Wednesday, Mar 19, 2008

Dr. Don Beck's Spiral Dynamics

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Having developed and championed Spiral Dynamics—arguably one of the most accurate models of cultural development—Beck’s thirty-year career has led him from corporate boardrooms to government offices to inner-city schools. Most notably, he spent eighteen years traveling to and from South Africa, where he tirelessly committed himself to helping catalyze the peaceful transition out of apartheid. Willing to risk his own safety to create open channels of communication across highly polarized racial divides—don Beck conjured a vision of a future beyond apartheid that played no small role in convincing the de Klerk government to release Nelson Mandela from prison.

Conceived and led by Dr. Don Beck, Spiral Dynamics integral is an advanced extension and elaboration of the biopsychosocial systems concept originated by the late Dr. Clare W. Graves of Union College, New York, and later developed as Spiral Dynamics - a model that Canada’s Maclean’s Magazine rather grandly dubbed  “The Theory that Explains Everything.”

Spiral Dynamics meshes the new science of memetics with Gravesian value systems to form “value memes” or ”vMemes” to craft a model of transformational change. By exploring and describing the core intelligences and deep values that flow beneath what we believe and do, the model offers a profoundly incisive, dynamic perspective on complex matters such as:
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
This powerful conceptual system has been field-tested in some of the most complex environments on the planet, from inner-city Chicago to racially plagued South Africa. Since the focus is on the deeper vMemetic foundations, Spiral Dynamics suggests ways to move more quickly in the direction of deep dialogue and comprehensive, integral solutions. 


More info at: www.spiraldynamics.net
BE Blessed!

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