NB: 'Pre-treatment and PIEs in the micro-social world' is the title of an essay that appears in two collections of essays. The first, published in Autumn 2023, is 'Unfinished business', a collection of essays by Robin Johnson (HERE)

The second, Pretreatment in multiple fields of practice, is a collection of essays by Jay Levy and other contributors from both the US and the UK, the most recent in a string of books on Pre-treatment by Jay S. Levy. For more on Levy's work, see the Pretreatment pages HERE

Individuals and environments

In this essay Robin goes further in exploring the connective tissue between PIEs and the Pretreatment approach, with a novel suggestion, derived from a quite novel approach to biology.

This is the concept of the 'Umwelt', meaning 'the world (or the environment) as it is experienced by each individual' : HERE. Whether in 1-1 interactions, or in groups or communities, such relationships between persons are as much a part of 'the environment' as any physical world.

The micro-social world of humans is about individuals, but individuals in context; it includes the relationships we have with others.  In particular it includes the relationships we can create and offer through emotionally intelligent service design, flexible but still organised; and this includes the beliefs and working ideas that we bring to these relationships, and the ways we may express them.

Here Johnson then offers multiple examples of uses of the environment that enhance engagement; with links that you will find here to PIElink Library items, and elsewhere..

All PIE publications : HERE

Related pages

Unfinished business - the book : HERE

What is an environment? : HERE

The Umwelt : HERE

Outreach, pathways, environments without buildings : HERE

Roll out and top-to-toe embedding : HERE

Other related PIElink pages

Pretreatment : HERE

American PIE? : HERE

Will there be a PIEs 3? : HERE

'.... a tent in the woods' : HERE - next!

'....a piece of cardboard in a doorway' : HERE - next!

'.....a dog on a string' : HERE

'....railway arches' : HERE - next!

A small sample of proxemics videos : HERE, HERE, and HERE

The nursing touch : HERE

Leonie Boland's photography in  home-making project : HERE

Simon Community Glasgow's Access Hub

A walk in the park : HERE

Car, bus, tram or unicorn? (why my car is a psychologically informed environment) : HERE

YPeople's Clubhouse : HERE and HERE

Durham's Gap project : HERE

One25 in Bristol : HERE

Bristol Bull Ring PIE (CSIS) :  HERE

WATW : HERE

Proactive : HERE soon

FEANTSA : HERE

Canada : HERE