Seek Involvement: G3

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The G1-monads provide for a deep engagement of the self to ensure there will be a responsibility for the doctrine, while the G2-dyads provide for a collegiality based on absolute fidelity to the doctrine.

With the addition of a third adjacent level to form G3-triads, the school requires adherents to contribute to the relatively mundane mechanics of school operation by fulfilling essential roles. This work can be extremely time-consuming, but adherents naturally seek to become more involved as the doctrine becomes ever more important.

School roles are typically unpaid and often encounter resistance from either colleagues (insiders) or wider society (outsiders). Accordingly, their handling needs to be determined, steadfast, persistent, and tenacious. The qualifier chosen is «resolute».

The triad structure means that involvement must be g1-genuine via the bottom level of responsibility, g2-forceful via the middle level of responsibility, and g3-resolute via the top level of responsibility.

Psychosocial Pressure

Involvement is likely driven by a pressure for performance because individual adherents in responsible roles like trainers, councillors and others are expected to produce satisfactory results and can be removed or replaced if they fail.

This aligns with the general finding for G3 in structural hierarchies as investigated for Domain Fundamentals and Controls.

Alternatives:Closed All of the remaining pressures—acceptability, certainty, well-being and selflessness—may be important for roles and involvement, but seem secondary. Considering previously assigned pressures: autonomy would be inappropriate given activity is in the service of the school, and understanding seems important but secondary.

Types of Role

Missioner (G31)

Missioner is the role of someone who accepts a mission to spread the doctrine.
In church organisations, the role is that of a missionary.

Most genuine adherents desire others to appreciate the doctrine and obtain the extraordinary new awareness that it provides. Some feel an urge to propagate the ideas and this typically remains a personal matter. The membership association, if developed, may look benignly on these efforts but gives the missioner free-rein. (This does not apply to highly bureaucratized missions that are part of the organized school and run by church headquarters.)

The missioner must discharge the role g1-genuinely in regard to the L1-fundamentals, g2-forcefully in bringing understanding to others via L2-mentoring, and g3-resolutely in regard to the L3-dissemination effort in general.

Trainer (G32)

Trainer is the role of someone who assists new adherents to become full-fledged members of the school.

Training is a concern of any membership body if that training is expected to lead to joining. So trainer roles typically need to be assigned by the membership body to ensure adherents get aligned with the mainstream orthodoxy. Adherents, themselves, want to be sure they are properly trained and will be accepted as members of the association.

The trainer must therefore discharge the role g1-genuinely in regard to the L2-mentoring, g2-forcefully in generating L3-dissemination of the doctrine in accord with the current orthodoxy, and g3-resolutely in discharging a responsibility assigned by the L4-membership body.

Councillor (G33)

As soon as a membership body is established, there are vital management roles to be filled, and then a proliferation of committees and working parties to be staffed.

Councillor is the name assigned here to those who take up positions that run the membership association (e.g. President, Secretary, Treasurer) or serve as members of the variety of committees (e.g. for the library, for publications, for liaison). The holders of councillor roles are typically listed in any annual report.

It follows that the councillor is expected to be g3-resolute in regard to upholding L5-guardianship of the doctrine and school, g2-forceful in relation to the performance of work within the L4-membership organisation, especially upholding its rules and policies, and g1-genuine in regard to efforts to L3-disseminate the doctrine and build up the school.

Sect-follower (G34)

Any significant revision of the doctrine is controversial. Not uncommonly, the revision appeals to some and seems unnecessary, misleading or even false to others. The result can then be the creation of a variant or sect within the school. Those adherents who agree with the revision will meet openly and regularly to discuss, develop and apply the revision.

I am labelling such adherents as «sect-followers».

So those in the sect-follower role are g3-resolute in regard to the particular L6-authorized revision. As long as there is no wish to create a schism in the school, they are g2-forceful in regard to continuing as L5-guardians of the doctrine, and they will also be g1-genuine in supporting the L4-membership body.

Pioneer (G35)

Taking the doctrine into wider society is a particular challenge. It is not always welcomed by the more conservative and orthodox followers. Nor is society welcoming of controversial initiatives just because they accord with doctrinal precepts.

I am labelling those who attempt such work as «pioneers».

Pioneers must be g3-resolute in L7-application of the doctrine to enable societal benefits. Such extensions depend on L6-revisions of the orthodox doctrine that may be disputed and must be g2-forcefully upheld. Finally, the pioneer must embody a g1-genuine concern for L5-guardianship of the orthodoxy to win collegial support.

Transition

The school can come into being if: 

What is now sought to both support adherents and to protect the doctrine is recognition from wider society, and this is made possible by adding an additional level to form tetrads.

Originally posted: 28-Apr-2024.