Summary
A deep disposition is, in the words of Getting Deep Part 1, “an underlying unconscious assumption about who we are, our relationships to each other and with the rest of life”. It’s our working term for the cultural orientations beneath conscious belief that shape how people meet every issue, making some ideas and actions feel more intuitive than others.
We began with ‘deep narrative’ and moved because what we’re pointing towards is “more like an orientation than a story”. We think of them as cultural habits: formed through repeated experience, held in place by many parts of our lives, and largely invisible to us. Part 2 calls them “messy emergent patterns”.
Rationale
The term lets us ask what a story expresses, reinforces or disrupts, and look past communications to the wider conditions. It’s provisional: “the vocabulary is still settling”, and other fields have their own names.