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—SPg—is a four-week process created to develop emotional maturity through observation, experimentation, and play.
Explore human behavior within the scope of design and system principles. Subtang Playground—SPg—is a four-week process created to develop emotional maturity through observation, experimentation, and play.

Repeat | Observe | Play

Subtang Playground simplifies and reinforces pattern-matching with repetition, observation, and play. In short, it brings you back to the Playground of your childhood, forget what you learned, and build a new framework for yourself.

MEET The Founder | Instructor | Design Director

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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.

Too many words for a system that’s mute

The problem

We overlook a critical fact about the limbic system, which shapes our emotional experiences, drives connections, regulates our internal balance, stores memory, and fuels motivation:
speaks no words.

Words complicate things for an old system, which begins developing with the maternal-fetal limbic connection long before higher cognitive functions emerge.

Due to its automated, rapid, and unconscious nature, the limbic system uses only five primary emotions to convey its messages efficiently. Each emotion reflects a connectivity and safety status, allowing us to adapt to our surroundings in milliseconds. Emotions help us navigate from point A to point B, guiding us on how to define and maintain boundaries along the way. What complicates things and breaks connections is that we attribute meanings to emotion than these functions listed above. Meaning is something the prefrontal cortex handles—the land of the conscious where our thoughts live. However, in the unconscious, driven by the limbic system, there is no meaning, only function.

Subtang mimics how emotion works to provide accurate data on that matter.
We overlook a critical fact about the limbic system, which shapes our emotional experiences, drives connections, regulates our internal balance, stores memory, and fuels motivation:
speaks no words.

Words complicate things for an old system, which begins developing with the maternal-fetal limbic connection long before higher cognitive functions emerge.

Due to its automated, rapid, and unconscious nature, the limbic system uses only five primary emotions to convey its messages efficiently. Each emotion reflects a connectivity and safety status, allowing us to adapt to our surroundings in milliseconds. Emotions help us navigate from point A to point B, guiding us on how to define and maintain boundaries along the way. What complicates things and breaks connections is that we attribute meanings to emotion than these functions listed above. Meaning is something the prefrontal cortex handles—the land of the conscious where our thoughts live. However, in the unconscious, driven by the limbic system, there is no meaning, only function.

Subtang mimics how emotion works to provide accurate data on that matter.
Focus on your direction
“What are you doing? going solo,
or are you in need of a connection?” 
“Depends on how I feel.”
You have an emotional binary code with an on-and-off switch: Safe and unsafe.
When things are going well in your comfort zone, joy kicks in. Joy indicates you can go solo and advises you relax, explore, or create. 

“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 values and innate talent that are not physical and your body.

WHY TO CONNECT

We’re a 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.

Subtang Playground

Regulate emotion, change perception, and learn to connect

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

Our reaction to a situation isn’t the same as emotion. Playground uses a framework that mirrors how we process emotion, helping us clear up any confusion and 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

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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Invest minutes to connect

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Workshops for companies

How does your company respond to change?

You can contact Isık Kavuzlu and arrange a workshop to gauge your company’s adaptability. This workshop is a valuable tool for understanding how your team reacts to change and its natural state when encountering the unknown.

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