Just to add a little bit here… It’s important to understand that the fundamental driver of a Heat experience is emotional. It is a crossing of an emotional edge more than it is a cognitive one.

Now, emotional edge experience don’t guarantee that they will be transformative. This is where the other elements of the deliberately developmental design environment come into play. (read more to learn about the 4 meta design elements involved in transformative learning, and in vertical facilitation).

For instance, the Social Container, as a design element creates a psychologically supportive environment in which people can summon the courage to cross those emotional edges into potentially transformative possibilities. Meanwhile, Stretch Practices are practices and habits which people adopt, the adoption of which have the effect of deepening and consolidating the kinds of insights brought about by a given Heat experience.