Dialectical Thinking – Page 11 – Otto Laske Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM)

What Everybody is Losing Out On by Bypassing 40 Years of Research on Adult Development

August 29, 2016June 3, 2022

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

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There is a vast lack of knowledge about how one’s own level and phase of development as an adult uncanningly and forcefully causes the kind of suffering one feels most keenly. This short article is meant as a pointer to what is missing in all of the “helping” literature and the well-meant helping activities in...

Human Developmental Processes as Key to Creating Impactful Leadership

August 2, 2016July 10, 2022

Otto Laske Articles Guests, circles, Cognitive Dimension, cognitive Fluidity, collaborative intelligence, Deep Thinking, deliberately developmental processes, Developmental Assessment, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, managerless organizations, Otto Laske, Shared Leadership, Socio-emotional Dimension, Team Coaching, Team Development, Thought Forms, zones of proximal development

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Copyright 2016 by Graham Boyd & Otto Laske In this article, the authors put forth a new approach to distributed leadership based on research in adult development and the pedagogical thought of Vygotsky, originator of the notion of zones of proximal development. The article attempts to re-totalize the issues neglected, or fragmented, by theories of...

Living through four eras of cognitive development

July 31, 2016July 10, 2022

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

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This article is based on my research in adult cognitive development, published in Laske 2008 and 2015. It reminds the reader that his/her thinking undergoes life-long changes that have a dramatic impact on work effectiveness and quality of life, especially the latter. The notion that there are no changes in thinking after early adulthood is...

Merging Behavioral and Developmental Practices: An Integral Framework for Deep Listening and Thinking

July 9, 2016July 10, 2022

Otto Laske Active Listening, CDF, Coaching, Cognitive Dimension, cognitive Fluidity, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Otto Laske, Socio-emotional Dimension, Team Coaching, Thought Forms

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In this paper, the authors (Otto Laske, Alessandro Rossi) lay out a practical approach to integral counseling (part A) and consulting to teams (part B), based on the Constructive Developmental Framework (CDF). The main topic is how to combine interventions for strengthening developmental level and cognitive fluidity, seen as intrinsically related as well as mingled...

From AQAL to AQAT: Dialogue in an Integral Perspective

June 22, 2016July 10, 2022

Otto Laske Bruno Frischherz, CDF, Cognitive Dimension, cognitive Fluidity, Deep Thinking, DTF, Thought Forms

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From AQAL to AQAT: Dialog in an Integral Perspective In this paper, presented at the 2014 Integral European Conference, Budapest, Prof. Bruno Frischherz compares with great clarity the methodological tools offered by Wilber’s Integral Theory to those offered by Laske’s CDF. The author shows that AQAL in its present form — focusing only on I,...

A Developmental Agenda of Concrete Utopianism: Culture Transformation in the Anthropocene

June 16, 2016July 10, 2022

Otto Laske Articles Guests, Cognitive Dimension, cognitive Fluidity, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Otto Laske, Team Coaching, Team Development, Thought Forms

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This text by Otto Laske and Alessandro Rossi describes the use of the Constructive Developmental Framework as a culture transformation instrument. Pragmatic implementations of CDF are geared to strengthening dialectical thinking in groups, teams, committees, and coalitions, whether commercial, academic, political, or educational, with an eye on increasing collaborative intelligence. The focus of such work...