Form of Life a public ethics instrument
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Practices

The repeatable forms that carry intention into ordinary conduct.

  1. 01

    Trajectory attention

    Yielding in shared movement is practiced as continuous spatial attention.

  2. 02

    Face-down phone

    Device placement makes attention to present company the default.

  3. 03

    Ready writing kit

    A carried writing medium keeps composition materially available.

  4. 04

    Full-duration communal attendance

    Remaining through the whole event treats duration as part of citizenship.

  5. 05

    Attentive audience practice

    Full attention recognizes each performer as part of a co-produced event.

  6. 06

    Cleanup as care

    Material help continues after the central social exchange has ended.

  7. 07

    Complete reply

    Replies attend to the whole message and calibrate to its intent and energy.

  8. 08

    Kind conversation exit

    Leaving an unwanted exchange without withdrawing kindness remains active work.

  9. 09

    Gratuity floor

    A material minimum turns economic recognition into repeatable conduct.

  10. 10

    Relational disclosure

    Relevant relational context is made visible even when disclosure is difficult.

  11. 11

    Body and energy check

    Capacity and need for rest are consulted before overriding the body.

  12. 12

    Honest, kind speech

    Present state is spoken under simultaneous constraints of honesty and care.

  13. 13

    Inquiry over winning

    Challenge is used to revise a position rather than defend status.

  14. 14

    Service recognition

    Routine service exchanges are opened into actual interpersonal attention.

  15. 15

    Intentional dress

    Aesthetic practice is carried through the dressed body in ordinary time.

  16. 16

    Bilateral skill practice

    A recreational protocol forces alternation between both sides of the body so the developmental aim is carried by the rules.

  17. 17

    Balance training

    Proprioception and balance are maintained as trainable channels whose learning transfers into ordinary movement.

  18. 18

    Dance as investigation

    Embodied creative practice treats movement as a mode of inquiry.

  19. 19

    Maintained reading diet

    Selection, material availability, repeated return, and integration into making distinguish maintained reading from casual consumption.

  20. 20

    Commissioned self-study

    Structured external instruments are commissioned, engaged on their own terms, and read against one another rather than treated as final.

  21. 21

    Framework versioning

    Written rules and visible versions make method available for use, critique, correction, and accountable revision.

  22. 22

    Bounded body experiment

    A time-bounded change is observed as an inquiry into bodily response; private clinical and substance particulars remain outside the public account.