9. Models and Theory Room

Welcome to the Models and Theory Room. If you love theory and concepts you'll be right at home here.  If you have a more experiential nature or are new to these ideas, you may wish to skip this room or plan to take your time.

Gregory Bateson was fond of saying that we make sense of the world by “punctuating” our experience.  This room displays a number of models where authors describe common metaphors that people use in the punctuating process. These models do two things, they describe:
(a) how we create perceptions — in other words, the way we organise experience; and
(b) how people change their mind-body perceptions.

In this room, for example, you can learn about the function of Scale and Adjacency in perception, as well as learn about the "thinker of the thoughts," the Perceiver.  There is also an impressive five-part paper on the role of the Brain in emotion and cognition.

If you are interested in the change process or your own personal development, you might like to spend some time viewing models James and I have developed on Self-Deception, Delusion, Denial and Double Binds.

Next we move upstairs, to three rooms that will shift our attention outward and into the world. We'll start with a room full of the results of people applying the clean approach — the Applications Room.