Articles by Otto Laske – Page 6 – Otto Laske Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM)

Exploring Movements-in-Thought: The Experiential and Historical Roots of Qualitative Data Acquisition in the Constructive Developmental Framework.

August 12, 2019June 8, 2022

Otto Laske Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Otto Laske

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The blog reviews the personal, experiential and historical, roots of the Constructive Developmental Framework as a tool for systematically exploring movements-in-thought through empirical data capture in real time. Its main purpose is to highlight the need for establishing a systematic training sequence geared to educating critical facilitators working in organizations and institutions, for the sake...

On the Difficulty of Letting Thinking ‘Appear’

June 16, 2019June 8, 2022

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

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In this blog, I draw conclusions from two previous blogs, found at and , both focused on teaching and learning dialectical thinking. I show that teaching dialectical thinking needs to address, and draw practical conclusions from, the distinction between ‘thinking’ and ‘cognition’, seen as counter-movements between the four moments of dialectic, CPRT, in the sense...

Balancing Dialogue and Text Analysis in Teaching Dialectical Thinking

June 2, 2019June 8, 2022

Otto Laske Dialectical Thinking, DTF

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In this blog, I problematize the question of how to teach dialectical thinking effectively in a world experienced as ‘VUCA’. Specifically, I summarize my experience with teaching DTF at the Interdevelopmental Institute, with a focus on educating Critical Facilitators. Thought Form Theories def

Making a Cognitive Case Study Following the IDM Cohort Method

May 21, 2019June 8, 2022

Otto Laske Cognitive Dimension, Dialectical Thinking, DTF

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There is, at the present time, an enormous lack of complex thinkers in the world, especially thinkers who are also doers and have the power to address the predicaments we are presently in as a species. So the idea that it is worthwhile to acquire complex holistic thinking abilities is a natural one for anybody...

On the Critical Realism of the ‘Dark Mountain Manifesto’ in Relationship to the Myth of ‘Human Resources’

May 15, 2019June 8, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, DTF, Otto Laske

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In these comments on the ‘Dark Mountain Manifesto’ of Kingsnorth and Hine (2014), and its authors’ reflection on it five years later, I point out the origin of the three ‘myths’ of progress, human centrality, and separation from nature (as ‘environment’). I see a straightforward relationship between these myths with the organizational myth of ‘human...

Is there a Bridge Between Social-Emotional and Cognitive Capability?

May 15, 2019June 8, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Otto Laske, Socio-emotional Dimension

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In this blog, I point to the de-totalization of human consciousness that is presently state of the art in research in adult development. This de-totalization occurs on account of the absence of research on the way in which the social-emotional capability, shed light on by Loevinger and Kegan, intrinsically relates to the cognitive capability researched...