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Spiral Dynamics Cheat Sheet
Posted on Nov 3rd, 2006
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Check out the full-sized version of this table here.
I often find myself typing the keywords "Spiral Dynamics Whole Foods" into the almighty Google oracle in order to pull up Whole Foods CEO John Mackey's excellent speech entitled "The Upper Flow of Human Development." I really like how Mackey describes the unique Characterstics and Qualities of each value system meme with bulleted lists of Decision-Making, Education, Family, Community & Life Space priorities.
The only problem with the layout of all of this information in a linear fashion is that it has been really hard to compare and contrast the different vMemes with each other. That was why I created a Spiral Dynamics Cheat Sheet Graphic with all of the six categories and characteristics in one big massive table.
SPIRAL DYNAMICS COLLAGE
Another resource that I've found to be very useful in trying to understand Spiral Dynamics was this Formless Mountain Collage by Steve Self. (UPDATE: Here is another link to it here)
The reason why his collage resonates with me so much is because it packs in so much information on both the visual and archetypical level. The original picture was interactive in that you could mouseover the text and it would explain characterisitics for each of the four quadrants for each vMeme, and this static shot has them to the right.
I have also envisioned finding 168 appropriate pictues for each of the characteristics listed in table above into a massive collage ala Formless Mountain's collage. It's a daunting task because a number of the characteristics are fairly abstract. But I'm hoping that this table helps inspire me to start digging through the Creative Commons pool of photos over at Flickr towards the goal of either creating a unified collage or a series of videoblog posts.
By all means, please let me know if you're interesting in helping dig up some representative photos for something like this.
INTEGRAL COMMUNICATIONS
Another resource to pass along: I tracked down Adam Leonard a while ago through Integral Institute when I was looking for someone who combined Communications Theory with Integral Theory. Adam was just finishing his Master's degree in Communications where he was able to get a 180-page thesis on Integral Communications through the rigors of his Academic institution.
Adam has allowed me to publish his thesis on my site here & here, and I highly recommend digging through the appendices for a lot of bulleted lists of characteristics for each vMeme.
The other interesting aspect to Adam's Integral Communications thesis is that he provides a framework for translating messages to different vMemes. I find myself referring to the appendices of Adam's thesis paper quite often as well. There is also a lot of juicy Communications theory to boot for all of those integral nerds out there.
FOR SPIRAL DYNAMICS BEGINNERS:
This What is Enlightenment Spiral Dynamics page has a lot of good references and lectures to check out -- including the graphic below:
I often find myself typing the keywords "Spiral Dynamics Whole Foods" into the almighty Google oracle in order to pull up Whole Foods CEO John Mackey's excellent speech entitled "The Upper Flow of Human Development." I really like how Mackey describes the unique Characterstics and Qualities of each value system meme with bulleted lists of Decision-Making, Education, Family, Community & Life Space priorities.
The only problem with the layout of all of this information in a linear fashion is that it has been really hard to compare and contrast the different vMemes with each other. That was why I created a Spiral Dynamics Cheat Sheet Graphic with all of the six categories and characteristics in one big massive table.
SPIRAL DYNAMICS COLLAGE
Another resource that I've found to be very useful in trying to understand Spiral Dynamics was this Formless Mountain Collage by Steve Self. (UPDATE: Here is another link to it here)
The reason why his collage resonates with me so much is because it packs in so much information on both the visual and archetypical level. The original picture was interactive in that you could mouseover the text and it would explain characterisitics for each of the four quadrants for each vMeme, and this static shot has them to the right.
I have also envisioned finding 168 appropriate pictues for each of the characteristics listed in table above into a massive collage ala Formless Mountain's collage. It's a daunting task because a number of the characteristics are fairly abstract. But I'm hoping that this table helps inspire me to start digging through the Creative Commons pool of photos over at Flickr towards the goal of either creating a unified collage or a series of videoblog posts.
By all means, please let me know if you're interesting in helping dig up some representative photos for something like this.
INTEGRAL COMMUNICATIONS
Another resource to pass along: I tracked down Adam Leonard a while ago through Integral Institute when I was looking for someone who combined Communications Theory with Integral Theory. Adam was just finishing his Master's degree in Communications where he was able to get a 180-page thesis on Integral Communications through the rigors of his Academic institution.
Adam has allowed me to publish his thesis on my site here & here, and I highly recommend digging through the appendices for a lot of bulleted lists of characteristics for each vMeme.
The other interesting aspect to Adam's Integral Communications thesis is that he provides a framework for translating messages to different vMemes. I find myself referring to the appendices of Adam's thesis paper quite often as well. There is also a lot of juicy Communications theory to boot for all of those integral nerds out there.
FOR SPIRAL DYNAMICS BEGINNERS:
This What is Enlightenment Spiral Dynamics page has a lot of good references and lectures to check out -- including the graphic below:
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adam leonard
January 2007 
I've typed up the text that is in both WIE's and Steve Self's SD diagrams side-by-side here if it is of use.