In descending levels of meta that may occur on the list:
1) Discussing what purposes we should or shouldn’t use ritual for
2) Discussing how how many events should be held throughout the year, what types of events they should be, how similar or different they should be, how many people should we attempt to bring to them, which groups we should be targeting, how should various events be thematically tied together
3) How should the emotional arc of a particular event be? In the case of the Winter Solstice, how far do we want to push emotions in particular directions (it gets at least somewhat grim before it becomes uplifting—do we want just a little grim, or should people actually be, like, crying at the unfairness of the universe, before we start
4) Events have numerous “niches” that need filling. The Winter Solstice, for example, needs a combination of fun/loud songs, silly stories, quieter/prettier songs, grimly realistic songs/stories, and then uplifting songs/stories. It doesn’t matter what specific pieces fill those niches, as long as they all fit together harmoniously.
5) Feedback on individual songs, stories and potentially other activities.
Earlier in the year, I posted most of my thoughts regarding all of these levels of the design process. I didn’t end up getting enough response to be worth the time to distill my thoughts into organized e-mails, so eventually I started working off the list. But as the Winter Solstice approaches I’ll be soliciting more feedback, specifically for 3, 4 and 5.
Could you give an example of “ritual-meta-discussion”?
In descending levels of meta that may occur on the list:
1) Discussing what purposes we should or shouldn’t use ritual for
2) Discussing how how many events should be held throughout the year, what types of events they should be, how similar or different they should be, how many people should we attempt to bring to them, which groups we should be targeting, how should various events be thematically tied together
3) How should the emotional arc of a particular event be? In the case of the Winter Solstice, how far do we want to push emotions in particular directions (it gets at least somewhat grim before it becomes uplifting—do we want just a little grim, or should people actually be, like, crying at the unfairness of the universe, before we start
4) Events have numerous “niches” that need filling. The Winter Solstice, for example, needs a combination of fun/loud songs, silly stories, quieter/prettier songs, grimly realistic songs/stories, and then uplifting songs/stories. It doesn’t matter what specific pieces fill those niches, as long as they all fit together harmoniously.
5) Feedback on individual songs, stories and potentially other activities.
Earlier in the year, I posted most of my thoughts regarding all of these levels of the design process. I didn’t end up getting enough response to be worth the time to distill my thoughts into organized e-mails, so eventually I started working off the list. But as the Winter Solstice approaches I’ll be soliciting more feedback, specifically for 3, 4 and 5.
I see, thank you.