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| "The work of Sandra Seagal and her associates is seminal. I believe it will have an immense impact upon management, education, and families. Those of us involved in building learning organizations will look back in ten years' time, and wonder how we had ever proceeded without the understanding and appreciation of the diversity of human functioning that the work of Human Dynamics brings. Human Dynamics offer a simple, elegant and powerful framework for understanding the diversity of human functioning and for realizing its potential. Few tools will be more essential in the challeging years ahead." Peter Senge Author of The Fifth Discipline Director, Systems Thinking and Organizational Learning Program M.I.T. Sloan School of Management |
"THE FASCINATING STORY OF HUMAN DYNAMICS
- SANDRA SEAGAL'S PERSONAL STORY THAT HAS BEGUN TO SPELL WONDERS
FOR THE WORLD" (pg 14)
And so, the pursuit of those sounds became Sandra's life passion. Gradually it became aware to her that the
three sounds were high, middle and low frequencies, which she could distinguish even though they were
operating simultaneously. And then, through a long process of trial and error, she made the connection that
the frequencies related to the speaker's mental, emotional and physical functioning. Consistently, the high
frequency expressed mental function; the middle frequency the emotional function; and the lowest frequency,
the physical function. This was the first major breakthrough.
In time, she grew increasingly sensitive to a wide range of nuances in voices. She tracked rhythm, modulation,
articulation, psycho-acoustic placement of the voice, volume, tempo, melodic contour, texture, quality - and
recognised that all of these, and more, provided extraordinarily accurate information about the speaker. She
conducted classes for about a year, but while she discovered more about the distinct patterns of behaviour,
she was unable to teach others the fine discriminations in sound that she could hear.
At some point in the year, one of her colleagues suggested videotaping people from each personality dynamic
group that she was distinguishing. As she watched the resulting ten hours of unedited tape, tears came to
her eyes. She realized for the first time that the personality distinctions she was apprehending aurally could
be identified through other more generally accessible cues - people's appearances and behaviour, gestures
and movements (or lack of them), ways of communicating and interacting with one another, and the topics
they spoke about.
She now knew that she could use this medium as a tool for teaching people how to ident ify the
personality dynamic groups. Sound discriminations turned out not to be the point. Her sensitivity to the
sounds of the voice was simply the key that led to the discoveries about the human "design" that are at the
heart of this work.
- SANDRA SEAGAL'S PERSONAL STORY THAT HAS BEGUN TO SPELL WONDERS
FOR THE WORLD" (pg 14)
- "In 1979, when I was working as a psychotherapist in private practice, one of my clients asked me one day
to see her daughter, Caroline, who was having difficulty in school. Caroline was nine years old, articulate
and self-aware of her age. As we began to talk, it became clear that she was not so much interested in
engaging in a dialogue as in having me listen to her.
As she talked about her experiences in school and I listened, something unusual happened. For a period
which was probably brief yet seemed timeless. I was no longer aware of Carolline's words. Instead, I
heard only the voice, within which I clearly detected three different sounds. While one sound was clear,
the other two seemed discordant.
As I became aware of the three sounds, certain understandings became evident to me that I hadn't known
before. It was possible to diagnose or evaluate the functioning of people through a sensitive listening
process and two of the three sounds were related to a personal identity and one was connected to a deeper,
more transpersonal, spiritual identity.
I then returned to hearing Caroline speaking as I normally would.
When the session ended, I sat quietly for a long time to ponder my experience. I knew that the experience
was real and not a dream or fantasy, and that it had an enormous significance. I had no idea what the three
sounds represented, but I did know that I had to find out.
For the following six weeks, I felt extraordinarily energized. I was fully awake for twenty-two hours a
day. My attention was riveted on the sounds of people's voices, which I continued to hear in a new way. It
was as if I had been catapulted into an ultra-sensitive attunement to these sounds. Although I was aware of
language, I found myself also registering the voices as pure sound - like music - and the different qualities
in the music captivated me."
And so, the pursuit of those sounds became Sandra's life passion. Gradually it became aware to her that the
three sounds were high, middle and low frequencies, which she could distinguish even though they were
operating simultaneously. And then, through a long process of trial and error, she made the connection that
the frequencies related to the speaker's mental, emotional and physical functioning. Consistently, the high
frequency expressed mental function; the middle frequency the emotional function; and the lowest frequency,
the physical function. This was the first major breakthrough.
In time, she grew increasingly sensitive to a wide range of nuances in voices. She tracked rhythm, modulation,
articulation, psycho-acoustic placement of the voice, volume, tempo, melodic contour, texture, quality - and
recognised that all of these, and more, provided extraordinarily accurate information about the speaker. She
conducted classes for about a year, but while she discovered more about the distinct patterns of behaviour,
she was unable to teach others the fine discriminations in sound that she could hear.
At some point in the year, one of her colleagues suggested videotaping people from each personality dynamic
group that she was distinguishing. As she watched the resulting ten hours of unedited tape, tears came to
her eyes. She realized for the first time that the personality distinctions she was apprehending aurally could
be identified through other more generally accessible cues - people's appearances and behaviour, gestures
and movements (or lack of them), ways of communicating and interacting with one another, and the topics
they spoke about.
She now knew that she could use this medium as a tool for teaching people how to ident ify the
personality dynamic groups. Sound discriminations turned out not to be the point. Her sensitivity to the
sounds of the voice was simply the key that led to the discoveries about the human "design" that are at the
heart of this work.
- "We have come to realize that the distinct personality dynamic systems we have identified are holonomic,
and can be discriminated in many ways. They are evident in the focus of a person's eyes, in gestures, in the
rhythmn and pacing of one's speech, in the preference for certain words, in the kind of memory a person
has, in the responses to stress, in the particular ways an individual learns or undertake tasks, even in the
area of the body where the main focus of energy is naturally situated.
We have constantly sought ways to apply the knowledge of these systemic distinctions in people practically
by creating based upon this new knowledge programs for personal and organisational development, for
teacher and parent training, for health maintenance and for cross-cultural bridging. The structures and
qualities that we are describing are so fundamental that people have reported to us, over and over again, in
learning about them, they had a sense of recognizing something consciously that they already knew. What at
first seemed new to them was quickly experienced as having been awakened. We believe that this
phenomenon reveals that while the distinctions in functioning that we have identified and to which we have
given language are new to the collective consciousness, the life behind the work lies deep within the human
soul.
Thus this new body of knowledge reveals us to ourselves and shows us that we are more than we thought we
were; it nurtures our finer sensibilties and illumines our path of development; it encourages learning and
inquiry; and it recognizes that diversity is the intended purpose of nature - to be respected, celebrated and
utilized."
- Written by David Horne, co-author of Human Dynamics: A New Framework for
Understanding People and Realizing the Potential in Our Organizations
| HUMAN DYNAMICS A framework for understanding and realizing the potential of ourselves and of people within organizations! Sandra Seagal & David Horne |
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