STAGES for Integral Geeks This workshop features the theoretical underpinnings of the STAGES developmental model, based on a combination of Wilber’s work and the Loevinger Lineage of ego development, and how the theory supports the subsequent research. The three polar pairs of individual/collective, inside and outside, and inter/exterior that make up the Integral frame is used in a novel way to create perspective definitions, and a new understanding of the use of zones. Participants will learn how emptiness and fullness is the basis of this model, how developmental stereotypes get propagated, and the repeating patterns that arise through making some clear distinctions from the orienting generalizations in the Integral Frame. The methodology for arriving at this theory and the subsequent research will be described.

The Perennial Fallacy of Developmental Altitude: Enhancing Your Developmental Acumen

Many of us are employing and working with less mature understandings and applications of developmental theory. As a result, our engagements with the people and organizations we work with often suffer. Unknowingly we negatively impact our own well-being. While our intentions may be good, the interventions we employ can have far reaching developmental implications that may not serve the people, groups and organizations we work with. This presentation is a first step toward enhancing, refining and maturing our collective developmental acumine. We focus on enacting more of your own human elegance in how you understand and work with development. Participants shift their thinking away from the idea that people are “at” or “in” a stage of development. A more accurate and nuanced view of dynamic developmental processes is fostered. Pragmatic Neurological and biological supports are supplied to unlock greater efficacies in how you foster your own and other people’s development.