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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...

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...

A Conversation on Mentoring in Organizations Transitioning to a Less Hierarchical Culture

May 16, 2019June 3, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, Socio-emotional Dimension

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In this conversation with Paul Anwandter of INPACT, Santiago de Chile, in October 2018, we discuss the new landscape of mentoring that includes applying insights from research in adult development. We discuss the obstacles and failures but also the challenges of such mentoring in reference to a class on developmental coaching I teach at INPACT,...

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...

Critical Facilitation: Developing Complex Thinking Through De Visch’s ‘Re-Thinking Game’

April 29, 2019July 20, 2022

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

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My colleague and friend Jan De Visch has recently made enormous strides toward a ‘dialogically savvy app’, — an app that triggers deep and critical thinking in order to foster dynamic collaboration. The app is accompanied by the Re-Thinking Game, an implementation of DTF, the Dialectical Thought Form Framework. DTF is an ideal framework for...