{"id":57,"date":"2023-02-19T16:34:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T14:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/modestatestage.com\/?p=57"},"modified":"2023-02-19T16:34:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T14:34:37","slug":"mode-state-stage-an-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/befriendmytype.io\/index.php\/2023\/02\/19\/mode-state-stage-an-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Mode State Stage, an Overview<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mode State Stage, an Overview<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n

Mode State Stage is a new model for understanding ourselves and others. It enables this understanding by combining structure and process. This article is aimed at providing an overview of the model. Each of the elements (Mode, State, Stage) of the model is dealt with, starting with \u2018Mode\u2019. Note that all elements, or aspects, of the model will be elaborated in subsequent articles (blog posts).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mode<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Human beings, according to Psychiatrist Dr Carl Jung, typically receive and process information in terms of a primary disposition, or propensity (adapted as a \u2018preference\u2019\u2013 see \u2018Stage\u2019, below) for one of four cognitive modes: feeling, intuiting, sensing and thinking. Thus, people can be grouped broadly according to their primary modal disposition. Note that the modes can be thought of as themes, with many variations on them possible as we add other dimensions to the model; for example, when the dimensions of introversion and extroversion, among others, are added, the number of \u2018types\u2019, or characteristic themes, or groups, are multiplied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We adapt our disposition according to the requirements of our projects, our careers, and our culture, among others. When we adapt our disposition in order to function, our disposition becomes our preference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People also have a secondary modal disposition, as well as a tertiary modal disposition, adapted as secondary and tertiary preferences. Their least disposed, or adapted preferred, mode of being and knowing (their quaternary mode) is typically opposite to their primary, or preferred, mode of being and knowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mode is the functional element of the model, which is complemented by the process element of the model, the \u2018Stage\u2019 aspect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One way to determine one\u2019s primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary modes is to do a variety of personality typology indicators, or tests, and then combine the results with self-observation. One could do a web search using the following search term, for example, to identify these typology tests: \u2018Personality typology tests based on Jung's theory of typology\u2019. Some typology indicators can be found also on the \u2018Resources\u2019 page of the Mode State Stage website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After doing two or more of the various typology tests based on Jung\u2019s theory of typology, combined with self-observation (or introspection), one would be well positioned to identify a common, or recurring, pattern in terms of one\u2019s modal disposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

State<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We participate in various endeavours, activities and projects throughout our lives \u2013 at this point, it may be useful to jump ahead and read the \u2018Stage\u2019 section, below, before picking up again from the following sentence (since \u2018State\u2019 is adapted to the \u2018Stage\u2019 concerned). To do so, we need to move into other modes of perceiving, of knowing and, hence, of being, that do not reflect our dispositions, or most comfortable, modes of operating and being. This switching of modes to deal with the tasks at hand is referred to in the Mode State Stage model as \u2018State\u2019, or \u2018stage-adapted \u2018mind State\u2019. Specifically, it refers to one of the four \u2018mind states\u2019, which are characterized by \u2018feeling\u2019, \u2018intuition\u2019, \u2018sensing\u2019 and \u2018thinking\u2019, corresponding to its structural \u2018Mode\u2019 element of the model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, when we move out of our primary Mode (or disposition) to perform a function or fulfil a role, as required in our everyday functioning, we are adapting our modal disposition to perform the function or fulfil the role concerned. In doing so, we adopt the required mind state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the mind states concerned have become entrenched, or we have adapted our modal compositions, or dispositions, to our roles or cultures, among others, on a fairly consistent basis, they become our modal preferences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While this adaptation is inevitable and indeed required by us, the Mode State Stage model proposes two forms of complementing our dispositional make-up for optimal functioning, as the preferred means to achieve this (to be explored further in subsequent articles, or blog posts):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. R<\/strong>elational complementarity,<\/strong> with human relationships and interactions deliberately cultivated to complement our modal composition, i.e. our primary, secondary, tertiary and especially quaternary modes, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. S<\/strong>kills development,<\/strong> with learned skills aimed at enabling functioning in our secondary, tertiary and especially our quaternary modes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long-term adaptation, or prolonged mind-state adaptation of our modal dispositions, in the Mode State State model, comprise hyperflexions (flexion beyond normal limits), which are not sustainable without harmful systemic effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where modal adaptation is required, complementing our dispositional composition with selected individuals (on the basis of their complementary modal dispositions) and learned skills can reduce the stress involved in adopting a secondary, tertiary or quaternary mind state suited to responding to the stimuli presented through circumstance and the environment, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stage<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The stages that human beings broadly move through in their endeavours, projects and processes have also been typically grouped into four stages, or phases \u2013 for example, in the traditional project management process, comprising the four stages \u2018initiation\u2019, \u2018planning\u2019, \u2018execution\u2019 and \u2018closure\u2019. These human endeavours, or developmental and creative processes, are also referred to conceptually as the \u2018evolutionary development process\u2019 or \u2018natural creative process\u2019. For example, when constructing a building, we typically move sequentially through these stages; yet there is often some back and forth involved between the stages, as necessitated by the factors involved; for example, insufficient planning may require \u2018going back to the drawing board\u2019, i.e. going back to the planning (or envisaging) stage to make refinements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other names are sometimes given to these stages, including \u2018generating\u2019 (initiating), \u2018structuring\u2019 (planning), \u2018constructing\u2019 (execution), and \u2018finishing\u2019 (closure).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Mode State Stage model, these stages have been renamed as follows: identification (identifying), envisagement (envisaging), establishment (establishing) and confirmation (confirming). These stages can also be observed, for example, in research projects where a problem is identified (problem identification, hence \u2018identification\u2019), a hypothesis is formed (hypothesis formation, hence \u2018envisagement\u2019), research is carried out (experiments, studies or other relevant research type, hence \u2018establishment\u2019), and the findings are confirmed (data analysis, reporting the findings, for example in articles and theses, hence \u2018confirmation\u2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diagram 1, below, provides a visualization of the four Modes (the quadrants Feeling, Intuition, Sensing, and Thinking) and Stages (the Mode-corresponding segments of the evolutionary development-, or natural creative process-representative infinity symbol) of the Mode State Stage Model.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Diagram 1:<\/em> Mode and Stage<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

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Diagram 2, below, provides the added visualization of the State (the outer rotational 'dial' segments Feeling, Intuition, Sensing, and Thinking) elements of the model. Note that the State (or mind State) dial (the outer circle) can be rotated around the Mode and Stage elements for the sake of adaptation to the task, event or culture (among others), preferably for short periods, rather than for longer periods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Diagram 2:<\/em> Mode, State and Stage<\/em> (outer dial, or ring)<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The evolutionary development process, otherwise referred to as the natural creative process, comprises the Stage element of the Mode State Stage model. In this model, the process is envisaged as an upward-spiralling infinity symbol (in Diagrams 1 and 2, above, the break in the infinity symbol between the last stage (confirmation) and the initial stage of the elevated, subsequent first stage (initiation) of the evolutionary development process represents an evolution of the previous level of the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, in the Mode State Stage model, represented in a two-dimensional visualization (Diagrams 1 and 2), the evolutionary development process comprises alternating, interconnected counter-clockwise (right half) and clockwise (left half) loops. However, in a three-dimensional visualization (not represented in this article), the loops are upward spirals. Both visualizations comprise transposing (midway through the process and at the midpoint of the modal quadrants) loops\/spirals with the right half of the circle forming the matrix for the left half, and in the case of a three-dimensional visualization, the initial whole forming the matrix for the subsequent level, or evolution, of development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With our knowledge of our modal dispositions and the stages of our various endeavours, together with relevant supplementary tools (selected interactions and learned skills), we are well positioned to make effective (mind-state) adaptations where required, while limiting the harmful systemic effects of prolonged adaptation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we have this self-awareness, or self-knowledge, along with our personalized supplementary tools, we are able to reduce conflict and live healthier, happier lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The acquisition, impacts and effects of this self-knowledge and the development of supplementary tools will be explored in future blog posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

References<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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