Network Balance
Model
ME system, FEEL System, DEAL System
by Eric Chamberlin
Thesis:
By understanding, recognizing and effectly orchestrating these systems, students can learn and function more optimally. When an inappropriate system is activated, student will have a harder time and tend to behave more inappropriately.
Me System- also known as the Default System.
This is one when a person is not particularly engaged with the outer world, instead they think about memories, possible outcomes and event (these tend to be negative). The computer analogy is when you are not doing anything on the computer yet the computer runs doing internal tasks. This is often a ruminative system. This system can often cause anxiety, a person is lagging recreating pictures and scenarios of what can go wrong.
Deal System-
is when some one is fully engaged with the outworld- sports, physical work, driving biking. Perception is outward sensing what is happening out there. Internal awareness diminishes. In the Deal system anxiety usually drops as does self awareness, and self consciousness.
The Me System and The Deal system are very disconnected.
Feel System-or Salience System
is a system of having self awareness with a
certain kind of objectivity. A person has a feeling,
has a sensation, has an impulse.
In the Me system, a person is their feeling, they
are just anxious. In the Feel system, a person
exists aside from their feeling.
By understanding these systems, a teacher can
help guide a students to more optimal balance of these
system. Basically, if members are overly in the Me
system- they are isolated and anxious and will have
a negative experience. That is a good time to shift
into the Do Deal system.
If students are overly in the
Deal system- they will get things done, but have
little deep enjoyment or appreciation for what is
happening. Metaphorically they don't stop and 'smell
the roses'.
By engaging the Feel system, they will participate
in a way that brings more of their whole self to the
activity and process, get more needs met, and be
more attuned to needs and dynamics of others. A way
to do this is to bring a focus of attention on to
the sensation and feeling of doing something.