Social-Emotional Development

Objective: Understanding Kegan’s theory of social-emotional meaning=making, not only theoretically but in the practical form of interviewing and of systematically evaluating (‘scoring’) transcribed qualitative interviews or fragments thereof. More importantly, the objective is one of internalizing such an understanding for use in real-time situations when communicating with clients, supervisors, bosses, colleagues and, last but not least, oneself.

Methodology: Laske’s Constructive Developmental Frame (CDF), an integration of Frankfurt School ‘Critical Thinking’ with Kohlberg School research findings about adult social-emotional development over the lifespan.

Activities engaged in by participants: After absorbing Laske’s ‘Measuring Hidden Dimentions’ , participants work on short narrative texts taken from transcripts of social-emotional interviews. Importantly, they work as a team whose members feel responsible for each other’s learning — the foremost engine of success in participating in the workshop.

Activities of the instructor: The instructor builds on participants’ beginning understanding of key concepts of social-emotional development, acting as a teacher, interviewer, team leader, developmental team coach, and mentor over the duration of the course.

Prerequisites: none

Start Date: Signup of minimally 7 participants

Number of Participants: Maximum of 20 participants

Workshop Duration: Twelve 1-hr sessions over 15 weeks (4-5 months)

Materials: ED Workbook, Workshop Materials, and Templates for Case Studies and Scoring

Certification: Interdevelopmental Institute Certificate (IDM) of Coaching and Consulting

Inquiries to: otto@interdevelopmentals.org (Otto Laske, Director of Education, Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM)

Detailed Course Curriculum:

• Introduction to Adult Development
  • Process Consultation
  • Learning versus Development
• Constructive Developmental Framework (CDF)
  • Epistemic Position and Reflective Judgement
  • Frame of Reference
  • Three Dimensions of the Human Condition
  • Developmental Listening
  • Language as Mirror
• Introduction to Structured Interviewing
• Overview for Case Studies
• Reflection Exercises
• Social Emotional Development (ED) – Overview
• Adult Developmental Attainment in Evolved Societies
• Center of Gravity
  • Oscillations around a Center of Gravity
• Structure of Social-Emotional Shifts
• Stage Descriptions
• Changing Orientations Across Adult Stages
• Stage 2
  • Stage 2 Caricature
  • Stage 2 Hallmarks
  • Journey to Stage 3
  • Working with Stage 2 Individuals
  • Limitations of a Stage 2 Helping Professional
  • Exercise- Stage 2
• Stage 3
  • Stage 3 Caricature
  • Stage 3 Hallmarks
  • Journey to Stage 4
  • Working with Stage 3 Individuals
  • Limitations of a Stage 3 Helping Professional
  • Exercise- Stage 3
• Stage 4
  • Stage 4 Caricature
  • Stage 4 Hallmarks
  • Journey to Stage 5
  • Working with Stage 4 Individuals
  • Limitations of a Stage 4 Helping Professional
  • Exercise- Stage 4
• Stage 5
  • Stage 5 Caricature
  • Stage 5 Hallmarks
  • Journey beyond Stage 5
  • Working with Stage 5 Individuals
  • Limitations of a Stage 5 Helping Professional
• Moving towards Social-Emotional Interviewing
  • ⁂ Exercise- Interview Fragments
  • ⁂ Exercise- Social Emotional Coding for Determining RCP
  • ⁂ Exercise- Subject Object Bit Selection and Coding
• Principles of Social-Emotional Interviewing
  • Interviewing vs. Conversation
  • Developmental Listening (Social-Emotional, SE)
  • Task of the Interviewer
  • Elementary Principles of Developmental Interviewing
  • Interview Hints
  • S/E Interview Prompts
  • List of S/E Interview Prompts
  • Level Commensurate Questions with Stage Demarcations
• Principles of Social-Emotional Evaluation (Scoring)
• Scoring the Interview
• Social-Emotional Coding Sheet Format
• The ‘RCP’ Index
• Computing the RCP
• Developmental Potential

Developmental Risk