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Transition Steps Between Stages
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Step
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Step Name
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Sub–step Name
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Relations
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Dialectical
Form
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1
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A
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Extinction of thesis from
previous stage begins
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Previous stage action does
not solve many tasks. (Deconstruction begins)
Extinction Process
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2
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B
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Antithesis:
Negation or complementation
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Negation or
complementation, Inversion, or alternate thesis
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3
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A
or B
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Relativism: Alternation of
thesis and antithesis
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Alternation of thesis &
antithesis. There is no coordination of them
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4
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A
and B
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Smash:
Synthesis begin
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Unordered synthesis of
components from A and B
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Smash 1
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Random Hits, False alarms
and Misses & Correct Rejections
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Synthesis of components
from A and B
in a non-random Order
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Smash 2
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More Hits, lower Misses,
excess False Alarms
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Incorporates subsets
producing hits at Stage n. Basis
for exclusion not sharp. (Overgeneralization.)
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Smash
3
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Correct Rejections increase
, Excess misses, Lower Hits and False Alarms
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Incorporates subsets
producing correct rejections. Basis for
inclusion not sharp. (Under generalization)
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5
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A with B
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Synthesis and new thesis:
New temporary equilibrium
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Temporary equilibrium
(synthesis and new thesis)
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Source:
Does the Model of Hierarchical Complexity
Produce Significant Gaps between Orders and Are the Orders
Equally Spaced?
Transition
Process Between Systematic and Meta-systematic Stages
11.5.1
Transitional Between Systematic and
Meta-systematic Stages Step
One in Deconstruction – Construction Process
Recognition of Inadequacy of the current
system
11.5.2
Transitional Between Systematic and
Meta-systematic Stages
Step Two in the
Deconstruction– Construction Process: The problem of arbitrariness can
only be solved in actual interaction among the various
systematic components involved.
11.5.3
Transitional Between Systematic and
Meta-systematic Stages
Step Three in the
Deconstruction – Construction Process: The
subject recognizes that previously held ideas about rigid
boundaries between systematic components no longer work and
that certain distinctions lose significance.
11.5.4
Transitional Between Systematic and
Meta-systematic Stages
Step Four in the
Deconstruction – Construction Process:
Subject includes many systematic components of an ideal or
target meta-system. However, these systematic components are
not yet seen as fully interdependent.
11.5.5
Transitional Between Systematic and
Meta-systematic Stages
Step Five in the
Deconstruction – Construction Process:
Enough formal operational components are included to produce a meta-systematic, i.e., thorough and integrated description of
the ideal system, including the following systematic
components. However, there are over
generalizations and the basis for rejection of a particular
component as not ideal are not sharp.
11.5.6
Transitional Between Systematic and
Meta-systematic Stages
Step Six in the
Deconstruction – Construction Process:
The subject produces Subsets of formal operational components
and generates rules of exclusion that produce correct
rejections of those components that do not fit into the ideal
or target system at the Meta-systematic Stage, but still
produces misses because the rules for inclusion are not
specific enough yet.
11.5.7 (12)
Transitional Between Systematic and
Meta-systematic Stages
Step Seven
in the Deconstruction – Construction Process: A
New Temporary Equilibrium with a Synthesis producing an ideal
or target system is achieved.
12 Meta-systematic Stage A New
Temporary Equilibrium with a Synthesis producing an ideal
“Choice – take a stand” system is achieved.
The subject is
able to provide a full description of her meta-system. She has
specific rules of inclusion and exclusion, based on both her
personal experience and advice from trained, qualified
professionals:
“Anyway, he incorporated it into one of the job
descriptions that in order to hold one of the positions that
he was hiring for. This isn’t Bill Strong.
This is another guy, from his department.
One of the mandatory things for
the positions is that you had to attend Rapport. I said,
well now you just made it to where we are not promotable
unless we agree to attend Rapport if we wanted to apply for
that position.
He said, “that’s correct.” And then he did
some big round chant here one day. Someone came in from
Rapport, and their idea is that when you come in to the office
after you’ve been to Rapport for 3 days, and everyone comes
back with no voice ‘cause you have to do voice inflection and
yell through your thing.
They all cheer them at the reception
area, all those who have already been to Rapport, you know,
“yay, yay” and blow whistles. Okay, that’s fine.
Well, then
they started doing this chant of “I am leader, I am strong”
and just, everyone that reported to me came in “Oh my God,
Kathy, this is scaring me.”
Well you know, I’m
trying to keep even thought on it and not put fear into my
group, and say, well, we’re not sure what they’ve been
through. Maybe this is just something that keeps it alive for
them. Well, then as they were really driving to, got this
thing; a list that, tell me how many of your members, or your
team members, are going to be attending this in the next 6
months and you as a manager should be leading the way and you
need to figure out when you are going to sign up, and finally
I’d had it.
I called a meeting with the managers and I just, I
said, you know, if you want to go to this thing, these things,
I think any kind of self improvement is valuable based on what
you feel you need to improve on; or based on what others are
telling you, you lack, I said. But to force someone to go to
something like this, which is based on the 1960 model that was
shut down in the 70s based on sleep deprivation training, I
said.
How can you stand there and tell me you know me and know
my history and tell me to sign a medical release form that
states in bold letters “if any of these things have occurred
in your life that you shouldn’t attend”. But you are forcing a
person to sign that How are you not held liable?
They should
have a psychosis break down or something after this event.
“I’m not held liable. They sign right here that they don’t
hold Rapport liable and they won’t”. I said, exactly, so
you’re putting the owning on the person to go to this, and if
they have a break down they have no one to come back on.
I said, you’re forcing something that is not
enforceable. And I said, if you don’t stop I’m going to pursue
other actions. I took this whole description to my mental
health counselor, and he called his coworker who is a
psychiatrist and they delved into it for like a week; and they
said for you, you should not go, and that he would write me a
medical release. I said no, I’m just going to talk about
this, and that’s when I took a stand, because you can’t be
forcing people to do certain things because you believe in
them.
[Probe: RIGHT. OKAY. WHAT DID IT FEEL LIKE FOR YOU TO
HAVE TO DO THAT?]Oh I was, I was thinking I’m going to lose my
job. I’m going to have to face these people tomorrow if I
don’t lose my job, and what are going to be my repercussions?
Am I going to be shunned, and I’m going to now be looked at as
never being able to be promoted, you know. Am I going to get
black lawed, or black balled? But I was willing to do that to
just say, enough is enough, and you can’t do this.”
The
subject then goes on to reflect upon another crucial episode
in her life when she had to make a tough choice regarding the
welfare of herself and her children:
“So if I have choice, it
could be as simple as the choice between steak and chicken. If
I want chicken that’s what I’m going to have. You know, its
choice I’m making and I don’t need someone else to tell me no,
you will eat this and you will have this and that’s how it’s
going to be.
[Probe: OKAY. DO YOU HAVE A SENSE OF WHY THIS
MIGHT BE SO IMPORTANT FOR YOU?] Uh, yeah, because there were
no choices when I was growing up. It was what it was and you
were ordered, you were directed, and I got nothing out of it.
There was no satisfaction, there was no, um, I got to the
point where I was letting others make choices in my life and I
was just going along. And it was the wrong direction.
But I
was fine with it because I didn’t know how to make a choice. I
just thought that is how it’s was supposed to be, that’s what
they told me.
[OKAY. WHEN DID YOU LEARN THAT YOU COULD MAKE A
CHOICE, THAT YOU COULD DECIDE FOR YOURSELF?] Oh, when did I
learn? Hmm…the day that I finally made a choice. It sounds
weird; I don’t know how to explain this. The day I finally
just stood up and said no, I’m not doing this anymore. And it
was very scary because I was a mother of 2 and it was about
leaving my husband. I was only 23.
I didn’t know where I was
going, but we were living the wrong life, and something was
going to happen bad, and I just stood up one day. I
don’t know how I did it, but one day I just woke up and started
packing bags. And when I left, it was the best thing I
ever did, and that is when I knew I had the power to make my
choice. It took me longer to understand that I had other
areas that I could make choices in, but that was my first time
of understanding this is a choice and I have made it.
[Probe:
OKAY, AND THEN, UM, YOUR EXPERIENCES IN THERAPY, DID IT
CONTRIBUTE TO YOUR ABILITY TO CONTINUE TO MAKE YOUR OWN
CHOICES?] Absolutely. Because in therapy it was never directed
as here is what you’re going to do, it was, here, do you want
to try this or do you want to try that? He gave me choices.
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