Скачать или смотреть PLAY+ Podcast - Flow Theory Part 2 | The Next Now Cycle & Flow Correspondence

I break down the dipolar structure of play (https://playplus.substack.com/i/16559...) —Now as the static proposition (cue-aporia-trigger) where handlers have initiative, and Next as emergent interaction where dogs lead and handlers must become opportunity.


You’ll learn why engagement problems are really Next phase problems, how Next always precedes Now (https://playplus.substack.com/i/16559...) (you enter training through emergent interaction, not static setup), and why traditional training only covers half the cycle. The piece maps Flow Theory requirements onto the cycle (https://playplus.substack.com/i/16559...) —Clear Goals and Matched Challenge happen in Now, while Immediate Feedback and Merged Action-Awareness happen in Next.


I use footage from a liquid CupCake disc session (https://playplus.substack.com/i/16559...) to show how reading, coupling, and enriched marking enable flow through running vaults that can’t be drilled as studio tricks. This covers the pulse of play that makes cooperative performance possible—the infinite loop of proposition and emergence that creates genuine teamwork.


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