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

Three Founding Documents of IDM, The Interdevelopmental Institute

January 21, 2020June 8, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, DTF, Otto Laske

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This year, the Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM) turns 20. Conceived of as a virtual teaching, consulting, and coaching institute, it has outlasted 2 decades of neglect of the cognitive dimension of life as well as work, today the focus of ‘cognitive coaching’ and/or ‘critical facilitation’. Over 20 years, the institute has educated close to 100 individuals...

Grundlagen potenzial-orientierter Unternehmen: Einleitung in Dialektisches Denken in Organisationen

December 5, 2019June 8, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, Otto Laske, Team Coaching, Team Development, Thought Forms

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Attached to this blog, the reader will find a set of slides presented in a workshop held in Vienna, Austria, in February of 2019, for a company called Four Dimensions Consulting. It was the purpose of the workshop to introduce a German-speaking audience to the cognitive-developmental dimension of organizational work, especially team work. The workshop...

Cognitive Coaching as a Tool for Building Enabling Environments in Distributed-Leadership Organizations: An Introduction to the Dialectical Thought Form Framework (DTF)

December 5, 2019June 8, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, collaborative intelligence, Deep Thinking, DTF, Otto Laske, Team Development, Thought Forms

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In the set of slides attached to this blog, the reader finds my presentation on cognitive coaching of January 2019, presented to a London consulting firm, MDV. The purpose of my workshop was to teach consultants a new form of developmental assessment and, based on it, of developmental thinking that is increasingly in demand in...

An Artificially Intelligent CDF Coach: Considerations regarding App-Based Executive Coaching

August 16, 2019June 8, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, Psychological Profile, Socio-emotional Dimension

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In this blog, I briefly sketch a coaching app based on CDF. I detail an elementary design of the app and outline its purpose, function, and main benefits. Since learning CDF through workshops takes dedication and a level of concentration rare in present times, the blog suggests that: (a). learning to build apps for CDF-based...

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,...

A Conversation on Mentoring in Organizations Transitioning to a Less Hierarchical Culture

May 16, 2019June 3, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, Socio-emotional Dimension

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In this conversation with Paul Anwandter of INPACT, Santiago de Chile, in October 2018, we discuss the new landscape of mentoring that includes applying insights from research in adult development. We discuss the obstacles and failures but also the challenges of such mentoring in reference to a class on developmental coaching I teach at INPACT,...