Nick Drummond 0104
So we use the model which is called Your Choice, and it gives the child the ability to choose between bad choices and good choices, and not just the child but also addults and teachers. So we use that very sucessfully, and what it does is it creates a moral context which becomes very immediate so that we can have a class which...I ask them from one to five, if one means chaos and nobody is showing respect to each other, and five is everybody is listening and everybody is showing respect. Most of the classes when I come in they are at a one or a two. And after I start talking with them about this model then after five minutes the whole class changes. So they literally go from the bad side to the good side within seconds. It's very amazing! And it all has to do with consciousness, and our ability to focus on something which we would normally which we are not normally trained to focus on. So we are always focussing on something else. But when we start to focus on this inner dimension, when we become aware that we do is very important, then people become aware that they have to take responsibility for what they do without having been told that they have to do it. That's another amazing thing that people have this ability to want to care, to want to express something good. But they have to be reminded about that especially when they are younger. So children for example who, when we use the model Spiral Dynamics, who are very centered in an ego-centric impulsive behavior, here and now, what one would call is red, need to be reminded that what they choose is very important and it needs to be motivated. So you can have a person who is in red, who is very focused on here and now, expressing a very negative red, doing what they want not caring about anybody, you could motivate that child to actually express a very positive red, and very very quickly. But it demands alot from the adults, from the teachers, from the parents. It means that you have to give them something for being good. You have to recognize them, you have to see them. So it is very important, we have to see ourselves as being able to see more than what they can see. They shouldn't be telling us what we should be doing, we should be telling them what they should be doing, and recognizing when they are behaving well and doing good choices.
