Spiral Dynamics Judgement?

[Tim R]

When I browse through the forum, it sometimes seems to me, that some folks around here misuse Spiral Dynamics to judge people rather than to neutrally observe the behaviour and from that extrapolate and range their values.

So my question is: how do I make sure not to accidentally/unconsciously judge people using Spiral Dynamics?

[daemons]

Broad answer to this is to accept that there is no "good" or "bad". Everything just is what it is at that point in time. We get very indoctrinated into believing that there is good and bad, and we apply that style of thinking onto everything, especially other people.

Consider, do you think of yourself as a good or bad person? Most would say "i'm a good person" but no one is wholly "good". If you are honest you will admit that you do "bad" things too in the past, but that doesn't make you a bad person. Everyone else is just like you.

You might experience only one tiny snippet of time in the timeline of someone else's life and it can be a bad experience. Your impression of that person will then be "bad" and you might think of that person as "bad", a road rager for example. But that person thinks of themselves as "good". lol so there is no good or bad. there is only relativity based on perspective.

Personally I currently use SD to give me comfort in knowing what has happened to my own mind, and then also it helps me to understand how other think and act, so it allows me to cut them more slack and become more tolerant.

[Carl-Richard]

4 hours ago, Tim R said:

When I browse through the forum, it sometimes seems to me, that some folks around here misuse Spiral Dynamics to judge people rather than to neutrally observe the behaviour and from that extrapolate and range their values.

Do you have some examples?