Good Wolf teaches about two levels of living: the B-Team and the A-Team.
Our experiences and decisions are influenced by past learning and powerful instinctual, cultural, and social forces, often exerting their influences well before we are aware of them consciously.
B-Team living is driven by ancient survival behaviors - hoarding resources, defending against or defeating those who aren’t like us. Our brain’s unconscious processing often results in B-Team behavior. B-Team behaviors have led to very big problems in our world.
A-Team living uses the highest cognitive capabilities of our brains to be in control of our own lives, decisions, and actions. A-Team living recognizes that we’re all in this together. A-Team living means acting on prosocial values to make all our lives as good as possible.
Good Wolf believes we can develop self-awareness, use our abilities of self-governance, and, based on our best values, grow better lives and build a better world - playing on the A-Team.
Good Wolf’s goal is for us to understand ourselves, use the very best of our capabilities, and move from living on the B-Team (Bad Wolf) to the living on the A-Team (Good Wolf).
B-Team Living
Driven by non-conscious forces. Instincts, emotions, impulses from past life experiences, and unconscious biases result in behaving in the old, destructive ways.
Defensive mindset. Our world is constrained by fear. We close our minds, protect our opinions, defend our assumptions, and attack others.
Rigid world view. We perceive and react based on fear and past learning, and are not able to see truth if it differs from our social or cultural identity.
Tribal: Us versus Others. Deeply-embedded biases and stereotypes color experiences and prevent compassion. We see "us" as more worthy than "them."
Tribal: Guarding my self-sufficiency. Seeing the world as a zero-sum game. Believing that I must accumulate resources for me and mine, and guard against you.
A-Team Living
Self-governing and living a value-based life. We clarify, practice, and celebrate shared prosocial values, control our impulses, and develop and practice self-governance.
Growth mindset. We feel strong and seek and embrace new experiences, listen, learn, question, and seek new knowledge and understanding.
Competent, curious, self-efficacious. We listen, ask, challenge our assumptions, acquire knowledge, develop skills, and gain the confidence to be effective.
Prosocial: All of Us. We open ourselves to new relationships and treat everyone with respect and compassion, recognizing the humanity and worth of all.
Prosocial: Recognizing our Interdependence. Realizing we need each other. Seeing that our health, happiness, and life’s meaning often come from relationship, giving, and gratitude.