Class 4: Inspiring and Motivating Sustained Desired Development, Growth

and Learning
Module 4.1: Key People and Relationships Who Inspired You and Intentional
Change Theory

BASIC LEARNING POINTS

1. Experiencing gratitude to others and caring is the experience of compassion.
This brings you into the Positive Emotional Attractor and the PNS. It is a
moment of renewal.

2. Intentional Change Theory (ICT) is a model of sustained, desired change at all
levels of human endeavor: individual, dyads, teams, organizations,
communities, countries, and global systems.

3. Sustained, desired change occurs primarily through emergence (from
complexity theory) of 5 discoveries or epiphanies. The process is often
discontinuous and non-linear.

4. Movement from one discovery or stage of ICT to another occurs through
tipping points or movement between the Positive Emotional and Negative
Emotional Attractors (to be explained in the next module).

5. The 5 discoveries of ICT are:
a. The Ideal Self or shared vision;
b. The Real Self or shared norms and values in relationships;
c. A Learning Agenda and plan to move closer to your visionbut is
something you are excited about trying;
d. Experimentation and practice with new thoughts, feelings, or
behaviors; and
e. Resonant relationshipssupportive relationships that make the rest of
the discoveries possible.



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