9. Coral: Quest for theosis
__________
Ultraviolet: Quest for sacredness
Violet: Quest for ubuntu (otherliness)
__________
Indigo: Quest for honesty
Blue: Quest for Individuality
Green: Quest for Independence
Yellow: Quest for power
Orange: Quest for security
Red: Quest for survival
10. Coral: Quest for theosis
__________
Ultraviolet: Quest for sacredness
Violet: Quest for ubuntu (otherliness)
__________
Indigo: Quest for honesty
Blue: Quest for Individuality
Green: Quest for Independence
Yellow: Quest for power
Orange: Quest for security
Red: Quest for survival
11.
12. Cultures may include two
or more zones, but will
have a center of gravity in
one.
They may regress.
14. If we don’t differentiate or
transcend, we experience
stagnation, fixation and
stuckness.
If we don’t integrate and include,
we experience disassociation
and a backward attack-focus.
15. Coral: Quest for theosis
__________
Ultraviolet: Quest for sacredness
Violet: Quest for ubuntu (otherliness)
__________
Indigo: Quest for honesty
Blue: Quest for Individuality
Green: Quest for Independence
Yellow: Quest for power
Orange: Quest for security
Red: Quest for survival
16. First tier zones think in terms
of right/wrong and good/evil.
Other zones are evil/wrong:
our zone is good/right.
17. Second tier zones think in terms of
appropriate and adequate.
Other zones are adequate for
their times and situations; we seek
the zone that is appropriate for us
here and now.
18. Think of climbing a ladder.
You gain a new and wider view from each
rung.
Your earlier view was not wrong - only
partial.
Early zones truly describe the way the
world looks to people at that vantage point.
You couldn’t get to the higher rungs if it
weren’t for the lower rungs.
19. This approach is not absolutist.
It doesn’t claim one view is right and
previous (or later) ones are wrong.
Nor is it relativist.
It doesn’t say that no views are truly
right, but only think they are.
It says all views are partial and that
greater wholeness is better than lesser
wholeness.
20. St. Paul seems to agree:
When I was a child, I spoke and thought
and reasoned like a child,
But when I became an adult,
I gave up childish ways.
For now we see in a mirror dimly,
But then face to face.
Now I know in part; then I shall
understand fully,
Even as I have been fully
understood.
21. So faith, hope, and love abide, these
three;
But the greatest of these is
love.
I will show you the most excellent
way.
Follow the way of love.
Amen.
22. Exercise:
Consider the following in light of the spiral
dynamics schema: Coral: one with God
__________
Your life Ultraviolet: holistic, unifying
Violet: integral, systemic, otherly
Your church __________
Indigo: pluralist, relativist, globalist
Your denomination Blue: individualist, rationalist, ideologue
Green: nationalist, rules, codes
Your nation Yellow: feudal, power-oriented
Orange: tribal, magical, animist
The world Red: survival, instinctual, “reptilian”
Where is the center of gravity?
Where are the points of tension?
Where are breakthroughs happening?
26. How can we help our communities move
forward?
What will cause people to entrench?
What cost will we pay for stimulating
forward movement?
How can we make our churches safe for
people at each zone?
How can we not get stuck?
What about new churches in new
zones?
31. Neither revolution nor reformation
can ultimately change a society,
rather you must tell a new powerful
tale, one so persuasive that it sweeps
away the old myths and becomes the
preferred story …
32. … one so inclusive that it gathers all the
bits of our past and our present into a
coherent whole, one that even shines
some light into the future so that we can
take the next step…. If you want to
change a society, then you have to tell an
alternative story.
- attributed to Ivan Illich (Austrian former priest,
philosopher, social critic, 1926-2002)
