The Momentous Leap: Moving to Second Tier by Devel
The momentous leap to second tier is supported by maturing our spiritual intelligence. Key SQ21 competencies and practices support SQ development, which act as a springboard toward later stages of adult development. This paper focuses on specific competencies such as complexity of inner thought, discernment between ego and higher self, welcoming different worldviews, experience of […]
A Path To Wholeness: Women’s Authentic Leadership
This qualitative study provides a comprehensive understanding of how women experience authentic leadership throughout the stages of adult development, bridging Robert Kegan’s orders of consciousness and Terri O’Fallon’s STAGES. The current context is a culture deeply conflicted by women’s authority, where men and women, along with the gendered structure of most organizations, hold unconscious biases […]
Design Being: practices of adaptive creativity
Roles and best practices in design are effective in solving superficial problems, but they fall short of addressing the deeper challenges that we face, both individually and collectively. While Design Being acknowledges the designer within everyone, it makes a special appeal to emerging leaders who recognize the need for bold yet grounded change. Emerging designers […]
Next-Stage Organizations: A Transdisciplinary Case
The essence of this transdisciplinary case study was to provide a methodological foundation and method for researching Next-Stage Organizations, as well as to explore the correlation between adult and organizational development and the efficacy of using O’Fallon’s STAGES to assess an organization. Three Founder/CEO’s from Laloux’s Reinventing Organizations completed STAGES assessments. Organizational data was gathered […]
Economic Crisis: Catalyst for Planetary Awakening?
We are living through a period of enormous economic, geopolitical and technological changes: inflation and a cost-of-living crisis; financial instability, volatile crypto-currencies and emerging Central Bank Digital Currencies; China and the BRICS nations’ historic challenge to the American-led economic and geopolitical order; an epochal shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy; an explosion of Artificial […]
The Dynamics of the Spectrum Shift to Later Stages
Transformative Executive Coaching: The Drivers and Dynamics that Expedite Later Stage Leadership Development. This thesis illuminated key contributing factors in the shift from Achiever to Strategist. In a multiple-case study (Yin, 2018) 12 senior executives were assessed and selected as participants based on their predominant Achiever stage profiles using a variation of the WUSCT (Loevinger […]
Becoming Integral in the Anthropocene
This paper descriptively examines the emergent poetics of planetary thinking that our age—the geological epoch of the Anthropocene—is calling forth in us, and how an integral ontology could help to enact them. First, I begin by grounding us in the phenomenological approach to integral philosophy offered through Jean Gebser (1905-1973), which helps us identify the […]
Shadow Work in Past Life Therapy
Viktória will talk about past life regression therapy and how such an “exotic thing” may help to progress the evolution of human consciousness to the next, truly integral stage. The special emphasis will be on shadow work. It will be elaborated that the concept of reincarnation is understood differently at different stages and therefore, at […]