19 docs tagged with "kegan"

A non-judgmental orientation to the Amber/Mythic stage — its gifts, cognition, worldview, and conditions — as the essential foundation for the Amber → Rational developmental sequence.

Mapping the shift from external authority to internal self-authorship — the core developmental challenge of the Amber → Rational transition — including the grief of what is lost and the practices that build genuine self-authoring capacity.

How to recognize, tolerate, and productively engage with cognitive dissonance as a developmental catalyst for the Amber → Rational stage transition — drawing on Kegan's subject-object theory and Mezirow's transformative learning.

An orientation and practice scaffold for metasystematic cognition (Commons) and vision-logic (Wilber) — the cognitive hallmark of Integral/Teal development — with four calibrated practices in system comparison, meta-pattern recognition, framework limitation mapping, and generative paradox work.

A structured developmental module for the Rational → Pluralistic transition that cultivates genuine collective intelligence — the capacity of a group to know and create more than any individual within it — while addressing the Green community shadow of enforced consensus, communal merger, and in-group policing. Draws on Scharmer's Theory U, Isaacs' dialogue practice, Owen's Open Space Technology, Kegan's holding environment, and Wilber's Lower-Left quadrant.

A Self-line module mapping the conventional ego arc from Conformist through Expert to Achiever, with phenomenological stage descriptions, developmental archaeology, and a pre/trans checkpoint against bypassing or shaming the conventional self.

An orientation to the Interpersonal developmental line in AQAL — defining relational development, mapping Kegan's subject–object stages as the developmental arc, grounding the line in attachment theory and Buber's I–Thou, and situating it within the broader psychograph.

A structured developmental module for building the Pluralistic/Green stage's core competency — empathic perspective-plurality — through phenomenological interview, perspective immersion journaling, and somatic empathy practice. Draws on Husserl, Gilligan, Scharmer, and Kegan.

Develops the capacity to distinguish dominator hierarchies — rank-ordered systems that suppress and exploit — from actualization hierarchies (holarchies) — nested levels of increasing complexity where each level includes and transcends the previous. The Integral competency this module builds is the precise discernment that makes Teal leadership, organizational design, and developmental facilitation possible.

Kegan and Lahey's Immunity to Change methodology operationalized within an AQAL frame. Learners map their Four-Column ITC structure, identify the Big Assumption driving their immunity, and design low-stakes behavioral experiments to test and loosen it.

A phenomenologically grounded orientation to the Integral/Teal stage — its monumental leap from 1st Tier to 2nd Tier cognition, its genuine gifts, its characteristic shadows, and the epistemic humility required to approach it honestly.

A reference matrix showing how the Interpersonal developmental line characteristically differs across Amber/Mythic, Rational/Orange, Pluralistic/Green, and Integral/Teal, including Kegan stage mapping, characteristic shadow patterns, and growth edges.

A phenomenological orientation to the eight distinctive signals that mark the late-Green growing edge — the specific experiences that indicate a Pluralistic meaning-making structure is beginning to become insufficient — framed as developmental emergence, not regression or betrayal of pluralistic values.

Operationalizes integral leadership as a concrete, practicable set of capacities — drawing on Torbert's action inquiry research and Laloux's Teal organizational research. Develops the ability to hold multiple complete frameworks simultaneously, diagnose the developmental level of a situation, and act from conviction while remaining genuinely open. This is not a personality type but a developmental achievement.

A non-reductive orientation to the Pluralistic/Green stage — its genuine gifts, historical significance, and characteristic limitations — as the foundation for the Rational → Pluralistic developmental sequence.

A Self-line module mapping the postconventional ego arc from Individualist (Cook-Greuter E-7) through Strategist (E-8), with Cook-Greuter's phenomenological precision, Identity Archaeology, Meaning-Making Authorship Practice, a Paradox Integration Exercise, and a pre/trans checkpoint distinguishing genuine postconventional development from identity diffusion and intellectual performance.

A clear-eyed orientation to the Rational/Orange stage — its gifts, cognition, worldview, and shadows — as the destination stage in the Amber → Rational developmental sequence.

A 10-week practice architecture for Self line development using sentence completion, perspective challenge, action inquiry, and relational mirror work, grounded in Cook-Greuter, Kegan, and Torbert.

Develops vision-logic — the cognitive hallmark of the Integral/Teal stage — as a concrete, practiceable capacity: moving from systems thinking (Green) toward metasystematic integration (2nd Tier) through four structured exercises in framework triangulation, meta-map construction, paradox navigation, and pattern-across-levels recognition.