The Formal Definition of the Wider Embraces

Wider Embraces is a method to evoke specific types of perspectives and experiences; this doesn’t mean that other perspectives and experiences are not true and real, they are just not a part of the Wider Embraces.

This checklist defines both what Wider Embraces evokes and what it does not:

• The Wider Embraces is founded on the question, “Who is Embracing?”.

• An Embrace can be defined by physical, biological or cultural boundaries or a combination of two or three of these.

• Boundaries are formed by common history (a species, an organisation, a family) and/or by present location (gathering, ecosystem, everyone on a bus). Types don’t form Embraces (men/women, blue/brown eyes, intro-/extroverts).

• Embraces are not created by us, we just become aware of them and aware as them. However, we can create the foundation for a specific Embrace, for example, when we form a group.

• To be able to sense and take the perspective as an Embrace, we have to be part of it.

• An Embrace is its own perspective and doesn’t have access to private information of its parts.

• An Embrace always holds all its parts unconditionally. The relations between parts are always conditional.