Here we describe four zones of proximity and reach, helpful in framing the situation of an activist and the scope of an activist or formation of activists.
This is a branch of The foprop weave.
The four zones constitute four framings of the situation of an activist (or any person) in relation to whatever is to-hand in the field of awareness, moment-to-moment; which is to say, a framing of **conditions for responding in the world**, at a particular time.
Four zones of proximity and reach
The (contents of the) zones are understood as cycling necessarily in their turn to the top of the stack of awareness: four modes in which time and place may be present to the actor, four extents of ‘reach’ in action and intention. Awareness of all four is mobilised skilfully and necessarily in activist practice.
The zones may seem at first sight to differ in intrinsic scale. But all are ‘the same size’, in the sense that depth of discrimination within a zone and depth of participation in an action in a zone is the same for a person, in all zones; and that the ‘size’ of this is the ’size’ of the consciousness of the person - the largeness of their mind.
Thus all four zones potentially have parity as spaces within which an activist may act, with consequences out-there.
All actions are necessarily conducted, in fact, in all zones: no actual action can be conducted in any zone without consequent and possibly consequential action occurring - knowingly or unknowingly - in another. Ripples are unavoidable. The purpose of the mapping is to facilitate management of the rippling, from the 'smallest' through the 'largest' zone of reach.
The four zones of proximity and reach are adopted as the foundation of four Faculties in a distibuted, ongoing activist practice of formación in **Making the living economy**. College of conviviality