What we now say at the workshops' opening session is that the techniques folks are about to learn aren't the skills that e.g. the CFAR instructors actually use, but that they form components of a "soup" that we do actually use

Yes, this is what I was attempting to say. Thanks for phrasing it so concisely!

the general system 1 expectation that problems are soluble, that difficult or magical-looking skills are secretly made up of simple components, that you yourself are made of components that are simpler and sillier than you might think (and that it's agenty to acknowledge that and plan training exercises for yourself, instead of expecting to 'just use your freewill'), etc.

Also this!