Experience Organization was founded by Morgan Goodlander and builds upon his previous work in Gestalt and context dynamics to create a
new consciousness-based, meta-experiential platform for human advancement. It represents a novel framework for understanding and engaging with the
human condition, offering a comprehensive method of exploring human experience and behavior.
Everything that happens in our lives, from birth to death, occurs in experience, as experience. Experience is the essential matrix through
which we construct our sense of self, orient ourselves, maintain our health, and find our way toward personal and professional fulfillment.
Given the self-evident truth of these statements, it becomes clear that any approach aimed at improving the human condition must prioritize
experience itself as deserving of our utmost attention. Consequently, Experience Organization is positioned at the center of the GETI project.
Theoretical Background
At its core, EO. is rooted in an experiential-constructivism framework, emphasizing the individual's ability to organize experience and make choices
within a foundational layer of consciousness. This consciousness gives rise to a phenomenological surround where lived experience is organized through the
soma and extended in an experiscape of sensory representations. A defining feature of EO. (Experience Organization) is the practice of identifying the
organizations of experience that emerge within everyday consciousness moment-to-moment. The theory positions consciousness as the
"quintessential" matrix in which experience arises, is organized, and life takes form. The all-pervasiveness of consciousness and its
fundamental role in supporting awareness and cognition provide EO. with a solid foundation for developing innovative practices.
Additional guiding principles of EO. are derived and extended from the Gestalt approach,Systems Theory, and Synergetics. These principles
play a vital role in focusing on how the holistic organization and positioning of human experience are mirrored in physical systems. They support
the E.O. perspective that human experience is not merely the sum of its individual elements but a fluid series of cohesive wholes that cannot be
predicted by their parts alone. EO. integrates proven non-reductionist observations from the past to formulate a contemporary understanding of
how individuals select and organize their experiences holistically and synergetically.
Ontology and Phenomenology are additional cornerstones of EO., delving into the nature of being and existence as they appear in lived experience.
These aspects of E.O. encourage exploration of how individuals experience their being and reality, and how the organization of this experience shapes their
beliefs and interactions with the world. The EO. approach advocates for non-judgmental observation and description of one’s own experiences, fostering a deeper
understanding of personal perceptions, emotions, and consciousness. Integral to the EO. approach is the phenomenology of creativity, imagination, meditation,
and mystical experiences as essential features of human adaptation, survival, progress, and fulfillment.
Concepts such as Morphic Resonance Symbiogenesis, and Autopoietic Theory which suggest that living systems are habitual, cooperative,
and self-replicating—are also integrated into EO. These concepts highlight the individual’s capacity for growth, adaptation, transformation, and
collaboration. This self-organizing aspect empowers individuals to comprehensively examine how their experience organization is co-created, replicated,
and made habitual between the self, others, and social systems.
Experience Organization offers a multidimensional and meta-experiential approach to understanding and
engaging with the human condition. It provides a unique
and comprehensive perspective on how individuals perceive, interpret, and interact with their world.