Lexicon

Atmospheres are felt qualities of Situations that are immediately perceived rather than consciously inferred. They contribute to how situations are experienced before reflection.

An optimised change of the entire explored Situation of the Prosopon in its lived environment. Often achieved through the Aspekte Panorama, objections and difficulties are taken into account in order to reach this desired state.

The extraction of individual details from Situations. Language facilitates the naming and connecting of details.

Feelings are not understood as privately-experienced inner states but as atmospheres experienced within the Situations that have created them.

Knowledge acquired of a Situation before inherent details have been fully explicated.

The quality in which a difference within a Situation is involuntarily noticed, for example location, distance, size, direction, brightness, clarity, volume or movement. Impression Attributes can bear Meaning.

A Situation encountered by the Prosopon with present applicability. A memory or imagination can also present as a known Situation.

Meaning characterises the Situation by which Prosopa are involuntarily affected. It is inherent to the Situation and perceived prior to thought or reflection.

The Prosopon (pl. Prosopa) is the human being (and indeed other animals) as a Situation involuntarily affected by other Situations.

It is not an “inner self”, a “personality”, or a social role.

The Prosopon is capable of perceiving the meaning, differences, and attributes of Situations.

Human beings are Prosopa with a capacity for language. Through language, the details of a Situation can be explicated.

Prosoponistics is the science, study, and application of work with Prosopa and the Situations through which human life unfolds. It investigates how Situations are perceived, understood and shaped.

A Situation is the meaningful whole within which people, objects, events and relationships acquire their significance. The meaning of a Situation is sensed prior to conscious thought.

A Situation in which multiple Prosopa are present.

A Shared Situation existing over a longer period in which multiple Prosopa live, learn, work and/or assume responsibility together (e.g. marriage, parenting, organisations, sports teams)

Intentional participation in shaping shared Situations.

A change through which a new Situation with new meaning comes into force.

A shared working Situation in which Situations are prosoponistically explored and shaped, implicit shared knowledge is acquired and new, specific working possibilities are developed.

To involuntarily take in the differences / attributes of a Situation.

German: Gewahren

Noticing, sensing, and explicating.

The immediate grasping of the significance of a Situation. It precedes reflection, conceptual thought, or analysis.

German: Spüren