Emerging from the original work of Dr. Clare W. Graves' bio-psycho-social systems perspective, SPIRAL DYNAMICS is a way to think about complex things, both in organizations and individual lives. The framework offers a fresh, powerful, and holistic approach to problem solving, change, and transformations.
- Spiral Dynamics can help you to think better about emergent processes by addressing these questions:
- IF it is time for change, then change FROM what TO what?
- And IF it is time for change, then which of the Seven Variations of Change is appropriate?
- Finally, to connect it all together, ask: How should Who Manage (lead, teach, etc.) Whom to do What, and When?
- Use Spiral Dynamics to communicate with people in ways they understand best on their terms, not yours. " Use Spiral Dynamics to motivate people in ways that matter to them, at this time, in this place.
- Use Spiral Dynamics to construct organizations that align the work to be done, the people who will be doing it, the management that fits those people, and the technologies that apply naturally. In other words: Get the system right before trying to make the styles Fit. Seek out the natural by using a Spiral Dynamics framework.
- Spiral Dynamics explores the core intelligences and deep values that flow beneath what we believe and do. The result is a dynamic model of emergent thinking systems -- how values arise and spread, why people make decisions in different ways, and what to do with those differences to create positive energy.
- BRIEFLY, what I am proposing is that the psychology of the mature human being is an unfolding, emergent, oscillating, spiraling process, marked by progressive subordination of older, lower-order behavior systems to newer, higher-order systems as man's existential problems change." -- Clare W. Graves, Union College.
- LIKE genes, memes do not operate in solo, but interlock in the mosaics that form Weltanschauungs, worldviews." -- Howard Bloom in The Lucifer Principle
SDi... Spiral Dynamics in the Integral Age
From the 1st January 2001, Spiral Dynamics officially morphed itself into a new design, a fresh, bold statement, and a more comprehensive mission and methodology, all designed for the Integral Age and beyond. You will know you are experiencing and engaging this greatly expanded version of Spiral Dynamics when you see the symbol for Integral following the SD letters - SDi.
This change, however, is not simply cosmetic in nature, nor does it merely reflect a fine-tuning of the original concepts on which it is based. It represents the second time this conceptual framework has been modified, updated, redesigned, and greatly expanded. SDi, therefore, will be more expansive, more elegant, more multi-faceted, including relationships and assets which will be new to the total Spiral Dynamics community.
This new initiative will place the historic Gravesian/Spiral Dynamics effort well within the mainstream of Integral thought, and it will become a key piece in the various branches of the worldwide Integral Institute as developed by Ken Wilber and associates.