The Unicist Research Institute

The individual program on Unicist Strategy is designed to transfer unicist technologies (http://www.unicist.org/sdp.shtml) for the development of individual, institutional and social strategies. This program helps participants to diagnose, make prognoses and develop strategies and action plans in their field of expertise.

Unicist Strategy Programs are personalized so as to foster each participant’s talent development.

Participants use the unicist approach as a complementary tool when developing diagnoses, prognoses and strategies in their organizations. This activity is supported by a collection of books for consultation, an academic expert system and the counselor.

Programs are based on counseling driven learning, which includes personal counseling in local Unicist Knowledge Centers associated with the Unicist Network's Goodwill-Houses.

This program is specialized in unicist strategy for those that already have a graduate study or that have equivalent experience in their field. It is a program designed for those who need to transform complex problems into simple solutions that could be managed by ordinary people. The participant must have previous knowledge of the operative aspects of his/her field of action before applying for this program.

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- The Unicist Approach
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-Characteristics
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The Unicist Approach
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Program's structure

Logical Inferences
The unicist approach to complexity is based on the possibility to influence in a certain reality based on the knowledge of its conceptual structure and the logical inference rules to operate in that reality.
You may access the logical model on which the Blue Eagle Expert System is based, by entering into the Scientific Dissemination Program: click here.

Individual Programs
Individual programs are designed so as the participant can learn and act whithin his/her field of interest, needs and potential.
Programs are defined between the participant and his/her counselor.

Unicist Strategy Programs

•Individual Programs
•Counseling-driven Programs
•Unicist Technologies
•Real Diagnoses
•Expert system monitoring

Counseling Driven Learning
The educational system is based on learning instead of teaching and uses the Unicist Personalized Education model. All participants have a counselor for their program to support them during the learning process.

Program for graduates
This is a one-year program for professionals that are interested in developing their talents using tools for the management of complex problems in the individual, institutional and social realities and for research programs. If you would like further information on complexity: click here.

Conceptual Benchmarks as catalysts for learning The use of conceptual benchmarks implies the use of cases that are essencially analogous to a case that is being studied. These cases are regarded from a higher level from which they help to integrate the concept intended to be applied. Unicist Benchmarks act as catalysts in the learning process.		Real Cases The only way to investigate complex problems is through operating in the reality under analysis, and not through simulated cases. This is the only way to "aprehend" concepts and find ways to influence in a certain reality using process catalysts and inhibitors. Participants are recommended to present their papers on research cases in different congresses of their specialty.
	Complexity Research A complex problem diagnosis requires the knowledge of its structure in order to be able to describe it in a conceptual way. For this purpose to be achieved, it is necessary to manage the unicist research methodology for complex realities.

Characteristics

The Individual Unicist Strategy Program for Postgraduates was developed to provide technologies to approach complex problems and uncertainty.

Complexity and uncertainty have two possible approaches:

1) The probabilistic approach
2) The unicist ontological approach

The unicist approach includes both.

Reflection is required to approach the ontology. Unicist reflection integrates the “action-thought - action” process when dealing with non-complex problems and the “action-reflection-action” approach when facing complexity or uncertainty.

The program includes:

1) Individual learning agreement
2) Talent diagnosis
3) Unicist technologies
4) Diagnoses of actual cases
5) Counseling driven learning
6) Quarterly Symposia
7) Group exchange (Atheneum)
8) Complementary tools
9) Blue Eagle X-pert System (BEES)
10) Final Clinic

1) Individual learning agreement
The counselor proposes a learning agreement based on the participant’s background, knowledge, interests and objectives. Such learning agreement with the participant includes short term and long term commitments.

2) Talent diagnosis
The talent diagnosis of each participant is made by his counselor using the Blue Eagle X-pert System. The output of this diagnosis is used to develop the participant’s learning plan.

3) Unicist technologies
A complete set of unicist books is provided. It includes the technologies necessary to achieve the objectives included in the learning agreement.

4) Diagnosis of actual cases
Diagnoses and their feedback drive the objective aspects of the learning process. This process implies a permanent “action-reflection-action” process. It includes the diagnoses of several cases, including their prognoses and their feed-back to confirm their forecasts.
Diagnoses are monitored by participants using the Blue Eagle X-pert System. Counselors are responsible for the fallacy-shooting of the application process.

5) Counseling driven learning
The unicist approach to reality based on its nature requires an individual counseling process. Counselors are responsible for backing the foundation building process of the diagnoses developed by participants.
To do so they foster and guide participants in the use of the reflection process applied to real complex problem solutions.

Counseling driven learning includes:

1) A daily activity to guide participant's knowledge acquisition process.
2) A counseling activity (a full-time day every fortnight) in which participants present the problems they need to solve.
3) Monitoring of the real cases developed by participants during the learning process. It includes the use of the BEES (Blue Eagle X-pert System).

The first activity is teaching driven, the second is learning driven and the third activity provides quality assurance for the applications. These activities are integrated in the “action - thought / reflection - action” process, which is one of the fundamentals of the unicist personalized education.

6) Participation in quarterly symposia
To learn about new discoveries and to share experiences in the application of unicist technologies with users (International Unicist Conference).

7) Group exchange (Atheneum)
Participants have the possibility of exchanging experiences with colleagues. The exchange of experiences leverages the reflection process and improves the quality of the original solutions developed by participants.

8) Complementary tools
The program includes the use of complementary tools for unicist strategy building. Among others, the following tools are accessible from their original developers:
1) C-map – concept mapping for strategy building
2) Protegé – for conceptual IT design
3) Taverna – for conceptual design in the field of life-sciences
4) Hozo – for conceptual engineering

9) Blue Eagle X-pert System (BEES)
Over 2000 researches on the unicist ontologies in the field of individual, institutional and social evolution made the development of the expert system possible. The finding of the structure and contents of the realities researched was the basis for the development of the BEES.
The BEES – Blue Eagle X-pert System develops diagnoses based on ontological/logical inferences based on the rules established by the unicist ontology of evolution.
The BEES processes the objective monitoring of the diagnoses made by participants.

10) Final Clinic
The program ends with a final clinic organized by a regional center. This activity lasts 4 days – from Tuesday to Friday -.
The goal of this clinic is to develop a synthesis on the basis of the development of a complex problem solution shared by all participants. Participants should travel to the regional designated center and arrive there Monday night to begin the clinic early in following morning and stay there until Friday night. This is a full-time activity and participants stay over night.

Participant's book
Participants develop their program based on a diagnosis that will be included in a book to be published in electronic version. Publication includes all the writings of the counselor and the participant during the development of the program. The name of the counselor and the participant will be on the cover of the book.

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