In this article we'll be taking a look at relating with awareness. 

Functional relationships are at the core of what makes businesses & partnerships work and what allows us to thrive within teams, businesses, & organizations. 

What Human Design & BG5 opens us up to is relating with awareness, which is an understanding of the unspoken energy dynamics on a given team or partnership.  While I do not believe certain dynamics fundamentally means a partnership will be perfect or doomed, what it does is helps us understand the other & how the energy comes together within a business environment. From there we can relate with awareness and cultivate a flourishing environment where everyone is honoured for their strengths, aware of potential distractions, as well where the hiring team member is able to create a team with no “gaps” within the Penta.

This Penta, which is created when 3 or more people come together, is a trans auric form.  This “new” form that is created has specific mechanics that influence us and others unconsciously.  Through BG5 what we can learn is how to best utilize team members strengths, understand gaps within the business, & create teams that are moving together towards a common goal.

The legacy of the Not-Self that pervades cultural models, stereotypes and moral ideals include co-dependency, indebtedness, blame, trying to fix our weaknesses, and fault-finding - and this is not what relating is about and it certainly is not what a healthy Penta is about.

In my own personal experience, as a triple split definition (Synthesizing Assimilation), I always struggled in small groups. 

In fact, part of my leaving my Masters of Social Work early had to do with being in a small group of 3 in every class for the entire year.  This felt uncomfortable and I never felt my skills were appropriately seen & recognized within the small group; not the way they were seen & recognized in large groups or even simply the classroom or corporate environment. As a triple split I take more time to synthesize information, which may mean  I require more time to process things than other members of the group. In the not self, or under pressure within a small group, I may act from impatience and attempting not to trigger others emotional waves. What I learned about myself through this information was not only why small groups did not work for me, as I am simply not designed for them, but also helped me understand where I work best: Solo or large groups.  When we understand this we set ourselves, our employees, and teams up for success rather than trying to force them to be something they were never meant to be.

(My bodygraph)

Further, in working with partnerships & teams with wide splits, for example, unaware of the mechanics, what has the potential to unfold is a complex interrelation between a split who is conditioned to blame the other & emergent stress within the group field within a business. These things come together to create dynamics of scarcity, blame and hurt that are unnecessarily personalized and internalized. This becomes a part of our Not-Self story due to conditioning and we carry it with us into any new context we enter into. When a new context is similar enough in configuration to our family of origin, this can be especially triggering and bring out a version of the Not-Self we thought we had left behind.  This, also, can be unconscious where the individual does not realize that they are in such a complex dynamic of their split, which is impacting their ability to navigate the Penta (small business) trans-auric field.  Again, the awareness of our own relating as well as how our team relates to each other helps a team lead, business owner, or CEO create thriving work environments.

(wide split definition)

When we understand the dynamics of our own energy and how this energy is expressed when we come together in groups we not only equip ourselves but also our team to operate optimally in a way that leverages everyone's strengths as well as creates awareness of everyone's distractions.  This is also invaluable information for team leads to understand how their team operates together as a whole so that each individual person can essentially “play their part”.  If you have a team member, for example, who is a single definition and is able to digest information rapidly, yet another who is a triple split and requires time to digest the same information, you are able to set your team up for success in projects, management, and collaboration. 

So what is a Penta?

The graph that you see above is called a PentaGraph, with its various structural components. It is the Design of the Penta as a Form, in the same way that we have a Human Design, or the various Designs of Mammals, Plants, Cells, etc., which are all different.

At the BG5 Business Institute we use this graph to work with teams, small businesses, and organizations in order to learn how to create a social and productive group organism that not only increases profit potential yet creates flourishing teams where everyone is recognized for their strengths. 

As soon as three people or more come together, the Penta takes over the social dynamics with only one goal in mind: to be a successful team according to what the common goal is; for example increasing profit potential in a business. It's about accomplishment, and ultimately, competition within the Penta. 

For this article, what is important to take note of are the empty spaces in the PentaGraph. As you can see, some boxes are colored in and some are left grey. These grey boxes are empty. Those that are colored in are the energies that the team members bring into the group field. These empty places are called 'Gaps'. 

When a Penta has Gaps and is supposed to be a unit of its own, it generates a particular sense of scarcity in the field. The atmosphere and energy of the group becomes oriented around that scarcity and starts to focus on it. This in turn has an effect on the minds of the participating team members; their attention is hijacked to focus on 'what's missing' or 'what's lacking' and 'who is supposed to bring this in?'. And so this is what the mind will start to think about, and subsequently what everyone will start talking about. This can, as I am sure you can imagine, create a toxic work environment that then causes team leads to look for what’s lacking.  This may lead to employee turnover or a toxic work environment as people are blamed or project on others that they “should” be bringing something to the team they are not energetically able to bring.

When they can't find that energy the Penta becomes 'ill' & the gaps become the shadow of the team.  Most of the social dysfunction we see in society is a consequence of getting pulled into incomplete Pentas and being blind to their existence and conditioning influence on human beings. Like liver cells being blind to the fact that they are part of and determined by the liver as a transcendent whole.  What we are looking for within a team environment is a type of “independent assimilation”, a single definition, if you will, where everything is connected so it operates independently and fluidly.

Going back to team dysfunction, a blaming atmosphere can happen when there is a Gap in the Skill of Commitment. When this energy is lacking, the group is running on empty promises while nobody can actually follow through on their commitments. Among many other things, people start to make excuses and accuse each other for not putting in the necessary effort to make things work.  This could lead to, for example, missed deadlines where everyone blames everyone else for why things were not completed on time.  Trying to force someone, without the skill of commitment, into that role also will not work long term within the business or team as someone is forced to bring energy to the table that they are simply not designed to have.

So now imagine what happens when we bring several split definitions into this kind of environment who are unaware of their unique energy and conditioning... They have a predisposition in the Not-Self to blame themselves (simple split) and the other (wide split) for lacking what is needed, and then this whole idea of 'blame' and 'fault' becomes amplified by the Penta and its scarcity conditioning. Add a triple split who requires more time to assimilate information, and it may become that person's fault for why things were not done on time.  This was something I experienced heavily in my time within University in small group projects.

Sadly, this isn’t just a part of business but also family environments as well as partnerships.  Eventually this becomes a cultural norm that is part of our lifestyle. It is a milieu we are raised in, it's something that we can take for granted as 'just the way human beings work'. It becomes an internalized part of our psyche.

 And yet it isn't true - there is no awareness in blaming.

On the other hand, by respecting each others' Designs and understanding our context, we can lead with our strengths, understand our distractions (openness), and remedy “gaps” through hiring decisions rather than by trying to force someone to perform in a role they are not meant to hold, and cannot maintain long term.

Free from expectations, free from blaming and fault-seeking. We can be unattached in a healthy way about actually achieving the businesses goals.

Understanding our Human Design (Bg5 PentaGraph) allows us to be anchored in the present with awareness and navigate together moment by moment without disconnecting, disassociating or falling out into blind aggression, contempt or violence due to the mind's fears.

It all starts by understanding who you are, who the other is, who you are together and what context you're participating in.  This provides us awareness and the willingness to relate. Like an xray of the group dynamics at play, BG5 provides us with the power to “heal” a sick environment, amplify what is working, cultivate flourishing work environments, and/ or help team leaders  make empowered hiring decisions to “fill in the gaps”.

Bottom Line

The BG5™ Career & Business System provides us with a BG5™ Success Code that maps out our material life in precise detail. Working with this unique tool is a life and career transforming opportunity for those who want to make a difference in their own lives, and in the lives of others.

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Ashley Briana Eve