These people do more than their share and, in relationship systems they tend to perpetuate reactions from others who often do less than their share.
Who are over-functioners.
100
This is what occurs when a two-person relationship system can no longer contain the anxiety/conflict between them and a third is automatically brought in to stabilize the system.
What is triangulation?
100
This is the specific part of the brain that can help calm our emotional reactivity with positive, reassuring messages.
What is the left, pre-frontal cortex?
100
This is the "fuel" that drives emotional reactivity and which underscores the person-to-person phenomenon.
What is Chronic Anxiety?
100
These are seen as "inherent" in nature and a part of our "evolutionary programming" that we share with most multi-cellular organisms and certainly with mammalian groups.
What are hierarchies?
200
These people have less power in a system and are most affected by those in top leadership positions.
What are followers?
200
These are two-person relationships where there is a mutual give and take, often with one person over-functioning and one person under-functioning.
What are reciprocal relationships?
200
This feeling/behavior is incompatible with anger, fear, and rage and can help connect people.
What is humor/playfulness?
200
This is an automatic process that occur in all biotic (living) beings, sometimes viewed as "instinctual."
What is Emotional Reactivity?
200
These is a synonym for (basic) differentiation.
What is emotional maturity (adaptability, integrity, emotional intelligence)?
300
Often discussed as the two fundemental life forces in nature; they do not operate on a continuum but, rather, they increase or decrease as a function of one another.
What are the individuality and togetherness life forces?
300
This is a kind of hierarchy in which one person/organism wields most of the power and there is little, if any, rank distinctions between the other members of the system.
What is a despotic or tyrannical hierarchical system?
300
This term is what occurs when people's brains align in positive ways.
What is Emotional Resonance?
300
This is a non-material region of influence that is crated when two or more people are in a relationship and which often strongly influences the behavior of those in that relationship.
What is an Emotional Field?
300
One can and should expect this, especially if a leader comes closer to accomplishing her/his goals.
What is sabotage?
400
This can be the effect on another when a person can "hold on to" her own integrity and a more differentiated self, while remaining in authentic contact with the other.
What is promoting the differentiated functioning of the other?
400
According to Goleman et. al., high levels of self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and social management characterize these kinds of leaders.
What are leaders with high levels of Emotional Intelligence?
400
These are the three systems of the brain that have evolved over billions of years, presented in order of their evolutionary development.
What are the emotional system, the feeling system, and the intellectual/thinking system?
400
Friedman conceptualizes functioning as a two-axis system (x and y axis); these are what the x-axis and the y-axis represent.
What is level of strain (x-axis) and level of differentiation/adaptability (y-axis)?
400
Someone who has the clarity of her/his own life goals, who can maintain a relatively non-anxious presence, who can take a stance even if it is unpopular, and who has a vision for where she/he wants to go.
What is the definition of a more self-differentiated leader?
500
These are at least two synonyms used by other authors and practitioners for the concept of differentiation.
What are the interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligences (Gardner), the I-Thou Relationship (Buber), and Emotional Intelligence (Goleman)?
500
This characteristic/quality allows leaders to emotionally connect with others, though, if improperly managed, it can also prevent leaders from moving a system forward.
What is empathy?
500
This is the site in the brain where the emotional system transforms into the feeling system.
What is the amygdala.
500
Bowen and Friedman suggest that American society has been in the midst of this systemic phenomenon for decades.
What is a Societal Regression?
500
Friedman suggests that these are three characteristics of: an unending treadmill effect; looking for answers instead of reframing/reformatting the questions; and thinking in terms of either/or dichotomies.
What are stuck or emotionally/imaginatively gridlocked systems?