Problems as Illusions of Thinking with Jack Pransky

When coach, speaker and author Jack Pransky first heard about the changes happening in the community of Modello, Florida, he knew he had to find out more. Pretty quickly he ended up writing a book about Roger Mills’ work using the Three Principles in that community, which was radically changing lives. Since then he’s written several books about the understanding, including its history, and he continues to be passionate about sharing its simplicity and impact.Dr. Jack Pransky is a Three Principles Author, Trainer and Practitioner: a Coach of Coaches and a Counselor of Counselors.Jack is a national and international consultant, speaker, and author who has worked in the field of prevention and community organizing since 1968.You can find Jack Pransky at InsideOutUnderstanding.com and on Facebook at Jack Pransky.You can listen above, on your favorite podcast app, or watch on YouTube. Notes, links, resources and a full transcript are below. Show Notes* Jack’s book Modello about a housing project near Miami and its turnaround via the Three Principles * The challenge of changing minds in the world of prevention and traditional outside-in psychology * How using our intellect to get through life isn’t as easy as relying on our innate wisdom * How we can only think ourselves away from wisdom * On consciousness as its role in making our thinking look vividly realTranscript of Interview with Jack PranskyAlexandra: Jack Pransky, welcome to Unbroken.Jack: I’m very happy to be here.Alexandra: So nice to meet you.Jack: Nice to meet you too. It’s a pleasure.Alexandra: Thank you.Tell us a little bit about your background and how you became interested in the Three Principles.Jack: So many people have heard this story that I have a hard time recreating. I was involved in the field of prevention for many, many years; prevention of problem behaviors, alcohol and drug abuse, child abuse, domestic violence, delinquency, or things like that. I got to the point where I sort of knew what I was doing. And, decided to write a book about it, called Prevention, The Critical Need.Just before that book was about to go to press, I was invited to a Prevention Conference. Roger Mills was speaking. And I was suspicious, because I just spent three years of my life trying to find out what worked, and I’d never heard of this guy. But when he brought a couple of people with him from the housing project that he worked in, he was talking about how the housing projects, which is a horrible place, had gotten completely turned around. I could tell from listening to these people that their lives would never be the same, like something deeply had happened with them that we were not used to seeing and prevention.So that’s what got me hooked. I ended up asking Roger Mills if I could write a book about happened in Modello. And so I did that. And then I had to find the source. And the source was Syd Banks. And the rest is history.Alexandra: As they say. Well, that was one of my questions.Tell us a bit more about that book and about the community of Modello.Jack: Modello was known to be one of the most difficult places near Miami, Florida. It was really kind of a horrible community to have to live in. Because there was violence everywhere. Drug gangs were in every corner. There were shootings, tremendous domestic violence, tremendous abusing kids, crack addiction, it was just horrible.Roger Mills, thought this would be the place to test out whether Syd Banks’ ideas, what he had uncovered, would work in a place of that magnitude, as opposed to the individual people who were hovering around him at the time. And so he went in there,