What does the Autonomous Level evaluate?
The autonomous consciousness stage refers directly to the level of capacity for recognition and individual identification existing in a behavioral pattern. This capacity begins with the establishment of clearly demarcated boundaries between what belongs to oneself and what is the competence of others.
Oscillating between greater dependence or greater autonomy, the level of presence of an individual in the Autonomous Stage can indicate the level of courage existing to undertake more independent actions directly aimed at their personal convictions or a greater tendency to seek approval from a collective environment to always act in a group.
Depending on the level of presence found in this stage, peaceful and organized behaviors may be common or great conflicts may arise when someone presents divergent viewpoints.
What is the intensity of {{nome}} at this stage?
- INDIVIDUAL PROFILE
(General characteristics: Management of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors)
Highlights:
- Low ability to recognize and act based on own emotions
- Difficulty assuming individual responsibility for behaviors and results
- Tendency toward procrastination and low follow-through on personal commitments
Individual behavioral tendencies:
- Depends on external approval to validate personal decisions
- Difficulty identifying and managing own emotional limits
- Confusion between healthy collaboration and relational codependence
- RELATIONAL MODEL
(Behavioral pattern when establishing personal relationships)
Highlights:
- May cause self-harm to create in others a sense of debt
- Prone to invasive interferences, even with good intentions
- Difficulty accepting others’ autonomy as legitimate
Tendencies in relationships:
- May create unrealistic expectations and see unauthorized changes as acts of betrayal
- Seeks constant validation and avoids taking protagonism in relationships
- Tends to interpret others’ individual decisions as lack of collective loyalty
- ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY
(Ability to adapt and perform professionally / in groups)
Highlights:
- Requires clear external guidelines to act with confidence
- Avoids assuming leadership or full responsibility for decisions
- May create noise in teams by interfering in tasks not belonging to them or depending on others’ participation
Performance tendencies:
- Prefers to act under supervision and in collaborative roles with joint performance
- Shows difficulty maintaining productivity without close monitoring
- Tends to procrastinate or abandon projects without external reinforcement or continuous validation
Detailed profile:
With a very low presence in the Autonomous Stage, {{nome}} tends to believe that actions and responsibilities are of collective ownership, that is, of the group as a whole, developing a dependency on approval from others about their own actions and creating the distorted expectation that the actions of the people they interact with also depend on being submitted to their approval. A lack of skill in taking direction of one’s own behavior, especially under pressure, can commonly be found.
{{nome}} may feel great frustration or irritation when someone they interact with follows paths different from what they believe to be the “correct” ones. Dependency and codependency situations can be fueled by the belief that it is harmful to look first at one’s own interests, then evaluate collective interests.
A certain level of naivety in {{nome}} can commonly be found in relation to believing that promises made are an irrefutable guarantee of obtaining what is desired, even if the person making the promise also does so out of naivety but cannot guarantee the offered outcome. In this case, two consequences are commonly found: the first being a possible lack of individual preparation to face an eventual different outcome, which implies difficulties in case of need. The second consequence could be another naive behavior of demanding from others that they do what is desired, based on promises made unconsciously, or sometimes even intentionally.
{{nome}} tends to believe that responsibilities can be shared and that individuality is a selfish behavior, highly undesirable. They may feel bad for assuming that they are defending their own interests and seek justifications when thinking of themselves. They may confuse the possibility of a shared decision with dependence, believing that the thought of “each person is responsible for themselves” is negatively individualistic and confusing collaboration with a concept where “everyone is responsible for everyone.”
A low intention to act autonomously may be associated with a low capacity to deal with realities they do not like, making {{nome}} often rebellious and resistant to accepting that people are freer than they understand them to be, reducing, in their own perception, the right of others to choose in different directions.
{{nome}} may show a significant low capacity to fulfill the movements and commitments proposed for themselves, potentially procrastinating activities they schedule, causing possible frustrations in relation to the desired goals.
With a very low Autonomous Stage, the emotions felt may be unknown or difficult to identify, causing {{nome}} states of great emotional turmoil and involving others in the responsibility for what they experience, without clear tools to move intentionally to alter these emotions.
In this behavioral pattern, there is a difficulty for {{nome}} to recognize themselves individually, with their capabilities and limitations, as well as to delimit responsibilities, which results in their own responsibilities not being fulfilled satisfactorily. There is also a tendency for a person in this condition to interfere in matters that are not their responsibility, often with the intention of helping but being invasive and clumsy in trying to participate in decisions or behaviors that belong to another person.
With a very low level of individual awareness of themselves and their surroundings, a person will tend to have greater difficulty identifying what leads them to the discomforts they experience. Therefore, the stages of low visibility (instinctive, dramatic, and perceptual) tend to have a greater level of presence and more intense involvement.