11 ■ Identity Matters
Integrating Our Uniqueness and Avoiding One-Size-Fits-All Traps
If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
—Maya Angelou
You went to somewhere to do something with an anticipated goal in mind, something you couldn’t do elsewhere and be the same Self.
—Jerome Bruner, Acts of Meaning
Identity matters, as we explored in chapter 4, are foundational to the ELVIS Framework. Now it’s time to examine identity as a critical design element—one of the seven Experiential Learning Variables & Indicators of ELVIS (see figure 16). In general, identity integration refers to the degree to which experiencers’ identities are revealed, considered, accommodated, and/or utilized within your design of ...
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