The MIXO Model
A Universal Framework to Help Growth-Oriented Individuals Visualize and Build Meaningful Lives Through Their Aspirational Identity
Introduction to the MIXO Model
We designed the MIXO Model to serve as a universal tool for individuals to orient themselves according to their own unique identity, life circumstances, goals and aspirations. It is inclusively-designed such that it is not biased toward anyone perspective, belief set or culture. It is simply meant to be used as a tool to project your own personal ideas, interpretations and experiences toward whatever aim you want whether its self-discovery, self-healing, life planning, personal narrative generation, and much more.
Overview of the Primary Layers of the Model
The MIXO Model of four (4) primary elements that form the layers of a individual’s existence:
Layer 1: Identity
Common Sourced Definitions:
The distinguishing character or personality of an individual.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/identity
The fact of being, or feeling that you are, a particular type of person, organization, etc.; the qualities that make a person, organization, etc. different from others.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/identity
MIXO Definition:
Who you are and aspire to be at your core; the primary lens through which you envision, build, and live a meaningful life.
Layer 2: Transcendence
Common Sourced Definitions:
The quality and/or experience that goes past normal limits or boundaries, or the ability to achieve this state.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/transcendence
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/transcendence
MIXO Definition:
How you become immortalized through the actions you take, the value to provide, and the legacy you leave as you express your unique identity throughout the growth process.
Layer 3: Individuation
Common Sourced Definitions:
The general idea of how a thing is identified as an individual thing that "is not something else". This includes how an individual person is held to be different from other elements in the world and how a person is distinct from other persons.
Garber, Daniel; Ayers, Michael (2003). The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-century Philosophy, Volume 1. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 212.
The process by which the individual self develops out of an undifferentiated unconscious – seen as a developmental psychic process during which innate elements of personality, the components of the immature psyche, and the experiences of the person's life become, if the process is more or less successful, integrated over time into a well-functioning whole. Other psychoanalytic theorists describe it as the stage where an individual transcends group attachment and narcissistic self-absorption.
Hengehold, Laura (2017). Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy of Individuation: The Problem of the Second Sex. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 41.
MIXO Definition:
The process of personal development leading to the conscious awareness and actualization of your wholeness as a human being.
Layer 4: Context
Common Sourced Definitions:
The interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/context
The circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed.
https://www.activeminds.org/blog/putting-mental-health-into-context-solving-the-puzzle/#:~:text=Context%20is%20defined%20as%20the,be%20fully%20understood%20and%20assessed.
