Human Survival
Field Guide.

SPECIMEN M15 / PAIR 08 · CONTROL Limb Looser

The releaser of attachments

COMPANION ILLUSTRATION

Freedom With A Forwarding Address

It discovered that every difficult knot could be solved by leaving the thread behind. This worked beautifully for travel and less beautifully for the bridge everyone was still crossing. The creature needed freedom. It had not yet learned that a handover can be part of an exit.

RELEASE · FLEXIBILITY · HANDOVER

THE NEED Freedom, flexibility and escape from commitments that exceed capacity.

THE USEFUL CAPACITY Lets go of outdated plans and makes room for a new route.

WHEN OVERUSED Drops a commitment without communicating, leaving others to discover what was released.

FIELD CHECK Ending a commitment or leaving an unsuitable situation can be necessary. This mode concerns leaving a feasible communication or handover undone when others are still relying on the arrangement.

HUMAN POWER / THE CONSIDERED RELEASE Release a commitment that no longer works, communicate a clear stopping point and arrange a feasible handover without surrendering the right to leave.

SMALL PRACTICE

Name what you can no longer carry. Where feasible, state what remains, your stopping point and who has agreed to take over.

MIRROR

What needs to be communicated before I let this go?

Freedom can include clear communication about what is being left behind.

FAMILIAR CUE I have freed myself from:

Escaped the knot. Left the promise attached.