CDF Mentoring – Page 4 – Otto Laske Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM)

How Mature is Your Team?: Learn How to Find Out in the Set of Slides Below.

October 3, 2019June 8, 2022

Otto Laske Otto Laske, Socio-emotional Dimension, Team Development

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More and more, teams carry the organizational workload. The extent and quality of their collaboration is becoming a focus of practical and theoretical attention. However, a developmental theory of teams, whether social-emotional or cognitive, does not exist. What is clear is that the hidden (= developmental) dimensions of team performance are now defining companies’ competitive...

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,...

How to teach managers to think: A testimony

June 19, 2019June 8, 2022

Otto Laske Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Team Development, Thought Forms

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In this article, Jan De Visch reviews experiences he has made as a Critical Facilitator when working with teams in organizations (see his work at www.connecttransform.be). Jan’s gift of deep thinking makes him a very good listener who can intervene in team conversations because he “hears” and “understands” their thought form structure in the sense...

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...

Balancing Dialogue and Text Analysis in Teaching Dialectical Thinking

June 2, 2019June 8, 2022

Otto Laske Dialectical Thinking, DTF

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In this blog, I problematize the question of how to teach dialectical thinking effectively in a world experienced as ‘VUCA’. Specifically, I summarize my experience with teaching DTF at the Interdevelopmental Institute, with a focus on educating Critical Facilitators. Thought Form Theories def