See Non-Cancerous development.
The development metaphor calls for each agent to be **continuously aware of at least three levels** (Three Level Awareness) when making decisions, * first, themselves (identity) as a system, * second, the systems/organizations that they are part of and which depend upon them, and * third, the systems/organizations of which they are composed and that therefore they depend upon.
There are organizations (systems) that are the parts of me/us and there are other organizations (systems) that I/we are parts of.
We must understand our developmentally relevant, **intimate interrelationships** as a whole: **inside-of-us—us—outside-of-us**.
This essential, three-level, developmental awareness is more intimate and more proximate than the awareness denoted by the concept of the environment.
When I/we choose to **grow,** taking too little account of the symbiotic, dependent, generative, encompassing system and the neighboring parts, our growth becomes **cancerous** to our neighboring parts and to the whole on which we depend.
**Deaths** of our parts, leads to death of us. Death of the organizations we are part of, leads to death of us. **Viability** depends upon these kinds of nested, intimate, interdependent, developmental relationships.