Spiral Dynamics - Stage Green Notes

[Daniel Balan]

Re-watching @Leo Gura's spiral Dynamics stage Green video, I've manually taken notes on my OneNote Commonplace book about everything Leo explained about stage Green in his video. Thus making a thorough and compressive summary for everyone interested in spiral dynamics stage orange. No AI was used whatsoever. Hope it helps! Enjoy!

 

What is the essence of Green?

 

• Green in it's essence is relativistic, caring, communal and environmental.

 

• This time the pendulum has swung from the individualistic world view of orange to the collectivist world view of green. With each stage the pendulum swings between serving the individual and serving the collective

 

• Green as opposed to Blue doesn't sacrifice the self for some afterlife ideal of heaven but for building a healthy and harmonious community here on earth for all to enjoy and to be a part of.

 

• Green recognizes the validity of other cultures and species which blue had some real problems with accepting.

 

• Green is very multicultural and cosmopolitan

 

• Green is on a quest for equality and peace for all beings that inhabit the earth. Green cares as much for trees and plants as it does for animals and for humans!

 

• World peace! Justice for everybody!

 

• Green is reacting to the injustices of Red, Blue and Orange!

 

• Green is a rejection of shallow materialism which came with Orange, and Green returns to humanity and to spirituality, aspects that Orange also neglected.

 

• Green represents a shift away from just the cold logical rationalist scientific paradigm into a more new agey hippie sort of semi spiritual but not religious paradigm

 

• Green is all about love for others be it humans or nonhuman beings

 

You can encapsulate Green using just the words peace and love.

 

When does Green emerge?

 

• Because Orange takes greed and capitalism to it's extreme, it turns out that this can cause serious damage for a big part of society and it puts a strain on the environment.

 

• Also Green observes that all of the world's problems cannot be resolved by more factories, or by more business or by more wall street investing.

 

• So Green emerges when material and success fails to feed the human spirit.

 

• Green emerges once Orange realizes that once he obtained his trophy wife, his sports car, his big mansion, and his millions of dollars.. Orange is still unhappy and although Orange got everything he ever dreamed of, Orange still feels like he is missing something which cannot be obtained via more materialism. When Orange feels a sense of longing for spirituality, for deep relationships, for reconnecting with nature… That's the moment Orange evolves into Green.

 

• Green realizes that instead of mercilessly competing with others, it would be more beneficial for everybody to cooperate and live in harmony.

 

• For green success represents when the whole community is successful. Green's personal success isn't making him be happy as long as other people suffer.

 

• Green's sense of community has expanded a lot compared to the sense of community of Blue. While Blue only acknowledged as part of his community only his country and race of people, to Green the community means every single living being that lives on planet Earth. Moreover, Green acknowledges as part of his community even nonhuman species like animals and plants and trees. 

 

• Orange evolves to Green when Orange sees all the inequality and oppression happening in the world. Those are the consequences of the unhealthy manifestations of Red, Blue and Orange

 

• Once Orange starts evolving into Green it sees the environmental impact that Orange has been having. Because to Orange didn't matter how much pollution it caused to the environment as long as it acquired massive profits.

 

• One of the hallmarks of Green is a strong sense of ecology

 

• Sometimes a severe health crisis or severe burnout from overworking can lead Orange to evolve into Green

 

• Green is a shift from the heavy left brain thinking of Orange into an artistic, emotional, passionate right brain thinking of Green.

 

• Green is an opening of the heart, a sense of blossoming of empathy, emotionality, femininity, vulnerability and love.

 

• Green is the mellowing out of Orange. Green is the softening of Orange. Green is the stage where the individual learns to relax and enjoy his life.

 

The values that define Stage Green

• Love
• Heart
• Soul
• Empathy
• Intimacy
• Kindness
• Compassion
• Mercy
• Leniency
• Humanism
• Liberalism
• Social progress
• Progressivism
• Equality
• Gender equality
• Racial equality
• Economic equality
• Social equality (Green fundamentally believes that everyone is equal)
• Egalitarianism
• Democracy
• Anti-Materialist
• Anti-Consumerist
• Anti-Greed
• Having a social conscience
• Supporting humanitarian causes
• Activism and protests
• Live and let live attitude to life
• Chilled and laid back
• Diversity and multiculturalism
• Cosmopolitanism
• Flattening the hierarchies
• Cultural relativism( Appreciates every culture and doesn't believe that it's own culture is superior than any other one, the way Blue did it )
• Relationships and human bonding
• Pacifism
• Peace
• Finding common ground amongst people
• Harmony (Living in harmony with your environment and also harmony between people)
• Human well being
• Interpersonal skills
• Warm interactions, hugs (When you see Green people hugging and it makes you feel uneasy it means you are in stage Orange)
• Pleasing everybody in the group, not trying to exclude anybody
• Sensitivity
• Femininity
• Dialoguing
• Team work
• Sharing ideas and feelings
• The usage of psychedelics for the altering of the mind
• Exploring altered states of consciousness
• Can be spiritual but not religious like how blue was
• Especially valuing a communal sort of spirituality where Green practices that spirituality within a group
• Environment and ecology
• Going back to nature
• Learning lessons from mother Nature
• The wisdom of nature
• Sustainability
• Recycling
• Protecting the vulnerable and helping the downtrodden
• Redistribution of resources and levelling the playing field for everybody.
• Inclusiveness ( So that everybody in the group gets a chance to express himself and his agenda)
• Tolerance and acceptance
• Open-mindedness
• Deep love and intimate sex( Sex is much more deeper for green than for orange)
• Sex education (not ashamed like blue was, Green is comfortable talking about sex)
• Cooperation rather than competition
• Cares for animals, children, the disabled and the minorities
• Creativity, beauty and art for art's sake not for profit
• Values Gurus, A lot of Guru worship at Green
• Bringing people of the world together
• Socialism
• Green values crying and the expression of vulnerable emotions
• Intuition over logic
• Health, food and exercise

 

Characteristics of Green

 

• Green values the power of the community which is integral of all individuals as opposed to Orange who was all about he the individual
• Green sacrifices the self for this social network community
• Feelings and caring overpower cold rationality
• Green is about joining a community and to experience shared growth together
• Green reaches decision through reconciliation and consensus
• Green is all about getting together and voting for some green ideal
• Green is about dialogue and mutual understanding
• Green measures success in terms of personal happiness and the collective wellbeing of the group
• Green is characterized by seeking personal growth and introspections and there is a bigger emphasis on personal development that even at Orange
• Stage Green is into new age stuff. Like souls, reincarnation, nonduality, mysticism, chakras, karma, veganism, Gaia mother earth as a living being
• Green is characterized by connecting with nature
• Green is characterized by developing compassion
• Green seeks to communicate not just content but also feelings
• Green likes entrepreneurship but now tempered with more heart and humanity and compassion for it's employees
• Green is characterized by nurturing employees
• Green can sometimes be emotionally needy
• Green tends to reject displays of affluence( Green doesn't care if it wears a Rolex or a gold Cuban, to Green matters the quality of the person that he is inside, to green the greatest jewel is his inner development level, and his mind and character.
• Green is characterized by being individualistic but in a conformist way

 

Examples of Green

 

• The burning man community
• The Hippies
• The New Age movement and all the New Age stuff
• The Green party
• Green Peace
• Vegans and vegetarians
• Liberals
• Progressives
• Democrats
• Bernie Sanders
• President Barack Obama (Sidenote: Blue reacts very hatefully against Green because Blue is rigid and conformist while Green is free and lives life in a very liberal way. That's why the conservatives hated Obama so much)
• The conservatives skew more blue, the liberals skew more green and the business people are basically between blue and green
• The Republicans are mostly between blue and orange, and the democrats are half way between Orange and Green
• The more right wing you are the more you skew towards blue and the more left wing you are the more full on green you skew
• The Young Turks YouTube Channel
• Bill Maher
• The Daily show
• Jon Stewart
• Steven Colbert
• Sam Cedars
• The majority report
• John Oliver
• Democracy now YT channel
• CNN
• MSNBC
• VOX
• Vice
• The New York Times
• Sean Penn
• Al Franken
• Social workers
• Community organizers
• Spiritual meetup groups
• University Culture
• Social Justice Warriors
• Political correctness
• LGBTQ rights
• Gender pronouns
• Protecting minorities
• Post modernism
• Feminism
• What the conservatives call neo-marxism is usually stage Green
• Abortion rights
• Planned parenthood
• Pacifism
• The me-too movement
• Antifa
• Animal rights
• Anti-war protests
• Charities
• NGO's
• Organic farming
• Organic food
• Recycling
• Global Warming
• Music festivals
• The Beatles
• John Lennon
• Bob Marley
• Willie Nelson
• Marijuana legalization
• Psychedelics
• Timothy Leary
• Terence Mckenna
• Psychotherapy
• Progressive school teachers
• Liberal Supreme Court judges
• Socialists ( The socialists of the soviet era communism were stage red/blue. Green socialists don't want to confiscate private propriety, or to nationalize all the factories and business. Green socialists want higher taxes for the rich, less taxes for the working class, more powerful unions, better wages and working conditions for the working class, more welfare, more government regulation for the market, better healthcare, more social programs for the less fortunate members of society)
• The redistribution of wealth
• Drum circles
• Neo shamans
• Communes
• Universal health care
• Doctors without borders
• Sensitivity training
• Green health food stores
• Whole foods
• Western Yoga
• Western forms of Buddhism
• Massage therapy
• Meditation
• Meditation crystals
• Juice cleanses detox
• Green smoothies
• Colonics spas
• Scented candles
• Burning of incense
• Aromatherapy
• Tie-dye t-shirts
• Kombucha
• Probiotics
• Soy
• Gluten-free products
• Farmer's markets
• Che Guevara
• Oprah Winfrey
• Nelson Mandela
• Pope Francis
• Saving the Whales
• Humanistic psychology
• Cooperatives ( Coops)
• Montessori schools
• Scandinavia
• The Scandinavian prison system
• California
• San Francisco
• Oregon
• Austin
• Massachusetts
• Sedona Arizona
• New York
• Seattle
• Hawaii
• Canada
• Northern Europe
• Germany
• The Netherlands
• Switzerland
• Iceland
• Denuclearization
• Equal pay
• Free college for all
• Universal basic income
• Amnesty
• Affirmative action
• Gun Control
• Assault weapon ban
• Pro union
• Pro EPA
• Pro cutting the defence budget
• Open borders
• Higher taxes
• Lenient penalties
• Abolishing the death penalty
• Drug rehab centres
• Homeopathy
• Astrology
• Hypnosis
• The Bill Gates and Melinda Gates foundation
• Dr. Albert Schweitzer
• Martin Luther King
• JFK
• Life coaching
• Career choice
• Children's rights advocates
• Protecting endangered species
• Mentoring programs
• Helping the elderly
• Cleaning up the environment
• Back to earth movement
• People wearing more natural clothing
• Minimalism
• The Peace Corps
• The plot from the movie Avatar
• Civil rights
• Human rights
• Watchdog groups
• Electric vehicles
• Commuting to work on bicycles
• Solar power
• Wind power
• Renewable energy
• The corporate culture at google and apple
• The movie Into the Wild
• Activists
• Mental Health professionals teachers
• Ayahuasca retreats
• Conscientious objectors
• Ying-Yang
• Peace tattoos
• The peace symbol
• Russel Brand
• Sam Harris

 

Mantras of Green

• Love conquers all
• Sharing is caring
• Make love not war
• Everyone is equal
• Everyone is beautiful in his or her own way
• Everyone is right in his or her own way
• We're all in this together
• Live and let live
• Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free
• Can't we all just get along?
• The golden rule: Treat others the way you would want to be treated!

 

What triggers Green?

• Injustice and inequality
• Oppression of minorities
• The status quo and hierarchies of power
• When religion is used to justify oppression
• Human rights abuses
• Racism
• Bigotry
• Fascism
• Neo-Nazis
• The K K K
• Unchecked capitalism
• Consumerism
• Corporate Greed
• Wall Street CEO's getting golden parachutes while their companies go out of business
• Exploitation especially around the world in many 3rd world countries
• Environmental destruction
• Pollution
• Triggered by lack of empathy and cold heartedness
• Animal cruelty
• Deforestation
• Raping the earth for its resources
• War
• Genocide
• Rape
• Torture
• Abuse
• Domestic violence
• Verbal violence
• School shootings
• Mass shooting
• Poverty
• Fascism
• Authoritarianism
• The exclusion of people from a group
• Libertarians
• By the fact that Donald Trump is still alive!!!!!
• Conservative supreme Court
• In general green is triggered by the backwardness of society (If you are a progressive, keep in mind that the greater the progress you envision for your society, the greater the ego backlash will be from the conservative citizens of your society. And a huge ego backlash could set that society more toward conservativism thus undoing the progressive measures taken in the first place) You must evolve at a slower pace. Too drastic of a change might cause the unwanted regressing effect!

 

Unhealthy manifestations of Green

 

• Too easily offended and too sensitive (It would help green to develop a thicker skin!)
• Too much idealistic and not enough practical (No amount of talk can lead to achieving the change that Green's ideal is advocating. Green needs to develop a more grounded approach to how it plans to help society evolve) (Green can start a revolution but because it was never grounded in reality it usually fades away quickly and the status quo prevails)
• Group think and mob mentality
• Green can be ideological
• Green tends to demonize materialism (Usually Green rejected Orange without fully integrating it first, which leads to a disfunctional way of thinking that business is bad. NO! People need businesses to survive and to make sure all their needs are met and if Green with it's idealistic view of the world interferes too much into the business world, this could lead to massive unemployment and a domino effect which would worsen the survival of that society)
• Green doesn't fully appreciate the necessity of the lower stages (Green must understand that he needs to meet people at where they are at, not at the level Green would like the people to be)
• Green may fail to realize the complexity of the economy
• Green can be too relativistic which can lead to a false equivalency effect
• Green can sometimes be naively pacifistic
• Sometimes Green wants to flatten hierarchies too much
• Green is sometimes not action oriented enough. Not pragmatic enough! That's what happens when Green hasn't properly integrated Orange!
• Green can have extremist elements
• Green can be too emotional and far too sensitive!
• Caring too much may lead to burnout
• Green can be overzealous about social causes
• Green can fall prey to guilt. Guilt for driving a gasoline powered car, or guilt for eating meat. For not recycling enough. Etc
• Green can be a little too reactionary
• In it's excesses Green can stifle independence and can stifle entrepreneurial spirit
• Sometimes Green can love to talk about spirituality but can fail to embody it.
• Green often talks the talk but fails to do the walk.
• Green can be too entitled
• Green can deny differences too much!
• Green can be too rigid or too stuck within it's own perspective.
• Green is characterized by being too naïve and too altruistic
• Green can be too trusting of Stage Red.
• Green can romanticize Stage Purple too much
• Green's empathy can be exploited and manipulated
• Green can fall into the doormat syndrome where you let everyone abuse you.
• Green can be bad with finances
• Green can over regulate and over tax
• Green can eliminate boundaries too much
• Green can lie, because it doesn't want to hurt the feelings of other people
• Green can fall into the lesser jihad! All the lofty ideals that green has, can become a distraction from the inner work that Green needs to do on himself first.

 

Statistics about Green!

 

• About 10% of the entire global population is Green!
• Up to 30% of the population in Western Europe and in North America is Green!
• About 15% of the total cultural and world influence is Green!
• The style of government under Green is a social network, it's human centred, has a flat hierarchy, decentralized, it's socialist/capitalist hybrid. It's liberal, globalist, it seeks to create a global community and it's a melting pot of different cultures and different ideas with tolerance for all the different elements of the pot!

 

How to transcend Green?

 

• Read in-depth about Green!
• Read in-depth about Yellow. Start to notice the differences between Green and Yellow!
• It is really important for Green to stop judging Red, Blue, Orange and Yellow.
• Stop demonizing corporations, stop demonizing money, stop demonizing capitalism, stop demonizing conservatives and religion
• Stop caring about social issues so much.
• Acknowledge that business is necessary
• Acknowledge that Green is not the highest stage.
• Acknowledge the problem with Green mob mentality
• Start thinking more for yourself
• Start seeing the world from the lower stages points of view
• Acknowledge that most of the world wasn't as lucky as you. Most people aren't as educated as you. Most people were not born in first world countries, most people didn't go to any kind of university.
• Acknowledge that bigots and racists and criminals are acting out of ignorance. Not because they are evil or some other label.
• Start studying systems thinking
• Acknowledge that Green's political actions is often ineffective (There is a lot of protesting, yelling and screaming but fundamentally nothing really changes)
• Acknowledge Green hypocrisy
• Stop acting self-righteous and superior
• Be less idealistic and be more grounded in reality
• Start practicing some serious solo meditation
• Start practicing self-inquiry
• Start reading Yellow and Turquoise books
• Study Spiral Dynamics
• Start studying nonduality
• Start deconstructing meaning, value and purpose
• Make sure you fully integrate Orange and not just react against it or deny it.
• Make sure you fully integrate Blue and Red.
• If you are Green and you are struggling with finances, start a business. And try to deal with all the challenges that come with running a successful business
• If you really want to be truly green you should first become financially independent, go create your own job, your own business, which is actually serving the community in a healthy, environmentally friendly way!
• Start practicing more neutrality.
• Notice that sometimes protesting is not enough
• Become a spiral wizard
• The master key for transcending any stage is contemplation and self-reflection. (Analyse what aspects or elements from Red, Blue or Orange you haven't fully integrated, what aspects from Green you need to act out harder in order to be more loving or to be at peace so that you can move to Yellow!)
•  Look to master each stage. If you are at Orange or at Blue right now, look for all the ways to master the teachings of Orange or Blue. Don't try to skip or speed run through a stage.

Edited Wednesday at 07:10 AM by Daniel Balan

[Daniel Balan]

What do you think @Leo Gura? This took me a lot of time manually capturing each and every piece of information from your Stage Green video. But was very fulfilling at the end. Because now I know that I will never forget anything about what has been said in that video because I have saved it on my commonplace book! Thank you for making that video <3 

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Hope it helps someone!

[Leo Gura]

Good work

[Daniel Balan]

16 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Good work

Thank you for the appreciation

[mmKay]

Good work man! careful with not getting hooked on that Leo Aprooval crack tho;) maybe there are more urgent things you would rather want to focus your intense effort for! Just my 2 cents. Good work ofc

[Daniel Balan]

@mmKay Those SD summaries have been on my to do list for few years now. And I finally got some free time to do them. 

The problem with Leo's work is that you tend to forget within a week or 2 all the information from his videos. And unless you take notes all the watching of his videos is basically fruitless due to the fact that you forget everything so quickly.

[aurum]

Keep it up, you'll be doing spiral wizardry in no time.

It also helps if you combine this with the 9 stages of ego development + conservative vs liberal mind series.

Edited Wednesday at 07:01 PM by aurum

[OBEler]

Awesome summary, thanks a lot! It's perfect structured!

Edited Wednesday at 08:17 PM by OBEler