Colour-coding: Orange refers to THEE terminology. refers to THEE-names for specific cells or frameworks. Maroon refers to the Root Levels which are presumed to be necessary for their function.
The function of every PH•Level-4 element has as an intrinsic necessary, but often implicit, feature.
Note: The elements examined below are not equally well understood.
Element | Function: Provisional Formulation |
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To become or remain part of a situation despite the need to accept personal frustration. |
using experiences explicitly so you are clear about how you feel in regard to the particular frustration you are expected to tolerate. There is no rule about what is welcome and no one can choose for you. Even if there is disappointment or feelings of defeat, there needs to be a sense of satisfaction at closure whether or not you proceed or withdraw. If others are involved, the process requires sensitivity to their experiences.
is aboutExample: Making a film is complex and difficult, involving numerous key parties. None can have their own way completely, and there is a great deal of frustration and emotional conflict. For the film to be completed, everyone has to compromise or exit the production.
activates other functions. However, there is no intrinsic need to or . It is important to distinguish the inner readiness to remain a participant, the essence of compromise, from the work of bargaining or negotiating which naturally involves all Root Levels.
Element | Function: Adjusted Formulation |
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To continue with an activity defining the identity of an endeavour. |
intuitions, ideas and emotions to determine that the remain worthy of your energy and resources, and that they are indeed being progressed by lower level purposes. Use of this level comes particularly to the fore when a project is losing its way or not going well.
Example: A small farm may raise a range of animals. If however, times get hard, something must be done. The owners may sell up if they are not emotionally tied to that farm. Otherwise they must devise additional compatible principal objects that they feel are right for them e.g. grow vegetables, bed-and-breakfast for travellers, or education-entertainment for children. (That comes before economic or other issues which depend on choices of another sort.)
While
bring other levels of into play, does not intrinsically involve or .Element | Function: Current Formulation |
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To perceive something as representing and evoking ideas from a different domain of discourse; or regard it as so doing. |
experiences of living within a particular society or being a member of an enduring group. There is then an automatic appreciation of the equation between one thing and another.
Example: Cultures vary in the human attributes assigned to animals. Placing an animal image as a symbol on product packaging will not generate the same experience for consumers in different cultures.
activates other elements of . However, it does not intrinsically involve or .
Element | Function: Provisional Formulation |
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To provide functionality for the self experience. |
experience. That is why extensive exposure to different walks of life, and reading that covers many diverse themes is so beneficial. A narrow life constricts the mind. Concepts that do not tap into your own experience remain lifeless, seem alien and wrong and cannot be embraced.
depends on usingExample: A young adult moving to independent living is aware of the limitations of their childhood environment of family and school. They avidly engage in late night quasi-philosophical debates with friends, watch soaps or dramas on TV, and peruse magazines and novels in order to gain ideas through vicarious experience. They often want to travel afar to get new experiences directly and broaden the mind.
To embrace
, you may well activate emotions, intuitions and other components of . However, can come to mind and be embraced without or .Element | Function: Provisional Formulation |
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To embrace predictable structures and functions that are homeostatic in the face of pressures from within or without. |
using experience because whether exists or is needed can only be determined by how you feel, not by some arbitrary external measure. It is therefore an inner sense and is sought because it is comforting.
Example: A journalist may be posted to many locations in order to cover social turmoil, and over years this becomes a way of life that provides a sense of stability. Having to stay in one place, perhaps following an injury, may look like stability to others, but it produces a profound experience of disruption and destabilization.
activate and may depend on other elements of . However, it does not necessarily involve or .
Element | Function: New Provisional Formulation |
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To accord validity to quantitative comparisons through use of a socially agreed standard unit. |
experience because the fundamental unit is a social matter with which you identify. The idea behind the unit has to feel right for the to be trusted. Units are typically developed by committees who reach a consensus. Emotions seem to be important e.g. the USA (like Liberia and Burma) has not accepted the 1960 International System of Units.
Example: People prefer to think of values in terms of their own currencies and regularly translate back when travelling: this is about how they feel. An English farmer similarly feels better thinking of fields in terms of acres, and is uncomfortable to use hectares (European) or rai, ngaan and talang wah (Thai) or cek3, pou3, zoeng6, fan1 and mau5 (Chinese in Macau).
depends on other elements of . However, it does not intrinsically involve , or .
Element | Function: Provisional Formulation |
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To apply a mix of techniques to handle developing contingencies within a situation. |
feelings. It is the sense of the situation that tells you what particular technique or procedure to apply. The deployment is generated in a continuous flow that adapts to, shapes and channels a particular situation. The interaction of self and situation depends on your intuition, sensitivity, ideas and other experiences.
is primarily determined by yourExample: A high school teacher deals with an unruly class using a range of techniques to foster learning and sustain discipline. Exactly what should be done for a specific pupil or to deal with a specific class event will be governed by intuition, emotions, ideas and other feelings that develop.
Responding with a
activates other levels of . However it does not intrinsically involve , or , except contextually. So and are what got you into the situation in the first place; and, while and may occur as part of techniques deployed, they are not intrinsic to the deployment itself.Initially posted: 26-Jul-2013