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Tuesday, November 15: Maslow’s Being Values – a Structure for Spiritual Management
6:00 P.M. – 8:00 P.M.
Shaker Heights Library
Richard Medvick, New Energy Roundtable (NER)
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What does spiritual development have to do with economic development? Answer: A lot. In a new networked economy, civic leadership is different. It is no longer a matter of "command and control" hierarchies. Rather, new civic leadership draws on concepts of servant leadership, developed by Robert Greenleaf.
To become a global leader in open innovation, civic leaders in Northeast Ohio need to explore these different dimensions of leadership. Dick Medvick, a local engineer and Case graduate, has been thinking deeply about Abraham Masklow's hierarchy of human needs . In particular, Dick has been exploring the higher dimensions of Maslow's model dealing with the "being valules". Join us for an engaging discussion on Dick's explorations.
Dick has been working with I-Open on a variety of different initatives, including the development of new energy strategies in NEO.
Notes for the Civic Forum November 15:
SCIENCE-BASED SPIRITUALITY
People’s spirituality gives them purpose, meaning, and direction; along with the strength, courage, and stamina to live rich and fulfilling lives. Many people receive their spirituality from their religion, but this did not happen for Dick Medvick. Dick’s church services were chanted in Russian; and he never understood Russian. St. Theodosius gave Dick a rich heritage of beautiful sacred rituals for births, weddings, and funerals; but he had to look elsewhere for purpose, meaning, and direction. For these, he turned to science.
Dr. Abraham Maslow was a scientist who studied behavior and motivation. Dr. Maslow studied monkeys in cages and Nazis in Germany. This, along with other research led him to his well-known theory on the hierarchy of human needs. Dr. Maslow determined that people have basic needs for comfort, safety, companionship, love, and esteem/prestige -- in that order. However, Maslow did not stop there. He also studied people in those moments when these needs were satisfied.
Maslow studied people’s greatest happiest moments and he studied their religious experiences. In addition, he studied people he deemed healthy and fully developed. Subjects of his research included, among others, Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln in his last years, Thomas Jefferson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jane Adams, William James, and Spinoza. This scientific research led Maslow to conclude that when people are beyond fear, and beyond desires to feel comfortable, safe, liked, loved, or important, they are motivated by 16 values that overlap and intertwine. He determined that each of these values defines the 15 others, and vice versa – they are all facets of the same gemstone.
Maslow called the basic needs “deficiency needs,” and he called the interconnected values “being values.” The last presidential election inspired Dick Medvick to call the deficiency needs the “red states,” and the being values the “blue states.” He also calls them the fear realm and the fulfillment realm.
Dick says the two states are interwoven, but we live in the blue state more than we realize. We frequently are motivated more by quests for beauty, truth, aliveness, playfulness, order, justice, et al, than by fears of being deserted, frozen, or dragged away in the night.
Dick has built a spirituality based upon appropriate behavior for both the red states and the blue states. His spirituality also shows how to move from one to the other. This spirituality is the inner core or center that guides his life. It is the perception of reality for his actions. It also is his inner faith – his sense of meaning and purpose that enables him to do what is right, in spite of what others want.
Dick has religious rituals for passages between the known and the unknown, such as birth, marriage, and death. He also has a science-based spirituality for guidance when he is not addressing these passages. His spirituality is logical, sensible, and scientifically verifiable.
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