dorset nlp forum september 2012

NLP Dorset Forum – Sept 27, 2012

Mapping the JungMapping the Jung--Graves Model Graves Model to Spiral Dynamicsto Spiral Dynamics

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Mike ForteMike Forte

NLP Dorset Forum - Thursday Sept 27th 2012


Jung... A quick reJung... A quick re--cap...cap...



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

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• 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



Graves... A brief intro...Graves... A brief intro...


NLP Dorset Forum – Sept 27, 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



The JungThe Jung--Graves ModelGraves Model


NLP Dorset Forum – Sept 27, 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...



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.



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



...and next......and next......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)

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 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)

ORDER (We)

ENTERPRISE (I)

INCLUSION (We)

SYSTEMS (I)

GLOBAL (We)

MEMBERSHIP (We)

POWER (I)

SURVIVAL (I)

GUARDIAN (I)

SPIRIT (We)



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)

ORDER (We)

ENTERPRISE (I)

INCLUSION (We)

SYSTEMS (I)

GLOBAL (We)

MEMBERSHIP (We)

POWER (I)

SURVIVAL (I)

GUARDIAN (I)

SPIRIT (We)



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”

GLOBAL (We)GLOBAL (We)

ORDER (We)

ENTERPRISE (I)

INCLUSION (We)

SYSTEMS (I)

GLOBAL (We)

MEMBERSHIP (We)

POWER (I)

SURVIVAL (I)

GUARDIAN (I)

SPIRIT (We)



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.

GUARDIANSHIP (I)GUARDIANSHIP (I)

ORDER (We)

ENTERPRISE (I)

INCLUSION (We)

SYSTEMS (I)

GLOBAL (We)

MEMBERSHIP (We)

POWER (I)

SURVIVAL (I)

GUARDIAN (I)

SPIRIT (We)



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)

ORDER (We)

ENTERPRISE (I)

INCLUSION (We)

SYSTEMS (I)

GLOBAL (We)

MEMBERSHIP (We)

POWER (I)

SURVIVAL (I)

GUARDIAN (I)

SPIRIT (We)



Spiral Dynamics Model Description

Teal Spirit and Life Connecting (We)

Coral Guardianship (I)

Turquoise Global (We)

Yellow Systems (I)

Green Inclusion (We)

Orange Enterprise (I)

Blue Order (We)

Red Power (I)

Purple Membership (We)

Beige Survival (I)


Spiral Dynamics ModelSpiral Dynamics Model


Mapping JungMapping Jung--Graves to Graves to Spiral DynamicsSpiral Dynamics



Jung-Graves Model Description Spiral Dynamics Model

Spirit and Life Connecting (We)

Guardianship (I)

L8-Turquoise The colour of the oceans and Earth as viewed from space Global (We)

L7-Yellow Solar power and alternative technologies Systems (I)

L6-Green Green politics, forests, and ecological consciousness Inclusion (We)

L5-Orange Radiating energy of steel in an industrial furnace Enterprise (I)

L4-Blue The sky, the heavens, and the “true blue” believer Order (We)

L3-Red Hot blooded emotions and the “fire in your eyes” Power (I)

L2-Purple The royal colour of tribal chiefs and monarchs Membership (We)

L1-Beige Savanna grasslands Survival (I)


Mapping JungMapping Jung--Graves to Spiral DynamicsGraves to Spiral Dynamics


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