Effect Scale (1)
Effect Scale (2)
Responsibility Scale
Full Tone Scale

Using the Effect Scale

The Effect Scale is a very useful tool when handling Ethics on clients. The make- and breakpoint of a successful Ethics handling is to be able to get through to the client and get his cooperation. The Effect Scale is behind the principle of using enough authority and force to get compliance, but not more than needed as this would antagonize or overwhelm the client. In practice it is a matter of getting a good feel for the client's disposition. It takes expertise to apply the principle correctly. Studying and applying the Effect Scale is how you eventually get that expertise in practice.    

EFFECT SCALE (1)

    Two Rules for Happy Living:

    1. BE ABLE TO EXPERIENCE ANYTHING.

    2. CAUSE ONLY THOSE THINGS WHICH OTHERS CAN
        EXPERIENCE EASILY.

The way a client receives an effect (effect tolerable on self) and the way he acts toward others, including the Ethics officer (effect believed necessary on others) can be observed by an Ethics officer and used to spot the client's Tone level, either chronic or temporary, on any or all dynamics.

  These are some examples of what might be observed at different Tone levels.

                           ENTHUSIASM

EFFECT TOLERABLE ON SELF: Can receive large effects on self (the man who loses his fortune and bounces back). He is willing to receive other people's opinions, can accept large changes, he knows he has had a case change and is willing to change. He can accept defeats and will persist. Does not compulsively prevent effect on self.

       EFFECT BELIEVED NECESSARY ON OTHERS:

He has considerable ability to create effects on others but is not under compulsion to create effects, he is not compelled to affect other people's lives, he grants beingness, can tolerate differences in people.

                         CONSERVATISM

EFFECT TOLERABLE ON SELF:

Not very willing to receive effects that change the status quo. Not willing to be questioned on some subjects, not willing to have other people's attention directed to him such as being pointed out in a crowd, wearing outstanding clothes, etc.

EFFECT BELIEVED NECESSARY ON OTHERS:

Believes effects which preserve the status quo are necessary. Somewhat cautious about creating an effect, withholds those things he thinks might hurt your feelings, or that you might not approve of.
 Believes he should not create too much effect but should be "one of the crowd". Should respect the privacy of others.

                            BOREDOM

EFFECT TOLERABLE ON SELF:

Will receive any effect which produces a pleasant randomity, wants to be entertained but otherwise doesn't like to be shifted. Can't be bothered with most ideas and puts off any action.

EFFECT BELIEVED NECESSARY ON OTHERS:

Doesn't need to do anything about anything, no compulsion to do or not to do (no action either).

                          ANTAGONISM

EFFECT TOLERABLE ON SELF:

Can tolerate effect on self up to a point. May be critical of changes, resent things happening to him. Doesn't want to be the effect of certain things, others' opinions, actions, etc., and hurls back these effects from self by being critical.

EFFECT BELIEVED NECESSARY ON OTHERS:

Feels he must make others the recipient of the; own effects, compulsively must threaten others to protect self.

                             ANGER

EFFECT TOLERABLE ON SELF:

Can't receive an effect on self and is fighting to ensure this. Client stuck in an anger incident may manifest this in his inability to receive changes, affinity, others' reality, communication, etc.

       EFFECT BELIEVED NECESSARY ON OTHERS:

Must destroy anything that tries to create effect on him.

                           COVERTNESS

EFFECT TOLERABLE ON SELF:

Cannot tolerate much effect on self. Tries to slip out of being an effect by covert means. Gives the impression of taking an order, etc., while holding a destructive intent, and no intention to actually do it.

EFFECT BELIEVED NECESSARY ON OTHERS:

Believes a large effect is necessary to handle others, is incapable of doing this in any other than a covert way. Must cause an effect but is unwilling to be known as the cause of bad effects. If accused of having created bad effects he will claim his intention was good. This client will make excuses, will make all sorts of "conditions" in doing an assignment, will try to give an answer that will satisfy the Ethics officer and cover up that he hasn't done what was asked for.

                             FEAR

EFFECT TOLERABLE ON SELF:

This person can take so little effect that he runs from the slightest thing, jumps at a door slam, etc.
A client in FEAR will manifest this by stiffness, leaning back in his chair, whistling during a session (whistling in the dark), he may turn pale, shake, cold sweat, avoid answering questions, squirm, laugh nervously, try to get out of the room or meeting, etc.

  EFFECT BELIEVED NECESSARY ON OTHERS:

Believes the effect he would have to create to overcome those things which overwhelm him is huge -- so huge that he would rather go elsewhere than confront it. May make a lot of logical excuses to get out of being an effect (going upscale to covertness).

                          PROPITIATION

EFFECT TOLERABLE ON SELF:

Very little, does "favors" to protect himself against bad effects. Will try to appease the Ethics officer to avoid continuing the consultations.

EFFECT BELIEVED NECESSARY ON OTHERS:

Propitiative actions.

                             GRIEF

EFFECT TOLERABLE ON SELF:

Tolerable effect would be the acquisition of tokens of a better time. A client with grief "just under the surface" may not be able to tolerate direct questioning on his problem without getting a lump in his throat or being brought to tears. Someone else's grief might be enough effect to cause him to cry. A rough word might not be tolerable.

EFFECT BELIEVED NECESSARY ON OTHERS:

Believes that a large effect would have to be created to overcome his overwhelming opposition, but the idea of creating an effect on others produces the idea of loss and though he must create vast effects, he is very close to the idea that he cannot create ANY effect, thus the only thing he can do about it is cry.

                            APATHY

EFFECT TOLERABLE ON SELF:

Can accept even less effect here. This is the "no effect case". Believes that everything is useless anyway, therefore nothing could make any difference on him. He will tell you that nothing is workable (apathetically).

EFFECT BELIEVED NECESSARY ON OTHERS:

Believes that an infinite amount of effect must be created to get anything done. 
(That's why he is in apathy.)

Using the Responsibility Scale

See also chapter 'Responsibility'.

Responsibility and Ethics go hand in hand. To be fully responsible is to be fully at cause and in control. It is to take care of your relationships and business in an ethical manner. 

We have Pan Determinism at the top. You are in control of both sides of a game - large or small. To be able to control a large game such as a large group, or a whole nation is obviously a much larger game than be able to control a class of school kids, a ball game, or the game of playing a musical instrument or typing words on a page. Similarly, to be able control all one's Dynamics is a huge game. The native state of a being is to be able to be and control all his dynamics. The desire for having games and opponents messed this natural state up completely - one area at the time.

In practice you apply the scale to one little area. When handling an Ethics situation with a client you have your subject matter. What you basically want to bring about is to get the client out of the Valence band and the Other-determinism band. The scale can be used as a stable datum for observations and assessing progress. Self-determinism - in form of a confrontational attitude - would obviously be insufficient in close relationships such as with family, a close friend or a fellow team-member. 

The scale shows the deterioration of responsibility from Pan-determinism over playing a game into "No-responsibility". A valence is the assuming of an identity other than self. The person will unknowingly slip into the role of another person or the perfect bureaucrat - or whatever. A Circuit is similar. It is not a beingness or role but an automaticity the person uses unknowingly. It can be an obsession or compulsion. It can be the out-of-control use of certain words or expressions - such as saying "do you follow?" after each sentence.