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Memetics in Team-Building Education

Abstract Contemporary knowledge societies’ educators and team-builders are obliged to meet the needs of diverse groups of learners and team members through individual approaches, bridging cultural value gaps and solving complex social dynamics problems through integrating various knowledge domains. Upon the foundations of Grave’ s spiral dynamics theory, where human development is perceived as an open-ended process leading towards systems of increasing complexity, the authors explore a variety of human value systems transferred via memes that make up the vMEMEs or deep-level value systems. In the paper the evolving and manifold vMEMEs are seen as factors that both enrich human societies as well as cause conflicts, and the human struggle is seen as taking place among the memes within and among persons. In order to come up with practical guidelines for educators and team-builders who need to evolve as multimemetic professionals able to manage conflicts by way of stepping beyond limited human mental models, the authors suggest the paradigm of spiral educators/leaders of comprehensive outlook, who base their authority on functionality and mutuality, value ambiguities, underscoring the importance of spiritual intelligence in the process of bringing about transformation of individuals and societies.

vMEMEs; human development; team-building; education

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