"Keith Rice has achieved something that few thinkers and authors achieve - he has
weaved together NLP, Spiral Dynamics, Meta-Programs, Meta-States and the Self-Actualization
work of Abraham Maslow into an integrated and consistent package to give a comprehensive
view of self and others. I'm very much impressed with the extensive documentation
that undergirds 'Knowing Me; Knowing You' as well as the wonderful graphics. Many
who love to theorize lack the practical applications, but not Keith. In spite of
my own past critiques of Spiral Dynamics, this is a wonderful book!"
- Dr L Michael
Hall, International Society of Neuro-Semantics, Colorado, USA, February 2006
(Michael
Hall is the developer of the Meta-States concept and author or co-author of a number
of key NLP-oriented works, including 'Meta-States: Reflexity in Human States of Consciousness'
(2nd Edition, Neuro-Semantics Publications, 2000) and 'Frame Games: Persuasion Excellence'
(Neuro-Semantics Publications, 2001).)
"I have read this book and it is excellent. It is well written, clear and to the
point, and very informed."
- Dr Don Beck, Spiral Dynamics Integral, Texas, USA, August
2006
(Don Beck, co-author of 'Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership & Change'
(Blackwell, 1996), has been working with Gravesian principles since the mid-1970s
- most notably in advising the teams of Nelson Mandela and F W DeKlerk in the South
African transition of the early-mid 1990s.)
“Here is a highly professional treatment of an approach to understanding ourselves
and other people. The use of the term 'SocioPsychology' serves as a clue that the
author integrates the work of Clare Graves, Don Beck and Chris Cowan into his approach.
So here we have a serious approach to integrating Spiral Dynamics with Neuro-Linguistic
Programming, the work of Robert Dilts' treatment, after Bateson, of levels of mind
and neurology, Eysenck's biological approach to personality, Wilber's spirituality
and many others. In that sense, this is a book after Ken Wilber's heart and in the
intellectual tradition of Ken Wilber whose research based work is so heavily footnoted.
At the same time, this is a self-help book in the sense that the author is often
very personal in his writing style and offers steps and techniques that one can use
in one's development….
This book is a significant contribution to SocioPsychology approaches to life and
learning. It goes far beyond the typical self-help book in its sophistication…. Anyone
who is interested in development will find it a challenge worth taking.”
- Dr Russ
Volckmann, excerpt from his review of 'Knowing Me, Knowing You' in the October 2006
edition of the Integral Leadership Review e-zine
"'Knowing Me, Knowing You' is a fine piece of scholarship and represents a lot of
work. In addition to the use of NLP,I liked the inclusion of other models regarding
emotions and personality. The footnotes show the effort to document and give credit."
-
Dr Wyatt Woodsmall, The International Research Institute for Human Typological Studies,
Virginia, USA, November 2006
(Wyatt Woodsmall is one of the world's leading coaches,
trainers and theoreticians in Neuro-Linguistic Programming. His books include 'Time
Line Therapy & the Basis of Personality' (co-authored with Tad James, Meta Publications,
1988) and 'People Pattern Power: P3: the 9 Keys to Business Success' (co-authored
with Marilynne Woodsmall, Next Step, 1999). In 1993 he co-founded of the International
NLP Trainers Association.)
"Keith Rice has high expectations for the impacts of this book upon his readers and
how they will employ them. He has supplied a concentrated span of Spiral Dynamics
applications, in book form, to a practical range of domains. He has integrated those
dynamics with other psycho-logics to help readers have a fuller understanding of
how they and others behave.
There is much in this book to appreciate from various perspectives. Rice attempts
to supply a reader with enough information and examples to begin to understand himself
or herself as a dynamic system; a system of different personality tendencies and
'selves' or value systems; a system rooted in biological, neurological, and life-conditioned
"hard wiring" and variances. For readers who notice these dynamics going on within
them, there is a further benefit. Rice's discussions and examples in Part Two pave
the way to internalize how systems interact. Taken as a whole, the book could help
people develop metasystematic understandings in at least interpersonal domains. These
would be worthwhile developmental contributions."
- Sara Ross, excerpt from her review
of 'Knowing Me, Knowing You' in the June 2007 edition of the Integral Review e-zine.
"This is neither a typical self-help book nor a Psychology text, using as it does
an eclectic range of sources - although Eysenck, Freud, Maslow and Murray (author
of the TAT) get a mention. There are useful footnotes and interesting asides which
reflect the author's own journey of personal development and some exercises to complete.
The main thrust of the book is about the work of Clare W Graves and the Beck & Cowan
Spiral Dynamics model...plus Eysenck's personality model and NLP. Rice uses these
to underpin other theories and models of human behaviour....
Overall an interesting read with some ideas worth pursuing."
- Michael S Guttridge,
excerpt from his review of 'Knowing Me, Knowing You' in the August 2007 edition of
'The Psycholigist', the journal of the British Psychological Society.
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