Rosemary Wilkie
Spiral Dynamics Integral
Blinkers fell from my eyes in 2003 when I discovered Spiral Dynamics Integral (SDi). For the first time I could understand why people think and act as they do, and why they disagree with each other so often! Also, I can now observe what is happening in the world with greater clarity and compassion.
The complexity of human behaviour often baffles us, but SDi - based on fifty years research - reveals the hidden codes that shape human nature and underlie the rise and fall of nations and cultures. Human thinking develops like the growth rings on a tree, reflecting the conditions we live in at the time. SDi calls these rings Memes, each producing a world view or belief structure that permeates every aspect of our lives. When conditions change we have the capacity to transcend and include earlier experience in our new thinking. The evolution of societies and whole civilisations follow the same pattern, developing increasing levels of complexity and connecting the entire human race in a beautiful evolutionary spiral.
On the lower levels of the spiral people cannot - they really cannot! - understand why those on other levels think the way they do, and as a result dismiss their ideas as foolish. This explains the failure of so many well-meaning international and other negotiations. The Meme levels are described in my article on www.resurgence.org/magazine/article2349-CULTURAL-DNA A series of six articles being posted on www.creativegroupmeditation.org goes into this more fully and describes the dynamics of change.
Under the guidance of "Spiral Wizard" Dr. Don Beck, SDi has been successfully employed around the globe for conceiving and implementing real-world integral solutions to social conflicts. It assisted the movement of South Africa out of apartheid, helped the Dutch rewrite the law to deal with threats from radical fundamentalists, and has been applied in difficult places round the world. Most recently it is behind innovative programmes to defuse conflict in Israel-Palestine.
Underpinning the application of SDi is Online PeopleSCAN, which provides insights into the hidden value systems that allow an individual or an organisation to thrive in their current environment; and the types and stages of change that are ongoing and appropriate for survival and transformation.
I write articles and give talks about SDi, and in 2008 I qualified as a trainer. I now run whole-day workshops in London and the South East.
These workshops provide new insights into your own life, people you know and the world we live in, and we spend the afternoon playing games that provide an opportunity to apply the morning’s teaching.
For dates see www.humanemergence.org.uk and www.creativegroupmeditation.org
The complexity of human behaviour often baffles us, but SDi - based on fifty years research - reveals the hidden codes that shape human nature and underlie the rise and fall of nations and cultures. Human thinking develops like the growth rings on a tree, reflecting the conditions we live in at the time. SDi calls these rings Memes, each producing a world view or belief structure that permeates every aspect of our lives. When conditions change we have the capacity to transcend and include earlier experience in our new thinking. The evolution of societies and whole civilisations follow the same pattern, developing increasing levels of complexity and connecting the entire human race in a beautiful evolutionary spiral.
On the lower levels of the spiral people cannot - they really cannot! - understand why those on other levels think the way they do, and as a result dismiss their ideas as foolish. This explains the failure of so many well-meaning international and other negotiations. The Meme levels are described in my article on www.resurgence.org/magazine/article2349-CULTURAL-DNA A series of six articles being posted on www.creativegroupmeditation.org goes into this more fully and describes the dynamics of change.
Under the guidance of "Spiral Wizard" Dr. Don Beck, SDi has been successfully employed around the globe for conceiving and implementing real-world integral solutions to social conflicts. It assisted the movement of South Africa out of apartheid, helped the Dutch rewrite the law to deal with threats from radical fundamentalists, and has been applied in difficult places round the world. Most recently it is behind innovative programmes to defuse conflict in Israel-Palestine.
Underpinning the application of SDi is Online PeopleSCAN, which provides insights into the hidden value systems that allow an individual or an organisation to thrive in their current environment; and the types and stages of change that are ongoing and appropriate for survival and transformation.
I write articles and give talks about SDi, and in 2008 I qualified as a trainer. I now run whole-day workshops in London and the South East.
These workshops provide new insights into your own life, people you know and the world we live in, and we spend the afternoon playing games that provide an opportunity to apply the morning’s teaching.
For dates see www.humanemergence.org.uk and www.creativegroupmeditation.org
If you would like me to give a talk, or would like to sponsor a workshop, email me at Rosemary.Wilkie
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