>[Host's Note: Thank you Kenn for the reference, and thank you Fred for the
>further followup on this. The mystery deepens! I, too, use the model
>and would be very interested in the source. In the meantime, could
>we also talk here about what the four stages are, whether they are
>really stages, and how we use it? ...Rick]
The model has also found its way to Holland where it is known since the
mid '70's. I did also some inquiry to find out who introduced it. Sorry,
no success here either.
Ofcourse we translated it into the Dutch language. I give the dutch
translation for our dutch and belgian members, on the list who don't know
the model:
1) onbewust - onbekwaam
2) bewust onbekwaam
3) bewust bekwaam
4) onbewust bekwaam
In English:
1)Unconscious Incompetent
2)Conscious Incompetent
3)Conscious Competent
4)Unconscious Competent
I understand the model to be an iterativ learning-loop, a kind of
repeating development sequence. I often introduce it halfway a course on,
for example, Personal Leadership to describe the integration process of
new 'soft' skills in the participants performance. It is mostly the moment
where participants
In Holland we have about 16 mill. people and about the same amount of
bicycles. So the comparison with a child learning to ride a bike is clear
and recognizable.
Level 1: The child doesn't notice the fact that it cann't ride a bike
until it tried and fell on the ground.
level 2: Exercising with daddy makes it realize that there is a lot more to it.:
* your legs and hands making different movements at the same time.
* keeping your direction in focus and avoid to hit that BIIIIIIG car.
*keeping balance is extremely difficult
level 3: When the child discoveres after a while how to find and maintain
its own balance it rides on the bike, but let's say a little chaotic
because it is aware of the fact that keeping balance the key-issue is. It
hasn't yet reached 'the feel' of being in balance
level 4: One week later daddy looks out of the window. His happy child
passes on its bike, steering with one hand and waving with the other hand
at a proud daddy. It has got 'the feel' of being in balance. It has become
'Unconscious Competent' in the context of finding an inner balance and
simultaneously riding around a known area.
Than the first bicycletrip to the park is scheduled and the whole loop
starts all over again, but in anothor context........
With both the example and this learning-loop in mind it is easy to
introduce what I call Five Fabulous Faculties These faculties are involved
in all learning from the level of "Unconscious Incompetent" to
"Unconscious Competent": Percepting, Thinking, Feeling, Wanting and
Acting.
The loop describes how we develop both bad and good habits.
A habit is always (for the biggest) part unconscious.
A habit is a pattern of movements necessary to perform a certain action to
achieve an articulated goal.
examples:
the way you brush your teeth
the way you take up the phone
The way you walk into your officebuilding
etc.
We develop habits not only in the way we _do_ things, but also in the way
we think, the way we express our selves, and the way we feel. This U.I.
-> U.C.-loop describes the inner process of learning and development in a
very simple mannor.
The first three levels put the habit into our thinking consciousness,
which isn't to difficult. The hard part is getting from level 3
'Conscious Competent' to level 4 'Unconscious Competent.'. because there
you shouldn't "do" so much; it's more a question of 'undoing' things. You
have to allow your brain to forget it and at the same time allow your
hands and feet to keep the memory.
Winfried Deijmann
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