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

“…unfortunately this was taken on a Friday and so will not be useful for today’s Post”

The Wakefield Doctrine is a tool, an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. If employed, one is benefitted in two distinct ways: a) by seeing the situation (person/place/thing) differently (as is the case with most alternate perspectives, the difference can be great or it can be small) and, perhaps add to one’s experience and 2) to be reminded that there is more than one perspective on life, which in and of itself is empowering by the implied acknowledgement that our personal realities and the personal realities of others are congruent. Except where they are not.

One way to think of the goal of the Wakefield Doctrine is: to aid in the ongoing process of self-improving ourselfs by appreciating the world as the other person is experiencing it. (And, in doing so, improve our acceptance and appreciation of how we relate ourselves to the world around us.)

Here’s a post (title: Capital Letter-less Monday, its more fun you might think. ?%#? from June 2013)

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

hey, you know how we say that one of the primary values of the Wakefield Doctrine lies in it providing a certain perspective on behavior that, when applied to our own lives, proves to be a unique  tool for self-development?

well, we do.
the important thing is this: in order to effectively use the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool for self-improvement and/or self-development it’s necessary to understand the nature of the three worldviews.

new readers! dig this: we are all born with the innate capacity to experience the world in one of three ways, or worldviews (aka personal realities): the world/life as an Outsider (clarks), living and developing as one must to survive and flourish in the reality of the Predator (scotts) and experiencing the world as a member of a Herd (rogers). you with us? fine. we all ‘pick’ a worldview and grow up and develop our personalities in response to the particular challenges and advantages found in these realities. the thing is, we retain the potential to see the world as ‘the other two’ do. for example, I’m a clark, predominant worldview is that of the Outsider which means the world around me today is such that I do not fit in, I see things in a way that results in my demonstrating a certain creativity, I spent a lot of  time being self-effacing, (often amounting to self-destructiveness), I have an insatiable appetite to learn new information and I am simultaneously sentimental and cold. that is because that is the nature of the world I wake up to.  I also have a secondary (and a tertiary) aspect. my secondary is that of a scott and my 3rd is rogerian. (btw these secondary and tertiary aspects? thats why people sometimes will say, ‘hey I must be some kind of new personality type! like a clarkroger, because most of the time I feel like I’ll never fit in and then sometimes I can be real real stubborn and obstinate’  that’s your secondary showing through.

so…learn the characteristics of the three worldviews. observe your fellow lifeforms. infer the reality that they appear to be responding and reacting to and once you are able to correctly infer the worldview of the other person, you will know more about them than they know about themselves.
so…learn the characteristics of the three worldviews. observe yourself. first eliminate the obviously not fitting worldview, then hold the other two worldviews up and see which one makes the world make (more) sense… that is your predominant worldview. that is what will be useful to you, if you have an interest in: understanding the behavior of the people in our lives, taking better advantage of the people in our lives, knowing more about the inner thoughts and feelings of the people in our lives and , for some of you… learning ways to improve your own life.

we used to do an internet radio show and one of the things I always tried to say to the listener about the Doctrine was, “the Wakefield Doctrine is concerned with ‘how you relate yourself to the world around you’.  note that I did not say, ‘…how you relate to the world’… I said, ‘ how you relate yourself to the world around you’”.  that distinction is of critical importance in making the Doctrine a useful and effective tool.

… so we will stop here for today.

… one thing!  to clarify my point, at the beginning of today’s Post, the key to using the Doctrine is learning and understanding the nature, characteristics and such of the three worldviews. in fact, it was DownSpring Cyndi who proffered the term ‘fluency’ as a way to describe our efforts to learn about the three worldviews, i.e. “hey, I am becoming more fluent in the scottian worldview… FUCK!”  or “my fluency in the rogerian reality allows me to approximate the ‘projectile disinterest’ that we see so many of the ‘natives’ employ to such devastating effect”

(to be continued)

Friend of the Doctrine, Melanie has let us know that, due to shifting priorities, she would have her other blog  ‘Steer Career Success‘  listed on our blogroll… it’s a good and useful and fun site, it has to do with jobs and careers and such and totally ties in with where we are taking this conversation about the use of the Wakefield Doctrine in the workplace… so stop over at her blog and  say ‘hidy’

speaking of sent ya… if you are still reading this Post, I totally want to engage you in …. conversation!   we are having the first weekly Wakefield Doctrine Video Brunch,  this coming weekend. since you are clearly interested in the Doctrine, I totally care about making the Vid Brunch convenient to your time zone… so leave us a Comment  and let me know your ‘zone  …am currently thinking to start in the early am this coming Sunday  (’cause Friend of the Doctrine Michelle is a nicely symmetrical 12 hours ahead of us. but there is still room to play with the exact starting hour)

 

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