I think I understand the vicious cycle. It’s when two people who each privilege a different pole interact without integrating the polarities. Then, in your example, you get alternating rigidity and chaos.
Hi, Beena and Corey,
I would like to show several segments from the beginning of this course to a group of friends, about 10 people. No money would be involved at this end. Please tell me under what conditions I could do this and how to go about getting any needed permission.
Marilyn Bernhardt
Hi Marilyn,
So long as you are only showing segments from the beginning of the course, and not giving the full course away to anyone for free, I think this would be just fine. Maybe you could encourage people to enroll themselves, since we are making it available at such an affordable cost. Let me know if you have any other questions!
Hi
Thanks for the course, it was helpful and useful.
I have an additional question on theory and practice. I saw the word “vertical” appear related to polarities here and there. I have been studying a few systems, integrally oriented ones, that use polarities, and that was fruitful so far, but there is an aspect I am searching for that I dont find: going from polarities to dialectics. There must be a way to map out the inter-stage dynamics via polarity/dialectical thinking, not just the intra-stage structure, and I hoped to find some information on this in this course, but it did not appear, besides the course being generally helpful for development. How is this kind of Pola-Management working out for development, and is there is there a more specifically developmentally oriented version of this?
Thank You
Forgive me if I have missed the obvious, but is there a location where we access the worksheets…?
Writing this from my mobile phone, so I’m wondering if this is something that requires a laptop or such.
With thanks,
Tom
Hey everyone, Beena and I wanted to invite you all to a free webinar on Tuesday, November 26th at 6 PM MT (5 PM PT, 8 PM ET). Beena will be offering a special presentation about polarities in personal and professional relationships, and then we will be opening the discussion up for you to ask any questions that you might have for her.
You can join us on Integral Live. If you want to join the discussion and offer your own comments and questions, then join us on the Zoom app when the webinar begins: https://zoom.us/j/392949640
Hope to see you there!
Hey @Tom_VanGaalen, all the worksheets should be included in the relevant lesson modules within the course. They should also appear on mobile, most likely below the main text for those sections.
Hi everyone, just a reminder that we are doing a live episode of Polarity Wisdom tonight at 6 PM MT (5 PM PT, 8 PM ET). I hope you can make it!
You can watch for free on Integral Live. Or, if you want to join the discussion and offer your own comments and questions, join us on the Zoom app when the webinar begins: https://zoom.us/j/392949640
Hi Corey, is there a recording available of the Nov. call with Beena?
Sebastian,
Did you see the recording of the discussion between Corey, Beena, and Susanne Cook-Greuter, discussing polarities within a developmental context? Very useful. Part of the Polarity Wisdom series of videos.
"Beena Sharma and Corey deVos explore the important relationship between polarities and adult development — and how polarity thinking not only helps accelerate our development toward integral stages of maturity, but also helps us to be more of ourselves, wherever we happen to be in our developmental trajectory.
Beena and Corey are also joined by Susanne Cook Greuter, who offers her own thoughts around the fascinating intersection between polarity thinking and her own models of ego development."
Hi Corey,
In Module 2, “Time to Practice,” Beena mentions that there is a list of common organizational polarities on the website that we can download. I didn’t see a link to this on that page, or anywhere else. Is this list available, and can you point to it?
Feb. 16 edit - any update on the “Common Organizational Polarities” list that should go with Lesson 21?
Thanks.
Beena, I have finished the course (in part by releasing a need for a timeline). 
I have truly enjoyed the content! The clarity with which the material was presented by you and the amazing examples/stories by Barry Johnson, and your students, has given me an energy of hope I had not anticipated. I’m looking forward to sharing this course with others and applying what I’ve learned to my own polarities, wherever and whenever I find them. Thank you for creating an amazing map. And I’m sure I’ll be going through the course many more times.
Hello! In the video “Time to practice”, Sheena mentions a file in which to find examples of polarities that should be available in the website, but in the page of the lesson there is no link to said file. Where can I get it, please? Thank you so much,
Lorenzo
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I have the same question. So I am following.
Hi there Beena and Corey,
Thank you for making this course available for us as members !
When I saw the description of the course I got so curious because this material is something I have been working with for years but from a different context, with slightly different vocabulary and immediately recognised it. That’s also why I got trough the course in one go… (some months ago already).
I was just wondering if you are aware of the other framework. I am refering to the ‘core quadrants’ the work of “Daniel Ofman” from the Netherlands. The core quadrants is a tool to help you unravel/discover the wisdom in the polarity to put it in polarity terms. The quadrant looks a lot like Beena’s quadrant, organised a bit differently. But with the same 2 poles and their extremes… ! So I have been working with this a lot already . As such the course was not really ‘new’ for me but still worth it to hear it coming with a slightly different approach and wording. Expecially the business examples were interesting. I was using the tools mostly in one-on-one coaching to reveal interpersonal dynamics but thanks to this course I feel more confident in using it for business as well.
And after years of giving people useful insights with this, I have developed a more experiential method for using this framework. With movement and dance I go after the felt sense and make the polarity wisdom embodied (body-mind polarity at work). I am hoping to bring this to leaders in Belgium.
I just have a practical question:
-where can we find the list with polarities as mentioned by Beena?
Thanks so much for making this available.
Warm regards,
Winnie Winters
Belgium
This may be helpful regarding polarities in business. Dr. Ginny Whitelaw in her book Zen Leadership talks about this from a slightly different perspective but there are some great examples of polarities.
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Hi, watching the second lesson now and hearing ’ It’s our preferences that cause the problem’. Would our prefernces be unconcious biases/meta programmes/personality drivers?
‘Our preferences’ does’t sound like it descripes enough gravity?
Thanks,
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Hi, Thank you for making this course so affordable and so available. May I say to members if you’ve ever wondered what on earth is going on in the world at the moment, get your credit card out buy the course and listen to the webinars!
I’m working my way through the course with a view to it becoming an ongoing part of my personal development. As such questions come to mind. The polarities I was working with were Harmonising and Challenging. The first question is whether there is a connection between what arises for me under sections 1 and 3 of the quadrant (more specifically the fears that arise) and elements of my shadow or is it a coincidence that there is a similarity in these aspects of my development? I am wondering whether the Integrating Polarities process brings to light shadow elements which can be dealt with under the Shadow Module of Integral Life Practice? Going on from that - and you may not be in a position to answer this - I am using IAwake Profound Releasing meditations. It seems to me that releasing on one side of the polarity may lead to an imbalance at worst or at best, not be as effective as releasing on both polarities.
These questions arose as I was working through quadrant 3. I realised my fears in this quadrant have been so great that the downsides of quadrant 1 have always been overwhelmed by my fears in quadrant 3. My intellectual understanding of the process showing the benefits of appropriately adopting quadrant 2 didn’t touch my fears, hence rarely going there. Hence the enquiry as to shadow work and releasing as a possible way to approach my issue here.
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Hi, I can see that there has been no discussion thread for some time and I can’t see how to create a new one, so I am using the reply function to ask a question of Beena of Corey. Is the use of the four quadrants in this Integrating Polarities model aligned to the internal/exterior; individual/collective four quadrant matrix? Alex
Hey @axmurphy!
No, the polarity quadrants are not the same as the Four Quadrants 
For polarities, the left/right axis represents the polarity itself — e.g. “Self-care” vs. “Selfless service”, let’s say,
The top/bottom axis represents the integrated and unintegrated expressions of these polarities. So the positive qualities of “self-care that’s integrated with selfless service” would go in the top boxes, and then the negative qualities of “self-care that is dissociated from selfless service” would go in the bottom boxes.
So you can see, this is quite a bit different from “interior and exterior” + “individual + collective”.
I hope that helps! Let us know if you have any other questions
PS — just as an example, check out this “Trust but Verify” polarity map I created, which will hopefully further illustrate the point.
