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Inner Transition and thePsychology of Change
based on ideas of Sophy Banks
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Three Questions
• What inner beliefs underlie our outer world?
• What is going on? (Why have we made a self-destructive world? Why don’t we wake up and do something about it?)
• How can the Transition movement support inner transition?
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We white Americans of European ancestry had our indigenous cultures stolen from us, had our lands and lifestyles, our lives destroyed, just as we have gone on to steal and destroy around the globe. It happened long ago, of course, so we barely remember it…the land remembers it…it’s all there, still reverberating through our bodies, like gongs still sounding centuries after they were struck with the mallet…and that pain shapes us, and hurts us still, and that, of course, is the deep reason we do what we do now to the planet. If we don’t seek to understand that, how can we ever expect to change our behavior?
Tim Bennett, writer and director of What A Way To Go: Life At The End Of Empire
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Sources
• The Work that Reconnects
• Systems Theory
• Ecopsychology
• Addiction and Change Models
• Psychotherapy
• Indigenous wisdom
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transition
Inner world individual
psychology, world view,
beliefs
Outer world society,
behavior, institutions
Inner and Outer
?
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Inner World
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Dual Nature of Human Brain
Unsafe:
fight,
flight o
r
freeze
Safe: relaxed, secure to
explore the world, all is
well
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Childhood Experiencepositive experiencesnegative experiences
Neglected Attacked Hungry Criticised /
worthless Empathic
failure
Safe Held securely I belong There is enough Valued and
accepted as I am
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Response and AdaptationPositive experienceNegative experience
• Learn behaviours which bring partial success
• Repress memory
• Difficulty with feelings, joy, creativity, presence
Adapted behaviour
Neglected Attacked Hungry Criticised /
worthless Empathic
failure
Safe Held securely I belong There is enough Valued and
accepted as I am
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From Experience to World View
The world is safe & others can be trusted
I am wanted and loved as I am
All my feelings are welcome and valid
Life is abundant and supports me
Unlimited realityLimited reality
• I have to adapt to be accepted
• It’s best not to feel (pain, anger, joy)
• I’ll hide my creativity, joy, open-heartedness
Adapted belief
The world doesn’t want me as I am
There isn’t enough Others have power Life is dangerous
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Resulting Personality Structure
Potential
Wounding
capacity for experiencing wounding and potential are linkedConscious
awarenessAdapted personality
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Resulting Personality Structure
Potential
Wounding
defenses keep the potential and wounding out of consciousness
Conscious awareness
Adapted personality
Don’t go there!!
Don’t feelthat!!
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An Addictions View
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Addictive Behavior
connectionsatisfiedempowered
isolationpowerless, worthless
emptiness
ambition, workaholism
consuming / eating / travelling
relationship addiction, TV
away from pain
towards goal
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Healing Impulse vs Defense
Adapted personality
Don’t feelthat!!
Don’t riskthat!!
Healing impulse
Defense
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What supports healing?
Healing impulse
Supported by • Acceptance• Plenty• Safety• Belonging• Benign use of power
Creates unlimited reality: • Wounding and
potential are integrated• I am safe, wanted,
appreciated, belong
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How do we see this in transition?
Potential
Wounding
Comfort zone
Doing, planting, making, building, planning, thinking….
Negative and won’t take us forward
Nonsense, irrational, just talking
Feeling pain, fear for future, despair, facing death
Talking about beauty, truth, love, trust, connection
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Inner and Outer: Unlimited Reality
Abundance, connection,
empowerment, acceptance
Decisions have a wide & long view
resilience
World is interconnected,
abundant, a paradise
Authentic behaviour, acceptance of self and
others
childhood
worldview
outer world
relationships
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Support in Transition
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A Map of Inner Transition
Developing and opening to potential
Remembering and integratingpainful experience
Thinking, Rationaldoing
Intuition emotionbeing
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Inner Transition - Territory
Indigenouswisdo
m
Spaces for being
support groups
Emotions – JM work
Psych models for
change
Group dynamic
s
Comm’ty ritual
Comfort zone – doing,
planning
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The Work that Reconnects
Reconnectedempowered alive
Fear, grief, anger, despair
Disconnection, disempowerment denial
SHIFT!!
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Home Groups Maintaining and Sustaining
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Activities that support unlimited realityLimited reality belief
What helps or heals? Creating an unlimited realityExamples of activities add your own!!
Not enough There’s plenty Shared meals, swap shops or free cycle. Find ways to give things away!!
Overwhelm Holding spaces to experience despair and possibility
Truth mandala and other Joanna Macy processes, support groupsWatch for burnout!!
Unsafe Safe place to be creative, have fun
Support groups – ongoing and building trust. Art, music events, storytelling
Separate Be with othersConnect with nature
Group activities, discussions after films wild food gathering, bike rides, rituals!
Worthless Value everyone’s contribution.
Celebrate achievements publicly and in meetings. Publicize stories, art, photos, outcomes
Competition Cooperation Exchanges, shared projects or work, from either/ or to both - and
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The end