Wednesday, Jun 27, 2007

Designing a healthy passage through Purple, Red and Blue

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In this episode Nick Drummond interviews integral practitioner Andy Jukes who is designing a passage for young people involved in gangs through the Purple, Red and Blue value systems (as described in the model Spiral Dynamics).

Andy Jukes works for Leap Confronting Conflict, a voluntary youth organization and registered charity based in the UK with their headoffice in London. Their main work is teaching people skills in resolving conflict. They provide opportunities for young people and adults to explore approaches to conflicts in their lives, finding causes and new solutions for themselves. Andy’s area of work is with gangs and territorialism.

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Sunday, Jun 17, 2007

A practical example of transcending “Green”: Exercising my capacity to judge and take immediate responsibility for my behaviour

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In this episode Mats Edin describes a dramatic example of how to transcend the “don’t judge!,” every perspective is equal, unhealthy “Green” swamp. He uses the models “It’s your choice!”, the three step-model, together with a simple developmental scale. He goes against “Green” Swedish pedagogy and has students judge their own and each others behaviour. The result is nothing less than rapid and dramatic transformation out of a very troubled situation.

“I asked twenty four thirteen year old kids to give a number on a scale between one and ten as to how much they contributed to the emotional and psychological climate in the class. Ten means ‘I take full responsibility for the whole class and I’m doing everything I can and even more.’ One means ‘I am totally destroying everything all the time, trying to sabotage.’”

“This is the next level. My goal here was to point out, confront and have students map them selves on a development map. Because when you do that you can move forward.”

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Thursday, Jun 14, 2007

Spiral Dynamics [*] and education: The desperate need to transcend “Green” Swedish pedagogy

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In this episode Nick Drummond and Mats Edin discuss the desperate need for headmasters and teachers in Sweden to transcend 40 years of being stuck in the unhealthy "Green" egalitarian (every perspective is equal) swamp.

“Green” Swedish pedagogy is preventing kids from moving into the "Blue" system and further along the Spiral. "Red" is romanticised by "Green" as being fully mature.

From "Greens" perspective "Blue" is not a necessary system through which an individual centred in "Red" has to pass through. Because from “Greens” perspective nobody has the authority to tell anybody else what to do!! Edin and Drummond see very few Swedish teachers being able to create a healthy "Blue" teaching environment, while those few teachers who are able to express strong healthy "Red" and "Blue" are looked down upon by their colleagues for lacking empathy, for being too rigid and authoritarian and for not showing any love and compassion. When “Green” has power it is politically incorrect to judge, to push, to demand, to insist on development, and to say that maturity is vitally important. "Green" says: “Are you valuing people!? Are you saying that some people are better than other people!?"

When "Blue" morality is not recognized as being a necessary system that EVERYBODY has to pass though, then headmasters and teachers who are centred in "Green" sanction students centred in "Red" – from preschool age and up - to do whatever they feel like doing, whenever they feel like doing it, without anybody having to take any responsibility for the results.

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* See http://www.spiraldynamics.net

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