Experiential integral ed book group slides 1

Some Slides on Learning/Educational andSpirituality/Integral

Tom Murray

January 2015

Tom Murray | www.perspegrity.com |

May 2010

Instinctive/Sensate

Magical

Warrior (& Subjugate)

Traditionalist/Believer

Achiever/Rationalist

Pluralistic/Sensitive

Integral

2

(figure: see

www.spiraldynamics.net

)

Ego-centric > Ethnocentric > World-centric

Preconventional > Conventional > Post-conventional

Black & White (either/or, us/them) > more complexity

Tom Murray | www.perspegrity.com | May 2010

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Ego: Ego-centric > Ethnocentric (us/them) > World-centricCulture: Pre-conventional > Conventional > Post-conventionalTruths: Black & White (either/or) > more complex & nuancedPerspectives: Tunnel-vision & short term > larger contexts,

time frames, and ’big picture’ systemsMurray, November 2010 4

We intuitively rank people developmentally

People responding to a story about someone breaking a promise:

• My dad would get mad. • It is bad to break promises. Breaking a promise is lying. • It is fairer to keep promises than to break them. • Keeping promises maintains order in society.• When a parent breaks a promise it teaches the child to break

promises. • You should not make promises that you can’t keep.• When you keep a promise, you reaffirm the concept of mutual

trust.

Murray, November 2010 5

Wisdom Skillsfor Second Tier enaction

• Ego awareness (self/ego/will and being/spirit/essence; "I" dimension)

• Relational awareness (emotional/social/ethical/interpersonal intelligence; "We" dimension)

• Construct awareness (cognitive; "It" dimension)

• Systems awareness ("Its" dimension; context, cognitive capacity RE

dynamic systems and networks of relationships)6


Development, Disequilibrium and Humility

Heart/Empathy: Relationally aware -- opening to the suffering of ever wider circles of relationship

Mind/Cognitive: Construct aware --foundations of certainty in knowing are shaken

Spirit/Self: Ego aware -- awake to the profound levels of chaos and vulnerability in life

External world: Systems aware – chaos: radical connectivity, unpredictability


May 20107

Transition sub-stages

1. “Happy where I am, thanks” – ignorance, ignoring (assimilation)

2. “That’s wrong!” – resistance, denial3. “I’m confused” – deconstruction, disequilibrium,

uncertainty, birth pains4. “I go it!” – reorganization (accommodation)

5. “This is the best! The old stuff is crap.” —differentiation, arrival, push-back

6. This is good. You might want to try it. (stable, healthy, nuanced integration)

Micro-transitions from Beck & Cowan

(From Beck & Cowan’s Spiral Dynamics)

(Mature version)(“Convert” version)

(hold tight…fall apart…)


Perspective-Taking throughDevelopmental Levels

Formal-op/Orange

Multiple verifiable

data sources;

> collect, analyze

> find the/best truth

> (quality, rigor)

• suspend judgment

• consider possibilities

• control uncertainty

+ skeptical of traditional

authority and ‘common

sense’

Inclusive/Green

Multiple opinions,

values, world-views;

> empathize & understand

> Many/no ‘truths’

> (authentic, fair)

• avoid judgment

• include everyone

• thrashing in uncertny

+ skeptical of experts and

all authority and leadership

2nd Tier/IntegralSystems, systemic;

> Nature of: mind,

ego, ‘truth,’

knowledge, belief,

power, dialog…

> (truth about truth)

• balance reason,

emotion, intuition…

• work with uncertnty

+ skeptical of ego, method,

skepticism?


Modes of justification/critique• Authority figures and charismatics• Magical or sacred books and objects• First hand experience• Intuition (or gut feeling) (or: not needing to justify it)• Peer identification; what everyone does/says• Social norms, habit, they way it has been• My own experience

• Support of experts or witnesses, verified sources• Reasonable assumptions/bases/premises• Logical inference (supporting truth) • It is ethically right• It is pragmatically useful (it works)• Consistent with other knowledge• I used a trusted method• Aesthetic or elegant

• Multiple perspectives / uncertainty / shadow work / idea meshworks

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Epistemic Wisdom:skills & attitudes

• Put yourself in someone else's shoes (cognitive empathy)

• Consider multiple perspectives, deal flexibly with uncertainty, ambiguity, change, disagreement, and paradox (dialectical thinking)

• Reflect on one's biases, "shadow," tacit intentions, emotional state (social/emotional intelligence)

• Reflect on one's tacit beliefs, mental models, certainty of one's inferences (metacognition)

• Reflect on and dialog about the quality of communications (meta-dialog)

• Consider the big picture, needs of the group as a whole; perspective of all stakeholders (systems thinking)

AQAL applied to Education

(from Sean Esbjorn-Hargens)

IMP’s primordial perspectives/zones


Extras

Some New Age vs. Integral Beliefs

New Age/Cultrl Creative

UFOs and lost ancient

advanced civilizations; the

healing power of crystals;

the earth is a living

conscious being (Gaia); we

can manifest our wishes

through intention alone;

astrology, and other

prognostication systems;

various schools of mystical

and occult beliefs; "all you

need is love" (and peace);

everything is perfect as it is.

New Age & Integral

Channeling and the existence

of non-physical beings; ESP

and psychic phenomena;

intuitions can offer sturdy

truths and directives;

existence of a soul/spirit

(and constructs such as Over-

soul, Authentic Self),

reincarnation and past lives;

synchronicities are real;

psychic energy and the

chakra system; the reality of

collective consciousness and

parts of the self such as ego

and shadow; all is one.

Integral

The universe is evolving

– through us; Eros,

Agape, involution,

morphogenetic fields,

Omega Point;

objects/events fit into 4

ontological quadrants (or

8 zones); cultures and

people can be categorized

in terms of “memes”;

there is a non-dual ground

of being beyond space,

time, energy, matter, and

mind.

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SD Caveats/Problems• Map/territory confusion (its just *a* model); know its limits• Labeling/stereotyping (generalizations to individuals)• “Lines” are not real – millions of them; overlapping• Context dependencies: “wisdom” lowers under stress,

unfamiliarity, group-think… (“performance ≠ competence”)• Valorization of capacity; developmental imperialism

Higher is not better (or happier)! Allow people to be where they are.

• “Line absolutism” – emphasizing/valorizing particular lines• World-view ≠ skill level ***• (Differentiate the model from the communities using it!)

New Age / Green meme /Cultural Creative Beliefs

• We are all one; collective mind• We can manifest intentions (The Secret)• All you need is love• The new age is a special foretold time in history• The earth is a being (Gaia)• Crystals etc. have healing energy• Divination: I-Ching, Tarot, dowsing, etc.• Non-physical beings: channeling, angels, spirits• Personality typing: astrology, Myers-Briggs…• Intuitions bring sturdy truths, directions• Prana/Qi, ‘energy’ through & outside the body

Values: inclusive, ecology, human-rights & potential, freedoms, feelings


May 201018

Problems/paradoxes of theGreen cultural level

– Inclusive & caring but hates orange, blue ways

– Ecologically minded & open to new/different but mistrusts money, hierarchy, systems, rules, logic, power

– Egalitarian & sensitive but narcissistic ‘me generation,’ spiritual materialism, sex/drugs/rock’n’roll

– Activist & collective but can be stagnant/impotent due to in-fighting, process-orientation, feelings-orientation

– Performative contradictions: no theory/perspective is privileged (except this one!)


May 201019

Post-metaphysics

• Is not anti-metaphysics• No view from nowhere: reality is not out there

waiting to be seen (“misplaced concreteness”)• Beyond the “myth of the given:” reality is not

simply as it appears• Perspectival: all truths/experiences come from a

perspective and are partial• Misplaced concreteness and “map vs territory:”

abstractions are not “real” (independent of us)• Knowledge is fallible (no absolutes) • Knowledge is socially constructed• Concepts and language are indeterminate


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Evolution of mind/consciousness

• Maslow’s hierarchy of needs:


cultural vs. individual wisdom

Intelligence and wisdom can be created and stored at the levels of genes/biology, culture, and individuals. Culture A over many generations may have developedwisdom beyond what individuals in culture B know. But, the individuals in culture A mayonly be doing what everyone has done for generations, and not understand the reasons or value of their actions. Such wisdom is stored in the culture, not necessarily in most members.


Ideas as reality“misplaced Concreteness” through developmental levels

• Magical thinking – imagination as reality

• Mythical thinking – stories as reality

• Conventional thinking – norms as reality

• Modern thinking – concepts/models/abstractions as reality

• (Postmodern? – mirror/paradox as reality?)

• (Integral?...)

Concepts:- Freedom- The economy- Green meme- Eros- UR quadrant-- …

Whitehead


U-Theory – Otto SCharmer


Images of Complexity

Images of Complexity-2

Tom Murray | www.perspegrity.com | Aug. 08

Second Tier - going “meta”

• Meta-cognition (thinking about thinking)

• Meta-knowledge (knowledge about the nature and limitations of knowledge)

• Meta-learning (learning how to learn, also called triple-loop learning)

• Meta-dialog (dialog about how we engage in dialog)

• Meta-decision making (making decisions about how we will go about making decisions)

• Meta-affect (investigating the feeling of our feelings; somatic awareness of feeling states)

Tom Murray | www.perspegrity.com | Aug. 08

More meta…

• Meta-rationality (making rational decisions about when to employ rational/logical thinking vs. intuitive, emotion-based, or other non-rational modalities)

• Meta-compassion (reflecting on and caring about how we care for others)

• Meta-leadership (supporting leadership in others)

• Meta-transparency (if one can't be transparent in a situation, one can still be transparent about the fact that one is not transparent, and explain why)

Polarity Mapping

Polarity mapping

(from Cooke-Greuter Assos)

Common Polarities

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