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The Experience Matrix: A New Cartography of Human Experience
Ask someone who they are and they answer with a list. Every item is true, none of them is the answer. That small vertigo is not a flaw in the question. It is the territory the Experience Matrix sets out to map.
From Environment to Context: Umgebung, Umwelt and the Experience Matrix
Two German words separate the environment as it objectively is from the world as it is lived. That distinction is the reason the Experience Matrix speaks of context rather than environment, and it changes what a practitioner listens for.
From the Identity Level to Identifications
Durkheim, Heidegger and Damasio converge on the same point from three directions: we cannot not identify. Which makes the identity level less a summit than a placeholder for something the model never named.
The Identity Trap in Traditional NLP
The intervention levels taught us that identity-level change runs deepest and comes hardest. What if the difficulty was never in the work, but in how we conceived of identity in the first place?
Wisdom Lives in Widening Circles
Twenty-four people known for their judgment turned out to share one unexpected trait: none of them experienced themselves as a fixed self. Caroline Bassett's map of wisdom lands remarkably close to the Meta space and the space of identifications.
Context Does More Than We Think
In 2020, two researchers, Roope Kaaronen and Nikita Strelkovskii, published a study in the scientific journal One Earth. They wanted to understand one specific thing: how a behaviour spreads through a group of…
What experts cannot tell you
Ask a skilled person how they do it, and the answer is usually wrong. Not because they hide it, but because competence disappears from view as it matures.
NLP 2.0: The Magic is You (and the Matrix Explains It)
“NLP doesn’t work. You work. NLP just explains perfectly how you work.“ This sentence, spoken by the New Zealand practitioner Richard Bolstad, has the merit of setting the record straight. For too long,…
When the “Second Brain” Devours the First
Reflections from the PKM Summit 2026 — Utrecht, March 2026. If PKM systems augmented by artificial intelligence become prostheses for our basic cognitive functions — memory, association, synthesis, judgement — then…