Stage 7: Unified Adaptation

ClosedReminder of the clarification process so far:

Practical Acceptance is ensured in the Unified Mode

The Unitary mode-6 provides for communal ownership and a counter-balance to the personal ownership of the Atomistic mode-5. But both of these modes stand apart from the particularity of situations which likely varies from case to case. There may be historical characteristics, group features or environmental phenomena relevant to a situation that cannot be ignored without violating the sense of fitness of the explanation.

In addition, contexts constantly evolve, situations evolve, and those involved may alter too. So the simplicity inherent in Mode-6 uniformity-conformity gives way to the complexity inherent in the myriad of contexts that potentially apply to particular groups. Fortunately, the Unified mode-7is oriented to address this complexity.

Oscillation:

The Unified mode is about recognizing that any explanation must be applied within widely varying and constant evolving contexts that deserve respect and attention—without abandoning any vital principles. The particular context and any suitable adaptation is subjectiveand adjustments are applied in a limitedfashion.

Values & Assumptions

Stage-7-unified to fit the explanation to the context.

Promoting Acceptability

ClosedEssence: Adaptive Adjustments

The explanation that provides an over-arching resolution of individual perspectives must be adapted to the particularity of specific groups in a specific situation. This is a practical matter and adjustments to the explanation that make it adaptive will assist its use. Change to the explanation may be simply in the wording and its seeming implications. People can be particularly sensitive to the choice of terms, so acceptance can be greatly enhanced by re-phrasing that does not alter the underlying references or principles.

ClosedDesired Benefit: Contextual Fit

The power of context to shape and even determine change must never be underestimated. The group's context should not and must not alter the given explanation of a situation in a fundamental sense. However, adjustments can helpfully generate contextual fit by altering emphases, clarifying meaning, improving the narrative structure, increasing local ownership, and bringing important implications into awareness.

ClosedMeans: Awareness of Dependence

Every practical choice is dependent on the actual context. The danger is always that uniformity and conformity are pushed too far and the inevitable wide variations in context get ignored. The evolution of any situation is also context-dependent. So awareness of dependence needs to be brought to the fore in making adjustments to the explanation adaptively and without loss of integrity.

Handling the Group

ClosedParticipation: Appreciate the context

Group members will welcome anyone who appreciates the realities within which all choices must be made. The relevant context for any particular person or group may be temporal-historical, relating to specific events in the past that cannot be ignored. It may also be socio-cultural and relate to local customs or habitual activities of neighbouring groups. Sometimes the relevant context is physical or practical, being a matter of facilities or resource availability.

ClosedCommunication: Relate to socio-physical needs

The particular socio-physical environment generates pressures and needs that cannot be ignored or suppressed. Explaining adjustments in those terms supports the group and reassures them in their handling of the explanation. Simple reassurance may suffice. Otherwise the narrative explaining the situation must be re-articulated so as to clarify implications for social needs.

ClosedIndividualization: Allow re-orientation

In dealing with a particular context, the usual orientation to the situation as explained in principle may not be sensible or tolerable. It must be permissible to alter your orientation while staying true to the consensus view.

Channeling Your Functioning:

ClosedGain Support: Balance

Multiple pressures affect any attempt to clarify a complex situation, and these must be respected and handled. It is possible for a context to exert such powerful pressures that there is a temptation to abandon a given consensus explanation inappropriately. Such over-identification with the context must be resisted. Maintaining personal balance is the final requirement to win necessary support for your contextually-adjusted consensually-approved position.

The framework for purpose is valuable because it specifies and clarifies the varieties of purposes according to their particular contribution to intentionality. While each function has a unique formula, these are unusable in everyday life. Each function also has a unique THEE-name.

In any particular organisation, some names will feel natural and obvious in a particular firm, while others seem arcane and awkward. The latter are difficult for people to use and need to be replaced. For example, in one firm, staff wanted to call "principal objects" (PH6L4) "missions" to accord with their custom, and then suggested calling "missions" (PsH6G24) "social goals".

Such changes, which are adaptations to the context, do no harm, validate the staff, and are very useful in winning acceptance and practical use for the framework.

Concluding with This Stage

Mode-1 again, with general acceptance it becomes a powerful explanation.

The Spiral trajectory is now almost complete. The clarification of the situation for individuals and groups is detailed, penetrating and persuasive due to the cumulation of principles and values extracted from the depiction methods.

The need for control drops massively when all are on board, and the capacity to deal with complexity increases greatly due to incorporation of numerous factors. So the trajectory spontaneously moves back to the Causal mode-1 in the lower right extremity.

The explanation can now be described as robust because acceptance by each and all plus local adaptation maximally facilitate the appreciation of any problematic situation.

Originally posted: 30-Sep-2024. Last amended: 30-Apr-2025.