6 World Navigator Model – A Life Map
We use the ManMind 6 World model throughout a Navigator program, to map-out two life situations for ourselves:
- What exists now and
- What we want in the future.
The work done in the navigator program is to identify the actions and resources needed to connect now to future and arrive somewhere close to what we want for ourselves. In other words, to make positive and lasting change to the way your life unfolds.
A Life Map
Our Navigator model identifies six “worlds”, each of which is to be explored, pictured and documented in order to be understood as deeply as possible. Of course, the task is not completed in a single visit. It takes time to really survey the whole landscape of each world and is done through repeated exploration.
The six worlds represent the fundamental sections of our lives:
- The main social components – family, work, friendship circles and our wider role of citizenship (we human beings are essentially social animals),
- Our physical apparatus and embodied characteristics (Physical Me) and
- Ourselves as personalities (Private Me).
At the centre of the map is a representation of the core of ourselves psychically denoted as the fuzzy human figure.
A second feature of the map is that these worlds connect to form a “circuit” to indicate that each world is separate (has boundaries) and that “energy” flows from one to the other. This is a useful reminder that sometimes what goes on in one world will influence what goes on in another.
At the heart of the circuit, the hub of the wheel, is the core of our selves – how we are made up as conscious, human beings. This core acts like a distributor providing essential mental energy to each world as demanded by circumstance – the opportunities and challenges life throws at us.
The complete “constellation” of the 6 worlds plus our core positions the way life is organised for us at any given moment.
During a Navigator program, you explore in the company of others; likeminded frontiersmen and competent jungle guides (us). You gain perspective generated both by new ideas and from the point of view of others. We find its this challenge that turns knowledge into understanding and meaning for ourselves. The product is by definition personal and the result, whatever it is, is yours. It also starts to lay out what might be possible for the future.
The Six Worlds
Before we can set new goals, we need to focus on what exists for us in life and sort it all into manageable chunks. To do that, we need to understand what might be contained in each and here is a short description of the six worlds:
- Physical Me – our embodied selves; age, sex, gender, physical condition and so on. We realise here that the whole system as shown in the model isn’t really closed. We refuel the whole circuit through feeding and sleeping and resting. Our bodies need maintaining to support our fully functioning minds.
- Private Me – this is who we are and how we present ourselves to the world using our knowledge, attitudes, skills and habits (KASH – link). There are patterns of behaviour which describe our personalities for example, how I behave when I’m alone, how I behave in with others individually, in a family setting and in groups at work.
- Family Me – takes into account our family of origin and its traditions plus the one we set up with a life partner or partners. The important process of bringing new human beings into the world is the one that shaped us and the one that shapes our sons and daughters.
- Work Me – work fills the majority of our lives including school and college life and then a hopefully productive economic life from start to retirement. Some estimates for the time spent at work over a lifetime (in the West) are approximate 90,000 hours or 3,500 days.
- Social Me – separates-out all the social groups we belong to outside of work and family (which are of course social groups too) . Often informal, they allow us to establish a wider connection with people and provide places to develop deep friendships, new skills and knowledge. They can be a vital source of additional resources we might need.
- Citizen Me – takes into account the whole system we live in, its laws, traditions, practices and how it is organised to support our lives. We operate in it and share it with others around us, we take on responsibilities and make our contribution to its continued existence.
The 7th part is the core of us which we would commonly call this our psyche.
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