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FROM HIS LIFE/BACKGROUNDS

Timothy Speed was born in Middlesbrough /England in 1973.
Speed is not a pseudonym. He is Irish, British, Austrian descent. Father boss of a British drilling rig. Mother Tyrolean.

As an artist he investigates the relation between the unique individual, the person looking for his true self in relation with his role in the change and development of systems, societies and enterprise. His work shows the value of the individual way of man for the larger system in which he lives and works. He in his work documents the experiencing between customization and liberty. Speed calls this search the "system creative approach". The ability of man to reinterpret his world and to change by his journey to the inside of one's own soul. Speed interprets this as the basis of a natural order on which freer and more dynamic systems can be justified.

He spent his early childhood in England, then late in Thiersee. A little Tyrolean mountain village.
His first meeting with the big world was a coincidental concurrence with the British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Speed had been frightened of her cold charisma and fascinated by her production of the power, as he wrote about this meeting later.

His career started with an artistic education in the film and medium area with the world-famous medium artist Richard Kriesche (first work of art in the universe) at the ortwein school in Graz/Austria, as his teacher
Speeds first public action took place in Graz at the age of 17 in 1990 in front of the "Forum Stadtpark". The elitist centre of the Austrian literature. Because he was not allowed to read from his texts inside, he read outside for three days in front of the building.

One of the most important Austrian dramatists Wolfgang Bauer (Magic Afternoon) called speeds mother later and furthermore asked her to promote the boy artistically. Bauer was his first contact with the art world. The well-known poet H.C Artmann man noticed already at that time "a magic" in speeds work during a meeting of the two artists in Salzburg.
Speed often stayed in the library of the at that time leading symbol researcher Hans Biedermann. Surrounded by the symbols from all arround the world, as he still likes to remember.

Speed then moved to Vienna.

He worked there as a hospital photographer, photographed post-mortem examinations and operations, for a while. Under this also the world-famous operation with Olivia Pilhar which 1995 went through the international press. Speed accompanied the operation with the camera. He studied the problems between system, man and health at this time. He ended this project when he had to look through the camera into the eyes of a dead girl and his hand started to tremble.

A strong influence at this time was the Viennese psychotherapist Gerald Kreutzbruck, a student of Stanislav Grof, the founder of transpersonalen psychology in America. Kreutzbruck introduced speed to the world of the psychological investigation of the subconscious.

The next station became Berlin where he lives since 1997.

By the end of the nineties he developed into a busy creative in the medium industry. He was a speaker at great creative conventions like the "Typo" or at universities like the UDK Berlin.
He founded the legendary Underground cartoon production "cinemawork" in 1997.
The first professional Flashcomicproduktion in Germany,
Producing for television and internet.

His first book was published in 2001 in german language with the titel "damned sexy -- the medium designers in the crisis" questioning the usual standards of the medium industry. It described the estrangement and the loss of quality and reality consciousness, in the economy by excessive conventionalism and mainstream thinking. Speed went through a crisis regarding the superficiality of the medium world at this time. His search for deeper bases of the creativity of man started at that time.
In the book he puts a question to the most well-known critic of the television, the American medium scientist Neil Postmann:
"Mr Postmann, you imagine a confused dream. The world finally would be created again as a gigantic media project. By a single medium designer or medium artist. And you would be the only person who it would be possible for to meet this designer. And you would have only one question. What would you ask him?"

Postmann: "With which right and with which privilege do you use the right to form the world?"



Speed later moved to the Berlin surrounding countryside with his children and his wife. Into the former guesthouse of the supreme commander of the Russian army in the DDR. In Wünsdorf an earlier centre of the cold war. Where the communication bunker of Adolf Hitlers also was. There he investigated for three years questions between man, nature, cosmos, society and development. Looked for a positive relationship between man and system.

He dealt in his second book "society without confidence" (published in german language), which was made there, with the difficulty of systems to integrate the powerful and unique solution resources of the individual. He also Developed new theories (point of attraction theory), which should help to develope enterprises and societies more dynamically and to overcome crises more easily. By the conscious use of the special abilities of man to create something new.

The "point of attraction theory" described in this book became a basis of his "moderation state" later an alternative state model. A form of government without direct power which only presents the projects of the people by example effect.

From an Amazon review: "Timothy Speed shows essentially the chances of the crisis of economy and society in his book. He conveys a basic knowledge in processes of form formation of the live founded as well as in plants, people or societies. The whole book is a call to the turning for a natural order which is found in due life, a plea for authenticity and truthfulness. Speed designs future models for a society, based on the liberation of the creator strength in every individual .."

Speed later met the American politics adviser Don Beck who had developed the theory of evolution "Spiral Dyanamics integral" from the theory of Clare Graves and advised internationally leaders. The work was based on the studies of Clare Graves who investigated the evolution of the human values and therefore described a kind of evolution of the cultural insides of mankind in his theory. Speed belonged to German SDI team around Dorothea Zimmer for a while. Speed was strongly influenced by meeting Don Beck.

Speed together with 114 of the most interesting mavericks of the planet sat at the biggest round table of the world in 2006. Organized and conceived by the Ngo "Dropping Knowledge". Presented by the american actor Willem Dafoe. At the Bebelplatz in Berlin. The place of the burning of books by the Nazis. Further participants were the film director Wim Wenders, Bianca Jagger, the artist Jonathan Meese or the Nobel prize winners' Hans Peter Dürr.



At the time after that Speed started with new projects and some time worked as a coach, had a practice for psychotherapy (to HPG) for two years to further investigate the inner dynamics of man. It did not take long until he drew up and realized new concepts also in this field.

In 2007 he came together with the manager adviser Markus Maderner and they developed the method " inner flow management ". For this he wrote his third book in which this cybernetic and systemic tool is described. It represents the practical application of his work with the book "society without confidence".
This method helps managers, social entrepreneurs and problem solvers cope with the most complex topics of this time integrally and build up systems more creatively and generally more alive. Therefore solving situations without reducing the variety of the live and the resources in the front-end.

The method is based on the "point of attraction theory" as well as some other approaches, such as Spiral Dynamics Integral of Don Beck. The following picture shows the mask, which is part of the method and is used to integrate different prospects in the work process to put in connection with each other, to win new knowledge. IFM is very complex and is represented extensively in the book.

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