person’s head.
The framework treats what happens between people as a source of meaning in its own right, which is close to what Circling takes as its object of attention. It gives research on the practice a vocabulary for the interaction itself, rather than only for what goes on inside each participant.
What it doesn’t show
A theory of social understanding, not a study of any practice.
Summary based on the authors’ own description of the framework; we haven’t read the full text.
Directions that build on it
- What being met is like
- Bodies in synchrony
Do participants’ physiology and movement synchronise during a circle, and does synchrony track felt connection?
Links
Cite
De Jaegher, H., & Di Paolo, E. (2007). Participatory sense-making: An enactive approach to social cognition. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 6(4), 485–507. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-007-9076-9