What is perfect/normal psychological health?

Is it a state?

Or is it a process?

Clare W. Graves

“Briefly, what I am proposing is that the psychology of the mature human being is

an unfolding, emergent, oscillating, spiraling process marked by progressive

subordination of older, lower-behavior systems to newer, higher-order systems as man’s existential problems change.”

Introducing the “meme”

• The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in the mid 1970’s proposed -

• The evolution of culture should be considered as independent from genetic or biological evolution but it has similar characteristics

• He coined the term “meme” to mean units of cultural transformation

• Examples of “memes” are– Songs– Ideas– Fashion– Architecture

Introducing the vMeme

• The Richard Dawkins definition of “meme” is referred to in Spiral Dynamics as the little meme

• In Spiral Dynamics we use the vMeme which refers to:– A core value system, a world view, an

organizing principle that permeates thought structures, decision-making systems and various expressions of culture

vMEMES DEFINED

• A vMeme, as evolutionary code, shapes and influences …– Politics Economics Religion– Education SportsLiterature– Philosophy Science Health care / medicine– Future destiny The meaning of the past– Sex Marriage FamilyWork – ALL ASPECTS OF SOCIETY

• Whenever core vMemes in the “cultural DNA” change, everything is impacted

Meme Infestation

Worldviews & Value Systems

Actions

Ideas

Beliefs

Organizing Principles & Meaning

Ways of thinking& Mindsets

Trends

The Master Codes – scaffolds & stratification, attractors of surface values

Icons

EventsPlaces

TunesBehaviors

that have meaningPeople Art

ThemesCauses

NormsIssues