[Neurons] --- World Shift 2011 Version 1.0 ---

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

Re:  Another Post on Changes in Our World

 

 

 

Shelle Rose Charvey has made a name for herself in the field of NLP in the
area of Meta-Programs.  She took the LAB profile created by Rodger Bailey
and has popularized it and extend its depth and application through her
book, Words that Change Minds.   www.LABProfileCertification.com
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After my post on Monday on Outgrowing Dictators, Shelle wrote the following
as a blog that she titled, World Shift 2011, Version 1.0.

 

In Neuro-Semantics, I have used Meta-Programs for the Axes of Change Model,
for the Self-Actualization Unleashing and Quadrants, for the Meta-Detective
Board Game, for the Axes of Leadership and my feeling is that we have only
begun to explore the power and usefulness of Meta-Programs.

 

Shelle writes:

The point is the Meta-Program changes are indicators of what is happening
for individuals, groups or whole cultures. When the situation, motivations,
behaviour changes so do the Patterns. The goal would be to help people
achieve their outcomes and the Meta-Programs offer the way in (by using the
right language and processes) and a way of measuring what change actually
occurred.

 

What I realized from Shelle's blog is that it is possible for an entire
group's meta-programs to shift and expand and they do so given various
contexts.  Well, after all, meta-programs are typically context-dependent.
So when there is cultural change, when a way of being within a political or
cultural context reaches a tipping point (as we see it happening in Egypt
and other places), a whole group of people is ready for transformation and
that indicates that at a much deeper level there is the changing and
expanding of meta-programs.   And if a cultural change agent knows that,
then he or she can more intentionally enable a whole group of people to
expand their meta-programs.

 

Here is the blog. 

 

To your highest and best

 

 

 

From: Shelle Rose Charvet [mailto:shelle at successtrategies.com] 



 


World Shift 2011 Version 1.0


 

February 22, 2011. The events in the Arab world and beyond are advancing so
quickly that it is difficult to write coherently about what is really
happening. There are clearly many elements involved, technological,
political, cultural, sociological, physical and psychological underpinning
and supporting what is unfolding. It defies a simple analysis, but I would
like to share my thoughts about the psychological aspects of these
revolutionary movements. 

 

There is no doubt that without the advanced communication technologies
afforded by Facebook and Twitter, the fires of protest would not have spread
so quickly. And these technologies were the kindling that made it possible
for the peoples of these countries to find out how wealthy people are
elsewhere in the world and how many opportunities others have in comparison
to themselves. Is it merely a case of the oppressed seizing an opportunity?
Why now? 

 

L. Michael Hall PhD suggests in his newsletter[1] that the uprisings are an
example of the need for control over one's life; from Maslow's Hierarchy of
Needs, level 2. Good point. In the NLP community, we often speak of the
questions that operate consciously or at a below-conscious level that enable
people to take action or to make a significant change:

 

Is it possible in the world?

Is it possible for me?

 

Sparked by the suicide death of the young man Mohamed Bouazizi, Tunisia
revolted and proved that it was possible in the world. Their leader Ben Ali
left after less than a week of protests. "It is possible for us," concluded
others in Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, etc. The Egyptians used a model of
nonviolent protest combined with persistence, intelligence, faith and
imagination to achieve their outcome of regime change. And as Alan Weiss
pointed out in his Memo,[2] neither Tunisia nor Egypt used violence to quell
the protests.

 

Other factors must also be at play to enable people to take action.  Take
the questions that the Jewish sage Hillel asked: 

 

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me?"

"And if not now, when?"

 

The protesters have answered these questions with their actions, taking huge
risks to gain control of their future. The opportunity for action was "now".
As the people took to the streets, they also went through significant shifts
in motivation and thinking, which can be described by using LAB ProfileT [3]
psycho-metrics. Under normal circumstances, to survive under an oppressive
dictatorship, people need to act as if they are External to the regime.
"They command, you do." One's personal decisions are strongly influenced
from this outside authority. As the choice to act was being made, at a
certain point, this External motivator shifted to Internal. "You can't tell
me what to do, I decide." As a group, the protesters would no longer submit
to an unfair system or allow external control over their lives. In each
instance since January 2011, where the government has used violence or has
attempted to delegitimize the movement, the protesters have responded to in
a typically Internal fashion by increasing their resolve to get the results
they seek. 

 

The leaders from Bahrain understood this shift and have chosen to consult
and negotiate with protest leaders. As of this writing the government of
Libya has chosen to attack, shoot and kill protesters and bystanders, and
this has dramatically increased the determination of these
Internally-motivated protesters to succeed.

 

In addition, several other LAB ProfileT Motivation Shifts are taking place
within the groups of protesters. Having suddenly become Internal, they
jumped into action to move away from continuing to submit to the
dictatorship. (Away From motivation) Instead of following the normal,
expected Procedure they are now demanding Options. Instead of accepting that
things will remain the Same and never change, they now appear to want a
society which is quite Different from how it has been. Instead of being
Reactive, waiting to see what will happen, they have become Proactive.
Sometimes they became so Proactive that they have acted without thinking. An
example of this would be the strikes for higher wages in Egypt, which took
place only a couple of days after the Mubarak government capitulated.

 

One of most significant shifts over the last few days is the move from the
results of the "divide and conquer" strategy imposed by the various regimes
for decades, whereby individuals did not come together, except for the
covert operations of underground resistance movements. Now in Egypt, Bahrain
and especially Libya as the people there are literally under fire, there is
an inspiring emerging collective consciousness as they stand together
determined to face whatever comes their way. This is a movement from the LAB
ProfileT  Pattern of Independent to Cooperative.

 

To summarize these shifts in LAB ProfileT Motivation Patterns:


Protestors' LAB ProfileT Motivation Shifts


 


Behavior Before

LAB ProfileT  Motivation Pattern

Behavior Now

LAB ProfileT  Motivation Pattern

Implications and Needs


Decades of submission

External (needs direction from the outside)  

Protesting, demanding

Internal (decides for oneself)

Won't be told what to do or intimidated; need to invite consultation,
explore their demands, & negotiate


Willing to follow the expected procedure

Procedures (motivated to follow a step by step process)

Want alternatives, choices, option

Options (motivated to break rules to have more choice)

Demand to break with the process of the past to create new alternatives


Doing the same thing

Sameness (motivated to keep things the same)

Wanting change

Difference (driven to create change)

Don't want leaders from the same, old regime to lead the transition; want
new leaders


Not taking initiative, waiting

Reactive (preference for waiting, thinking)

Taking the bull by the horns, not waiting

Proactive (Need to take initiative)

Want to be in charge of what happens next; need to be involved in taking
action and making decisions


No movement

neutral

Resisting authority

Away From (Moving away from what they do not want)

Highly motivated to notice and respond vociferously to events considered
undesirable


Little collective movement, people acting as individuals

Independent (preference to operate alone)

Collective consciousness, working together

Cooperative (acting as a group)

Prepared to stand together, want to be taken seriously as a group 

 

Why is it useful to interpret the protestors' behavior into LAB ProfileT T
terms? Once one understand their Patterns, it becomes easier to communicate
with this new group of people by going to their "bus stop" and using
language and processes matched to what is driving these people.

 

But events and motivations are changing quickly. Who knows what will happen
next?

Stay tuned for World Shift 2011 version 2.0.

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[1] L. Michael Hall, Ph.D. Meta Reflections 2011 - #8 Feb. 21, 2011
"OUTGROWING DICTATORS"

2 Alain Weiss, Monday Morning MemoR, February 21, 2011

3 LAB Profile, short for Language and Behavior Profile, is a psycho-metric
profile that describes what motivates the behavior of groups and individuals
in different contexts. It is used to understand, predict and influence
behavior. For more information, see my book Words That Change Minds.

 

 

 

 


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[1] L. Michael Hall, Ph.D. Meta Reflections 2011 - #8 Feb. 21, 2011
"OUTGROWING DICTATORS"

[2] Alain Weiss, Monday Morning MemoR, February 21, 2011 

[3] LAB Profile, short for Language and Behavior Profile, is a psycho-metric
profile that describes what motivates the behavior of groups and individuals
in different contexts. It is used to understand, predict and influence
behavior. For more information, see my book Words That Change Minds.

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