Cognitive Dimension – Page 8 – Otto Laske Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM)

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...

Russian research on dialectical thinking in children — Developing self-authored thinking

June 9, 2016July 10, 2022

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

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In the dialectic-starved West we tend to blindly follow formal logical thinking to the bitter end (e.g., global warming). However, there are alternatives, especially when one becomes informed by the work of Vygotsky, Piaget, Adorno, and Bhaskar, and the empirical work of Basseches and Laske. In the article here posted psychologist Veraksa et al. report...

DTF as a Tool for Creating Integral Collaborations

May 15, 2016July 10, 2022

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

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Solving real world problems tests professionals’ present level of cognitive development. A good training ground for working on hard problems in teams is the Case Study Cohort Method (CSCM) developed at the Interdevelopmental Institute. The method consists of a having members of a team assessing an individual’s or team’s level of cognitive maturity debate the...

Nick Shannon on “What Can IDM Offer the Integral Movement?”

March 14, 2016July 10, 2022

Otto Laske Cognitive Dimension, cognitive Fluidity, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Otto Laske, Text analysis, Text development, thinking, Thought Forms

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In this article, written in response to the 2nd ITC conference (2010), Nick Shannon outlined four main vantage points from which teachings at the Otto Laske Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM) elucidate and strengthen integral thinking: (1) upper left quadrant, (2) dialectical unfolding of concepts, (3) moving from contextual to transformation language, and (4) cognitive development and...

Executive Development as Adult Development

February 28, 2016June 3, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, Development, Dialectical Thinking, Otto Laske, Socio-emotional Dimension

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This article, chapter 9 of Demick et al’s Handbook of Adult Development (Springer 2002), tries to escape the tunnel vision of organizational theorists and consultants alike who, while glorifying leaders, cannot penetrate to the adult-developmental origins of leadership and get lost in psychological or spiritual speculations, or else lists of competences. Instead, the article adopts...