2. Dr. Ed Young THE NATURAL SYSTEMS INSTITUTE

3. THE NATURAL SYSTEMS INSTITUTE’S PHILOSOPHY Whether working with a large institution or organization or with an individual client in psychotherapy, Natural Systems considers the multidimensional interactions of the past and future of external structures and systems with internal structures and systems, from global environments to local situations and from an individual’s life history to their present feelings, intentions, and their future goals. Whether working with a large institution or organization or with an individual client in psychotherapy, Natural Systems considers the multidimensional interactions of the past and future of external structures and systems with internal structures and systems, from global environments to local situations and from an individual’s life history to their present feelings, intentions, and their future goals. For the Natural System’s Approach, everything is interconnected and dealt with as the time is right from the client’s point of view. EXTERNAL SYSTEMS INTERNAL SYSTEMS Copyright by Edwin L. Young, PhD, 1990

4. Welcome to The Natural Systems Institute Principles and Perspectives Underlying the Natural Systems Approach and Guiding its Application to Psychotherapy Consulting Organization and Program Development Training and Workshops Copyright by Edwin L. Young, PhD, 1990

5. NATURAL SYSTEMS SCHEMA PERSPECTIVES Encompassing Environments Institution or Organization Settings within Institution Situations Dyadic Interaction Roles/Relationship Physical/Verbal Behavior Cognition Emotion/Feelings Perception Background: Prior Schemata and Schemes INTENTIONAL PROCESSES ORGANIZING ASPECTS OF THE WORLD Copyright by Edwin L. Young, PhD, 1990

6. 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 ORGANIZING INTENTIONAL PROCESSES Bringing the Whole with Its Parts Into Corporate Consciousness Results in an Explosion of Creativity. States of Incorporation, Postures of Receptivity, Involvement Copyright by Edwin L. Young, PhD, 1990

7. 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 INTENTIONAL PROCESSES 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. Perception Retrieval 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 Engaging Adventuring, Disengaging Mirroring and Re Engaging Completion Storage as Schemata and Schemes INTENTIONAL PROCESSES Use Of Cognitive Operations Elements Copyright by Edwin L. Young, PhD, 1990

8. 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 for Fulfillment Deciding Goal Setting and Foreshadowing Engaging Adventuring, Disengaging Mirroring and Re Engaging Completion Storage as Schemata and Schemes Use Of Cognitive Operations INTENTIONAL PROCESSES Modalities 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 Copyright by Edwin L. Young, PhD, 1990

9. II. Matching Modalities With Processes of Intentionality in the Natural Systems Schema A.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. Engaging Adventuring, Disengaging G. Mirroring and Re Engaging H. Completion I. Storage as Schemata and Schemes Use Of Cognitive OperationsUse Of Cognitive Operations INTENTIONAL PROCESSES

10. 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 relationships Using 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 States NATURAL SYSTEMS SCHEMA INTENTIONAL PROCESSES EXTERNAL PAST TIME FUTURE INTERNAL 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 Copyright by Edwin L. Young, PhD, 1990

11. 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 Perception Background: 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 Copyright by Edwin L. Young, PhD, 1990

12. 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 Perception Background: Prior Schemata and Schemes Environment A Environment B Right Front Right Back Left Front Left Back Focus 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 Copyright by Edwin L. Young, PhD, 1990

13. 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. Productive : there are ways for people to develop their capacities and use their abilities that increase the quality of life for themselves and others in the community. 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.