IDM Professional Practice Programs
The IDM methodology, called Constructive Developmental Framework (CDF), is taught in two forms: with an eye to certification in assessment (Certification Program), and to hands-on practical use in one’s professional work. The latter approach is embodied in our two Professional Practice programs below:
- The Dialectics in Coaching Program dialectics-in-coaching-program.php
- The Critical Practice Program critical-practice-program-overview.php
The DC program yields 96 ICF CEUs along the International Coach Federation Portfolio Route; the CP program yields 40 ICF CEUs.
IDM 's Professional Practice programs are designed for coaches and other "helping professionals" who want to deepen their practice by leveraging knowledge of research findings about adult development without focusing on academic niceties. Given the scope of the teaching which comprises social-emotional, cognitive, and psychological subject matter, these courses are unique: they are not taught anywhere else in the world. Based on nearly 10 years of experience with teaching developmental thinking, the courses provide the practitioner with the best validated components of the tri-partite evidence-based perspective IDM is known for.
All courses are based on a comprehensive introduction to developmental thinking which is provided by our Gateway self-study course. This introduction is followed by acquiring in-depth practical skills in process consulting, either cognitive, social-emotional, or both.
In itself, this introduction is mind-changing, but instruction does not end there. Based on the skills acquired through self-study and live classes, the practitioner can enter a Master Class in which support by a peer cohort is as important as the instructor.
The practical courses provide the framework for a more structured encounter with clients than is conventionally sought. All of them deepen Edgar Schein’s work through which process consulting was first introduced. They re-energize consultants’ practice by enabling them to understand their clients more deeply and approach them more authentically.
IDM invites coaches, mentors, human resources practitioners, managers, facilitators, mediators, social workers, and psychologists to stand above the crowd by way of their own higher level of awareness and maturity which these courses support.
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