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Who are "these people"? I personally know lots of people working in this field and they are incredible experience designers. They deserve all the corporate money for their work. The ritualist and the company should be a good fit for each other, like any industry partnership.
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Ritual design is difficult and requires tons of practice. When done well it's very powerful. It's not as simple as a "breathing exercise". I hope this is recognized as a field so there's more experiments happening—there's a lot to learn by mixing spirituality and corporations.
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From the perspective of the spiritualist: if you're talented at experience design and running experimental workshops that get people to think about the world differently—you should totally get paid! Good for them. Artists end up doing corporate gigs and so should oracles.
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Some of the best wizards I know have to keep a day job, because there aren't many jobs for wizards. In a world where they could be a wizard as their day job, they would flourish! Get their 10,000 hours of magic in.
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Remember to not lump divination consultants and ritual designers as "hippies". It's a field with many disciplines. Recommend reading Odyssey Works: Transformative Experiences for an Audience of One or watching Jodorowsky's Psychomagic if you want to learn more about this!
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I’m not saying they shouldn’t get paid. I’m saying businesses shouldn’t be trying to bolt on meaning-making rituals to work environments at all. Let interested employees pursue such things in their personal lives as part of their spiritual/religious life.
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fwiw i think this take will come out on the wrong side of history. the little remaining barriers between work life and personal life are being obliterated. and if you want to continue going after the Brands you have to take this as a first principle
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It’s a bet. We’ll revisit in 10 years. I’d say a tiny minority of the workforce will be in environments like this, and majority will have highly functional relationships to work with few such superfluities. WFH, free agency, and API jobs will turn work into bare metal behaviors.
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These exercises are more like poetic acts than they are religion—but I think that’s why ritual designers need more practice and feedback around what works in a corporate setting. And of course, make it optional.
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