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What is Human Dynamics?
Human Dynamics is the term given to new understandings of human functioning developed by Dr. Sandra Seagal and her associates at Human Dynamics International in the course of continuing research since 1979. This investigation has involved more than 80,000 people from over twenty-five cultures.
Dr. Seagal and her team have explored the interaction in people
of three universal principles - the mental, the emotional (or
relational) and the physical (or practical). In the human system,
the mental principle is related to the mind - to thinking values,
structure, focus, objectivity, perspective. The emotional principle
is more subjective. It is concerned with relationships - with
feelings, communication, organization, and synthesis. The physical
principle is pragmatic. It is the making, doing, operationalizing
part of us.
Of the greatest significance is the discovery that the mental,
emotional and physical principles combine in a dynamic interplay
in people in specific ways, to form distinct personality dynamics or ways of being, each characterized by fundamentally different inner process
and ways of functioning in the world. Five such personality dynamics
predominate in Western cultures, in relatively consistent, although
not equal, proportions.
The personality dynamics do not appear to be determined by culture,
age or gender. They appear in every culture; they characterize
men and women in equal numbers; and they can be observed at every
age level. The distinctions are so fundamental that they can be
identified even in babies.
Each personality dynamic constitutes a whole way of functioning.
Members of one personality dynamic differ distinctly from those
of another personality dynamic in the way in which they process
information, learn, communicate, problem-solve, function on teams,
and become stressed. Each personality dynamic has specific requirements
for learning, maturing and functioning optimally. Each has characteristic
gifts and affinities. And the path of development is different
for each.
To know someone's personality dynamic, therefore is to know a
great deal about that person. Each person constitutes a whole
system, which might be illustrated this way:
It is important to note that each personality dynamic is of equal
value. Anyone of any personality dynamic may be more or less intelligent,
compassionate, skilled or gifted. And every personality dynamic
has an unbounded capacity for maturation. But the way in which
the members of each personality dynamic function is completely
different.
The lack of recognition of these differences in human functioning
has led to much misunderstanding, conflict, and wastage of individual
and group potential - in the classroom, in the work-place, in
the home. Awareness of them, however, offers new opportunities:
for greater individual self-understanding and growth; for greater
understanding of others; for improved communication and cooperation;
for more effective teaching and learning; and for the conscious
development of balanced teams in which all of the personality
dynamics are represented, and in which the participants are able
to work in creative synergy through consciously respecting each
other's inherent processes and utilizing each other's gifts.
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