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

Before we get into this short Post with the  intriguing Title, a caveat to new Readers.
The Wakefield Doctrine is 2 parts art ( or as we say in the Wakefield part of the world, ‘ahht’)  and 1 part science. The ‘science part’ is pretty straight-forward: 

 we are all born with the capability of seeing the world/experiencing reality in three distinct and characteristic ways. At some point in early childhood we settle on one worldview and become what we call: clarks, scotts and rogers. Throughout our lives we experience the world with the biases, pre-conjecture and implications of this one view, we call this being a clark, acting like a scott and feeling like a roger. We all retain the capacity to see the world as the other two personality types do, if we try, if we have enough ‘flexible intelligence’, a strong enough clarklike side.  Everything in the Doctrine follows from this. The Wakefield Doctrine, as it describes personality is gender and culture and age neutral. It is about the world that we perceive, not a list of genetic traits, parental training  that accounts for our behavior.  That is the science.  

As to the art…

…the art (of the Doctrine) is found in the act of detecting small, characteristic expressions (physical, mental and emotional) of the other person.  …the art of the Doctrine is putting yourself in the other person’s shoes and trying to see the world as they see it.  …the art of the Doctrine is standing in their shoes, imagining you are a (clark or scott or a roger) and seeing if their behavior makes sense. …the art of the Doctrine is to do this with all three types in different situations until you see the world as the other person sees it.

…as to ‘the smile of the clark‘?  That is where the art creates the fun.  Ever see a person who smiles by compressing their lips and looks at you (either) through the corners of their eyes or ‘up through the top’ of their eyes?  Chances are you are looking at a clark.
…now look at that person’s posture.  Bad, is it?  Rounded shoulders,  slight hunch around the neck?,  a ‘looseness’ around the hips as if ready to make a run for it?  Chances are increasing that you are looking at a clark.
(now here is the fun part…the art part…) Look at the music video below at the bottom of this Post.  Albert Lee is the guy with the white/grey hair behind and to the right of Vince Gill. He is obviously having the time of his life, his smile… his whole face is smiling…
Albert is a clark.

(I know, I know)   “what the hell!! you said they are furtive and scared looking. You just told us clarks smile by compressing their lips and look like they are ready to run for it!! You said that, I have it in writing!!  

Thats the fun. The Wakefield Doctrine is like that.  There are guidelines and there are even rules, heck we even have Core Principles! But as a practitioner,

• you will be the one to observe the other person
• you will be the one to ‘try out’ the ways that the other person might be seeing the world
• you will be the one who gets ‘a feeling’ they might be a clark or a scott or a roger
• you will be the one who will tell another person, “hey look at this…does this seem rogerian or just a scott on an off day?”
• …and you will be the only one to decide, knowing that you cannot break the Doctrine and that the other person will still be the clark or the scott or the roger that they are, whether you ‘get it right’ or not

Like we said….this is fun!

Program Note:

We will have Molly ( aka Seven Ravens at ‘the Facebook’) as our guest for tomorrow’s Video Friday!  We will cover a wide assortment of topics and subject matter. So if you have a question (for Molly or the Doctrine ) write us a Comment and we will include it in our interview. (Provided, of course, the Comment shows up before we ‘go on air’)