Evaluation Questionnaire

Evaluation Questionnaire

This will be long, but an evaluation is supposed to last a week to a few months depending on how the being answers the questions.

This can be used for any and all beings, physical shifters/nonhuman or not, but is geared towards those who are physically transitioning.

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> Before ferilan label/before shapeshifting.

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Are you exploring elaferi culture as your own or as a curious cat? Do you want to watch us grow or partake in our culture?

What makes you sure that you are ferilan and not another term? How would you define physical nonhuman vs elaferi culture and what do they mean to you?

What does it mean to be an animal? Do you exclude humans as animals?

How would you go about expressing elaferi culture? How does this alter your everyday?

What does shapeshifting or embodiment/species transition offer for you? Is it safe? Possible?

Are you researching as much as possible? Mythology? HRT? Surgeries? Body mods?

Are you prepared for rejection in regards of your shapeshifting, your transition, and your beliefs?

Will you be healthily engaging in the culture? How does that look for you?

Financially, are you able/willing to go "DIY or die?" Are you able to go punk, anti-materialistic? What if you need to return to relying on other structures? Will you?

What does your ideal life look like? In a different place or time?

How will technologies like biohacking, witchcraft, and transhumanist practices help?

Are you an advocate for species welfare? Do you understand animal welfare vs rights.

What history do you have in regards to shapeshifting?

> After ferilan label/after shapeshifting.

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If you know you are a specific being, what is it? What do you look like? Have you drawn it?

What and where is your auris currently being felt? Did you have extra limbs? A longer nose?

Did this species you shifted into flicker? What were the shifts like? Intense? Relaxing? Did they answer your questions?

How has your specieal identity evolved over time? Has it impacted your religion, culture, gender, sex?

Relations as your species- Good? Bad? Nuanced?

How do you view other species in your vicinity/habitat? Are the prey respected? Are predators feared?

What does it mean to be you?

Will elaferi practices help prepare you for embodiment and species transition?

Do you feel complete and whole or is there still a hole?

Did you use witchcraft or preform a ritual?