Projects Overview (Explanations)
Global Strategies Project (Explanations)
Characteristics of phases
in 12-phase learning / action cycles
Global Strategies Project
Tentative adaptation and development from Arthur Young's Geometry of Meaning (1978). See commentary on learning cycles in Cycles of dissonance and resonance. See also adaptation to Typology of 12 complementary strategies essential to sustainable development and to Typology of 12 complementary dialogue modes essential to sustainable dialogue.
| Learning via... | Time-binding | Unconscious
(In-volution) |
Unconscious registration of information | Homeostatic equilibrium
Unconscious adaptation |
Auto-catalytic response
Self-impulsion |
Uncoordinated action
Victim of discontinuity |
| Space-binding | Conscious
(Re-volution) |
Timeless awareness
Non-duration |
Conscious adaptive response
Awareness |
Comparison with norms or
memory of previous experience
Self-awareness |
Comparison with previous
comparisons
Awareness of self-awareness Transendental discontinuity |
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| Unconscious
(In-volution) |
Conscious
(Re-volution) |
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| Unintended
shift of:
- perspective - position - reference Displacement of focus |
Intentional
shift of
- perspective - position - reference Range of conscious attention span "Distance" from object of focus |
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Observation; act of considering; position determination; reactive learning based on immediate registration of phenomena; assessment of distance; "sizing up" |
Adaptive change; reaction; passive adaptation or change of position in response to changing circumstances |
Spontaneous initiation of transformative action; commitment to a new course of action |
Control of transformative action |
| Unconscious impression of significance |
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Recognition of moment(ousness), relevance (as related to leverage), significance (as in "matters of great moment"); weight of facts; bringing matters into focus |
Recognition of the momentum (of an issue) resulting from a change, namely the consequential transformation of awareness or perspective |
Forcefulness engendered, experienced or embodied as a result of transformative action; constructive (or disruptive) action potential; enhanced sense of being |
Establishment of disciplined pattern of response; consolidated or harmonious control of action potential; holding forces in check |
| Subject to an unintended shift of perspective | Projection of an intended shift of perspective into reality |
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Faith in current paradigm or perception of reality; unexamined or habitual commitment to a process projection or understanding, irrespective of inconsistent disturbing factors |
Decision or impulse to act or initiate a process determining the future |
Achievement of a desired
result by application of understanding (and
adjustment of implicit beliefs) in response to external factors; working
action on reality
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Power of acquired knowledge; know-how; integrated or embodied experience; capacity (including that of not acting); non-action |
| Unexplained
problems
Imponderables External constraints |
Mass of
information
Amassed experience Internal constraints Mass of evidence "Matter of fact" |
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