![]() ![]() Uncertainty is an acceptable state of being. The world is at some risk of collapse because of human excess. People come together and work together to experience and create growth for self and others, for collective benefits. The world is the habitat for all, to share and work together and find common purpose. People tend to test options for greater autonomy and compete for success and influence. The world is full of viable options and plenty of choices to make things better and bring prosperity. People obey rightful higher authority within a hierarchical structure and find meaning and purpose in sacrificing now for later reward. The world is guided by a “Higher Power”, with a distinct code of right and wrong and according to a plan and fixed rules. People must fight to survive and dominate others without guilt and so as to avoid shame. The world is tough and hard like a jungle it’s eat or be eaten. People join together for safety follow (tribal) traditions and ancestors’ ways. ![]() People behave instinctively much like other animals according to biological urges and drives. For an individual this may change between work and home, for example. ![]() In reality people are more usually at a transition point on the continuum and while one colour will tend to shine most brightly within a human system, the system, (individual, group, culture), will act from a range of colours depending on the context (life conditions). Graves gave these levels letter pairings to reflect the dynamic, the first letter of the pairing representing the Life Conditions and the second letter the Mind Capacities Spiral Dynamics collapses this interaction within the colours metaphor. The levels are created by the dynamic interplay between the Life Conditions (context/environment) and what Graves called the Mind Capacities (thinking patterns). The following table offers a much abbreviated description of the Gravesian levels. A model that applies at the individual, interpersonal, group, organisational and cultural level and across a wide range of contexts including coaching, leadership and management practices, strategy and policy design, change initiatives, education, marketing and branding. Graves asked – “is there a pattern to human nature?” Thirty years of research led him to a model that, for most people, intuitively makes sense when they see it. In this regard it presents a meta-level framework of the deep structure thinking patterns, belief and value systems upon which we are making choices and decisions. It is not what we are thinking about (content) but how we are thinking about that content that is key to this approach. The point to emphasise at the very beginning is that the focus of Graves and Spiral Dynamics is value systems not values. (NLP for its part offers practical and effective tools, techniques and attitudes for skillfully moving oneself and others through this landscape.) ![]() They presents an encompassing framework for understanding and working with the different value systems that influence and drive human behaviour and the dynamics by which these value systems change. Gravesian Theory and Spiral Dynamics offer wonderfully rich approaches to the complex human landscape we now inhabit. This is a brief introduction to the Value Systems work of Clare Graves and the branded version of his work, Spiral Dynamics® that was later developed by Chris Cowan and Don Beck. How Should Who Manage (Lead, Coach, Teach ….) Whom To Do What When? ![]()
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