the Wakefield Doctrine

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

Will be posting a reminder of the Wakefield Doctrine’s AP/AS/SH¹ which is to commensurate² at 3:30pm tomorrow Thursday the 9th. You are all invited to call and join in the discussion.³ There will be a raffle⁴ and refreshments. And….and you may bring a blanket, in case you feel a need to napate at any point in the hour.

There are some who are advising me to ‘stop being so….weird/silly/funny’ in my approach to trying to present the Wakefield Doctrine to an increasingly larger audience. They suggest that, while it may be valid to have fun while trying to show people the benefits of this unique perspective, I am limiting my (potential) audience. To their credit, they did go to the effort to come up with an amusing example of what they meant: ‘Martin Luther never told jokes’⁵

So…those of you inclined to write Comments, speak of your opinion on this matter…( er  please.)

….

(no, don’t!)

….but
(come on! you’re doing so well with this so far….)

(…remember what Molly said and she’s right ya know)

(sigh)

1) Advanced Placement/ Afternoon Special/ Study Hour

2) a deliberate rogerian expression

3) …I forget^a

4) for a Wakefield Doctrine Official doctee, of course!

a) hey, it happens, gimme a break

5) Martin Luther:

Martin Luther (German: [ˈmaɐ̯tiːn ˈlʊtɐ]; 10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German monk, former Catholic priest, professor of theology and seminal figure of a reform movement in sixteenth century Christianity, subsequently known as the Protestant Reformation. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God’s punishment for sin could be purchased with money. He confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel with his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517. His refusal to retract all of his writings at the demand of Pope Leo X in 1520 and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms in 1521 resulted in his excommunication by the pope and condemnation as an outlaw by the Emperor.

Luther taught that salvation is not earned by good deeds but received only as a free gift of God’s grace through faith in Jesus Christ as redeemer from sin. His theology challenged the authority of the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church by teaching that the Bible is the only source of divinely revealed knowledge and opposed sacerdotalism by considering all baptized Christians to be a holy priesthood. Those who identify with Luther’s teachings are called Lutherans.

His translation of the Bible into the vernacular (instead of Latin) made it more accessible, which had a tremendous impact on the church and on German culture. It fostered the development of a standard version of the German language, added several principles to the art of translation, and influenced the writing of an English translation, the King James Bible. His hymns influenced the development of singing in churches. His marriage to Katharina von Bora set a model for the practice of clerical marriage, allowing Protestant priests to marry. (courtesy of wikipedia.com  and them)

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

Today at 3:30 EDT we will have the Call-in line open.  the number to call: 1-218-339-0422  access code 512103 # 

As the Title of today’s Post implies, a call-in show like today is a chance to talk to others about the Wakefield Doctrine, ask questions, offer opinions and gain insight. It’s got everything you could want, except for the Oreos and Milk!

the Wakefield Doctrine, a theory of personality,  maintains that we are all born with the potential to experience the world in one of three characteristic ways (‘worldviews’), as the Outsider (clarks), the Predator (scotts) or the Herd Member (rogers). At an early age we make one of these three our predominant worldview however we never lose the capacity to experience the world as do ‘the other two’. For the Wakefield Doctrine, personality types are simply the result of the normal, appropriate and successful responses to the reality that we are experiencing. A clark, as a person who experiences life as an Outsider, tends to be very creative and socially challenged; a scott who grows up in a world which tends to be hostile and very direct, exhibits an aggressiveness and a confidence which reflects the world as they are experiencing it and a roger, being a Herd Member, seeks to understand the Rules of proper behavior and longs for the security of tradition and lasting culture because that is what best expresses the sense of belonging to and being related to (nearly) everyone and every thing in their worlds.
The Wakefield Doctrine says this: learn the characteristics of the three worldviews, observe the behavior of a person and infer the world that they are responding to in their day to day actions. When you succeed in doing this, you will know that person, in a certain way, better than they know themselves. Employing the perspective afforded by the Wakefield Doctrine, you need never find yourself saying, “….why in the world would they want to go and say a thing like that?  I really thought I knew them better than that.”

Thats a little starter view. Here are some talking points for today, but!  we hardly ever stick to suggested outlines with these here Call-ins here.

Talkin’Points and such:

• Considerer wrote in a Comment: “…My main question at the moment is how is it possible to get unhooked from the ‘should be’s?“
• Lise’s ( a roger) and I were discussing a person in the office who, while being new and understandably unskilled, was making a mess of a part of the job the other day. Lise and I agreed that he was a clark and was really trying hard, but ‘did not have a clue’ as to how bad a grasp of the job requirements he had….were… lol  or something like that. In any event, I said something to the effect that while I understood what he was going through, I didn’t think anyone could have changed how the episode (being discussed). Lise for her part agreed with me but said,  ’I know he meant well, but the way he was acting made me mad’  I stopped. It struck me immediately, of course she would say that… it was a response that sprang from an emotional perception (notice I did not say, ‘an emotional reaction’) that is consistent with the idea that rogers live in a personal reality that is fundamentally different from that of a clark (or a scott, for that matter). Very cool
• Cyndi’s adaption/acquisition from her scottian aspect the perception of being ‘filmed before a live audience’