A book. A metaphor. A mind shift.
About Us
We were 44 when we dropped out of the business world and moved to a rustic cabin in the Colorado Rockies to think and write.
Up to then, our enigmatic partnership, that started with a decade of mission work in the Deep South and included living and working in Hollywood, traveling abroad on business, working in leadership roles at companies, deploying cutting edge online technologies, and launching our own start-ups, had netted abundant life experiences. But it had also perplexed us.
We realized a.) the world doesn't work the way we were taught it does, and b.) humans, as a species, are not adapting well to the realities of our times.
Prior to our move to the cabin, Phil had formed a partnership with an award-winning business writer in Los Angeles. Together Phil and Rob Lindstrom spent the next five years researching and writing about these perplexing issues. And, in the process, they realized that humanity was operating from an outdated mindset, passed down to us from generations past, that is out of phase with our times.
Using mythological imagery in the form of The Sphere and an innovative and adaptive vocabulary, Phil and Rob introduce readers to concepts and processes for reshaping our lives, our organizations and our world for the better. In addition, they introduce the Spherical Modeling Tool, a practical hands-on awareness application.
Being Spherical: Reshaping Our Lives and World for the 21st Century
In this concise, illustrated work exploring the dynamics of living in the 21st century, Phil Lawson and Robert L. Lindstrom explain why, in this dawning era of interconnection and interdependency, we require a dramatic transformation in the way we see, think and act.
The book is amply illustrated with drawings by Geoffrey Moss. [Moss, a painter and creator of captionless political newspaper drawings, has been recognized with three Pulitzer nominations, including 9/11 work for Creative Syndicate.]
A boutique R&D that built & tested contextual reasoning apps
IT'S NO SMALL THING TO INTRODUCE A BIG IDEA
What is the Spherical Modeling Tool? And how does it work as a hands-on awareness application to promote personal agency, update our mindset, and reshape our lives and organizations?
First, we'll tell you that developing, validating and deploying this patented tool, in multiple fields and uses, has taken 15 years of Boots-on-the-Ground Research. Why so long? Good things take hustle. Great things take time.
Secondly, it's no small thing to introduce a new idea if you don't have field-specific credentials. In our case, we were tasked with forging a trail in between technologists and human specialists to test this work, which proved to be a tedious and time-consuming business to verify the universality of the methods and the suitability of the framework for many uses.
Nevertheless, this was necessary, we believe, to create an online system that dignifies the human experience, that offers thoughtfulness and transparency between the user and the tech, no matter the application, while presenting a way to see a situation-specific, whole-istic snapshot of a person or a team.
We've learned a lot since we first began. Along the way, we've added terms that further define the purpose of this tech. Context Spheres™ is one of them, since the real value of this system is to "contextualize" complex situations, for users, while making it possible for them to reflect on their personal views of the situation. This offers a way to expedite and optimize solution-finding. We like to call it a "see where you are, to know where to go" approach to navigating complexity in the 21st Century.
Here's what's been accomplished during the R&D phase:
1.) Patented a process that presents a multifactorial view of any complex human situation
2.) Developed a framework for building context spheres for many uses
3.) Created a methodology that snapshots person-perspective mental processes for personal reflecting and meaning-making.
4.) Gathered data, feedback, and insights from 45,000 people who have experienced Spherit's contextual reasoning applications in many uses and demographics.
CONTEXT SPHERES by Spherit™ LLC
Co-Founders: Pam and Phil Lawson
Product: Contextual reasoning maps for use in business, healthcare, relationships and life in general.
Purpose: Online tech that introduces a whole-person approach to person-centered decision-making or patient-centered care. It also works for teams and organizations. It can be used for shared decision-making with healthcare professionals or peer-to-peer mentoring. Or, the user can share and compare views with a life partner, business partner, family members, friends or community members.
PRACTICAL APPROACH
Spherit's contextual reasoning applications have been deployed in the health industry, as well as interpersonal relations, conflict management, education and employment readiness, organizational and community development, food insecurity (and many more.)
Spherit utilizes the expertise of field-specific experts, when creating field-specific applications, with the objective of designing these applications for universal usability.
Clients have tracked ‘mind-boggling’ efficiency with The Sphere on numerous occasions in the way it displays content in context and saves hours, and days, and weeks of time for the clients who use it.
Phil and Pam met at the age of 6 and joined forces at 18
Creating a purposeful path
Life put both Phil and Pam on unconventional paths that exposed them to relentless change and disruption, which repeatedly jeopardized their well-being. This inspired them to create technology for everyday decision-making that makes it easier to navigate any complex situation with surprisingly effective results.
