Dynamics of Change
Naming
Having identified the various that can be used, the next challenge is to clarify how these hang together in a change situation.
Our concern is not so much with the flux as with the desired result from the operation of multiple levels subject to their mutual influences. The change will then be at a particular stage that has been desired and defined by the agent.
This is the Tree that will be mapped in this section.
Dynamics
Trees reflect actual personal functioning within a current socio-physical reality.
As in all Trees, generating change will invariably activate two potentially opposing forces: referred to as the dynamic duality. The detailed quality of this duality varies with the framework but in general it reflects the pressures from oneself on the one hand and pressures from the socio-physical environment on the other.
In this case. the pressures that applies at each level of the hierarchy may be:
•pre-determined, agreed, imposed, logically driven, environmental, socially-controlled —which can be called the social pole and labelled S;
OR
•opportunistic, ad hoc, personally-preferred, given, emotion-driven—which can be called the personal pole and labelled P;
OR
functioning may call for a synthesis or fusion of poles that resists disentangling—which can be called a balanced pole and labelled B.
Psychosocial Pressures
From previous studies, it has been found useful to divide the tree into two parts referred to as the internal duality.
This division result in the lower 4 levels which are governed by actualization pressures:
At L1: Performance.
At L2: Certainty
At L3: Acceptability
At L4: Well-being
which leaves the upper three levels which involve the transcendence pressures:
At L5: Understanding
At L6: Autonomy
At L7: Selflessness
- Start with the actualization of change.
Originally posted: 30-May-2024