SPIRAL DYNAMICS

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SPIRAL DYNAMICS

• The Evolution of Human Consciousness

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Colors of Consciousness

• Not the differences between people, but the
  differences within people.

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Spiral Dynamics A Context for Communication

• Clare Graves.
• Don Beck Chris Cowan.
• Ken Wilber.

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Never-ending Upward Spiral

• The Emergent, Cyclical, Double-Helix Model of
  Adult Biopsychosocial Systems Development.
• --Clare Graves

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Unfolding Consciousness

• An unfolding, emergent, oscillating, spiraling
  process, marked by progressive subordination of
  older, lower-order behavior systems to newer,
  higher-order behavior systems as our existential
  problems change. (Clare Graves)

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Spiral Dynamics

• The Eight-Stage Spiral of Development

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Inclusive Emergence

• Metaphor of the Russian doll.
• Everything belongs
• Emergence from within.

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Beige Instinctive/Survivalist

• Do what you must just to stay alive.
• Food, water, warmth, sex and safety.
• Survival bands to perpetuate life.
• Distinct self barely awakened.

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Purple Magical/Animistic

• Keep the spirits happy and the tribes nest warm
  and safe.
• Individual subsumed into group.
• Rituals of passage and magical spirituality.

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Red Impulsive/Egocentric

• Be what you are and do what you want, regardless
• World as jungle.
• Only the strong and aggressive survive.
• Do unto others before they do it unto you.

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Blue Purposeful/Authoritarian

• Life has purpose with predetermined outcomes.
• Sacrifice self to the ultimate cause.
• Control impulses for law/order and future reward.

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Orange Achievist/Strategic

• Act in your own self-interest by playing game to
  win.
• Promote progress by using earths resources and
  personal initiative.

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Green Communitarian/Egalatarian

• Seek peace inwardly and build community.
• Free human spirit from dogma, greed, and
  divisiveness.
• Spirituality, collaboration, consensus.

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Yellow Integrative

• Live fully and responsibly by respecting
  earth-systems.
• Life as kaleidoscope of natural hierarchies,
  systems, and forms.
• Spirituality higher than materialism.

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Turquoise Holistic

• Experience the wholeness of existence thru mind
  and spirit.
• Universe as living organism.
• Holistic, intuitive thinking and cooperative
  spirit.