Spiral dynamics and the art of thinking

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  • 1. Our Shifting Consciousness Changing Paradigms in a Spiralling World! Frances Kazan

2. The World is constantly changing and so is our Consciousness 3. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. Anais Nin 4. I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people. Isaac Newton 5. No man can walk into the same river twice because he is not the same man and it is not the same river Heraclitus 6. Why are we different? WHY do we make decisions in different ways?WHY do we respond to different motivators? 7. Difference?Level of Consciousness! 8. Consciousness??? 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 and the forces of disruption everything counts how to shift context 9. Do your current beliefs empower you to be your best, or do they doom you to live as a mere shadow of what you could be? Can you honestly say that you are doing your best or very close to it? Are you living congruently with your most deeply held beliefs? Whatever your religious or spiritual beliefs, how well do you practice them? . 10. Do you walk your talk? If you really believe something, you will act in accordance with that belief always. If you believe in gravity, you will never attempt to defy it. If you claim to hold a belief but act incongruently, then you dont actually believe it. Youre only kidding yourself 11. What makest otherwise common people become uncommon thinkers and visionary leaders?not much cleverer than the rest of usDim by teachers ?yet they proved to be some of the wisest world leaders of all time.One of the greatest thinkers the world has ever known 12. Albert Einsteins school teachers considered him to be a little dim yet he became one of the greatest thinkers the world has ever known. On paper, Gandhi and Nelson Mandela are not much cleverer than the rest of us yet they proved to be two of the wisest world leaders of all time 13. What allows otherwise common people to become uncommon thinkers and visionary leaders? The ability to approach life and its problems with creativity and heightened emotional intelligence, is what we have experienced. 14. High EQ = Better Fit in 21st C Individuals with enhanced emotional intelligence are able to deal effectively with stress, activate their creative thinking and find new, inspired ways to solve problems. This translates into improved productivity, greater optimism, renewed passion and fulfilling relationships in both the professional and personal environments. 15. The ability to develop enhanced emotional intelligence is available to everyone all it takes is a little training and regular practice. 16. LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS Intellectual thought processing Spiritual recognition - Life purpose, satisfaction, and selfactualization Psychological understanding Physical - Medically altered states 17. MaslowHierarchy of DrivesClare GravesLevels of Psychological ExistenceDon BeckSpiral Dynamics 18. spirals of complexityBECKworldviewLadder twisting into never-ending spirals, constantly evolving. 19. A Good Story to tell ..South Africa Spiral Dynamics 20. Level of Consciousness (LOC) In a Polychromatic world 21. Holistic Balanced Thinking Whole View Systems Integration Thinking Flex Flow Communitarian Humanistic Thinking Human Bond Entrepreneurial Scientific Thinking Strive Drive Authoritarian Religious Thinking Truth Forces Exploitative Feudal Thinking Power Gods Tribal animistic Thinking Kin spirits Caveman archaic Thinkingsurvival sense 22. SD = 2 Tier Values Evolutionary Framework Tier 1Tier 21. Caveman7. Systems Man2. Tribal Man8. Holistic Man3. Feudal Man 4. Religious Man 5. Scientific Man6. Community Man 23. Spiral Dynamics is a tool used to reveal the hidden codes in our bio-psycho- social-spiritual conceptual system : Shows how value systems emerge in societies Maps out a program for raising human capacities to deal with 21st century complexities. Introduces the notion of memes , the scientific study of "dna-like" codes and patterns that lie at the core of companies, cultures and countries. Describes the role of vital signs monitors in profiling human groupings, and presents a series of design formulas in crafting natural systems that align focus, function, form, fit, flow and future. Demonstrates how to synchronize the spiral of technological complexity, business systems sophistication, and levels of human development. 24. Why Spiral Dynamics?To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is. JG Jung 25. To learn more about this new evolutionary framework of thinking as described by the Spiral Dynamics model contact Frances Kazan for next Seminar [email protected] or 0833950292 26. THE END