Spiral Dynamics

Spiral Dynamics 1 'Spiral Dynamics' is a dynamic model of Evolutionary psychology|human development and development of memes carrying systems - such as a social network, society or company - introduced in the 1996 book Spiral Dynamics by Don Beck (management consultant)|Don Beck and Chris Cowan. The book was based on the 1970s theories of psychologist Clare W. Graves.

Spiral Dynamics 1 Spiral Dynamics argues that human nature is not fixed: humans are able, when forced by life conditions, to adapt to their environment by constructing new, more complex, conceptual model (abstract)|models of the world that allow them to handle the new problems.Van Marrewijk, Marcel

Spiral Dynamics 1 Spiral Dynamics claims not to be a linear or hierarchical model.

Spiral Dynamics 1 According to Spiral Dynamics, there are infinite stages of progress and regression over time, dependent upon the life circumstances of the person or culture, which are constantly in flux. Attaining higher stages of development is not synonymous with attaining a better or more correct values system. All stages co-exist in both healthy and unhealthy states, meaning any stage of development can lead to undesirable outcomes with respect to the health of the human and social environment.

Spiral Dynamics - vMEMEs 1 However, Spiral Dynamics does explicitly define a category of people labeled spiral wizards who have attained equilibrium around higher-level vMEMEs..

Spiral Dynamics - Green 1 Spiral dynamics theory sees second-tier vMEMEs as emerging levels that gradually move away from a focus on subsistence- level concerns of the first tier and towards a being-level existence

Spiral Dynamics - Further development 1 This double helix of two interacting forces is referred to as a spiral in Spiral Dynamics

Spiral Dynamics - Further development 1 Beck spent several years applying the theory of spiral dynamics while working with individuals and groups in South Africa involved in the transition from Apartheid,DC Wahl, S Baxter, The Designer’s Role in Facilitating

Spiral Dynamics - Further development 1 Beck and Ken Wilber (with his integral theory) became interested in each other's work, resulting in Beck developing a branch of spiral dynamics that he calls Spiral Dynamics Integral (SDi)

Spiral Dynamics - Further development 1 With his partner, Natasha Todorovic, he has undertaken work in integrating spiral dynamics with Neuro-linguistic programming|NLP and other models, and in developing corporate strategy and practical applications

Spiral Dynamics - Pathologies 1 Psychopathology potentially exists at all levels and is a different dimension.Chris Cowan, [ q.htm#Wilber Wilber's misrepresentations of Spiral Dynamics, Part I] - [ omeritis_or_bust.html Part II]

Spiral Dynamics - Pathologies 1 Todorovic[ ments/MGM_hyp.pdf Natasha Todorovic, Mean Green Meme: Fact or Fiction] offers data and analysis leading to the conclusion that the mean green meme conjecture is contradicted by the data. Todorovic further concludes that MGM is a failure of analysis based on a variety of misconceptions about spiral dynamics and constitutes an alarming misdiagnosis and brands MGM a harmful form of spiral fundamentalism.

Spiral Dynamics - Criticisms of Spiral Dynamics 1 61: March 23, 2005 Co-author Cowan has publicly dissociated himself from the ideas that are currently being promoted by his ex- partner Beck in conjunction with Ken Wilber. gral.htm Many practitioners of Beck's branch of Spiral Dynamics today see Bauwens' views as those of the Green-Egalitarian Sixth level system that is arrested in political correctness and only sees the unhealthy half of the emergent nature of the theory.

Spiritual evolution - Integral theory and spiral dynamics 1 An interpretation of social and psychological development that could also be considered a theory of spiritual evolution is spiral dynamics, based on the work of Clare W. Graves.

Spiritual evolution - Integral theory and spiral dynamics 1 Spiral Dynamics posits a series of stages through which human's cultural development progresses– from a survival-based hunter- gatherer stage to a magical-tribal-agrarian stage to a city-building-invading stage to a mythic-religious-empire stage to a rational- scientific-capitalist stage to a green-holistic- inclusive stage and then ascending to a second tier where all the previous stages are contemplated and integrated and a third transpersonal tier where a spiritual unity or Omega point is eventually reached, which all the other stages are struggling to embody

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