Dorset NLP Forum May 2012 - Evolution

NLP Dorset Forum – May 31, 2012

EvolutionEvolutionEvolutionEvolutionMike Forte Mike Forte -- J.O.A.T.; M.O.N.J.O.A.T.; M.O.N.Mike Forte Mike Forte -- J.O.A.T.; M.O.N.J.O.A.T.; M.O.N.


...Natural Selection...Natural Selection...Natural Selection...Natural Selection...Natural Selection...Natural Selection

...Holons...Holons...Holons...Holons...Holons...Holons

...Brain...Brain...Brain...Brain...Brain...Brain

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Part 1...Part 1......Brain stuff......Brain stuff...

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NLP Dorset Forum – May 31, 2012 Blame Amidala...!!!Blame Amidala...!!!



• The choices we make in day-to-day life are prompted by impulses lodged deep within the nervous system — to put the matter plainly — we have no idea what we’re doing.

• ...[There are]...two modes of thinking: System 1 is intuitive, System 2 is logical.

–– System 1 “operates automatically and quickly, with little or no System 1 “operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control.” We react to faces that we effort and no sense of voluntary control.” We react to faces that we perceive as angry faster than to “happy” faces because they perceive as angry faster than to “happy” faces because they contain a greater possibility of danger. contain a greater possibility of danger.

–– System 2 “allocates attention to the effortful mental activities that System 2 “allocates attention to the effortful mental activities that demand it, including complex computations.” It makes decisions demand it, including complex computations.” It makes decisions —— or thinks it does. We “normalize” irrational data either by or thinks it does. We “normalize” irrational data either by organizing it to fit a madeorganizing it to fit a made--up narrative or by ignoring it altogether.up narrative or by ignoring it altogether.

The Amygdala made me do it...!!!The Amygdala made me do it...!!!


NLP Dorset Forum – May 31, 2012 Blame Amygdala...!!!Blame Amygdala...!!!

6NLP Dorset Forum - Thursday May 31st 2012From: Scientific American April 2012From: Scientific American April 2012


NLP Dorset Forum - Thursday May 31st2012From: Scientific American April 2012From: Scientific American April 2012


NLP Dorset Forum - Thursday May 31st2012From: Scientific American April 2012From: Scientific American April 2012

MuShin No ShinMind of ‘no mind’


• Brain Regions and functions:– Frontal lobe - self-control, judgment, emotional

regulation; restructured in teen years– Parietal lobes - integrate auditory, visual, and tactile

signals; immature until age 16– Occipital lobe - the visual processing centre– Temporal lobes - emotional maturity; still developing

after age 16– Cerebellum - motor control. It may also be involved

in some cognitive functions such as attention and language, and in regulating fear and pleasure responses,

– Corpus callosum — connects the left and right cerebral hemispheres - intelligence, consciousness and self-awareness; reaches full maturity in 20’s

– Amygdala(e) - almond-shaped groups of nuclei located deep within the medial temporal lobes of the brain in complex vertebrates, including humans. Shown in research to perform a primary role in the processing and memory of emotional reactions. Fight, Flight, Freeze function

– Hippocampus - consolidation of information from short-term memory to long-term memory and spatial navigation

Welcome to your brain...Welcome to your brain...



The brain is still developing during the teen years Dr. Jay The brain is still developing during the teen years Dr. Jay GieddGiedd of of the NIMH has reported that brain “the NIMH has reported that brain “maturation does not stop at maturation does not stop at age 10, but continues into the teen years and even into the 20’s. age 10, but continues into the teen years and even into the 20’s. What is most surprising is that you get a second wave of What is most surprising is that you get a second wave of overproduction of gray matter, something that was thought to overproduction of gray matter, something that was thought to happen only in the first 18 months of life (Begley, 2000).” happen only in the first 18 months of life (Begley, 2000).”

......Following the overproduction of gray matter, the brain undergoes Following the overproduction of gray matter, the brain undergoes a process called “pruning” where connections among neurons a process called “pruning” where connections among neurons in the brain that are not used wither away, while those that are in the brain that are not used wither away, while those that are used stayused stay——the the “use it or lose it” “use it or lose it” principle.principle.

...It is thought that this pruning process makes the brain more ...It is thought that this pruning process makes the brain more efficient by efficient by strengthening the connections that are used most strengthening the connections that are used most often, and eliminating the clutter of those that are not used at all.often, and eliminating the clutter of those that are not used at all.

Pruning and tuning...Pruning and tuning...



Time-lapse MRI images of human-brain development between ages five and 20 show the growth and then gradual loss of gray matter, which consists of cells That process information. (Red areas contain more gray matter, blue areas less.)

Paradoxically, the thinning of gray matter that starts around puberty corresponds to increasing cognitive abilities. This probably Reflects improved neural organization, as the brain pares redundant connections and benefits from increases in the white matter that helps brain cells communicate.

White... The new Grey...White... The new Grey...



[in teenagers]...the frontal lobes — are not fully connected. It's the part of the brain that says: 'Is this a good idea? What is the consequence of

this action?’ It's not that they don't have a frontal lobe. And they can use it. But they're going to access it more slowly.

That's because the nerve cells that connect teenagers' frontal lobes with the rest of their brains are sluggish. Teenagers don't have as much of the fatty coating Teenagers don't have as much of the fatty coating called myelin, or "white matter," that adults have in this areacalled myelin, or "white matter," that adults have in this area.

Think of it as insulation on an electrical wire. Nerves need myelin for nerve signals Nerves need myelin for nerve signals to flow freely. to flow freely. Spotty or thin myelin leads to inefficient communication between one part of the brain and another...

Human and animal studies, have shown that the brain grows and changes brain grows and changes continually in young peoplecontinually in young people——and that it is only about 80 percent developed in and that it is only about 80 percent developed in adolescents. The largest part, the cortex, is divided into lobes that mature from adolescents. The largest part, the cortex, is divided into lobes that mature from back to front. The last section to connect is the frontal lobe, responsible for back to front. The last section to connect is the frontal lobe, responsible for cognitive processes such as reasoning, planning, and judgment. Normally this cognitive processes such as reasoning, planning, and judgment. Normally this mental merger is not completed until somewhere between ages 25 and 30mental merger is not completed until somewhere between ages 25 and 30—much later than these two neurologists were taught in medical school.–– Prof. Frances Jensen Prof. Frances Jensen –– Harvard University Harvard University –– Professor of Neurology Professor of Neurology -- Expert on Epilepsy Expert on Epilepsy

and Brain Development...and Brain Development...

Nerve Insulation...Nerve Insulation...



Part 2...Part 2......The BIG Stuff......The BIG Stuff...



So... So... Is it Evolution or Creation?Is it Evolution or Creation?

Your final answer please...Your final answer please...14NLP Dorset Forum - Thursday May 31st 2012


God Particle... Or God?God Particle... Or God?“...In very simple terms, physicists have to break stuff to find stuff. They get to use the scientific principles of a 2 year old toddler and smash things together to see what comes off… albeit in a much more ‘controlled’ environment.

The ‘God Particle’, or ‘Higgs Boson’ as it is scientifically referred to, is a hypothetical particle which physicists believe gives atomic particles, and as a result everything else, mass.

Physicists across the globe are conducting experiments to try and prove it’s existence.

Right now, nobody knows why particles acquire mass, and that is a hole that has existed in the standard model for 50 years...”

(and if it has been a hole for 50 years then we can assume that the hole was there for time immemorial before that... Right...?)

“If you don’t know me by now...

Then you’ll never, never, never, know me ahaaahhhh...”

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Are you sure about this one... Are you sure about this one... I have serious misgivings...I have serious misgivings...

Creation ...Creation ...The Universe and stars.. Pretty...The Universe and stars.. Pretty... Planets.. That’s nice...Planets.. That’s nice...

Mountains and streams.. Mountains and streams..

On a roll here...!!!On a roll here...!!!



http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/therm/entrop.html

Entropy v ChangeEntropy v Change

Disorder is Disorder is More probable More probable than order...than order...


http://hyperphysics.phy

NLP Dorset Forum – May 31, 2012 Evolution Evolution ain’tain’t easy...!easy...!

Let’s take the Development of the bird’s wing:Let’s take the Development of the bird’s wing:•• First off... Remember that most mutations are harmful, if not deadly... First off... Remember that most mutations are harmful, if not deadly... They lead to one thing... You’re dinner...They lead to one thing... You’re dinner...•• A wing is a modified forelimb... Okay... Got that bit...A wing is a modified forelimb... Okay... Got that bit...•• Think about the number of mutations that would be needed to develop Think about the number of mutations that would be needed to develop a single feather... a single feather... •• On a single forelimb... On a single preOn a single forelimb... On a single pre--bird creature...bird creature...•• Now extrapolate that to multiple feathers symmetrically arranged on Now extrapolate that to multiple feathers symmetrically arranged on both forelimbs...both forelimbs...•• On two individualsOn two individuals•• Of the OPPOSITE sex...Of the OPPOSITE sex...•• ...and they meet.... Have dinner... Fall in love... Etc......and they meet.... Have dinner... Fall in love... Etc...•• Maybe Evolution doesn’t totally exclude Divine Intervention?Maybe Evolution doesn’t totally exclude Divine Intervention?


NLP Dorset Forum – May 31, 2012 Nothing’s perfect ...Nothing’s perfect ...

Sorry guys... Sorry guys... Evolutionary dead Evolutionary dead

end... Let’s go back...!end... Let’s go back...!


NLP Dorset Forum – May 31, 2012 And on the eighth day ...And on the eighth day ...



Part 3...Part 3......Holon a minute...!...Holon a minute...!


NLP Dorset Forum – May 31, 2012 Time to meet ‘Holon’...Time to meet ‘Holon’...

Hold on... What’s a Holon?Hold on... What’s a Holon?

Well... Pretty much everything is a Holon... (including YOU...!)

Which is just as well really, as it is the building block of the Theory of Everything (ToE)

The term ‘Holon’ was coined by Arthur Koestler in 1967, in his seminal book ‘The Ghost in the Machine’...

He defined a Holon as ...” something that is simultaneously a whole and a part”...

One of the characteristics of Holons is that they arrange themselves into ‘Holarchies’...


NLP Dorset Forum – May 31, 2012 A ‘Holarchy’...A ‘Holarchy’...

Each Holon, at each level in the Holarchy is the sum of all the Holons beneath it in the Holarchy (that’s why Holarchies are different from Hierarchies)

The Holons ‘Sub-atomic particles’ are constituents of the Holon ‘Atom’;The Holons ‘Atoms’ are constituent parts of the Holon ‘Molecule’;The Holons ‘Molecules’ are constituent parts of the Holon ‘Cells’... And so on...



Holarchies are measured in terms of span and depth. The higher up the Holarchy you look, the greater the depth.

As a general rule, the higher you go up the Holarchy, the smaller the span.

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If you remove a layer of Holons in a Holarchy, all of the layers above it will cease to exist; but the reverse is not true.

So, if you were to destroy all molecules in existence, then cells could not exist... But atoms could.

Remove this layer...

THESE CAN NO LONGER EXISTTHESE CAN NO LONGER EXISTBut the layers below would continue to existBut the layers below would continue to exist

A ‘Holarchy’...A ‘Holarchy’...


NLP Dorset Forum – May 31, 2012 Other examples of Holarchies...Other examples of Holarchies...

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NeighbourhoodNeighbourhoodEstateEstateRoadRoad

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...”A significant feature of ...”A significant feature of Koestler's concept of Koestler's concept of holarchyholarchy is that it is open ended is that it is open ended both in the both in the macrocosmic as well as in the microcosmic dimensionsmacrocosmic as well as in the microcosmic dimensions. This aspect of his theory has . This aspect of his theory has several important implications. The several important implications. The holarchicholarchic system does not begin with strings or end system does not begin with strings or end with the with the multiversemultiverse. Those are just the existing limits of the reach of the human mind in the . Those are just the existing limits of the reach of the human mind in the two dimensions at the present time. Those two dimensions at the present time. Those limits will be crossed later on because they do limits will be crossed later on because they do not encompass the whole of reality. “not encompass the whole of reality. “

“Popper (Objective Knowledge) teaches that “Popper (Objective Knowledge) teaches that what the human mind knows and will ever what the human mind knows and will ever know of truth at a given point of time and space is verisimilitude know of truth at a given point of time and space is verisimilitude -- something like truth, and something like truth, and that the human mind will continue to get closer to reality but never reach it. that the human mind will continue to get closer to reality but never reach it. In other words, In other words, the human quest for knowledge is an unending journey with innumerable grand sights the human quest for knowledge is an unending journey with innumerable grand sights ahead but with ahead but with no possibility of reaching the journey's end. “no possibility of reaching the journey's end. “

The work of modern physicists designed to discover the theory of everything (TOE) is The work of modern physicists designed to discover the theory of everything (TOE) is reaching deep into the microcosm under the assumption that the macrocosm is eventually reaching deep into the microcosm under the assumption that the macrocosm is eventually made of the microcosm. ..”made of the microcosm. ..”



...Spiral Dynamics......Spiral Dynamics...

...Jung / Graves......Jung / Graves......Jung / Graves......Jung / Graves...


...Jung / Graves......Jung / Graves...




Part 4...Part 4......Carl and Clare......Carl and Clare...

...What a pair!!!...What a pair!!!



Nikolaas Tinbergen/ Nikolaas Tinbergen/ Konrad Lorenz / Konrad Lorenz / Paul EkmanPaul Ekman––Evolutionary Psychology / Evolutionary Psychology / The Human Condition / The Human Condition / Cultural Universals / MicroCultural Universals / Micro--Expressions / EthologyExpressions / Ethology

Jungian Psychology Jungian Psychology --Collective Collective Unconsciousness / Unconsciousness / ArchetypesArchetypes

Joseph Campbell / Joseph Campbell / Alexander EliotAlexander Eliot--The Hero’s Journey / The Hero’s Journey / The Monomyth / The Monomyth / Global MythsGlobal Myths

Clare Graves / Ken Wilber /Clare Graves / Ken Wilber /Don BeckDon Beck––Spiral Dynamics /Spiral Dynamics /Theory of Everything / Theory of Everything / AQAL / IntegralAQAL / Integral

Schools of thought onSchools of thought onInherited social memory...Inherited social memory...



Collective Unconscious Collective Unconscious --Universal Archetypal ProcessesUniversal Archetypal Processes

Anima / Animus Anima / Animus ––Opposite Sex QualitiesOpposite Sex Qualities

Shadow Shadow ––Denied Psychic MaterialDenied Psychic Material

Subconscious MemoriesSubconscious Memories

Persona Persona ––Projected Image / MaskProjected Image / Mask

Conscious Ego Conscious Ego ––Own Self ImageOwn Self Image

The Jung Man’s ViewThe Jung Man’s View



These symbolic primordial images reflect basic patterns or universal themes common to us all which are present in the unconscious and exist outside space and time.

We’re all preWe’re all pre--programmed to look for programmed to look for archetypes in our everyday lives, because they archetypes in our everyday lives, because they serve as a framework for our understanding of serve as a framework for our understanding of the world.the world.

ArchetypesArchetypes



• Jung believed that a human being is inwardly whole, but that most of us have lost touch with important parts of our selves. • Through listening to the messages of our dreams and waking imagination, we can contact and reintegrate our different parts. • The goal of life is individuation, the process of coming to know, giving expression to, and harmonising the various components of the psyche. • If we realise our uniqueness, we can undertake a process of individuation and tap into our true self. • Each human being has a specific nature and calling which is uniquely their own, and unless these are fulfilled through a union of conscious and unconscious, the person can become sick.

• Jung argued that the alchemical process was the transformation of the impure alchemical process was the transformation of the impure soul (lead) to perfected soul (gold), and a metaphor for the individuation processsoul (lead) to perfected soul (gold), and a metaphor for the individuation process..

Individuation = Transformation = AlchemyIndividuation = Transformation = Alchemy

IndividuationIndividuation



••ArchetypesArchetypes seek seek actualisationactualisation within the context of an individual's within the context of an individual's environment and environment and determine the degree of individuationdetermine the degree of individuation. Jung also used the . Jung also used the terms "evocation" and "constellation" to explain the process of actualisation. terms "evocation" and "constellation" to explain the process of actualisation.

••Thus for example, Thus for example, the mother archetype is actualised the mother archetype is actualised in the mind of the child in the mind of the child by the evoking of innate by the evoking of innate anticipations of the maternal archetype anticipations of the maternal archetype when the child when the child is in the is in the proximity of a maternal figure proximity of a maternal figure who corresponds closely enough to its who corresponds closely enough to its archetypal templatearchetypal template. .

••This This mother archetype mother archetype is built into the is built into the personal unconscious personal unconscious of the child as a of the child as a mother complexmother complex. Complexes are functional units of the personal unconscious, in . Complexes are functional units of the personal unconscious, in the same way that archetypes are units for the collective unconscious.the same way that archetypes are units for the collective unconscious.

Actualisation Actualisation


NLP Dorset Forum – May 31, 2012 A Man called Clare...A Man called Clare...

•• “Briefly, what I am proposing is “Briefly, what I am proposing is that the psychology of the mature that the psychology of the mature human being is an unfolding, human being is an unfolding, emergent, oscillating, spiralling emergent, oscillating, spiralling process marked by progressive process marked by progressive subordination of older, lower subordination of older, lower --behaviour systems to newer behaviour systems to newer higherhigher--ordered systems as man’s ordered systems as man’s existential problems change.”existential problems change.”

Clare W Graves


NLP Dorset Forum – May 31, 2012 Jung / Graves Model Jung / Graves Model or Graves / Jung Modelor Graves / Jung Model

•• Graves took the Jungian concepts of Graves took the Jungian concepts of Archetypes and Individuation and created a Archetypes and Individuation and created a (much needed!) sequence which applied to (much needed!) sequence which applied to humans both individually and collectively...humans both individually and collectively...

•• ..and so was born the Dynamic Spiral...!!!..and so was born the Dynamic Spiral...!!!•• ... and Integral theory...... and Integral theory...•• ...and AQAL......and AQAL...


NLP Dorset Forum – May 31, 2012 Graves / Jung Model...Graves / Jung Model...

L8-Turquoise The colour of the oceans and Earth as viewed from space

L7-Yellow Solar power and alternative technologies

L6-Green Green politics, forests, and ecological consciousness

L5-Orange Radiating energy of steel in an industrial furnace

L4-Blue The sky, the heavens, and the “true blue” believer

L3-Red Hot blooded emotions and the “fire in your eyes”

L2-Purple The royal colour of tribal chiefs and monarchs

L1-Beige Savanna grasslands



Stage One: Survivor/Transitional-Object

Consciously, the first stage consists of surviving, the psychological base ofexistence.

Whether or not adult humans ever had this as their highest stage, eventoday infants who have not yet formed a trusting bond with their caregiversare principally engaged in mere survival.

Since this stage gives no opportunity to the social instinct, the latter isrepressed to the unconscious, from whence it may gradually emerge inattachment to some personified object, (e.g., a favourite cuddly toy).

L1-Beige Savanna grasslands

Level 1Level 1



L2-Purple The royal colour of tribal chiefs and monarchs

Stage Two: Truster / Trickster

This stage arises when fantasy proves so inadequate that individuals seek real families/tribes, for which fantasies have partly prepared them by letting them practice with extensions of themselves.

Stage Two requires trust, the sine qua non of tribal life, dependent on having sufficient faith in its culture to acquire a language, mythology, and other normative patterns.

Graves’s phrase for this stage was “Sacrifice Self Now for the Tribe….”.

Level 2Level 2



L3-Red Hot blooded emotions and the “fire in your eyes”

Level 3Level 3

Stage Three: Unscrupulous Competitor/Hero

While developing from infancy to early childhood, individuals usually evolve from trustingly basking in the family or tribe (Stage Two) to competing with one another for attention and with their parents for authority (Stage Three).

In societies, Stage Three arrives when internal or external problems cause what was a tribe to learn the military techniques to conquer its neighbours and the political ones to turn its temporary war chief into a permanent monarch (with a pecking order of lesser winners beneath him or her).

Graves phrased Stage Three: “Express self now, the hell with others.” Since healthy maturation constantly adds skills, Stage Three should retain caring for kin (learned at Stage Two), but this places no restraint on exploitation of strangers; and if the entrant into Stage Three comes from a dysfunctional family or tribe, even kinship ties may be ineffective.



L4-Blue The sky, the heavens, and the “true blue” believer

Level 4Level 4

Stage Four: the Virtuous/the Shadow

Very young children simply trust that what they are told is right (Stage Two) and slightly older ones think that they only have to obey people who are bigger, stronger, and less sensitive than they are (the conscious side of Stage Three).

According to Piaget, between five and seven, children develop elementary desire to play with logical organization and from twelve on they may amplify this into mature skills with abstractions.

Opportunities to develop organizational skills nonetheless depend on one’s culture. Tribes (Stage Two) have no openings for accountants (Stage Four). Eventually, however, a large kingdom needs a bureaucracy of educated clerks (at Stage Four) to administer and promulgate the rules.

At Stage Four, actions are either correct or incorrect (not somewhere in between).



L5-Orange Radiating energy of steel in an industrial furnace

Level 5Level 5

Stage Five: Materialistic Analyst of Things/Anim(a/us)

This stage recognizes that there are so many exceptions to the rules of Stage Four that some principles must be demoted to superstitions, while science yields new ones, fostering technology and a vast economic infrastructure.

Before Stage-Five can dominate a society, four must have produced sufficient peace and order for commerce so that money and other material rewards start to be the measure of everything.

Examples of its analysis include the industrial division of labour and the scientific method itself. This stage expands mental horizons, but social affections become obscured in the vast bookkeeping of physical details.



L6-Green Green politics, forests, and ecological consciousness

Level 6Level 6

Stage Six: Empathizer with Every Person/Wise One

This stage translates the previous appreciation of life into an ecological empathy with every being.

People dissatisfied with Stage Five’s mere accumulation instead cultivate empathy, generating social structures ranging from liberal government to secular charities (e.g. Friends of the Earth).

At Stage Six, a sympathetic effort to befriend each entity on his, her, or its own terms replaces dogma. Stage Six’s insistence on “political correctness” (i.e. politely presupposing universal equality) condemns any effort to classify people—such as Graves’s system itself (a product of Stage Seven).



L7-Yellow Solar power and alternative technologies

Level 7Level 7

Stage Seven: Distancer /Self

The stages themselves become evermore inclusive through Stage Seven, which tries to comprehend life in all its paradoxes, not just the occasional intuitions that satisfied Stage Six. Some institutions (e.g. the ashrams of India, monasteries of ancient China, and government think tanks) permit people to distance themselves from the preoccupations of the lower-numbered stages.

For many people, a final state (often in old age) is to retire from the present squabble and look at the larger picture—how all the turmoil fits together. If they have reached Stage Seven, this is not a single materialistic analysis (Stage Five) but a synthesis of many processes combined with the empathy mastered at Stage Six and everything else that has been learned along the way.

The conscious mind, however, flounders in such complexity. Science supplements human brains with computers yet even so finds much of the world disconcertingly unpredictable.

Graves provided a vague description : “Express Self Now, but not at the expense of Others or the World, so that Life May Continue.”



L8-Turquoise The colour of the oceans and Earth as viewed from space

Level 8Level 8

Stage Eight and beyond....

Although Graves never had clinical evidence for any stage above seven, he speculated that there might be an infinite number of higher stages and he guessed that the eighth would be the “global village” predicted by McLuhan.

This is simply to say that Graves’s system—where odd-numbered stages are self-expressive and even-numbered ones social—suggests that stage eight might itself form a community (if it ever came into existence).

As far as Graves’s clinical evidence extended, however, it agreed with Jung’s: seven stages in the human condition up to their time.



Part 5...Part 5......Spiral Dynamics......Spiral Dynamics...

...Round and round ...Round and round and round she goes... and round she goes...

...Where she stops......Where she stops...



...”A conceptual framework for understanding the cultural stages through which individuals and social systems evolve as they adapt to their life conditions...”

Spiral DynamicsSpiral Dynamics



• Spiral Dynamics reveals the hidden complexity codes that shape human nature, create global diversities, and drive evolutionary change.

• These dynamic spiral forces attract and repel individuals, form the webs and meshes that connect people within groups, communities and organisations, and forge the rise and fall of nations and cultures.



Spiral Dynamics provides information about:

• HOW people think about things (as opposed to “what” they think)

• WHY people make decisions in different ways

• WHY people respond to different motivators

• WHY and HOW values arise and spread

• The nature of CHANGE



ORDER (We)

ENTERPRISE (I)

INCLUSION (We)

SYSTEMS (I)

GLOBAL (We)

MEMBERSHIP (We)

POWER (I)

SURVIVAL (I)

GUARDIAN (I)

SPIRIT (We)



Worldview:Worldview:The world is a state of natureThe world is a state of nature

People:People:Behave instinctively, much likeBehave instinctively, much likeother animals according other animals according to biological to biological urges urges and drives. Contact with others is centered on and drives. Contact with others is centered on the survival of the self. Self Focusthe survival of the self. Self Focus

The Beige The Beige vMemevMemeSURVIVAL (I)SURVIVAL (I)

ORDER (We)

ENTERPRISE (I)

INCLUSION (We)

SYSTEMS (I)

GLOBAL (We)

MEMBERSHIP (We)

POWER (I)

SURVIVAL (I)

GUARDIAN (I)

SPIRIT (We)



Worldview:Worldview:The world is mysterious and The world is mysterious and frightening. A magical world view where the frightening. A magical world view where the intention is to appease the spirits/gods.intention is to appease the spirits/gods.

People:People:Placate spirits and join together for Placate spirits and join together for safety; safety; follow follow ancestors’ ancestors’ ways. Tribes are formed, ways. Tribes are formed, chiefs and elders are obeyed, rituals are chiefs and elders are obeyed, rituals are adhered to and customs are preserved for the adhered to and customs are preserved for the greater good of the survival of the tribe. greater good of the survival of the tribe. Safety/Safety/TribalisticTribalistic

The Purple vMemeThe Purple vMemeMEMBERSHIP (We)MEMBERSHIP (We)

ORDER (We)

ENTERPRISE (I)

INCLUSION (We)

SYSTEMS (I)

GLOBAL (We)

MEMBERSHIP (We)

POWER (I)

SURVIVAL (I)

GUARDIAN (I)

SPIRIT (We)



Worldview:Worldview:The world is tough and hard like a The world is tough and hard like a junglejungle; it’s ; it’s eat eat or be eatenor be eaten

People:People:People must fight to survive andPeople must fight to survive anddominate others without guilt anddominate others without guilt andso as to avoid so as to avoid shame. Opinionated and shame. Opinionated and requiring others to submit, if necessary by the requiring others to submit, if necessary by the use of force. Focus on selfuse of force. Focus on self--gratification. gratification. Egocentric.Egocentric.

The Red vMemeThe Red vMemePOWER (I)POWER (I)

ORDER (We)

ENTERPRISE (I)

INCLUSION (We)

SYSTEMS (I)

GLOBAL (We)

MEMBERSHIP (We)

POWER (I)

SURVIVAL (I)

GUARDIAN (I)

SPIRIT (We)



Worldview:Worldview:The world is divinely controlled and The world is divinely controlled and guided guided with with a distinct right and a distinct right and wrong wrong according to a according to a plan. Order is achieved by establishing order plan. Order is achieved by establishing order and justice by following “The One True Cause”and justice by following “The One True Cause”

People:People:People obey rightful higher People obey rightful higher authority and find meaning andauthority and find meaning andpurpose in sacrifice for later purpose in sacrifice for later reward. reward. Blue Blue wants stability and meaning for everyone. wants stability and meaning for everyone. Saintly/Sacrifice/Salvation.Saintly/Sacrifice/Salvation.

The Blue vMemeThe Blue vMemeORDER (We)ORDER (We)

ORDER (We)

ENTERPRISE (I)

INCLUSION (We)

SYSTEMS (I)

GLOBAL (We)

MEMBERSHIP (We)

POWER (I)

SURVIVAL (I)

GUARDIAN (I)

SPIRIT (We)



Worldview:Worldview:The world is full of viable options The world is full of viable options and plenty of alternative and plenty of alternative choices. choices. Independence and Strategic . Striving for Independence and Strategic . Striving for progress through research and competitionprogress through research and competition

People:People:People need to test options for People need to test options for greater autonomy and compete for greater autonomy and compete for success success and and influence in influence in life. Risk taking and success life. Risk taking and success orientated. A belief that the more able will orientated. A belief that the more able will prevail. Materialistic.prevail. Materialistic.

The Orange vMemeThe Orange vMemeENTERPRISE (I)ENTERPRISE (I)

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Worldview:Worldview:The world is the habitat for all The world is the habitat for all humanity to share humanity to share together.together.

People:People:People join in communities to People join in communities to experience growth for self and experience growth for self and others for collective others for collective benefits. Green hopes to benefits. Green hopes to save mankind from his own greed and injustice save mankind from his own greed and injustice through education, caring and sharing. Focus through education, caring and sharing. Focus is on saving the planet and spreading love all is on saving the planet and spreading love all aroundaround

The Green vMemeThe Green vMemeINCLUSION (We)INCLUSION (We)

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Worldview:Worldview:Systemic and Complex. The Systemic and Complex. The world is at world is at risk risk of of collapse collapse because of human because of human excess. The excess. The first Meta Perspective in human existence.first Meta Perspective in human existence.

People:People:People seek to learn and discover People seek to learn and discover what what it is to it is to be be human without human without doing doing harm to others or the harm to others or the environmentenvironment; ; sustainability. Flexibility and sustainability. Flexibility and functionality are the keys to restoring viability functionality are the keys to restoring viability to a disordered world. Accepts chaos and to a disordered world. Accepts chaos and change as inevitable facts of life.change as inevitable facts of life.

The Yellow vMemeThe Yellow vMemeSYSTEMS (I)SYSTEMS (I)

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The Turquoise vMemeThe Turquoise vMeme

Worldview:Worldview:Focus on difference and integrative process. Focus on difference and integrative process. Global identity. Holistic world view.Global identity. Holistic world view.

People:People:People People develop highly develop highly specialisedspecialised roles and roles and different functions within complex systems. different functions within complex systems. Self is viewed as both distinct and a blended Self is viewed as both distinct and a blended part of a larger connected whole. Experiential. part of a larger connected whole. Experiential. “Sacrifice self now so that life may continue”“Sacrifice self now so that life may continue”

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The Coral vMemeThe Coral vMeme

Worldview: Worldview: Connected to Universal energy, love for all beings, Connected to Universal energy, love for all beings, entrusted to guard life in all its forms. entrusted to guard life in all its forms.

People: People: See selves as connected to Universal energy, See selves as connected to Universal energy, entrusted to guard life in all its forms. Conflict is seen entrusted to guard life in all its forms. Conflict is seen as a path to harmony. Seek confluence with energy as a path to harmony. Seek confluence with energy of others and energy of environment. See of others and energy of environment. See relationships (power & interpersonal) as interrelationships (power & interpersonal) as inter--related related ecology of relationship with other radiant, charged, ecology of relationship with other radiant, charged, vibrating beings. Do not seek power over others. vibrating beings. Do not seek power over others.

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• Humanity is facing up to some hard truths. We have some powerful choices to make.

• All will be predicated on the Spiral, whether we recognise it at the time ornot. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but ignorance is worse.

• If you are now awakening to Spiral Dynamics, you hold the handle of a versatile tool.

• Merge it into your wisdom and other insights. Then use it wisely and well.

Where are we going now?



The Teal vMemeThe Teal vMeme

Worldview:Worldview:Connected to ....?Connected to ....?

People:People:See selves as ....?See selves as ....?

SPIRIT AND LIFE CONNECTING (We)SPIRIT AND LIFE CONNECTING (We)

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Dorset NLP Forum May 2012 - Evolution

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