A Solid Position : Tree of PH'2Q Arenas

Reminder

As we found in the initial investigation of PH'5Q-Association Arenas, the 7 Arenas formed a Tree with Centres that are meaningfully arranged and appear to reflect a psychosocial reality. Mouse-over thumbnail to review the PH'5Q pattern.

Naming

The Q-conclusions sought via PH'2Q-knowing arenas can provide the possibility for holding a solid position. The Tree looks like this:

The Tree makes good sense.

Dynamic Duality

Polarization can be identified at the expected levels:

• L3: There is often a conflict between whether Q3-choices are to be about change of oneself L3P or about changing the environment L3S.  Inner change takes precedence and is often the precursor and facilitator of milieu change.
• L5: Q5-conclusions about what to say to confidantes L5^P often confidentially, and what to state publicly L5^S are commonly at odds. Public pronouncements dominate the group's shared reality.
• L6: Reaching Q6-conclusions about personal values L6^P may well differ from what is accepted as a communal need 65^S. Communal needs are more powerful requirements then new personal values.

In all three polarized levels, there is a bi-directional influence between the two Centres with the usual pattern of dominance at each level.

The remaining Centres Q1, Q2, Q4, Q7 appear to be balanced.

Q's and Levels

Everything explicit about knowing rests on L1-informed actions. Concern for the L7-future and L6-requirements then serve as the most general context for lower level conclusions that impact on people and situations. With knowing as a personal matter, it seems appropriate for Q4-sustainable views to be positioned at the heart of knowing of all sorts. Such views affect choices about L5-communicating authoritatively, L3-premeditated changes and what L2-studies might be deemed significant. It is noticeable that a Q4-sustainable view does not directly affect Q1-practical choices: other arenas need to intervene.

There are likely important implications to be drawn from the channels that are not permitted, but this awaits deeper study.

Internal Duality

• The Centres and Channels in the L1-L4 Content section use knowing to handle a current problematic situation with the actualization pressures from the Tree levels reinforcing the primary Q-pressures.
• the Centres and Channels in the L5-L7 Context section use knowing to get positioned for the future in whatever is thought and done. with the transcendence pressures from the Tree levels reinforcing the primary Q-pressures

Taken together, this supports naming PH'2QK: Determinants of a Solid Position

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• Proceed to the Tree formed by PH'4Q-Individualizing Arenas
• A deeper look illuminates other relationships amongst the Arenas, and even suggests another possibility for a Tree: check it out here.

Originally posted: 30-Sep-2022