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An Intense Five-Month Practicum in Dialectical Thinking

October 12, 2020June 7, 2022

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

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Increasingly, the issues on which the survival of our civilization depends are ‘wicked’ in the sense of being more complex than logical thinking alone can make sense of and deal with. Needed is not only systemic and holistic but dialectical thinking to achieve critical realism. Dialectical thinking has a long tradition both in Western and...

Twenty Years IDM: Tribute to Otto Laske

September 23, 2020June 7, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Otto Laske

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On September 17, 2020, 110 professionals from 35 countries met to pay tribute to the power of developmental and dialectical thinking as taught at the Interdevelopmental Institute by Otto Laske. 15 practitioners of international provenance spoke about how the Constructive Developmental Framework (CDF), established by Otto Laske in 1998-1999, has been instrumental in their professional...

A Guide to Listening in Meetings Based on DTF

August 22, 2020June 7, 2022

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

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In this 2nd “inspiration session” regarding the book “Practices of Dynamic Collaboration”, Jan De Visch and Otto Laske focus on what DTF, the Dialectical Thought Form Framework, can teach a person or group about enlarging and deepening their ‘internal workplace’ through thought-form based listening. Thought forms are shown to be more than simply conversation starters...

Applying Bhaskar’s Four Moments of Dialectic to Reshaping Cognitive Development as a Social Practice using Laske’s Dialectical Thought Form Framework (DTF)

July 23, 2020June 7, 2022

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

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In this chapter for volume 2 of Meta-Theory dedicated to the memory of Bhaskar, delayed in its publication since 2014 and forthcoming at Routledge at the end of 2020, I outline a dialectical epistemology and CDF teaching method for absorbing Bhaskar’s legacy into integral thinking. I do so since both are presently absent from the...

Laske Social Science Archive, Section V: Writings (2015-2019) on DTF, the Dialectical Thought Form Framework

February 21, 2020June 7, 2022

Otto Laske Cognitive Dimension, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, dialogical thinking, DTF, Otto Laske, Team Development, Thought Forms

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The Laske Social Science Archive gathers Otto Laske’s writings on organizations written between 1999 and 2019, many of which have retained their value vis a vis new fashions of management thinking. Its sections are numbered chronologically. The Archive makes available both texts and slides, the latter for pedagogical purposes. The articles gathered are bundled according...

Chapter Abstracts, Practices of Dynamic Collaboration, Springer 2020, by De Visch & Laske

January 2, 2020June 3, 2022

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

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In this new publication, the authors extend their thinking about the adult-developmental foundations of organizational work beyond their 2018 book on collaboration, by putting their focus on 5 specific organizational practices that together constitute the mainstay of organizational work. They directly address managers’ thinking at three successively higher levels, providing them with a large number...