SDi Level Two Personal Emergence
Dr. Don Beck and The Spiral Dynamics Group are proud to present this 9th Annual SDi experience in beautiful Boulder — a 7-day program of dynamic SDi certification training, interactive learning, and meshWORKING with some of the finest veteran minds and groups in the global SDi constellation.
2008 THEME
Personal Emergence and Large-Scale Psychology®
We warmly invite you to the annual ‘evolution’ of the SDi Personal Emergence experience in Boulder, where every year we add more and go deeper into the application of Spiral Dynamics to the Self. This year's theme, more-over, brings to the forefront the concept of large-scale models impacting personal, individual development.
As in previous years, the overall intent will be to both explore and experience ways to develop, nurture and enhance the eight senses of self and 'personal' displays: survival Beige (SurvivalSense), magical Purple (KinSpirits), egocentric Red (PowerGods), saintly Blue (TruthForce), achiever Orange (StriveDrive), sensitive Green (HumanBond), Integral Yellow (FlexFlow) and holonic Turquoise (WholeView).
However, this year we add to our curriculum an exploration of the interface between personal and societal emergence.
We will look at the large scale through the lens of global, cultural, biological, geopolitical aspects of emergence and what that means for personal emergence.
And we will probe deeply into questions such as: What are the codes, the logarithms, for people to collaborate within and between boundaries?
Design
The four days are designed to engage participants fully in
- a focus on the individual's personal life journey, led by Dr. Jean Houston
- the emergence of whole societies, led by Dr. Don Beck
- and teaming together the individual and the large-scale
Approaches and Perspectives
Our aim will be to come up with a comprehensive large-scale perspective uncovering patterns, equations, logarithms, codes that appear to influence and choreograph both personal and large-scale emergence.
Come prepared to walk the talk and move beyond the simplistic and the surface levels — so often addressed by assemblages of people, conferences, meetings, conventions shaped by habits and patterns of the past which simply exchange emotive satisfaction in the present and false senses of equality, peace and harmony — as we explore the deepest codes shaping our realities. Realities which are at present perhaps still beyond our understanding, or off our radar screens, and largely ignored by large cadres of “experts” and a whole generation of well-meaning people who still do not grasp the essence of the human drama and the cultural factors along with the genetics that are either propelling us into despair or lifting us towards the broad sunlit uplands of a possible and obtainable future.
It is time now that we not only collect, accumulate and synthesize the wisdom from the past but also seek after not yet fully understood wisdom for the future — new realities and life conditions demand it — with clear minds, hearts full of passion, and invincible courage.
So come prepared for a mind-challenging look at human destiny, and at the choices we can make to resolve a host of pressing problems and clear out the impasses and dangers that confront us all.
Available only in SDi training courses!
While this body of knowledge will be informed by the work of Professor Clare W. Graves and the Spiral Dynamics Integral conceptual system, it will also reflect a great deal of new insights from our studies of large-scale systems that are going through major shifts.
Nowhere else in the world can one find this level and quality of Spiral thinking, nor the hands-on demonstration of real-world, practical application of Spiral Dynamics in action.
In fact, what you can access in our training only and nowhere else is that specific ingredient other imitative courses miss: knowledge of the actual dynamics of change. Rarely discussed elsewhere in the Integral worlds, let alone taught, is the deceptively simple exploration of what different people mean by “change.”
Without understanding how complex systems, including levels of ego involvement, actually “change” — and in which change variation — means people are simply not realistic about real-world conditions.
Delivery and Faculty
Delivered by Dr. Don Beck and Dr. Jean Houston, widely recognized for her profound work in the field of personal and spiritual development, known as ‘Social Artistry.’
This event will be a unique opportunity to experience Dr. Beck and Dr. Houston together, to learn and benefit from their decades-long experience respectively, and to observe and experience the interface between Spiral Dynamics Integral and Social Artistry.
An opportunity not to be missed!
What else will be important at Boulder 2008?
As always in any SDi program, we will search for the Prime Directive, the underlying Master Code that generates, adjusts, aligns and projects the internal senses of self. This Level Two experience will be built around interactive and 'whole brain' learning, designed to provide a comprehensive view and experience of Personal Emergence and Change within Dr. Beck new Large-Scale Psychology framework.
Please join us in Boulder in the late autumn. The climate will be crisp, the mountains are beautiful, the people warm and gracious — and the learning opportunity: priceless.
To register now, click here.