The Beauty in Diversity - Reflected through Spiral Dynamics

Spiral Dynamics is a framework that makes patterns visible.  It is an integral approach to thinking about the complexities of human existence by bringing order to the apparent chaos of human affairs.  It represents the emerging flow of human thinking and value systems that continuously change in the process of life.  It shows how people think about things, not what they think about.

This framework organizes information in a way that makes it easier to see the value of our differences. The spiral shows how waves of consciousness emerge and flow through individuals and groups.  Each level represents a system of core values or collective intelligences, applicable to both individuals and entire cultures.  They detail human development and growth in adaptation to challenges.  Each new level includes and transcends all previous ones.  No level is inherently better or worse than another.  They do become more expansive since each builds on all that came before it.  People are not locked into one single level.  Several can coexist, though one is usually dominant.

Each level has an important role in life and all are needed.  Each has a healthy and unhealthy expression...  The opportunity lies in moving people to the healthy expression in their role, not to become all the same. 

• Warm colors exhibit a focus on the external world and mastering it. 
• Cool colors focus on the inner world and coming to peace within it.  
• As individuals, most of us are mixtures of both as the spiral winds between the individual "I" and the collective "we".  

We are like pieces of a puzzle... each one equally as important and valuable. When we align with these factors, we leverage the value of our differences rather than fight against them.  We increase our ability to thoughfully design our efforts by engaging a person that perfectly fits a particular need and empowering them with the best tools and systems, setting them up for success and increasing our ability to impact the whole.