Dialectical Thinking – Otto Laske Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM)

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August 17, 2022August 22, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, Practica and labs, Socio-emotional Dimension, Team Development, Thought Forms

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Work at the Interdevelopmental Institute is evidence-based throughout, deriving from adult-developmental research since 1975. Specifically, we practice informed by the synthesis of developmental insights accomplished in Otto Laske’s Constructive Developmental Framework (CDF). To increase our work’s critical realism, since 2020 we have embedded it in R. Bhaskar’s and M. Archer’s Social Ontology, thereby interpreting CDF...

IDM Practica in Dialectical Thinking

April 27, 2022July 20, 2022

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

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When it comes to acquiring developmental and dialectical thinking, “philosophies of the mind”, “theories”, and “world views” are insufficient. They are all abstractions that can be moved around like pieces of furniture, and in dazzling ways. What matters are PRACTICES based on them, and such practices require METHODS. The Constructive Developmental Framework (CDF), which includes...

A Description of IDM’s Program For Acquiring Fluency in Using CDF Tools

February 23, 2022June 7, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, DTF, Otto Laske, Team Development

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The IDM program that leads to fluency in the use of CDF tools, now 20 years old, has unusual features that set them apart from other professional offerings. Among these features are: (1) professional learning closely linked to personal self-development, (2) comprehensive introduction into developmental and dialectical thinking, (3) exercises set in social contexts that...

Architectural Work as Environment Making: Why Should Architects Acquire Tools Comprised by CDF, the Constructive Developmental Framework?

December 29, 2021June 7, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Otto Laske

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Professional work is typically viewed as based on ‘expert’, that is, logical knowledge and systems thinking. I show in this blog that such a view is mistaken since it encourages doing professional work within the confines of closed systems geared to efficiency and control. In the blog, I see such systems as self-serving and ideological...

Toward a Critical Realist Management and Consulting Framework Based on CDF

May 5, 2021June 7, 2022

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

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In this article, Otto Laske emphasizes the lack of a social ontology in present managerial and consultative thinking. Such a discipline helps social and cultural actors understand the antecedent social and cultural structures their concerns and projects are embedded in, as well as strengthen the likelihood that executing their projects will come as close as...

The Dialectical Thought Form Framework (DTF) as a Consulting Tool for Solving (Social) Structure/Agency Dilemmas

February 11, 2021July 10, 2022

Otto Laske DTF, Otto Laske

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In the book and consulting project sketched in this blog, Otto Laske shows how to facilitate societal transformations by elaborating Margaret Archer’s work on “Structure, Agency, and Internal Conversations” (2003). He thereby extends both Bhaskar’s “The Possibility of Naturalism” (1979) and Archer’s work into dialectical practice. To deepen Archer’s logical approach, Laske introduces adult-developmental and...