The Delphi Project

Do we know how to change?

Many of us would like to become more powerful and influential in life – so that we can change things for the better.

We all have minor things we want to change and sometimes we are successful and sometimes not. Sometimes things just happen in a way which seems out of our control. Probably we have all experienced this.

When it comes to the question of how to resolve the major problems which continue to affect human development, we are at a loss. But what can we do differently?

Perhaps we should admit that we don’t really know how the world works. Because if we did, surely we would change things for the better?

From an early age I wanted to know what could be done about this and in particular what I could do to help. I realised that I needed to understand how the world worked so, of course, I read and studied, argued with family and friends, and tried to formulate a coherent response to some serious questions – What does it mean to succeed in life? What kind of projects should we initiate or get involved in? How can we improve things not just for ourselves alone but for others? For humanity in general. In a nutshell, How can we change the way the world works? 

I kept returning to these issues over a period of 30 years. I established a new business school in London with a view to finding practical responses to these questions. I made speeches and ran international conferences, I worked for change in the United Nations. The many conversations with academics and businessmen, politicians and government ministers and experts in leadership and personal development were informative but ultimately unsatisfactory. You cannot borrow answers to these kind of questions. You have to work things out for yourself.

Delphi – a new approach

Out of this exercise came The Delphi Book which argues that we exist within a hierarchy of consciousness, between the individual and the universal, and that our attempts to bridge this gap, to achieve success in life, are in conflict with the need to embrace our fundamental status as a human being. All of us, however, want to change and grow, and the best of us wish to see change and growth for humanity at large. We see so much in the world which is just not working properly, so many imperfections, so much suffering, that after writing the Delphi Book and talking with those who were kind enough to read it through, it became clear that we are missing a fundamental question.

What stops us changing the way the world works?

The Delphi Book suggests that it is our relationship with Polarity (the positive and negative in life) and Power (the capacity to achieve) which shapes and constrains our attitudes and behaviour. We often feel that we are not fully expressing ourselves in life. That we are trapped. According to Delphi we are all caught in our own unique version of The Polarity Grid. If that is true, then to recognise the Grid and acknowledge its influence is a first step to being able to move through and beyond the Grid to create real change. And the only change we are really interested in is universal change – not just some short-term exercise in self-improvement or corporate transformation – but change which is of lasting benefit for humanity. That must mean change in human consciousness. We must become better human beings  That’s why The Delphi Project exists . . . to help us achieve that.

Let’s get moving!

To find out where you are in life and to get feedback on how you can move in and beyond your Grid explore The Polarity Grid, and go on to complete a Personal Polarity Assessment.

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