Author: Otto Laske

Gradually, CDF is emerging as a potent business development tool, in contrast to a coaching or assessment tool. The new course starting February 26, 2015, will demonstrate  the impact of the CDF methodology on your daily organizational work, planning, decision making, and work in teams. You'll begin to understand better the concept of "requisite organization" that is an integral part of CDF. The second course, starting on February 23, 2015, goes rather into depth about your own thinking, helping you to understand the "frame of reference" based on which you think, and how you could start using more advanced thinking techniques. We will explore DTF, the Dialectical Thought Form Framework which will be mind-opening experience for you. Prior questions to me are welcome ([email protected]). See also the videos under NEWS. For managers, these courses are also available through personal hands-on mentoring centered on a personal business problem of your choice. Read More...

Dieses kurze Video hat den Sinn, Sie in den Konstruktiven Entwicklungsrahmen, CDF genannt, einzufuehren. Otto Laske zeigt, wie die CDF Dialogmethode und Denkmethode positiv zu Ihrer Arbeit im Coaching, der Psychotherapie, und der organisatorischen Beratung beitragen kann. Read More...

Otto Laske gives you an overview of the Constructive Developmental Framework CDF and offers a few examples of how it can be used for self-awareness and personal growth. The emphasis in the video is that when we speak and relate to others, we are already embedded in a "frame of reference", and that this frame develops over the entire life span. That means that, in a way, we are sitting in a cave, without our knowing, unless we decide to explore the cave. Read More...

One of the new IDM initiatives is a 'Rewiring Team Dynamics' workshop which will be organized as a three day seminar in April 2015, near Brussels/Belgium. The key question is: How can we create groups that can learn from mistakes faster, more efficiently, and more consistently than competitors do?' The background of this question is the simple observation that a lot of groups systematically under-perform. They do not make good decisions and they do not solve complex problems in a collaborative way. Traditional Team Building Traditional team building interventions, which are mainly behaviorally focused, do not seem to work when team members are highly developed (especially when they are knowledge workers). The top interventions advised from a behavioral point of view are: foster constructive debate in meetings push back when consensus forms to quickly use devil's advocate thinking look for competing explanations to challenge your observations get some distance, step away, and then try again in order to recognize and interpret complex data use visual graphs or flowcharts to juxtapose the larger picture with the individual puzzle pieces reframe situations and always examine several more options use impromptu meetings when time is limited to generate more options, including unconventional choices... Read More...

The Move into Irrealism and How to Counter-Act It By Otto Laske The signs of a mutation of human consciousness since 2000 are becoming more and more clear: The real world disappears behind subjective screens propped up by objective social forces seeking profit. What the profit is meant to be used for is less than clear, and one can fear that it will serve psychological immaturity. The fact that consciousness overlays “itself” with screens signals a shift in the relationship in which empirical, actual, and real world are seen. Ontology, almost forgotten, is clubbed over the head once more. The disdain for empirical data, long in coming, and visible in the denial of global warming as well as integral speculation, seems to gain a stronger and stronger foothold. In Twitter, the links to the network of screens become shorter, and what was already short, like attention, is further shortened. What are the social consequences of this trend? Piaget thought of adult development as an increasing move out of ego-centrism, that is, the focus on “my little personality”. This hypothesis, followed in empirical research into the evolving self, is still on target, but the people using it are no dialectical thinkers.... Read More...

5' Introductory video: Otto Laske on the transformative power of learning dialectical thinking Read More...