7 ■ Control
Who Has It, How to Strategically Give It Away, and Why
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
—Carl Jung
Control is the next Experiential Learning Variables & Indicators System element, the second of the ELVIS 7 (see figure 11). Control is all about choice—who has the choices and who makes the decisions. Control is part of the concept of agency, or our power to affect the course of events of an experience. Our sense of agency is how aware of that power we are, or what we believe ourselves to be capable of. Recall that our sense of agency is linked to how we define our discomfort zones and what we think is “risky” for us. Now, as we are about to discover, agency is also closely linked to our power of choice during an ...
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