Coaching – Page 2 – Otto Laske Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM)

Exploring Movements-in-Thought: The Experiential and Historical Roots of Qualitative Data Acquisition in the Constructive Developmental Framework.

August 12, 2019June 8, 2022

Otto Laske Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Otto Laske

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The blog reviews the personal, experiential and historical, roots of the Constructive Developmental Framework as a tool for systematically exploring movements-in-thought through empirical data capture in real time. Its main purpose is to highlight the need for establishing a systematic training sequence geared to educating critical facilitators working in organizations and institutions, for the sake...

Laske’s ‘Transformative Effects of Coaching on Executives’ Professional Agendas’ (1999)

June 27, 2019June 8, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Introduction, Socio-emotional Dimension

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This blog contains a downloadable copy of Laske’s Psy.D. dissertation of 1999 (2 volumes). The thesis was submitted to William James College, Newton, MA. Readers were Robert Kegan, Ph.D., of Harvard Graduate School of Education; Samual Moncata, Ph.D., of William James College, Newton, MA. (then called ‘MA School of Professional Psychology’); and Tim Hall, Ph.D,...

On the Difficulty of Letting Thinking ‘Appear’

June 16, 2019June 8, 2022

Otto Laske Cognitive Dimension, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Otto Laske, Thought Forms

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In this blog, I draw conclusions from two previous blogs, found at and , both focused on teaching and learning dialectical thinking. I show that teaching dialectical thinking needs to address, and draw practical conclusions from, the distinction between ‘thinking’ and ‘cognition’, seen as counter-movements between the four moments of dialectic, CPRT, in the sense...

Making a Cognitive Case Study Following the IDM Cohort Method

May 21, 2019June 8, 2022

Otto Laske Cognitive Dimension, Dialectical Thinking, DTF

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There is, at the present time, an enormous lack of complex thinkers in the world, especially thinkers who are also doers and have the power to address the predicaments we are presently in as a species. So the idea that it is worthwhile to acquire complex holistic thinking abilities is a natural one for anybody...

Frankfurt School Hauptseminar Teachings From the Perspective of Laske’s Dialectical Thought Form Framework (DTF)

April 8, 2019June 8, 2022

Otto Laske Cognitive Dimension, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Otto Laske, Thought Forms

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The Frankfurt School is well known, liked or not liked, due to its pervasive influence in the domain of culture critique. As on account of increasing threats to democracy its legacy is once more coming to the fore, there is a strong tendency to focus on the products and results of the school’s activity while...

A Greatly Delayed Departure: Notions of Competence Are Finally Fading since They Are Seen as Pernicious in a Distributed-Leadership Environment

June 20, 2018June 8, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, DTF, Otto Laske

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It is almost 20 years ago that, following Argyris’ research on theory-in-use vs. espoused theory, I began to show that both of these personal ‘theories’ are rooted in adult development over the life span. I began to take these personal ideologies apart into their social-emotional and cognitive dimensions and showed that they are intrinsically related....