Okayness

Prepared By Manu Melwin JoyResearch Scholar

School of Management StudiesCUSAT, Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114

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Content

• Definition.– Stewart and Jones (1987).– Claude Steiner (1974).– Novey (1993).– Harris and Harris (1985).

• Planetary Okayness.

Okayness

• Stewart and Jones (1987)

seemed to define the degree

of OKness a person feels as

the "essential value" (that

one perceives in oneself and

others.

• This implies that it is more

than just behaviour.

Okayness• Steiner (1974) gave a more

philosophical definition of OKness. • He said that Berne had a conviction

and "'faith in human nature“ about the OKness of people.

• As a result, we all are OK, even those who commit the most heinous deeds.

• Such individuals are not responsible for their genes or early backgrounds and thus are OK, even though their behavior is not.

Okayness

• For his part, Novey sees OKness

as meaning "I am an acceptable

human being, with the right to

live and meet my needs, and you

are an acceptable human being

with the right to live and get

your needs met.“

• For him, "rights" and

"acceptability" are used in

defining OKness.

Okayness

• Harris and Harris (1985) saw

OKness almost as a comparison

of following between a child and

his or her parents:

– Strength

– Power and

– Dependency

Planetary Okayness

• Another aspect of life positions is

taken up by Pearl Drego (2008).• He talked about the environmental

crisis affecting the earth as “scripty and suicidal”. It is a position of the extreme antisocial (I+ U-T-) or hopelessness (I-U- T-).

• Issues such as climate change, water shortages, marine pollution etc. are all global problems – that can overwhelm us with their scale and complexity.

Planetary Okayness

• It is at the small group level that

we can create and maintain

healthy life positions including

other groups, nations and

importantly future generations.

• Then maybe we can step back

from the hopelessly suicidal and

antisocially homicidal positions.

Thank You

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