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<blockquote class="definition">The '''Enabling Context''' is the total environment — natural, built, relational, and cultural — that surrounds and shapes the developing self, performing the dual function of limiting what the self can do and enabling what the self can become.
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==Concept Map==

===Key Terms===

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[[Circle of Self]] > {{#ask:[[Is a key term::Circle of Self]]|format=ul}}

===Related LP Terms=== 

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===Non-LP Related Terms===

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== Notes ==
# Every context ''limits'' and ''enables''. The environment sets boundaries on what the self can experience and do: the child's world is bounded by the home, the neighborhood, the school, the values of the family and culture. At the same time, the environment ''enables'': it makes certain developmental outcomes, capacities, choices, and ways of being possible in the first place. Language, attachment, aspiration, skill, identity — none of these emerge from nowhere. Each is drawn from, and supported by, the context in which the self develops.
# A simple way to state the principle: '''no capacity, aspiration, or behavior can emerge from a context that does not support it.''' A self cannot develop what its context does not make available.
# The enabling context has at least four components:
#* '''The material context''' — the body, the natural environment, and the built environment (homes, roads, schools, workplaces). This is what exists at the beginning of life, before any ego has formed.
#* '''The relational context''' — the concentric circles of relation (primary caregivers, extended family, community, friends, school, leisure, work) through which the self is progressively formed. See [[Circle of Self]].
#* '''The motivational context''' — the biologically rooted push (instincts, needs) and the culturally rooted pull (norms, values, aspirations, symbols, narratives) that animate the self's movement through its circles.
#* '''The cultural context''' — the norms, values, symbols, narratives, art, and music a culture deploys, which supply the raw materials of identity and aspiration.
# The concept of the enabling context is closely tied to the question of [[Availability of Choice]]: because the self can only choose from what its context makes available, analyzing the enabling context is the first step in understanding what selves in a given time and place can become — and what they cannot.

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