Step-3: Integrate with Others
Overview
Having created a social base, enabled personal stability, and ensured efforts can persist, it becomes necessary to integrate properly with others.
This is handled by interactions between Centres in adjacent levels which were previously listed in a very general way:
G7-G6 requires me to Take the Step
i.e. release energies for good reasons.
G6-G5 requires me to Master Myself
i.e. put myself and my energies in the service of the situation.
G5-G4 requires me to Live Here & Now
i.e. take an appropriate part in events.
G4-G3 requires me to Meet Needs
i.e. recognize communal values, social support and solidarity
G3-G2 requires me to say: Yes, I Must!
i.e. develop the resolve that the situation needs
G2-G1 requires me to say: Yes, I Can!
i.e. respond to hope by promising to rise to the challenge
Take the Step
G7-Energies ↔ Ideals-G6
This involves the human potential for positivity interacting with personal and social demands to reach an acceptable standard, possibly delivering excellence.
■ G7B-Release Your Energies ↔ Respect Social Standards-G6S
Details
Down: Personal energies (G7B) impact on a group and need to be governed. Groups provide guidance through their standards, ethical and practical. Social standards (G5S) protect group expectations and often identity. The informal demand for conformity is primarily based on conventions and beliefs (cf. PH"6G41). Energy release must respect custom because there will likely be intense criticism of breaches and countervailing pressures.
Up:Social standards (G5S) enable and shape the release of energies (G7B). This is society exerting control over the individual.
The Channel G7B ↔ G6S is provisionally named: Be Conventional.
Failure Fighting the crowd is virtually the opposite of being responsive. It leads to exhaustion, social rejection and labelling as a maverick or crank.
■ G7B-Release Your Energies ↔ Invoke Relevant Ideals-G6P
Details
Down: Your energies (G7B) naturally seek to flow into the values that you hold and the ideals to which you aspire. The particular ideals that are relevant (G6P) will vary in accord with the particular challenge. However, the principle of being idealistic holds in all cases.
Up: Invoking and activating personal ideals (G6P) appropriate to the challenge naturally unlocks your positive energies (G7B). This allows you to regard being idealistic as equivalent to being realistic.
The Channel G7B ↔ G6P is provisionally named: Be Idealistic.
Failure Upholding ideals without releasing energies in their service is a form of posturing. Releasing energies without ideals means throwing yourself into something without awareness of the values that should guide and help minimize missteps in conduct.
Master Myself
G6-Ideals ↔ Capabilities-G5
Self-mastery here is about ensuring that the move from identification of values to ensuring efforts are driven by those values rather than by expedience or habits.
■ G6S-Respect Social Standards ↔ Accept Assigned Responsibility-G5S
Details
Down: Social standards (G6S) set an expectation for handling assigned responsibilities (G5S) and compliance is required in both cases.
Up: Accepting responsibilities (G5S) depends on confidence that you can comply with the relevant social standards (G6S).
The Channel G6S ↔ G5S is provisionally named: Show Compliance.
Failure Neglecting standards means refusing to comply and will lead to being discredited. Not accepting assigned responsibilities may be realistic but it will weaken standing in the community.
An Inappropriate Channel
A direct channel between G6S-Respect Social Standards and Declare Your Capabilities-G5P is not appropriate. The former is about the socio-ethical constraints within which you must operate, while personal capability is about your inner personal competences and other resources. They are two different and independent phenomena that do not influence each other.
■ G6P-Invoke Relevant Ideals ↔ Declare Your Capabilities-G5P
Details
Down: Ideals (G6P) usually guide and shape the development of certain personal capabilities (G5P) to make them personally meaningful and socially visible. Ideals must also be seen to guide those capabilities that are socially declared.
Up: Capabilities (G5P) are the instrument by which your significant ideals and aspirations (G6P) get manifested. So that will shape what values you can realistically apply in the situation.
The Channel G7B ↔ G6S is provisionally named: Uphold Values.
Failure Neglect of ideals removes important terms of reference for capabilities and will weaken their activation and declaration. Shrinking from declaring capabilities will weaken use of ideals.
An Inappropriate Channel
A direct influence between G6S-Invoke Relevant Ideals and Accept Assigned Responsibility-G5S will not exist because these are two independent phenomena.
Live Here & Now
G5-Capabilities ↔ Relationships-G4
Your relationships and position within the group will be determined largely by how much and how well you contribute to efforts to deal with difficult situations.
■ G5S-Accept Assigned Responsibility ↔ Mobilize Relationships-G4B
Details
Down: Responsibilities(G6S) get assigned from within your network and will be based on relationships (G4B). Acceptance confirms your position, sustaining and deepening those relationships.
Up: Mobilizing relationships (G4B) leads to the assigning of responsibility. There is an expectation that you will accept that role (G5S) and fulfil it to the best of your abilities.
The Channel G5S ↔ G4B is provisionally named: Meet Expectations.
Failure Social responsibility depends on relationships. If relating is dysfunctional, then you will not be entrusted with responsibilities. If responsibility is not accepted, relationships will be weakened.
■ G5P-Declare Your Capabilities ↔ Mobilize Relationships-G4B
Details
Down: The capabilities you are ready to contribute (G5P) directly bear on mobilizing relationships (G5B) because others are looking for those who are willing to make a difference.
Up: Your relationships (G4B) put your capability to contribute (G5P) in context, enabling and extending your effectiveness as well as the group's effectiveness.
The Channel G5P ↔ G4B is provisionally named: Play Your Part.
Failure Capabilities in isolation can be difficult to deploy and others will regard you as not pulling your weight. Shrinking from acknowledging and potentially applying your capabilities will disaffect others.
Meet Needs
G4-Relationships ↔ Endurance-G3
All involved in the situation need to be united and work together on the challenge by dealing with needs that emerge in the situation.
■ G4B-Mobilize Relationships ↔ Develop Endurance-G3P
Details
Down: Relationships (G4B) are what makes endurance bearable (G3P). They prevent feelings of being alone and isolated while nothing seems to progress.
Up: Your demonstrable endurance (G3P) helps keep relational bonds (G4B) strong, energized and focused on the challenge. This creates solidarity.
The Channel G4B ↔ G3P is provisionally named: Stand Together.
Failure Without at least some supportive relationships, coping with failures, obstacles and hardships becomes very difficult. If endurance is not evident, others will lose confidence in your staying power and relationships will start falling away.
■ G4B-Mobilize Relationships ↔ Find Means to Prevail-G3S
Details
Down: Your relational network (G4B) will offer assistance when difficulties or obstacles emerge for you. They will expect to provide methods, resources, contacts, or participate personally to help you prevail (G3S).
Up: The means that you require to prevail over unavoidable obstacles (G3S) usually impact on your network. Assistance from specific members of your network (G4B) may be required or you may seek to extend your network.
The Channel G4B ↔ G3S is provisionally named: Enlist Others.
Failure Without relationships, you will be on your own facing difficulties and that is hard. If you do not attempt to prevail or fail to use network resources, then your network will lose confidence in you.
Yes—I Must!
G3-Endurance ↔ Determination-G2
The future depends on holding values and pursuing goals that need to be constantly kept in mind as difficulties are encountered and handled.
■ G3P-Develop Endurance ↔ Apply Determination-G2B
Details
Down: Developing endurance (G3P) gives you the stamina and staying power that helps you apply determination (G2B), for example to persevere, to become committed, to get engaged, or to develop yourself in line with your goals.
Up: Applying determination (G2B) helps generate endurance (G3P) because in the face of any setback or temptation to falter, determination can be reasserted. This is the way that efforts can be constantly kept on track.
The Channel G3P ↔ G2B is provisionally named: Maintain Intentions.
Failure Without endurance, any application of determination is short-sighted and ultimately a waste of effort. Without the application of determination, the hardships of endurance become pointless or intolerable.
■ G3S-Find Means to Prevail ↔ Apply Determination-G2B
Details
Down: The need to find a means to prevail (G3S) will focus determination (G2B) on what is most important, sharpening resolve to make progress.
Up: Determination (G2B) provides a direction related to the promises that were made and that will influence the search for a means to prevail (G3S). The result is that any event can be used to generate progress.
The Channel G3S ↔ G2B is provisionally named: Seek to Progress.
Failure If there is no will to prevail, then determination becomes meaningless. Without determination, finding a means prevail is unlikely to succeed and any initiative will drift.
Yes—I Can!
G2-Determination ↔ Hope-G1
Everything needs a beginning. Hope and determination combine to ignite willingness and make an effort psychosocially real for yourself and others.
■ G2B-Apply Determination ↔ Instil Hope-G1B
Details
Down: Visible determination (G1B) immediately generates and instils hope (G1B) because it is evidence that a serious effort will now be made with a promise of its continuance.
Up: Hope (G1B) is what activates determination (G2B) and makes it worthwhile and feasible. This is enough to start a process of some sort.
The Channel G2B ↔ G1B is provisionally named: Make a Start.
Failure Hoping that does not lead to determination is just wishful optimism or a form of self-soothing. Determination that is not founded on hope is a grim compulsion, possibly cynical too.
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Originally posted: 5-July-2026.
