Being a mixed part of everything

Hybridity is something that I know from my spiritual background as a non-dualistic approach to being a mixed part of everything.
This approach means never belonging to any one thing but still being part of a system.

My role, or how I approach my work, is significantly informed by the practices of the weaver’s role.
The weaver is not the boss, but it’s the person who knows the system, pulls people in, and connects them.

A big mistake that I made at the beginning of my work was setting them all down and having them define interdisciplinarity because they’re so many different definitions or different modes of interdisciplinary working.

They took that task seriously and worked hard to find a shared definition that works for everyone.
This process led to an utterly inapplicable definition because it was trying to be a unifying theory of working that did not work.

At that point, I realized that it’s not about finding that one language, but it’s about finding some structure that allows for heterogeneity.

My hybridity, in that way, is the practice of holding space for uncertainty, which creates the setting where whatever comes up is a part of the process.

You can account for everything by taking every detail and putting it on the map, but that leaves you with the danger of forgetting something and offending someone.

So another way of accounting for everything is not just building a map but creating a map with the understanding that there is always something missing.

It is a shared understanding that if we realize that something is missing throughout the process, which we start to feel angry about, the anger is there, and it’s genuine, but it’s more important that it comes up and that we integrate it.


A structure that allows for heterogeneity