Spiral Dynamics Test: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Spiral Dynamics Test, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
About 2 minutes
Try it here: list the values your team acts on
Write the values your team actually acts on, not just the ones it states. Seeing them shows what the team is built around.
What values does your team actually act on?
Practices that may help
- Spiral Dynamics, Made Practical
Spiral Dynamics, developed by Don Beck and Chris Cowan from Clare Graves’ research, maps human values and worldviews as a developmental spiral of "vMEMEs" (value systems) that respond to life conditions. Each tier addresses the adaptive challenges of its environment and transcends but includes what came before. The theory is influential in leadership and organizational development, but its empirical base is primarily Graves’ original clinical/interview research; the full stage-sequence model has not been rigorously trialed. - Avoid level-jumping: build through each stage rather than skipping
Recognize when you’re bypassing a developmental level that still has unresolved challenges.
Spiral Dynamics, Made Practical - Map the value system of your organization or team
Identify the vMEME your team or organization actually operates from, not just espouses.
Spiral Dynamics, Made Practical - Communicate across value-system differences
Translate your message into the motivational language of the person you’re trying to reach.
Spiral Dynamics, Made Practical - Recognize and interrupt resource loss spirals early
The earliest sign of a loss spiral — one resource loss leading to another — is when to act, not later.
Conservation of Resources Theory, Made Practical - Track your wheel scores over time to see trajectory, not just snapshots
A single wheel is a photograph; repeated wheels are a film — trajectory matters more than today’s score.
The Wheel of Life, Made Practical - Identify the reinforcing and balancing loops
Find whether behavior is driven by amplification (R loops) or by correction toward a goal (B loops).
Systems Thinking - Interrupt runaway negative feedback loops before they become self-reinforcing
Negative behavioral spirals are feedback loops — once you identify the amplification mechanism, you can break it.
Feedback Loops and Behavior Change - Portable thought catching: the one-column version
In a stressful moment, write just the hot thought and one piece of contradicting evidence.
The Thought Record: CBT’s Core Self-Examination Tool - Assess which life conditions are activating which levels
Map how your current environment is pulling different value systems forward or backward.
Spiral Dynamics, Made Practical
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I see myself as having outgrown all that rigid structure and discipline, but my life keeps falling apart in exactly the places that need it
- There’s a constant low-grade friction between me and the place I work that I can’t name
- I keep making what feels to me like an obviously compelling case and watching it bounce right off this person
- It always starts the same way
- On any given day my read on how my life is going swings wildly with my mood, and I can’t tell whether things are actually getting better or worse over time or I’m just reacting to today
Related concerns
- Spiral Dynamics Yellow
Spiral Dynamics, developed by Don Beck and Chris Cowan from Clare Graves’ research, maps human values and worldviews as a developmental spiral of "vMEMEs" (value systems) that respond to life conditions. Each tier addresses the adaptive challenges of its environment and transcends but includes what came before. The theory is influential in leadership and organizational development, but its empirical base is primarily Graves’ original clinical/interview research; the full stage-sequence model has not been rigorously trialed.
- Explain Spiral Model In Detail
Spiral Dynamics, developed by Don Beck and Chris Cowan from Clare Graves’ research, maps human values and worldviews as a developmental spiral of "vMEMEs" (value systems) that respond to life conditions. Each tier addresses the adaptive challenges of its environment and transcends but includes what came before. The theory is influential in leadership and organizational development, but its empirical base is primarily Graves’ original clinical/interview research; the full stage-sequence model has not been rigorously trialed.
- Spiral Dynamics And Integral Theory
Spiral Dynamics, developed by Don Beck and Chris Cowan from Clare Graves’ research, maps human values and worldviews as a developmental spiral of "vMEMEs" (value systems) that respond to life conditions. Each tier addresses the adaptive challenges of its environment and transcends but includes what came before. The theory is influential in leadership and organizational development, but its empirical base is primarily Graves’ original clinical/interview research; the full stage-sequence model has not been rigorously trialed.
- Spiral Dynamics At Work
Spiral Dynamics, developed by Don Beck and Chris Cowan from Clare Graves’ research, maps human values and worldviews as a developmental spiral of "vMEMEs" (value systems) that respond to life conditions. Each tier addresses the adaptive challenges of its environment and transcends but includes what came before. The theory is influential in leadership and organizational development, but its empirical base is primarily Graves’ original clinical/interview research; the full stage-sequence model has not been rigorously trialed.
- Spiral Dynamics Center Of Gravity
Spiral Dynamics, developed by Don Beck and Chris Cowan from Clare Graves’ research, maps human values and worldviews as a developmental spiral of "vMEMEs" (value systems) that respond to life conditions. Each tier addresses the adaptive challenges of its environment and transcends but includes what came before. The theory is influential in leadership and organizational development, but its empirical base is primarily Graves’ original clinical/interview research; the full stage-sequence model has not been rigorously trialed.
- Spiral Dynamics Communication
Spiral Dynamics, developed by Don Beck and Chris Cowan from Clare Graves’ research, maps human values and worldviews as a developmental spiral of "vMEMEs" (value systems) that respond to life conditions. Each tier addresses the adaptive challenges of its environment and transcends but includes what came before. The theory is influential in leadership and organizational development, but its empirical base is primarily Graves’ original clinical/interview research; the full stage-sequence model has not been rigorously trialed.
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