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How to Obtain Otto Laske’s Social Science Writings

December 31, 2020July 10, 2022

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Otto Laske’s contributions to social-science, process consultation, and the teaching of & mentoring in developmental and dialectical thinking and listening extend from 1999 to the present day. While his two books on ‘Measuring Hidden Dimensions’ are presently out of print, they are available in their newest edition under Publications () as pdf. In addition, almost...

CDF: The Latest Reworking of the Adult Developmental Literature of the Harvard Kohlberg School

November 16, 2020July 10, 2022

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

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As time elapses, research findings get updated, consolidated, and what was originally left out or stayed unseen is clarified. An example of this historical process is CDF, the Constructive Developmental Framework created by Otto Laske between 1999 and 2000. 25 years after Kohlberg School research began, CDF brought together what this research separated or left...

Steps Toward Developing a Dialectical Thinking Practice: The Structure of the IDM Dialectics Practicum

November 8, 2020July 10, 2022

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

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The way we encounter the world is anchored in our ways of attending to it. They not only change the relationship we have to the world we unceasingly construct; they also fundamentally determine the world we encounter. Thinking in language when untutored in dialectical linking puts us under the control of left-hemisphere, logical, thinking, —...

From “Organizational Development” to Self-Development: An Insiders’ View of the IDM Dialectical Thinking Practicum

October 25, 2020June 7, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, DTF, Otto Laske, Thought Forms

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Self-development, in capitalistic society a mere appendix of professional education for the sake of playing an organizational role, is increasingly making a comeback as a personal goal. This come-back seemed out of the question until recently, being an outcome of attempts to consciously reverse the demise of liberal education by which universities reduced themselves to...

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...