Get Oriented to Rendering Assistance

Willingness to Rise to a Challenge

In looking at creativity in endeavours (RsH), it was proposed that it emerged as part of an urge to rise to a challenge and depended on willpower.

The critical levels were the transcendence levels: it was not enough to communicate-RL5, communications needed to be intensified, not enough to have a purpose-RL6, your purposes needed to be always kept in mind, it was not enough to be willing-RL7, you had to be fully willing. Willingness-L7 combined with values-L6 is what makes all the difference between activity that is perfunctory and activity that is likely to be personally meaningful and socially significant.

In this investigation of the willingness domain, it will be necessary to clarify exactly what «being fully willing» entails and how it appears apart from its use in creative endeavours.

The first implication is that all 7 levels of willingness will need to be activated—anything less would be incomplete by definition—and this use of all 7 levels generates a serious involvement.

Serious involvements that are selfless involve rendering assistance for the benefit of others, which is always a challenge.

Remember: The focus here is not on any particular endeavour associated with that assistance, it is on the psychosocial functioning that supports activation and pursuit of helpful endeavours.

Being Fully Willing to Assist

As developed earlier, the elements of willingness are rather ordinary psychosocial functions that become specialized by a fully conscious awareness that things may not go well and that continuance will be stressful or problematic.

Every activation of a willingness element therefore can bring with it a silent or articulated hope that the undesired and frustrating factors will not dominate and dissipate the effort.

Will that hope be realized? It is impossible to know. It just has to be activated as a matter of faith. This means that each level of willingness becomes a vehicle of faith, and assisting selflessly becomes an act of faith.

Hope, by itself, is not a strategy. Nor is faith. Hope and faith often appear to be no more than wishful expectations that reveal and indulge passivity. Hope that is generated by the activation of willingness is not a strategy either, but it is far from passive: it is an active initial step required to make a meaningful difference in a challenging situation.

To strengthen the effects of each level of willingness and put substance on the bare bones of hope and faith, the levels can be combined. Combinations can be expected to illuminate all the complex willingness forms that may need to be activated to ensure that assistance can be rendered.

In THEE, combinations are found in structural hierarchies.

Full Willingness as a Structural Hierarchy

Each Level in such a hierarchy is a Grouping and contains all Levels of the originating hierarchy, here the levels of willingness (PH7). Each Grouping contains Groups that are the components with distinctive functions that may be activated when required.

Technical Details:

Structural Hierarchies are developed by progressively grouping adjacent Levels of THEE’s 7-Level holistic hierarchies in all possible ways. «Holistic» means that Levels in the hierarchy broadly imply or include each other, and this applies here.

The first «Level» in a Structural Hierarchy is a Grouping of 1 Level i.e. Grouping-1 (G1) contains 7 Groups that are Monads i.e. made up of 1 original Level. The next «Level» will contain all Groups of 2 adjacent Levels i.e. G2 contains 6 Dyads…and so on until we reach G7, the Heptad Grouping where there is just one Group consisting of all 7 original Levels. As a result, every G-Level contains all the Levels of the originating hierarchy i.e. the original differentiation of an entity into Levels has been replaced by a re-unification applicable at each G-Level.There are 28 Groups (components) in a Structural Hierarchy.

However, definition of this THEE form is far more complex. Internal Levels i.e. the Levels within any Group, have distinctive qualifiers, which give the function of that level an essential characteristic. Internal levels that carry the qualifier are labelled with a lower case 'g' e.g. g4 refers to the 4^th Level in each of the Tetrads, Pentads, Hexads and the Heptad and always has the same qualifier. Note that g4 does not exist in the Monads, Dyads or Triads which have less than 4 internal Levels and so that qualifier is inactive.

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Before developing the framework for rendering assistance, grouping by grouping in the structural hierarchy, an overview of the whole picture can help in getting oriented.

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• Start with the end result.

Originally posted: 20-May-2026