CDF – Otto Laske Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM)

The Osaka Interviews About CDF, The Constructive Developmental Framework

February 12, 2023February 12, 2023

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Interest in Constructive Developmental Framework is growing. Recently, we were invited to give an overview of CDF for members of the ‘Entrepreneur Factory’, Osaka, Japan. The attached set of slides is a new introduction to the historical sources of CDF, its main hypotheses, and the way it is used. How to become a user of...

Insights Into Spirituality Based on CDF

February 12, 2023February 12, 2023

Otto Laske CDF

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The topic of ‘spirituality’ has a huge literature. Empirical findings about it are rare. We looked at spirituality from an adult-developmental perspective and, using a semi-structured interview, came to some interesting conclusions. The interview is modeled after the social-emotional interview that is based on prompts. If you, the reader, find our conclusions to be of...

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...

How to Obtain Otto Laske’s Social Science Writings

December 31, 2020July 10, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, DTF

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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...