Get back to Playground and learn to connect

Get back to Playground and learn to connect

Explore human behavior within the scope of design and system principles. Subtang Playground—Pg—is a four-week program designed to help you build up your emotional maturity through repetition, observation, and play. 
Explore human behavior within the scope of design and system principles. Subtang Playground—Pg—is a four-week program designed to help you build up your emotional maturity through repetition, observation, and play. 

Observe| Repeat| Play

Subtang is an emotional model that brings you back to your starting point—resetting your primary emotions so you can relearn how to build genuine connections.
You have an emotional binary code
with an on-off switch:
Safe and unsafe
Focus on your direction
Safe 

When things are going well in your comfort zone, Joy kicks in

When things are going well in your comfort zone, Joy kicks in

 Joy indicates you can go solo and advises you to relax, explore, or create. 
Unsafe

“Hey, pay attention! Something’s off”

“Hey, pay attention! Something’s off”

But when things get stressful and uneasy, Fear, Anger, Sadness, and Anxiety come to barge in, saying, “Hey, pay attention! Something’s off; you might need some help dealing with it.”

Fear, Anger, Sadness, and Anxiety indicate things you cannot handle solo. They nudge you toward connections—with yourself,* others, or your environment—to get back to your safe state. 
*Yourself refers to your body, innate talent, and values.

WHY TO CONNECT?

We’re wired-to-connect creatures

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In the physical world, we expand and get where we want to be through connections. Struggling to maintain connections or not establishing them at all causes prolonged stress. We become disconnected and accumulate dark patterns available in the field.

EMOTIONAL MATURITY SERIES

Playground

Imagine living in a society made up of individuals and leaders who focus on solutions rather than engaging in delusional loops; a society that concerns people’s natural state in the first encounter with the unknown; an adaptive culture that welcomes change, innocent receptivity, and creativity; what we call life. 

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Playground

Regulate emotions to change your perception

We perform 57 destructive behavioral patterns—varying across cultures—under intense stress.

Our reaction to a situation isn’t emotion. Playground uses a model that reflects emotional processing. It helps us clear confusion and better understand emotion. 

I examined hundreds of case studies published in the United States and everyday conversations, looking for a pattern in the keywords.

Isik kavuzlu

Invest to connect

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 Instructor | Design Director

Meet the founder

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I am Isik Kavuzlu, a design director who creates design solutions that promote human maturity. I specialize in identifying and explaining pattern structures in complex systems, especially human behavior, so you can see the conflict in your behavior without interference.

Workshop outline series

How mature is your
startup?

What if your teams have been overlooking valuable feedback?
Isik Kavuzlu facilitates workshops to alleviate interpersonal challenges between your team members and foster stronger company-wide connections.

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Book a one-hour session with Isik to
clarify your company’s vision, values, and interpersonal struggles.
Partner up with her to outline empowering, impactful, and
engaging workshops for your team members.

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