[Neurons] 2012 Meta Reflections #42

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

Meta Reflections 2012  #42

August 20, 2012

Empowerment Series #27

 

 

THE POWER OF SYSTEMS

 

 

You are a system!  Most fundamentally you are a mind-body-emotion system
that takes "data" or "information" from the world and transforms it into
your own personal, unique, and idiosyncratic mental-emotional maps that you
then use to navigate life and all of the challenges of life.  You are an
information-process-and-outputting system.  It is the very nature of your
mind-body system as you use your neurology to "abstract" from the
electromagnetic spectrum that informs you of events in the world, take that
data into your nervous-system-and-brain system, process and filter that
information, and then output it in terms of energy, emotions, and actions.
[This, by the way, is the content of the NLP Communication Model.]

 

And you are also a system which lives inside of multiple embedded systems.
So you are not just one system, you are multiple systems.   In addition to
your mind-body-emotion system, there is your language system, family system,
religious system, ethnic system, business system, political system, and so
on.  Is it any wonder then that you are systemically complex as a person and
that your "way of being in the world" is most essentially systemic?

 

What does all this have to do with empowerment?   Well, if you want to be
empowered in an effective and informed way as a person in moving through the
world, you will definitely want to recognize these systems, how they
operate, what they are doing, and how they are all interacting.  You will
also want to know how to think in terms of systems, how to communicate
systemically, and how to act and relate systemically.  If you are a system
within systems, doesn't that make sense?

 

But what if you do not learn to think, communicate, act, and relate
systemically?  If you do not, then the likelihood is that any one or more of
these systems will have you rather than you having the systems.  Think about
that: The system will have you!  That's what Morpheus told Neo in the movie,
"The Matrix,"  "The Matrix is a system of control."  Compare that to what
Quality Theorist and Expert, W. Edwards Deming once said about problems in
organizations. "90% of the problems within an organization are system
problems, not individual problems."

 

System problems means that the problem lies in the very system, as it is set
up and operating.  And that means that any and every person within that
system will experience the same problems and interferences.  In these cases,
the person is not the problem, the system is the problem.  And so often with
us-in many cases, we are not the problem, you are not the problem- "the
system" is the problem.  It may be the meaning-system, it could be the
intention-system, it could be the strategy-system, the language-system, the
cultural-system, the political-system, and so on.  And in such cases, if you
want to find your powers and take effective action, you will do so by
learning to think, speak, act, and relate systemically.

 

Regarding the power of a system, one of the central powers that any and
every system has is that it operates to achieve an outcome.  This is what
systems are designed and organized to do.  They are designed to achieve some
outcome.  As some do, they spin out of control and become run-away systems
(escalating systems).   Others are designed as homoeostatic systems so that
they maintain a healthy balance between various forces.  This is especially
true of living biological systems.

 

What is your mind-body-emotion system designed to do?  What self-organizing
attractors have you set in your system?  To ask these questions is to ask
about your system of values and beliefs, your internal system intentions and
purposes, and your system of orientation as you move through life, work,
career, relationships, etc.  It is asking you to begin to think
systemically.

 

Once set, your thinking-perceiving-noticing-sorting system (your
meta-programs and other higher meta-levels) are organized to see what you
have designed it to see.  So also your belief-understanding-decision system.
And while from outside the system, it may be toxic, destructive, and
dysfunctional, from inside the system it makes perfect sense and is
well-intentioned to achieve something that it thinks will be helpful and
beneficial.  It is this which creates the blind spots in our
mental-emotional systems.

 

We have just released the latest book in the Meta-Coaching series, Systemic
Coaching (2012).  This book is especially written to enable you to fully
appreciate the power of systems and to use systems thinking, speaking,
acting, and relating when working with a human mind-body-emotion system.  Of
course, it is especially focused on the communication excellence that we
call "coaching."   In it you will find that I have set out the
characteristics of a system and how these characteristics and variables
interact in the human system and knowing that you will then see how they can
be effectively used in the context of coaching someone for greater
empowerment in service of unleashing the person's highest and best
potentials.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

L.  Michael Hall, Ph.D. ---  Neuro-Semantics International

Neuro-Semantics Executive Director  ----   <http://www.neurosemantics.com/>
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