Presented by Mike Forte at the Dorset NLP Forum, Thursday May 31st 2012. Drawing out the common ground between the Jung-Graves model and Spiral Dynamics.

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Mapping the Jung-Graves Model
Jung-
to Spiral Dynamics
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Mike Forte
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Jung... A quick re-cap...
re-
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Archetypes
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 pre-programmed to look for
pre-
archetypes in our everyday lives, because they
serve as a framework for our understanding of
the world.
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4. NLP Dorset Forum – Sept 27, 2012 Individuation
• 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
soul (lead) to perfected soul (gold), and a metaphor for the individuation process.
process.
Individuation = Transformation = Alchemy
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5. NLP Dorset Forum – Sept 27, 2012 Actualisation
•Archetypes seek actualisation within the context of an individual's
environment and determine the degree of individuation. Jung also used the
individuation.
terms "evocation" and "constellation" to explain the process of actualisation.
•Thus for example, the mother archetype is actualised in the mind of the child
by the evoking of innate anticipations of the maternal archetype when the child
is in the proximity of a maternal figure who corresponds closely enough to its
archetypal template.
template.
•This mother archetype is built into the personal unconscious of the child as a
mother complex. Complexes are functional units of the personal unconscious, in
complex.
the same way that archetypes are units for the collective unconscious.
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Graves... A brief intro...
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A Man called Clare...
• “Briefly, what I am proposing is
that the psychology of the mature
human being is an unfolding,
emergent, oscillating, spiralling
process marked by progressive
subordination of older, lower -
behaviour systems to newer
higher-
higher-ordered systems as man’s
existential problems change.”
Clare W Graves
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The Jung-Graves Model
Jung-
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10. NLP Dorset Forum – Sept 27, 2012 Jung / Graves Model
or Graves / Jung Model
• Graves took the Jungian concepts of
Archetypes and Individuation and created a
(much needed!) sequence which applied to
humans both individually and collectively...
• ..and so was born the Dynamic Spiral...!!!
• ... and Integral theory...
• ...and AQAL...
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Level 1
L1-Beige Savanna grasslands
Stage One: Survivor/Transitional-Object
Consciously, the first stage consists of surviving, the psychological base of
existence.
Whether or not adult humans ever had this as their highest stage, even
today infants who have not yet formed a trusting bond with their caregivers
are principally engaged in mere survival.
Since this stage gives no opportunity to the social instinct, the latter is
repressed to the unconscious, from whence it may gradually emerge in
attachment to some personified object, (e.g., a favourite cuddly toy).
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Level 2
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….”.
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Level 3
L3-Red Hot blooded emotions and the “fire in your eyes”
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.
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Level 4
L4-Blue The sky, the heavens, and the “true blue” believer
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).
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Level 5
L5-Orange Radiating energy of steel in an industrial furnace
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.
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Level 6
L6-Green Green politics, forests, and ecological consciousness
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).
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Level 7
L7-Yellow Solar power and alternative technologies
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.”
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Level 8
The colour of the oceans and Earth as viewed from
L8-Turquoise
space
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.
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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
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...and next...
...Spiral Dynamics...
...Round and round
and round she goes...
...Where she stops...
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Spiral Dynamics
...”A conceptual framework for understanding the
cultural stages through which individuals and
social systems evolve as they adapt to their life
conditions...”
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• 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.
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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
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SPIRIT (We)
GUARDIAN (I)
GLOBAL (We)
SYSTEMS (I)
INCLUSION (We)
ENTERPRISE (I)
ORDER (We)
POWER (I)
MEMBERSHIP (We)
SURVIVAL (I)
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The Beige vMeme
SPIRIT (We)
SURVIVAL (I)
GUARDIAN (I)
GLOBAL (We)
Worldview:
SYSTEMS (I)
The world is a state of nature
INCLUSION (We)
ENTERPRISE (I)
People:
ORDER (We) Behave instinctively, much like
other animals according to biological urges
POWER (I)
and drives. Contact with others is centered on
MEMBERSHIP (We) the survival of the self. Self Focus
SURVIVAL (I)
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The Purple vMeme
SPIRIT (We)
MEMBERSHIP (We)
GUARDIAN (I)
GLOBAL (We) Worldview:
SYSTEMS (I) The world is mysterious and
INCLUSION (We)
frightening. A magical world view where the
intention is to appease the spirits/gods.
ENTERPRISE (I)
ORDER (We) People:
POWER (I)
Placate spirits and join together for safety;
MEMBERSHIP (We)
follow ancestors’ ways. Tribes are formed,
chiefs and elders are obeyed, rituals are
SURVIVAL (I) adhered to and customs are preserved for the
greater good of the survival of the tribe.
Safety/Tribalistic
Safety/Tribalistic
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The Red vMeme
SPIRIT (We)
POWER (I)
GUARDIAN (I)
GLOBAL (We)
Worldview:
SYSTEMS (I)
The world is tough and hard like a jungle; it’s
jungle;
INCLUSION (We)
eat or be eaten
ENTERPRISE (I)
ORDER (We)
People:
POWER (I)
People must fight to survive and
dominate others without guilt and
MEMBERSHIP (We)
so as to avoid shame. Opinionated and
SURVIVAL (I)
requiring others to submit, if necessary by the
use of force. Focus on self-gratification.
self-
Egocentric.
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The Blue vMeme
SPIRIT (We)
ORDER (We)
GUARDIAN (I)
Worldview:
GLOBAL (We)
The world is divinely controlled and guided
SYSTEMS (I) with a distinct right and wrong according to a
plan. Order is achieved by establishing order
INCLUSION (We)
and justice by following “The One True Cause”
ENTERPRISE (I)
ORDER (We) People:
POWER (I) People obey rightful higher
MEMBERSHIP (We)
authority and find meaning and
purpose in sacrifice for later reward. Blue
SURVIVAL (I) wants stability and meaning for everyone.
Saintly/Sacrifice/Salvation.
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The Orange vMeme
SPIRIT (We)
ENTERPRISE (I)
GUARDIAN (I)
GLOBAL (We) Worldview:
SYSTEMS (I) The world is full of viable options
and plenty of alternative choices.
INCLUSION (We)
Independence and Strategic . Striving for
ENTERPRISE (I) progress through research and competition
ORDER (We)
People:
POWER (I)
People need to test options for
MEMBERSHIP (We) greater autonomy and compete for success
and influence in life. Risk taking and success
SURVIVAL (I)
orientated. A belief that the more able will
prevail. Materialistic.
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The Green vMeme
SPIRIT (We)
INCLUSION (We)
GUARDIAN (I)
GLOBAL (We) Worldview:
SYSTEMS (I) The world is the habitat for all
INCLUSION (We)
humanity to share together.
ENTERPRISE (I)
People:
ORDER (We)
People join in communities to
POWER (I)
experience growth for self and
MEMBERSHIP (We)
others for collective benefits. Green hopes to
save mankind from his own greed and injustice
SURVIVAL (I) through education, caring and sharing. Focus
is on saving the planet and spreading love all
around
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The Yellow vMeme
SPIRIT (We)
SYSTEMS (I)
GUARDIAN (I)
GLOBAL (We) Worldview:
SYSTEMS (I) Systemic and Complex. The world is at risk of
INCLUSION (We)
collapse because of human excess. The
first Meta Perspective in human existence.
ENTERPRISE (I)
ORDER (We) People:
POWER (I)
People seek to learn and discover what it is to
MEMBERSHIP (We)
be human without doing harm to others or the
environment;
environment; sustainability. Flexibility and
SURVIVAL (I) functionality are the keys to restoring viability
to a disordered world. Accepts chaos and
change as inevitable facts of life.
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The Turquoise vMeme
SPIRIT (We)
GLOBAL (We)
GUARDIAN (I)
GLOBAL (We) Worldview:
SYSTEMS (I) Focus on difference and integrative process.
INCLUSION (We)
Global identity. Holistic world view.
ENTERPRISE (I)
People:
ORDER (We)
People develop highly specialised roles and
POWER (I)
different functions within complex systems.
MEMBERSHIP (We)
Self is viewed as both distinct and a blended
part of a larger connected whole. Experiential.
SURVIVAL (I) “Sacrifice self now so that life may continue”
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The Coral vMeme
SPIRIT (We)
GUARDIANSHIP (I)
GUARDIAN (I)
GLOBAL (We) Worldview:
SYSTEMS (I) Connected to Universal energy, love for all beings,
entrusted to guard life in all its forms.
INCLUSION (We)
ENTERPRISE (I) People:
ORDER (We)
See selves as connected to Universal energy,
POWER (I)
entrusted to guard life in all its forms. Conflict is seen
as a path to harmony. Seek confluence with energy
MEMBERSHIP (We) of others and energy of environment. See
relationships (power & interpersonal) as inter-related
inter-
SURVIVAL (I) ecology of relationship with other radiant, charged,
vibrating beings. Do not seek power over others.
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The Teal vMeme
SPIRIT (We) SPIRIT AND LIFE CONNECTING (We)
GUARDIAN (I)
GLOBAL (We) Worldview:
SYSTEMS (I) Connected to ....?
INCLUSION (We)
ENTERPRISE (I)
People:
ORDER (We)
See selves as ....?
POWER (I)
MEMBERSHIP (We)
SURVIVAL (I)
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36. NLP Dorset Forum – Sept 27, 2012 Spiral Dynamics Model
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)
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Mapping Jung-Graves to
Jung-
Spiral Dynamics
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Jung-
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)
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Images for Meditation
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