![]() Remember, we still preserve Yellow’s perception of the entire Spiral and the need to attend to each and every part of it, but this is reframed in a new global, holistic context. Everything is seen as part of the global order. This is the “Global Village” that the Spiral Dynamics literature describes. This universal perspective reaches right from the big scale to the small scale, across ethnic groups, nations and penetrating across classes. Our vantage point is now the planet itself. There is a focus on the planet and the wellbeing of all its systems. They’re all part of this one global, living, breathing system. And in our concern we include all creatures, all species, and all human beings. We see the world as a single organism and life as a living entity. The big leap we take at Turquoise is to see the unity and holism of all of existence. Let’s first look at how we see the world at Turquoise – this is quite different to the view from Yellow. With Turquoise comes a more holistic, spiritual and embodied view. But it lacks the capacity to see the wisdom and structure that’s under the surface. Yellow thinks in terms of systems, their interconnections, and the chaos caused by their faultiness. We create complex theories and maps and models, and love philosophising, but may lack the network required to implement the change for humankind that we intuit. Its individualistic character means we can become isolated. Yellow provides us with systemic thinking, an abundance mindset, an evolutionary worldview, a new level of flexibility, and many other traits. On an individual level, Turquoise comes online when we become aware of the limits of the prior stage, Yellow. The same is true of the Turquoise level from Spiral Dynamics. So let’s get to it.Īll levels of the human being – no matter what aspect of the human we’re looking at – build on previous levels and go beyond their weaknesses. But I think there’s enough information out there to give a fairly detailed, albeit speculative, profile of this stage. Its scarcity also means that it’s significantly more difficult to identity people and groups embodying Turquoise compared to the other levels.įor this reason, many people skip over Turquoise in their coverage of Spiral Dynamics. Forget trying to understand how it would look for a society or extended group to embody this stage. We don’t have a sure grasp of what Turquoise looks like in individuals. It’s much more fleshed out than it is in Graves’ original findings, but there’s still work to be done. So few people embody this stage that even the Spiral Dynamics literature on Turquoise is a little sparse compared to the other stages. ![]() The Life Conditions underpinning Turquoise are as yet barely visible, meaning this stage hasn’t emerged to any significant degree. ![]() As Beck and Cowan remark in their landmark book Spiral Dynamics: Leadership, Values, and Change : “At our present stage in human development, Turquoise is at an embryonic stage.” ![]() Well, the problem resides in the scarcity of this stage. It turns out that Turquoise is a little tricky to talk about. The Difficulties With Spiral Dynamics Turquoise Before we get into the nitty gritty, I want to touch on the issues with talking about this stage of Spiral Dynamics. ![]()
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