The Core
Framework for the Development of Human Consciousness
The Core
of more life
is a framework developed by Teresa Zimmermann, mapping the growth of human consciousness.
It describes the human process of developing our relational and emotional skills, reaching ever deeper levels of complexity, understanding and connection.
Through sensory experiences we continually gather impressions which we then translate into meaning, into thought and action – into what we call our “reality”.
The more experiences, the more we learn to handle increasingly complex dynamics with others, while at the same time, we become more expansive and more grounded. We return more and more to our true core –
of More Life.
The Core is a scale for the amount of perspectives we can handle. It measures our ability to grasp life in its fullness and be in relation with it - with ourselves and others - a team, an organisation, a nation, this planet or anything within or beyond.
Why measure consciousness?
Human beings are the only animals on this planet, who have enough space between their ears, and a well evolved space that is, that gives them, us, the ability to envision our future.
It makes us capable of desire, of want and of plans – it makes us visionary. More or less, of course (and that’s already one thing we can measure!).
Our whole human experience is a constant reaching for more. And just as with a GPS, if we want to get somewhere, we need to enter the coordinates of that “more”.
Define where we want to go. But whether we want to aim for our intentions in the shortest, most elegant or “picturesque” way, we also need to enter our current location. And that is exactly what the process of measuring consciousness is offering to us: the exact position of ourselves, may it be an individual or any group of people – our exact location on the map of human consciousness. And while we go about it, we might just realize that its no longer about “getting somewhere” but rather about coming home.
The clarity of The Core allows us to be incredibly precise in our endeavors to shift – for the sole purpose to make us whole and bring us home. Home to ourselves, home to each other, home on this planet, and wherever else we want to go.
Explaining human behavior and its development
5 Behavioural Patterns
These patterns describe how we connect with ourselves and others, handle resources, create meaning and values, and shape our identity.
Exchange
The Patterns of Exchange define how we can currently connect with ourselves and others. The unfolding of this pattern happens in slow oscillation between two deep human needs: The need for autonomy and the need for connection. We live polarities in several steps, growing from risking ouselves and others for the sake of feeling connected into caution and the need for safety from others. Only when we start to deeply connect with ourselves, we gather enough autonomy, to believe, that we don’t need, but want connection. Overcoming the (so very fought for) illusion of seperatedness is the path bringing us back home into deep connection with everything.
Saturation
The Patterns of Saturation define how we create value, value ourselves and others and the multidimensionality of our identity. The more mature, the more saturated our identity, the more perspectives we can call our own. In younger years we are trying different shades of Self, adding more and more colour, more density, more saturation, unit we have gathered an exhiliarating inner richness and abundance, innerstanding our emotional variety, the value of each human feeling and how everything we experience makes us whole and at home.
in ourselves and this world.
Distribution
The Patterns of Exchange define our handling of resources - our body, what we can or cannot do, time, money,energy, attention, etc. These patterns teach us the unfolding from guilt and trust. Guilt is one of the socially acquired emotions, which help us as humanity to organize our co-existence in large groups, as these feelings are impacting our impulses like cultural guard rails. Guilt and its derivatives make up a collective pattern of success until we regain basic trust in ourselves, others and life. As we eventually overcome the blaming, othering and managing lack or finiteness, we mercy ourselves, our humaneness, and return to deeply trust that we are well resourced, that we are and do and have enough, are deeply cared for and care, and that however our life story looks, we are innocent at heart.
Orientation
The Patterns of Orientation define, what gives us meaning in life, towards what we orient our lives and what “makes sense” - eventually even how we make, create new sense for others. These patterns of human success is not only illuminating where our attention goes (relevance realization) and how this aligns us with innate meaning - it also deciphers the fundamental structure of our motivation, and how it changes in due course of development. From subconsciously copying the meaning of our early caregivers to mastering collective meaning, the “meaning crisis” that describes the helplessness when we hit the end of main stream meaning all the way to the embodiment of wisdom, when we a steeped in a deeper knowing, radiating inspiration - the patterns of orientation define what makes our lives feel more purposeful .
Creation
The Patterns of Creation define the power of creativity and impact we hold, and how responsibly we handle our might. These patterns of success structure our room for manoeuvre, the space we have to move in freedom when we go about our chosen or given tasks, our responsibilities and the way we create our own reality. The more experiences we have gathered, the more perspectives we can embody, the more graceful we can create life for ourselves and beyond. Eventually, we become playful, humorous and responsible enough to truly create for the Greater Good - from a place of deeply embodied peace.
Scientific Alignment
Applications
“The Core” aims to help individuals and groups recognize which patterns hold them back and which potentials are already activated.
The framework is supported by insights from developmental psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, linguistics, anthropology, design theory and quantum physics.
It’s patterns also align with other models measuring stages of human development, like Spiral Dynamics, Ken Wilber’s Stages of Development, Bill Tobert’s Action Logics, Robert Kegan’s Stages of Development, Susanne Cook-Greuters Ego Development, Terri O’Fallon’s Stages of Development or Maslow’s Hierachy of Needs amongst others.
Mapping the maturity of your mindset
Mapping the patterns of success in any living system
Addressing the intrinsic leadership charisma
Mapping the maturity of your mindset
Mapping the patterns of success in any living system
Addressing the intrinsic leadership charisma
“The Core” aims to shed light onto our mostly subconscious imprint - the behavioural patterns we have adopted to fit into our culture, and our individual perspective thereof: our "inner standard" with all our values and stances and viewpoints.
The framework is supported by latest insights from developmental psychology, neuroscience, sociology, cognitive science and further interdisciplinary research.
What makes The Core unique
The four distinguishing features of The Core in its application
WIRING
Fostering of higher states
The Core offers the capacity to map peak experiences, which empowers us to validate and connect these peaks and foster the actual process of establishing high states as something more common. To do that at the very mature levels of unitive and source consciousness is unique.
SCAFFOLDING
Transparency of Growing Up
Letting our whole selves with all our depth be seen and witnessed helps rewire our everyday consciousness, our limitations and our emotional & subtle potential – it helps us to be aware and honor what develops within us and gives us a scaffolding for our ongoing growing up.
PRECISION
Actionable Precision
Precision and acuity of action comes from more than one but five connected, distinct patterns of how we make meaning. Not even combining all existing linear models would offer such exactness. Locating our subconscious motivation on the map of the five unfolding patterns allows us to proactively and acutely meet and witness our developmental process.
GRACE
Effectively addressing limitations
The ability to lift limitations by identifying and untying their actual roots and carefully spiralling up a pattern allows a swift, kind and effective integration of painful challenges with a soft landing. Reaching the roots of our limitations enriches therapeutical methods like essential embodiment, a cluster of tools, which are empowering us to first own a pattern and recognize its value and then evolving it to a more graceful space.
“In practice, “The Core” provides a precise tool for fostering personal growth, leadership, team development, and organizational growth. The goal is to gain a deeper understanding of individual potential and the interplay of individual and collective developmental pathways.”