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Steps Toward Developing a Dialectical Thinking Practice: The Structure of the IDM Dialectics Practicum

November 8, 2020July 10, 2022

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

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The way we encounter the world is anchored in our ways of attending to it. They not only change the relationship we have to the world we unceasingly construct; they also fundamentally determine the world we encounter. Thinking in language when untutored in dialectical linking puts us under the control of left-hemisphere, logical, thinking, —...

From “Organizational Development” to Self-Development: An Insiders’ View of the IDM Dialectical Thinking Practicum

October 25, 2020June 7, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, DTF, Otto Laske, Thought Forms

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Self-development, in capitalistic society a mere appendix of professional education for the sake of playing an organizational role, is increasingly making a comeback as a personal goal. This come-back seemed out of the question until recently, being an outcome of attempts to consciously reverse the demise of liberal education by which universities reduced themselves to...

An Intense Five-Month Practicum in Dialectical Thinking

October 12, 2020June 7, 2022

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

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Increasingly, the issues on which the survival of our civilization depends are ‘wicked’ in the sense of being more complex than logical thinking alone can make sense of and deal with. Needed is not only systemic and holistic but dialectical thinking to achieve critical realism. Dialectical thinking has a long tradition both in Western and...

A Guide to Listening in Meetings Based on DTF

August 22, 2020June 7, 2022

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

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In this 2nd “inspiration session” regarding the book “Practices of Dynamic Collaboration”, Jan De Visch and Otto Laske focus on what DTF, the Dialectical Thought Form Framework, can teach a person or group about enlarging and deepening their ‘internal workplace’ through thought-form based listening. Thought forms are shown to be more than simply conversation starters...

Applying Bhaskar’s Four Moments of Dialectic to Reshaping Cognitive Development as a Social Practice using Laske’s Dialectical Thought Form Framework (DTF)

July 23, 2020June 7, 2022

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

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In this chapter for volume 2 of Meta-Theory dedicated to the memory of Bhaskar, delayed in its publication since 2014 and forthcoming at Routledge at the end of 2020, I outline a dialectical epistemology and CDF teaching method for absorbing Bhaskar’s legacy into integral thinking. I do so since both are presently absent from the...

Increasing the collaborative intelligence of teams by using deep dialogue practices

July 22, 2020June 7, 2022

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

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Team collaboration has become a pivot of organizational success. If people had an intuitive awareness of the structure of their thinking, team work would be a lot more effective since a greater mutual understanding and decision making would prevail. Such an awareness being absent, what meta-cognitive strategies can we use to heighten such an awareness?...