Gameworld Handbook

From Brianne Vaillancourt (and HERE) of the Chuckleberry Farm Archiarchy Invention Center in Canada.

In a project with a group of people it is possible that one or more person’s Gremlins can take over the people's perceptions, emotions, and mental story-telling functions reflexively, thinking it is a way to guarantee security by preventing the person's Box from changing. The Gremlin thinks it is ‘saving your life’, but all it is really doing is blocking your evolution along
your Path into adulthood.

Here are some approaches I have tried.

When I start noticing the Gremlin Takeover, I shift into Guardianshipmode and deliver clearfeedback: “Your unconscious, destructive Gremlin behavior isnot allowed in this space.” The feedback can trigger emotional Reactivity, and accentuate the Gremlin Takeover.

I have tried ‘Doing Nothing’– remaining neutral while holding a loving space. This automatically catalyzes Clarity. Usually, the state of Clarity disappears when the person walks out the door of the workspace I am holding, and they give their Center back to their Gremlin’s Stories again. Or, it disappears when they walk through the second, or third door.

Then I try Vacuum Learning to discuss the person’s true Purpose. I sincerely want to hear why they are running? I notice similar results to the ‘do nothing’ experiment (catalyzing Clarity). Often during Vacuum Learning they move their Center into their mind. They gain an intellectual understanding that does not permeate their other bodies, and therefore does not stick so nothing changes.

Then I take them into an Emotional Healing Process (EHP). Often, I have seen this accentuate the Gremlin Takeover. Part of the
Takeover has to do with them clinging to a personally created story of 'being in overwhelm', with Gremlin hijacking the
tools and processes and turning the transformational path into ‘trying to fix themselves’. By taking this purpose and turning it
inward, their nervous system becomes fried and an EHP is not appropriate anymore. Clever Gremlin...

Sometimes when a person approaches me with their ‘notice of departure’, I simply say, “Please wait until the ‘emergency’ passes.” In a handfulof cases, a person has stayed through one or more waves of the Gremlin Takeover, and I have seen that it can subside on its own, in its own time, if given support.

We also work to prepare people ahead of time by discussing the possibility of a Gremlin Takeover: what it looks like, what it feels like, what they might say or think or feel during that time… When we create Clarity ahead of time, we can make commitments to hold each other accountable when either person is going to go through a wave of Gremlin Takeover. This has worked for one Team of two people in the 4 years I have been here at Chuckleberry Farm.

Fierceness is required to Take a Stand for oneself and for each other, and for most people, this requires many Rage Clubs and 333 practice. Most people tell themselves the story, "This is too much work."

We ongoingly Build Matrix in our people through Rage Club, FearClub, Gremlin Transformation, Grief Training, EHP Dojos, and Intimacy Journeying. These initiatory processes are truly successful at building Matrix and developing Adulthood mass. But again, a lot of the tools and processes are quickly hijacked by Gremlin. The transformation does not stick because of Gremlin contamination of the Adult Egostate. Most people do not stay long enough for Gremlin Transformation and Egostate Decontamination to be possible in a meaningful way.

We have decided to only welcome people that are committed to staying for 1 year or more. During the conversaview, they are in a Fantasy World using S.H.I.T. (Standard Human Intelligence Thoughtware) pretending to make a ‘commitment’. Only a handful of people have kept their commitment. Most leave before the year ends, as they did not have the capacity (Matrix) for Commitment in the first place.

I learned over time to refine my scanning and questioning skills during the conversaview. This has paid off with helping to create a higher-quality Team. AND... the Gremlin Takeover still happens, regardless.

Our departure tradition is to have an appreciation circle where the whole Team appreciates the departing person’s Being. The person who is leaving is the last to speak. We ask them to appreciate their own Being, the Gameworld of Chuckleberry Farm, what they’ve learned, and how far they’ve come. Some people are really opened up and moved by the Appreciation Circle. Their Being comes forth. It is clear that they see that their leaving is running away, and their Being feels that pain. Sometimes they speak of that pain. Even with the whole Team holding space, they sink into a Liquid State, the Gremlin sitting on their side. But as soon as the space is closed, we watch in sadness as the Gremlin returns to the driver's seat and the person leaves the project.