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WORLD 2

A Critical Assessment of the Current Human Predicament

MODULE 1The Impact of Personal and Collective Beliefs

on Individual Behavior and Psyche


• What holistic criteria enable you to perceive the deep causes of current world crises?

• What are some of the internal obstacles to taking action in the world?

• What type of habitual behavioral patterns tend to block individual creativity and agency?

• What influences your sense of personal health and well-being on a day-to-day basis?

Focus Questions


LEARNING UNIT 1Criteria for an Holistic Evaluation of the Challenges we Face at Individual, Local, and Global levels

LEARNING UNIT 2 Mental Models and Beliefs that Lead to Subordination and Powerlessness

LEARNING UNIT 3 Habitual Behaviors that Block Creativity and Transformative Action

LEARNING UNIT 4Assessment of Personal Health and Well-being


LEARNING UNIT 1Criteria for an Holistic Evaluation of the Challenges we Face at Individual, Local,

and Global levels


Holistic Paradigm: Systems based and Integral Worldview

Energy+

Matter

Consciousness+

Information

Remembering the Holistic Paradigm from World 1 …


… and building on three principles of holism:

• Systemic thinking, sensing and being

• Integration of rational and intuitive thinking

• Embodying the patterns of nature

Image: Flower by *CorpusCallosum on deviantARTSource: http://corpuscallosum.deviantart.com/art/Flower-102619734


LEARNING UNIT 2Mental Models and Beliefs that Lead to

Subordination and Powerlessness


Is Insecurity Inherent in the Human Condition?

The intellectual and moral culture of humankind is nothing other than the history of a deep insecurity which hopelessly condemns it to a permanent state of metaphysical anxiety. This anxiety is rooted in man’s condition of being a self-conscious creature who, having lost his animal innocence, finds himself forever clinging to security and creating religious, moral and social worlds of his own making in the hope of regaining his lost innocence.

Hans Morgenthau – Scientific Man vs. Power Politics

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Do Affiliation and Subordination Make You Feel More Secure?

Search for security

Affiliation Subordination

Capacity for self-determination?

Images: Pegs - coloured - concepts by Ruth LivingstoneSources: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1067427

http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1067428


How do Hierarchy and Subordination Play Out in Different Facets of our Life?

Image: MF_8131.JPG by Mary R. VogtSource: http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/180589

Image: stock.xchng - Students (stock photo by stroinski)Source: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/259330

Image: stock.xchng - watching over you (stock photo by mexikids)Source: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/5393

Image: stock.xchng - The Leader (stock photo by Stefan)Source: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/515337


How Does our Built Environment Reflect Hierarchy or Subordination?

Image: stock.xchng - London 2 (stock photo by jwarletta)Source: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/662863


LEARNING UNIT 3Habitual Behaviors that Block Creativity

and Transformative Action


Habitual Behaviors are Rooted in our Beliefs and Mental Models about Ourselves

Belief Habitualbehavior

Social norms

Socialstructures

Visible

Individual(I)

Diagram adapted from Ken Wilber’s four-quadrant modelhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Wilber#Quadrants

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Invisible

Collective(We)


Negative Self-Talk is a Pernicious Type of Habit

Image: Subconscious Window by *Create-Destroy on deviantARTSource: http://create-destroy.deviantart.com/art/Subconscious-Window-35998625


How our Living Environment Influences our Creativity

I owe more gratitude than I can express to the City and the University of Oxford… Quantum physics shows us that we cannot separate ourselves from our environment, and I doubt that I could have written this book living in any other place.

— Dana Zohar, writing about Oxford in her book, The Quantum Self

Image: stock.xchng - sri_office (stock photo by srinivasan murugesh)Source: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/430632

Image: The IDEO Toy Lab.Source: http://the99percent.com/articles/7080/IDEO-Big-Innovation-

Lives-Right-on-the-Edge-of-Ridiculous-Ideas


LEARNING UNIT 4Assessment of Personal Health and

Well-being


The Continuum of Health Includes Disease and Wellness

death lifeDisease/suffering

(pathos)

Wellness

(apic)

Image: stock.xchng - USG 1 (stock photo by Tomasz Kobosz)Source: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/262481

Image: stock.xchng - yoga (stock photo by martin louis)Source: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/118151


A Creative Activity to Access your Intuition about Your Health

Image: Thoughts On Paper by ~MarchingClouds on deviantARTSource: http://marchingclouds.deviantart.com/art/Thoughts-On-Paper-112906021


Resources to Further Broaden your Perceptions and Practices of Health and Well-being

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Spiritual

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stroinski source

stefan source

jwarletta source

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