259 - Trace Bell Part 2 - Spiral Dynamics, Healthy Evolution, and Transcending Old Beliefs for Individuals, Organizations, and Society
“I really see Spiral Dynamics as a tool for integration because each stage is saying something incredibly important and profound about what it means to be human.” - Trace Bell
Part II of my conversation with Trace Bell shall forever more be referred to as “The One Where We Dig Into Spiral Dynamics”. But before we embark on our comprehensive yet approachable explanation, let's get the credentials out of the way for those who missed Part I. But, seriously, hit “play” on that episode for the backstory.
Trace Bell is an integration guide, transformational coach, and cultivator of emergence who co-founded Open Aware, which specializes in helping individuals and organizations reach their full potential by integrating the Spiral Dynamics (or SD) framework, a compelling color-coded, corkscrew-shaped model conceived by Don Beck and Christopher Cowan, based on the emergent cyclical theory of Clare W. Graves, PhD.
If you're new to SD, it helps to think of it as a modern language that expands our understanding of the stages of evolutionary development in individuals, organizations, or whole societies.
Still confused? Don't be. SD is simply another tool that therapists can reference, easily coexisting alongside Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Erickson's stages of development, or any other preferred model. "The theory that Spiral Dynamics posits is that evolution actually happens in these distinct stages that increase in complexity and nuance," Trace explains. "These stages are not better or worse than one another. The invitation is to view all of these as equally important because they're all saying something really crucial about what it means to be human.”
Spiral Dynamics can accommodate different growth rates along emotional, moral, and cognitive lines, with each upward move to a new stage/color marks a transcendent "leap" away from the beliefs and actions of the stage that came before. "When we start to understand Spiral Dynamics as a way to identify how these stages are showing up in healthy ways within us, [we can] also identify the ways that un-health (or ego) is showing up in us," says Trace. "[and] use that to heal trauma, heal our relationship with some of these stages. That's where I really took to SD, and that's why I use it in my work."
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Trace Bell is an integration guide, transformational coach, and cultivator of emergence. He is passionate about the intersection of consciousness and systems change and co-founded a non-profit called Holon Institute that is dedicated to helping people heal the separation from themselves, each other and nature.
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