People thrive in cooperative groups that give constructive feedback and support of its members. When they have the necessary tools to deal with group conflict and issues that arise from outgroup assimilation. People will get into certain kinds of conflict because they are at different stages in their lives.
At each person's learning curve, they have to make mistakes that will affect others. It is important that the individual learns from these social encounters because they will retain social integrity. These skills give people the ability to more effectively deal with problems in life.
The phalanx was term used for military formations in the ancient world of sumerians in greece. The soldiers created a wall with their shields and were able to use spears to attack from a distance while being protected.
The Social Phalanx draws strength from the early protective formations of the ancient world by having a set of procedures and protocols to protect themselves from harm and grow as a socio-cultural unit. The Social Phalanx is a means to uphold ethical social standards that fosters growth and protects its members from ingroup and outgroup conflicts.
If a social group is going to survive and grow, it will need to have a mechanism to deal with expectations of its members, the direction of the group’s purpose and interests, a moral/ethical code, procedures for dealing with grievances and conflict between members, structure and ranking within its hierarchy, movement upward or downward within the hierarchy, retention of existing members, integration of new members, managing members who harm others within the group or violate the ethical code, and other social needs of the group.
Social Relations: Cooperation
Maintain integrity by sharing resources and keeping a spreadsheet for different accounts people accumulate with each other. Preventative of people being taken advantage of. Supports responsibility and accountability for all members. Does not let some members suffer financial issues because of lack of support from others. As long as reciprocity is maintained, people will grow and benefit from helping each other out.
The sharing of skills is important because it allows one party to practice their craft and the others to learn from a more competent individual. Promotes social cohesion and builds relationships. People are able to build their existing knowledge base and skillet to develop deeper and more intricate relationships with those within the community.
Time:
Sharing time is important as long as the principle of the golden mean of Reciprocity is maintained. Some people’s time may be more valuable to another than a basic 1:1 ratio. As long as the value of the exchange does not unfairly affect the individuals involved, there may be a disproportionate amount of hours banked with either party.
Helping someone with a high value task may be more valuable than a low value task. Usually dependent on skill or competency. If a more competent person in one field helps another that has no relevant equivalent expertise, then other party may be justified for a disproportionate exchange of hours for services.
Method to avoid issues within communism, ex: doctor vs carpenter
Agreement is necessary. When parties agree to a trade of time, then all is good.
Empathy:
A fundamental perspective and skill to develop over time which increases one’s ability to function with others in a long term, upward growth, constructive way. Explicitly learning an empathetic viewpoint on situations is a proactive method to take on all future social situations. Increases an individual’s ability to communicate with others, empathy allows us to better understand another's way of seeing things, allowing us to learn more effectively.
Entrepreneurship:
Business integration/ cooperation is a very similar way of relating with members of the community as sharing resources, knowledge, skills and time. The entrepreneurship connection that people have with each other allows groups and individuals to grow economically. As long as the principle of reciprocation and fairness are maintained.
Becoming a Leader
First, before any group is created, one will have to be able to independently follow the procedures themselves before leading others. Educating and training oneself on how to monitor one’s own view point, principles and behaviour is essential before attempting to manage others. Through the process of trial and error, a determined individual who is accurate about their own development will be able to learn these lessons over time. As one begins to master these skills, others who are less skilled will see the competency within the individual and group will begin to form.
The hierarchy of the group is based on competence. The most competent person will naturally find themselves at the top. Competence can vary relative to skill set and soundness of one’s mind. One will first have to have a sense for the limits of their own sound-mindedness, for as skilled as someone is, they can sabotage their efforts with a single lapse of mindfulness.
To lower oneself within the ranking of the group is based on reduction in competence through inability to learn from mistakes and the quality and frequency of the kind of mistakes made. An individual’s position within the hierarchy would naturally increase because of an increase in learning which is an indication that they are more competent. Performance assessments are important to impose a structured test to determine the competency of an individual when a task of a specific degree of competency is needed like heart surgery. (edit - make more clear)
Prosocial Habits
Habits that members learn will increase the longevity, cohesion, and resilience of a group of those habits are positively correlated with prosocial outcomes. An individual learning to meditate will increase cognitive functions like self-control and self-awareness, thereby bringing the development of those skills to their group as well. When that individual is called upon to complete tasks that others cannot perform, they now enter the degree of proficiency to begin teaching others. The master is the one who can teach all.
An individual will be naturally presented with situations in their experience that will be opportunities for them to practice developing prosocial habits and skills. As the individual practices those skills, they will develop a competency in each relative to their own individual learning curve and exposure to practicing. An individual who is in situations that place pressure to develop the skills have the opportunity to learn those skills at a much faster pace.
Leadership Growth and Development
A certain degree of maturity and ripening of the person will take place before true leadership mastery takes hold. One’s ‘ego’ or self-concept will have to become adjusted to accepting failure and mistakes to learn from them. If the leader is unable to see their own flaws, their followers will be limited to those flaws.
Case Study: Roommate Living Conditions
For example, the relationship between friendships and roommates, where one person has a faulty moral compass that leads to selfish, uncooperative behaviour compromising the trust and reciprocity of the relationship. A person may lose their job or is laid off and does not have resources for food. Their ‘friends’ do not take it upon themselves to help this person get back on their feet and the relationship has now been affected negatively due to unethical, passive negligence. The friends of this individual have a moral duty to help them with basic needs and, if they are able, any leads to income or employment.
Proactive Approach To:
The development of the competencies skill list individually and as a group will give community members living together the awareness and skill set of prevent problems arising in the areas listed below.
1) Income - Rent Responsibilities
Individuals may lose a job or get laid off which can compromise their ability to pay rent. Learning the competencies skills will give the individual the emotional resilience to not become overwhelmed with negative emotions and use the situation to propel themselves forward in taking constructive action towards finding a source of income so they can meet their financial obligations.
The group is able to communicate with the individual and offer support for basic needs like food such that the individual is able to focus on finding a new source of income. If the group is trained in the competencies skillset, they will act as an emotional buffer zone, communicating to the person who suffered a loss when their emotions have become self-destructive and help set them back on a constructive path.
2) Hygiene and House Cleanliness
Some people may have not developed the personal skills of hygiene and house cleanliness that would meet a minimum standard for bacteria or insect prevention. Sometimes, people can become depressed and begin to let their attention to cleanliness depreciate. In either case, learning the skills of open discussion and communication that allows feedback and criticism from others so that the individual can learn and maintain these skills even when life situations begin to wear down on a person's emotional stability. Is good (edit)
3) Drug Safety/ Substance Misuse
Sometimes people can begin to fall into the trap of addiction and using drugs or alcohol as an escape from their problems. With highly addictive drugs like nicotine, cocaine, methamphetamines or opiates one can easily fall into a dangerous spiral that could compromise the integrity of their lives. The escapist mentality can lead to an over dependency with such drugs like marijuana which can lead the individual to over consuming the drug leading to a depreciation of motivation and a reduction of emotional stability if the drug is not available. (edit run on sentence)
The development of the competency skill set will give an individual the needed healthy stress reduction techniques that would offer alternative options other than simply falling back on substances to cope with the issues in daily or work life. The community provides monitoring of its members and immediate response to stress and emotional states such that the person who is upset can get their needs met as soon as possible without having to resort to the development of substance misuse. Treatment programs such as AA have shown to be particularly effective because of the reliance on a ‘buddy’ within the program that the person can turn to in times of stress. The Social Phalanx within the roommate context can act in the same way that rehabilitation treatment programs do by providing skilled social support to those in need.
4) Sexual Appropriateness
Interactions between people who are attracted to one another has been one of the most challenging situations an individual can find themselves in. The development of the skilled competencies allows a person the training in loving themselves, increasing their value on the dating market, and gives the person training in emotional intelligence to be able to detect the comfort levels of the desired person.
With training in discussion and the ability to accept and receive feedback from others, if someone acts or behaves in a way that makes others uncomfortable, there is a social mechanism to help the person regulate and modify their behaviour so they can learn how to interact with others that they are attracted to.
Even within an existing relationship, having the social support system gives the romantic partners the availability of others who are training in the competency skill set to call upon if a disagreement or conflict arises. The durability of any relationship will increase with such a social support system embedded around it.
5) House Safety - Stove On, Door Locked?
The skills of discussion, criticism and feedback give members living together a healthy medium to ensure the safety of the house. Sometimes people are stressed and not mindful and may, for example, leave the stove/ oven on or the door unlocked. Having other individuals to communicate with the stressed person about their mistake increases their mindfulness in regards to these details, lessening the probability of occurrences in the future.
6) Conflict Management - Reduction of Avoidance, Passive Aggression, Dissociation
For any group of people living together, there will be some degree of potential conflicts due to the unique differences in lifestyles. The development of the competencies skills necessarily gives people constructive methods for conflict prevention and resolution. As an individual learns and becomes proficient in this skillset, they will have the opportunity to rely less on avoidance strategies and practice skills that are preventative.
7) Priority of Values - Centeredness Issues, Egoism/Selfishness
Every person has a value structure that guides their life whether it is an explicit directing motivation, or implicit. The priority of our values is an important thing to understand and take autonomy over for it will direct our decisions and our appreciation of our experiences. The open format of the living condition will give members living together the opportunity to get to the core motivations and hence values that drive people and their behaviour. With the skills of critical thinking and emotional management, coupled with the socialization forces of the social support offered, people will have the opportunity to develop realistic values that will give them the framework to live a good life.
The issues of centeredness and selfishness are discussed in the Steven Covey material in Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind. In essence, learning to live a principled centered life, and not one that is ultimately swayed by pleasing one’s romantic partner or always focused on selfish, narrow minded outcomes, offers the flexibility to meet every situational need.
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8) Respect for Property
Being responsible and respectful to others and their property may seem like a given. However, one may be surprised when living with others that not everyone is responsible for their own property, nevermind the property of others. Having the discussion forum in place that is structured around an ethical framework and behavioural feedback, people can rely on a sense of security in the community structure to filter our specific issues that may arise. The community will necessarily reinforce a sense of personal responsibility for its members and set in place value systems that reinforce that sense of responsibility when it comes to others and their property. If a person mistakenly damages something, the social structure would assess the issue and delegate responsibility to the person who made the mistake. If the individual attempts to not take responsibility, the social system would respond to that behaviour by supporting them through socialization and inclusiveness in membership as a reward.
Ex: Person A, you have really showed how your are an ideal member of our group because of replacing Person B’s item. We know that it was expensive, but we all respect that you place a value for respecting Person B and our community more than the monetary cost of the item.
9) Vulnerability - Asking for Help
Communication itself can be a difficult skill for people not to mention communicating one’s weaknesses to another or a group. The structure of the Social Phalanx is essentially founded upon offering the appropriate emotional and social support for people to realistically communicate their vulnerabilities so that if a situation arises where they cannot do something on their own, they have begun the training on how to ask for help. Each member within the Social Phalanx is required to take personal autonomy and responsibility for learning these skills for they will not necessarily develop without volunteering to do so.
Emotional Management
Self
Ex 1: I am sad or angry
- Protocol/ response to emotions in my self
a) reflective mind map
b) action plan
c) develop realistic thoughts/ beliefs
Others
Ex 2: the other is angry or sad
- response: phenomenological approach through the gaze, mirroring facial expressions to assess emotional value, listening to spectrum of emotions in the expression of the person’s message and clarifying meaning when certain statements do not make sense.
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Phenomenological Method
Understanding the meaning of another's world by experiencing it with them, and entangling worlds of self and other by regulating the degree of entanglement with the amount of cognitive energy that individual has. (clarify - you care, involve yourself with their problems) The lower the ‘energy’, the lower the person’s ability to change and modify beliefs. Allowing the person the mental space to amalgamate both worlds is essential to be a supportive individual in the other’s growth process. (modelling)
The more attached the individual is to their beliefs, the more alignment between the people need to exist before a rapid transformation of self and personal world will begin. Associations in a multi-faceted environment is very important for rapid growth to facilitate the socialization process.
The context of emotions largely determines the meaning of them to the person experiencing them. Understanding that context and a repertoire of alternative, more beneficial responses to those contexts, and an ability to reevaluate the context for reasoning and a realistic perspective. (edit) With these techniques available to a person, they are able to help others sort out existing and past emotions and prepare the person for unknown emotional circumstances that will come in the future.
This approach is a sophisticated way of applying critical thinking tools to help them communicate their thoughts and emotions logically, rationally, and more effectively.
Ex 3: Fight/Flight Engaged
- language area activated to describe feelings
- sometimes language is unrealistic
- process in frontal lobes - narrative or beliefs
- lead to more negative emotions because of the unrealistic self-talk/ beliefs
- support from group
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Habit Responsibility
An awareness of my existing habits, modifying and adapting them, implementing new habits gives greater opportunity for development and growth. An individual is able to increase their overall autonomy of their lives when they learn to create environments for themselves to develop certain habits for their life.
Ex 5: Substance Misuse
Learning proper exercise techniques, have some equipment at home and involve community members in creating a tradition together of being supportive to learn physical health as an alternative to the triggers to substance misuse. As positive emotions are shared between members in response to the stressful event and directed towards the correlative goal that promotes wellbeing, like exercise, the ease of transition will grow from the self-destructive habit to the self-love habit in response to stress.
The goal is for the individual to create an alternative choice for their habit that they can train themselves to do individually when they are not with the community members or when training new members without social reinforcement from others.
Habit Principle: Path of Least Resistance
A flowing river is an example of water flowing in the path of least resistance. Depending on what kinds of stress response habits an individual develops, they will gravitate towards those that are more developed.
People can get caught in a pattern where they can’t stop the cycle of suffering. People can get lost in responding to events that create suffering by engaging in habits that create more suffering and the vicious cycle continues. During times of
- we can learn skills and principles to make the management of suffering easier
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Ex:4 Dumped by Bf/Gf
Option to drink alcohol or to talk to culture members, meditatie, reflect on what happened to learn from the experience and develop a healthy action plan that will reduce the likelihood of the stressful event from occuring in the future.
Analogy: river flows in to town and drowns people or redirect water to valley to grow crops
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Risk of Self-Destructive Habits from Others
Obviously, it is not ethical to cause harm to oneself when extending help to another. However, most of us can contribute individually or collectively to ensure that those who are part of our community are taken care of but also keeping in mind that the other’s instability can cause harm to the group or individual. Making sure the group and persons within approximate themselves in closeness and investment to the individual with self-destructive habits and beliefs to the degree that the self-destructive lifestyle does not impinge on the quality of life of the group or persons within. These kinds of situations are accounted for by the strength of the Social Phalanx.
Membership Analogies
Understanding the values discussed above is the beginning but does not necessarily qualify them as a member of the Phalanx. Commitment to training and devotion to the alleviation of the suffering of others mental health problems is the fundamental qualifying property that distinguishes a member from a non-member. It is important that all people who are part of the Social Phalanx are committed to helping others who are suffering using the skills that they are training.
Having people who are imposing as members of the Social Phalanx but are not fulfilling the Bodhisattva vow or practicing, accounting for biases in oneself and training skills relative to helping people with mental health issues would fall under a social loafing category. Social loafers put forward less effort towards a task when in a group context than they would when they are alone. Social loafers would benefit from many of the positive properties of the group but would have issues reciprocating effort back to the group in terms of not training themselves, taking action towards people in need of emotional support, etc.
Mahayana Buddhism
Drawing a perspective from Mahayana Buddhism where individuals live by a principle of the Bodhisattva by devoting their lives to reducing the suffering of all other sentient beings. The belief is that one delays reaching nirvana out of compassion to save other beings from their suffering.
Socially, we are only free when others are free. Social science has shown evidence of social ripple effects in groups where obesity and meditation of one person or group has availability cascading effects on others within that group due to the existence of mirror neurons. Empires rise and fall and when a society neglects the lower classes of their social structure, that social structure in its entirety suffers. Understanding and accepting this rippling effect in social contexts, the Social Phalanx fights for all individuals to help empower them with their mental health to become the best of themselves that they can be.
The Social Phalanx has a duty to members within their formations and those who are on the outside. Only people who explicitly accept the responsibility of being in the social group, upholding the values and traditions, and regularly training the skills necessary to participate are active members. The ultimate goal is the restructuring of society as a whole such that we are all responding to our own mental health and those around use in ways that have been shown to cause people to become better within the specific respect. Some of these responses require training, so those who do the training fulfill their responsibilities as a member of the culture.
Jedi Academy: Direction of the Group’s Purpose and Interests
In the sci-fi world of Star Wars, the Jedis learn and harness the power of the Force to use for the good of the galaxy. Obi Wan Kenobi summarizes the role of the Force in the story, “For over 1000 generations the jedi knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the old republic… The force is what gives a jedi his power. Its an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us, it binds the galaxy together.” (SW ANH, 1979: 34:00)
If we understand the Force as an analogy of a spectrum of the Cosmos on the most broad perspective and the Mind at the finest within that domain, we can begin to understand a sense of interconnectedness we share and that our mind is the faculty from which all of our power is drawn from. We can learn a balance of science and control, the cosmos which situates the mind within itself and in us. Carl Sagan said, “We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself” (S01E01).
The Jedi Academy analogy is useful in understanding the Social Phalanx because members of both learn to train their skills at the Force/minds and use those skills for peace within the galaxy/societies mental health. We first begin with ourselves and start to expand our responsibility outward to those we are closest to: Self, people lived with, family, professional colleagues, friends, and randoms in public. There is a commitment to practice developing the skills of the mind that are relevant to mental health and apply those skills in the situations we and those around us find themselves in.
Firefighter
Just to drive this point home, let us go through a couple examples of why it is important to not falling into the social loafing trap. The first is relating the Social Phalanx to that of firefighters on the fire truck. If you want to be on the truck you need to be trained on all the tools and how to deal with rescuing people from the fire. Each seat on the truck is very important for those who are trained to rescue people in the fire. If one of those seats is mistakenly taken up by an imposter, that is one less fireman who can save people from the burning building. If someone wants to have a seat on the firetruck, they must commit themselves to understanding the purpose of the truck and the training necessary to fulfill that purpose.
CPR Training
Another good analogy that illuminates the necessity of training would be knowing CPR in an emergency situation. When the situation is currently underway, that is not the time to learn how to perform CPR or use a defibrillator. To adequately help an individual in crisis, it would be best for me to be pre-trained and prepared for the situation so that the probability of my success in saving the individual’s life is its highest. If someone is drowning, that is not the time to learn and practice CPR. With the Social Phalanx, we commit ourselves to the training necessary to maintain and prosper the internal integrity of the group as well manage external individuals and groups who are in need.
Sports Fans
One last analogy for good measure is the distinction between the fans in the stands and the team on the field. In sports, only those who train themselves rigorously are accepted as members of the team. Both the team and the fans share a liking and support for the success of the team, however everyone’s interest in the team’s success increases relative to the competency and commitment of the players. Having an intention to participate is not sufficient for success in games. As much as many people may hope and wish that they were members of the team, only those who are willing to practice and train are eligible to participate on the field.
Some people may not be willing to commit the investment and lifestyle changes to be part of the social phalanx yet still support the principles that those people stand for. It is important for the leaders of the Social Phalanx to test and determine the relative skill set of their members so that there is an element of quality control of the members of the social group. In times of crisis and to prevent conflicts from happening, it is important for all members to be accurately evaluated and assessed so that in the moment expectations of members are realistic and social cohesion is unified.
Benefit/Cost of Social Phalanx Membership
Retention of existing members will be fundamentally influenced by the needs of the person relative to the benefits and costs of the group itself. The benefits of the Social Phalanx is largely determined by the intentions of the individual who wants to participate. If one is focused on learning and developing themselves to become their best, they will be successful. Involvement in the Social Phalanx is like going to the gym, what you put in determines what you get out.
Benefit Contingency
Need to invest in the community and oneself for the benefits to be sound and not risk losing. The skills learned within the community provide the members within the group the necessary skills to perform in situations that create the emergent phenomena of the benefits. There is an indirect relationship between individuals learning skills and the social group itself seeing the output effect of those skills. When the members begin to lower their competency the overall integrity and quality of the group depreciates.
Benefits:
Increased responsibility and control for one’s own mental health and well-being
Contribution to social group’s mental health and well-being
Creation of meaning, purpose and direction in life
Developing a realistic understanding of the science of psychology and the principles of philosophy
True friends who will defend, support, understand and grow the best of ourselves
Training in critical thinking, mental health and well-being skills
Prevention of mental illness: reduction of depression, anxiety, suicide etc.
Opportunity to create a cooperative elite community of people to live and socialize with
Opportunity to create true and long lasting happiness, love, joy and fulfillment of one’s passions and dreams
Become powerful and fulfill one’s self expression of identity
Celebration
Travelling
Child rearing
Once we are ready for children, our group is able to support each other and the development of our kids. Like a tribe, family, or community (evidence that it promotes healthy development
Entrepreneurial support cooperative business
- members of the tribe volunteer time and skills to help others be successful
- when the person who is designing the business is successful then they share profits relative to the effort put in by the tribe
Sharing and teaching of skills to other members
Cooking
Master mind system
Music
Self-defense
Exercise, yoga
Social Culture Supports the best you to become the best
Employment Opportunity Networking - strength of weak social ties
Costs:
Investment of time to learn and understand one’s nature
Facing one’s fears and being authentically honest about one’s weaknesses to strengthen and grow from them
Elimination of Inflated/ inauthentic sense of self through self-awareness and social feedback
Sometimes Subordinate self interests for group growth
Sometimes Subordinate immediate gratification for long-term, durable fulfillment
Willingness to learn, grow, change, accept and reflect from constructive criticism and feedback from others
Openness to change and develop existing habits to ones that promote well-being and health
Come to terms with one’s past and understand how it influences and affects one's present and future
If one has persistent psychological such as symptoms of a personality disorder, severe depression or substance abuse, commitment to see a mental health professional (mental health responsibility)
Sometimes invest financial resources in other members to help with basic needs and entrepreneurial investment. Financial accountability would be recorded so investment is paid back.
Teaching Skills
spending time with others who have not learned information to teach that information with them
Structure and Ranking within Hierarchy
Structure of Social Hierarchy
Competency based ranking
rank responsibilities
expectations of members
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Power changes if a member’s agency is compromised
- ex: if someone is upset about an issue, they are not of sound mind and their agency is reduced, therefore mediation for the issue is passed to the next competent and capable member
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Upward/ Downward Movement in Hierarchy
If you consistently show competency in dealing with situations, you will necessarily move upward in rank within the hierarchy based on your performance. If you fail at dealing with situations, you will necessarily move downward relative to that performance.
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Levels within Hierarchy
Competency and Agency
Master Top: Level 4 Social Agency
Independently competent to create culture from nothing
- operator of home base
must be able to utilize philosophy of cbt
must understand content of master mind program
must show ability to apply content and train self
must show ability to train other
values are properly ordered and can socialize others by example
displays ability to promote new culture at all states and levels of mind or responds post reflection with mistake debriefing
Responsibility for all members mental health
Take to mental health professional when necessary due to problems extending beyond the scope and competency of ‘master’
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Captain/ Leader: Level 3 Group Agency
able to lead class content
demonstrates ability to train others
Takes initiative without instruction for psycho-social issues
embodiment of the previous practices in one’s own life and being a role model for newcomers
cultural responsibility
for the culture to grow, it is best for leaders to model behaviour, actions and habits for newcomers
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Follower: Level 2 Individual Agency
- attends class
understands code
able to reevaluate values
Purchased first books and independently learning
7 habits and feeling good
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Entry/ Recruit: Level 1 not fully agent
- agreed to participate in class but haven't purchased books yet.
Understands the code
Reevaluation in process
Understanding of Values
Context for our direction
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Non-Member - no agency determined or understood
- what attributes distinguish a member from non-member
- someone who is exiled is different non-member status than someone who has not been socialized
Requirement of Action for Social Tiers/ Hierarchy Rank
What are the expectations of members to the different tiers of social relationships? People that live within the culture have a higher expectation than those that are visiting the culture and random individuals met in public. Every member represents the group regardless of the degree of affiliation with others, so even if you are in public and the situation requires you to call 911 or spend a few minutes helping someone in need, without harming yourself.
Grievances and Conflict Resolution Procedures
Between Members
managing members who harm others within the group or violate ethical code
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Grievance and Conflict Management
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Social Solar System
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1) Home Base Members
Primary social needs met by weekly action plan of the culture.
a) Action Plan/ Schedule
Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat
b) Action Pallet
Record thoughts, Dreams
Meditate / Reflect / Dialectic
Eat
Stretching and Warm up
Cardio
Weights
Self-defense
Meditate
Critical thinking, CBT -Belief/thought deconstruction/construction
Group training - discussions
Cooking
MasterMind Class
2) Visitors to HB
Secondary needs: celebration, crisis support
3) Public Encounters: The Social Knight
One of the primary functions of the Social Phalanx is to train members to become Social Knights, were they are able to stand up for those who are weak or need protection
Hierarchy and Priority of Values
1) Revaluation of Values
Values are an ordering and ranking of principles (this thing is the most important guide to life)
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2) Socialization
- usually happens for children in their cultural environment and modelling from others
- for adults - through social groups and cultural influence
- Learning curve for cultural integration
- establishment of values
- seeing where the person is currently then guiding them to the steps
- empowering tools to communication passions and emotions with rational structure
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Group Values
- safe social environment
- trust, loyalty
- education - systematic way of learning a subject (courses)
- group learning
- learning from an expert
- learning in a ‘class’ setting
- group of people focused on the same topic
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Personal Values
- self-learning
- reading one’s own
- watching relevant videos
- making notes
- whatever is necessary to commit the information to memory and to apply it in situations
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Morality and Ethics
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Practices, Habits, Competencies and Skill Development
Factors determining movement upward or downward within hierarchy
Skillful Competency
The skills that one holds that determines competency within their own lives and in a group/community context.
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Perspective Tools:
Scientific Assumption: brain plasticity - neurons that fire together wire together
- hypothesis: if a person practices constructive habits, the brain will respond by creating the neural pathways that allows more efficient execution of those habitual behaviours
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Educational Curriculum
- teaches the competency skills
- developing the skills for social mental health
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Appendix A: Skillful Competency List
Empathy Critical Thinking Emotional Intelligence Patience
Self-discipline Meditation Compassion Listening
Self-awareness Persuasion Principled Negotiation Communication
Assertiveness Mediation Reasoning Perseverance
Self-control Initiative Understanding Virtue Ethics
Cooperation Altruism Reciprocity Honesty
Authenticity Courage Willpower Observation
Scientific Realism Mindfulness Relaxation Response Phil of CBT
Appendix B: Moral/Ethical Code
Priority Ranking of Ethical Principles:
Autonomy
Beneficence
Utilitarianism
Justice
Non maleficence
Categorical imperative
Universalizability
Appendix C: Movies
Being There
Waking Life
Peaceful Warrior
Cloud Atlas
The Fountain
Gattaca
Vanilla Sky
Magnolia
Cosmos Season 1 and 2
God is in the Neurons
Appendix D: Books
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
The Relaxation Response
The Willpower Instinct
Getting To YES
Beyond Reason
Smart Thinking
The Organized Mind
The Power of Habit
Emotional Intelligence
Epictetus
Appendix E: Practical Philosophy
- Ethical Intimacy Code
- Social Reports
- Reflective Mind Map
- Social Phalanx
Oops! It's one of those situations again. Apparently, this chapter is still being researched and written. Achilles has been busy coordinating the Community Housing Program and designing the Flow Optimization consulting program. Check back soon for the completion of the first draft of this chapter!
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