5 Depths of True Participation
How deep does your experience actually go?
The 5 Depths of True Participation
Every experience falls into one of these
1. Enactment: The frame holds. People are busy, maybe delighted, and nothing about how they see things has moved. Most of what gets called immersive lives here, and plenty of it should.
2. Recognition: Something becomes visible. They see the pattern, name it, nod. Recognition feels like change and isn’t. This is where most work that intends to go deeper quietly stops.
3. Encounter: The familiar response meets something it can’t absorb or defeat. There’s real friction. They can’t stay outside the question.
4. Release: Something that was organizing the whole frame stops being mandatory. A requirement, an identity position, a strategy loses its inevitability.
5. Integration: A different relationship is structurally available afterward. Nothing has to be announced as a lesson.