Quadrant Interactions

IEC Conference: 2025

This presentation explores an interaction model, integrating multiple methodological approaches within Ken Wilber’s 4 Quadrant framework increasing its compatibility with the postmodern academic world. Drawing from my dissertation in Religious Studies, I argue for a non-reductionist, interdisciplinary approach that considers subjective experience, cultural narratives, somatic embodiment, and social structures and the varoius interactions between them. The model synthesizes insights from phenomenology, sociology, cognitive science, and discourse analysis. By engaging thinkers such as Foucault, Durckheim, and Berger & Luckmann, this framework offers an extension to Wilber’s 4 Quadrants. This approach encourages interdisciplinary collaboration by raising awareness to the contributions of each discipline looking at how their quadrant effects the other three.

HOCH, Felix Dr.

Germany

Felix has been working for over 15 years as a consultant, coach and trainer on the topics of transformation and user-centered innovation. He is trained as an integral-systemic business coach (ICF) and worked for several years in teaching at the School of Design Thinking and in project coaching for organizations at the Academy of the Hasso-Plattner-Institute (HPI). He studied biology, religious studies, Japanese studies and philosophy in Munich and Tokyo and received his PhD on the philosophy of science of interdisciplinary work in religious studies research.