Dr. Ed Young

THE NATURAL SYSTEMS INSTITUTE

THE NATURAL SYSTEMS INSTITUTE’S PHILOSOPHY

Whether working with a large institution or organization or with an Whether working with a large institution or organization or with an individual client in psychotherapy, Natural Systems considers the individual client in psychotherapy, Natural Systems considers the multidimensional interactions of the past and future of external structures and multidimensional interactions of the past and future of external structures and systems with internal structures and systems, from global environments to systems with internal structures and systems, from global environments to local situations and from an individual’s life history to their present feelings, local situations and from an individual’s life history to their present feelings, intentions, and their future goals.intentions, and their future goals.

For the Natural System’s Approach, everything is interconnected and For the Natural System’s Approach, everything is interconnected and dealt with as the time is right from the client’s point of view. dealt with as the time is right from the client’s point of view.

EXTERNAL SYSTEMSEXTERNAL SYSTEMS

INTERNAL SYSTEMSINTERNAL SYSTEMS

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Welcome to The Natural Systems

InstitutePrinciples and Perspectives Underlying the Natural Systems Approach and Guiding its Application to

PsychotherapyConsultingOrganization and Program DevelopmentTraining and Workshops

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NATURAL SYSTEMS SCHEMA PERSPECTIVES

Encompassing Environments

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Every Content Within Every Level Within Each of the Natural Systems’ External and Internal Structures

Is Subject to Being Parceled Into Any of the States Listed Below.Each Content Within Each State at Each Level May Require Its Own Treatment Approach.

Every Content Within Every Level Within Each of the Natural Systems’ External and Internal Structures

Is Subject to Being Parceled Into Any of the States Listed Below.Each Content Within Each State at Each Level May Require Its Own Treatment Approach.

NATURAL SYSTEMS SCHEMA

Encompassing Environments

Institution or Organization

Settings within Institution

Situations

Dyadic

Interaction

Role/Relationship

Physical/Verbal Behavior

Cognition

Emotion/Feelings

Perception

Background: Prior Schemata and Schemes

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Bringing the Whole with Its Parts Into Corporate Consciousness Results in an Explosion of Creativity.Bringing the Whole with Its Parts Into Corporate Consciousness Results in an Explosion of Creativity.

States of Incorporation, Postures of Receptivity, Involvement

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Intentional Processes That Organize the Elements of the Natural Systems Schema

Encompassing Environments

Institution or Organization

Setting within Institution

Situation

Dyadic

Interaction

Role/Relationship

Physical/Verbal Behavior

Cognition

Emotion/Feelings

Perception

Background: Prior Schemata and Schemes

NATURAL SYSTEMS SCHEMA

States of Incorporation, Postures of Receptivity

and Involvement

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Brain with intentional processes

organizing the representation of

the World and interaction with

that World.

World the person has

been exposed to.

Brain with a representation of the World as the person has

been exposed to it.

PerceptionRetrieval of Schemata and Schemes

Assessment of External and Internal representations

Hedonic Reactions and Individuation

Incorporation

Envisioning and Setting Criteria for Fulfillment

Deciding Goal Setting and Foreshadowing

EngagingAdventuring, Disengaging

Mirroring and Re Engaging

CompletionStorage as Schemata and Schemes

INTENTIONAL PROCESSESUse Of Cognitive Operations

ElementsElements

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I. Matching Modalities With Processes of Intentionality in the Natural Systems Schema

Perception

Retrieval of Schemata and Schemes

Assessment of External and Internal representations

Hedonic Reactions and Individuation

Incorporation

Envisioning and Setting Criteria forFulfillment

Deciding Goal Setting and Foreshadowing

EngagingAdventuring, Disengaging

Mirroring and Re Engaging

Completion

Storage as Schemata and Schemes

Use

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Cognitive

Operations

INTENTIONAL PROCESSESModalities Dealing With Schemata and Schemes

Restructuring Cognitive Maps or Conceptions of Relations With External Structures, Systems, Settings, Situations, Roles, Relationships, and Dyadic Interaction

Restructuring Behavioral Schemes or Social Skills

A. Education for understanding the history and interconnections with the rest of society, institutions, community, groups and alliances; genograms and closeness measure for understanding family structure and systems. Gender role analysis.

B. Chronolog for understanding life history, events, and determinants of behavior and their effects, gaining a perspective and restructuring roles, relationships, processes and undoing distorted Incorporation States.

C. Education for understanding sequential stages and phases or longitudinal systems, developmental tasks

D. Reading books and articles and watching and discussing movies portraying key personal issues and modeling or avoiding styles of interacting.

E. Education concerning life’s protocols, performance systems, measurement and reward systems.

F. Relationship training in listening and communicating-empathy and transparency, basic social skills, dealing with key types of situations. Firewall crashing to overcome language and behavior impasses. Complementarity and Reciprocity analysis and conflict and sharing analysis, and conflict resolution and negotiation training for restructuring boundary and border décor, equality, equity balancing. Journalizing (reflexive and retroflexive) for identifying critical relationships and situations and feeling reactions and language patterns, psychodrama and role playing and reversal of identities Vs. self concepts and ideal self and transactional analysis for role relationship restructuring. Role structuring to learn role appropriate behaviors

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II. Matching Modalities With Processes of Intentionality in the Natural Systems SchemaA. Gestalt therapy for uncovering and understanding patterns of perception. chalk board for

depicting and understanding worldviews, event analysis to uncover patterns of memory retrieval, patterns and levels of assessing experiences and the world.

B. Reflecting feelings and experiential methods for exploring hedonic reactions, emotions and feelings, and patterns of maximizing and minimizing in assessments

C. Relating reactions to worldview from life history. Chronolog and journalizing for understanding distortions in Incorporation States and Postures of Receptivity and their effects on authenticity of values, preferences and interests. Catharsis, Abreaction and Guided Hypnotherapy for uncovering Dys-corporations, reliving and restructuring traumas, identifying ego states related to adventuring, desensitization with phobias and avoidance reactions

D. Psychodynamic and felt board analysis and inventories of parent-child relations and Gestalt for uncovering implicit others, relation to self, self estimation versus self esteem, distorted criteria for fulfillment, and Guided hypnotherapy for gaining emotional independence. Gestalt for uncovering patterns of foreshadowing and growth calendars and goal sheets for understanding time, timing, and experience of and relation to time and understanding and restructuring envisioning process

E. Intention micro analysis for capturing inner processes and distortions of decision making, goal setting, foreshadowing, engaging, disengaging, and mirroring patterns and approach-avoidance patterns

F. Training in decision making and using own judgment

G. Journalizing and mutual behavioral observations for identifying distortions in Adventuring, related ego states, and accompanying emotions.

H. Completion and Incomplete experience analysis to uncover patterns of self attributions and self esteem and disturbances in envisioning, prevent repetition compulsion.

I. Re-parenting therapy for self love and emotional independence.

J. Training to store as meaningful, interconnected schemata integrated with schemes.

A. Assessment of External and Internal representations

B. Hedonic Reactions and Individuation

C. Incorporation States and Postures of Receptivity

D. Envisioning and Setting Criteria for Fulfillment

E. Deciding Goal Setting and Foreshadowing

F. EngagingAdventuring, Disengaging

G. Mirroring and Re Engaging

H. Completion

I. Storage as Schemata and Schemes

Use

Of Cognitive

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INTENTIONAL PROCESSES

Matching Modalities With External Systems of the Natural Systems Schema in Relation to Internal Structures and Intentional Processes

Restructuring Environments Involves:A. Understanding: of the history of the organization, interconnection of parts within, as well as

its interconnections with the rest of society; of

B. mission, future directions, and current objectives, table of organization, policies, procedures;

C. departments, departmental relations, and departmental layouts;

D. programs, projects, social, and communication systems;

E. performance systems, measurement systems and reward systems;

F. sequential stages and phases or longitudinal systems; and

G. training and development systems addressing groups and/or individuals.

Consulting, Development, Training, and Treatment Approaches: Treating the external structures themselves and each individual’s conception of and relations with the external structures.

Therapy and workshops with individuals and groups.

Using role play, psychodrama, role structuring with dyadic interaction.Using transactional analysis, role analysis, cognitive restructuring with roles and relationshipsUsing training, restructuring settings, simulating situations and coaching, modeling, designing multi dimensional reinforcement systems, desensitization conditioning, exposure-replacement, and reality therapy for physical and verbal behavior.Using rational emotive, cognitive restructuring, problem solving, journalizing, decision therapy with cognition.Using non directive and psychodynamic therapy, abreaction-catharsis-experiential techniques, emotional re education with emotions and feelings.Using Gestalt therapy with perception.Using abreaction-catharsis therapy, psychodynamic-psychoanalytic, journalizing, trauma resolution, family of origin, and cognitive restructuring therapy, values clarification, psychodrama, treatment-correctional designed institutional environments, with unsocialized, dysfunctional, abusive, trauma stressed life histories.

Postures of Receptivity,

Involvement, and Incorporation

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EXTERNALPAST TIME FUTURE

INTERNAL

Encompassing EnvironmentsInstitution or Organization

Settings within Institution

SituationsDyadic

InteractionRole/Relationship

Physical/Verbal BehaviorCognition

Emotion/FeelingsPerception

Background: Prior Schemata and Schemes

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Bringing the Whole with Its Parts Into Corporate Consciousness Results in an Explosion of Creativity

Encompassing Environments

Institution or Organization

Setting within Institution

Situation

Dyadic

Interaction

Role/Relationship

Physical/Verbal Behavior

Cognition

Emotion/Feelings

PerceptionBackground: Prior Schemata and Schemes

Applying Natural Systems principles for redesigning and integrating organization structures and systems

Understanding the Past and Predicting the Future of the Organization’s structure and systems

Increasing effective productivity, profitability-cost/benefits ratio, organization’s reputation, organization expansion

As the consciousness of the inter relation of external and internal structures and systems expands, stability, motivation, synergism, creativity, and productivity increase

As awareness of strategies for organization effectiveness and interpersonal skills increase, stability, motivation, synergism, creativity, and productivity increase

Increasing loyalty, identification, involvement, integration of personal and organization goals and interest in mutual empowerment of self and organization members

Applying Natural Systems psychological principles for increasing personal growth and maturity, integration of inner processes, interpersonal skills and self actualization

Understanding the Past and Predicting the Future of oneself and other members of the organization

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Environmental Structures and Systems in Interaction with Person Structures and Systems

Encompassing Environments

Institution or Organization

Setting within Institution

Situation

Dyadic

Interaction

Role/Relationship

Physical/Verbal Behavior

Cognition

Emotion/Feelings

PerceptionBackground: Prior Schemata and Schemes

Environment A Environment B

Right Front Right Back

Left Front Left BackFocus

Brain of Person A in Environment A Brain of Person A in Environment B

The structure of environment A encourages people to use their own judgment, make their own decisions, plan and execute future plans, cooperate with others, bond with others, be responsible for themselves, share a desire for mutual facilitation, share tasks and promote the good of the community.

The structure of environment B takes care of people, assesses their needs for them, makes decisions for them, plans and executes activities for them, makes cooperative efforts with others unnecessary , assumes responsibility for the welfare of the community, assumes responsibility for all aspects of their lives, health, and well being. Unwittingly, makes it impossible to form bonds with others.

Symptoms: Focused on self, dependent, depressed, time drags, aches and pains, fears, anger, health degenerates.

Symptoms: Concern with others and tasks, time flying, unconcerned with body and health, active, healthy, happy.

Right Front Right Back Focus

Left Front Left Back

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Community Dimensions Within Neighborhoods and Institutions Facilitate or Hinder Dimensions of Self Actualization

In an environment with these dimensions people learn to use their own judgment, make their own decisions, plan and execute future plans, cooperate and bond with others, be responsible for themselves, share a desire for mutual facilitation, share and coordinate tasks, and promote the good of the community.

Personal: there are ways for people to give and receive a sense of belonging and a feeling that they are understood and cared for as individuals.

Rewarding: there are ways

that people can give and receive

acknowledgment, credit,

compensation, or awards for their

productivity and achievements that

are perceived as earned, reasonable

and fair with equality and equity.

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Organized: there are ways for

people to have their interests and

actions communicated and

regulated for coordination and

cooperation among individuals and

groups to keep the community’s

endeavors efficient and effective.

Open: there are ways to promote honesty

and authenticity, to guarantee acceptance of

differences and exceptions, to express and

resolve disagreements and conflicts, to

constructively acknowledge and correct

mistakes, and to prevent deception,

manipulation, and a split between the

individual’s public and private personality.

Dimensions of Self Actualization

The personalities of the members of the community can unfold and be revealed in their raw honesty and then begin to change so as to adapt to the structure of the dimensions of the community with corresponding dimensions of self actualization which are then seen as changed personalities.