Green (Pluralistic)
Pluralistic, relativistic, egalitarian; every perspective is valid; deconstructs hierarchies and centres feelings and inclusion.
How it sounds
There are many truths, and we need to hear all of them.
Who gets to decide what counts as 'progress'?
Signs in writing
- all views equally valid
- suspicion of ranking or hierarchy of any kind
- lived experience, feelings, inclusion
- critique of dominant systems
Values
inclusion · sensitivity
Fears
marginalization
Staying healthy at this stage
- caring community
Growth edge
- integrate healthy hierarchies
How to be heard at this stage
- listen and include
The same altitude in other models
Mapped by altitude, not measured: models track different lines.
- Pluralist Cook-Greuter
- Individualistic Loevinger
- Systematic Commons
- Conjunctive Fowler
- Self-authoring → Self-transforming Kegan
- Individualist Torbert
- Communitarian / Egalitarian Spiral Dynamics
- Social contract & rights Kohlberg
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