Center for Applied Dialectics

Our Manifesto

  • There is a fascinating emerging body of knowledge in the field of adult development.
  • Notably, the insights around cognitive development are not fully accessible yet.
  • How would our world look if we applied these evolving insights to the fields of businesses, education, politics etc?
  • CAD, the Center of Applied of Dialectics, opens up a platform for practitioners in the field of adult development, integrating research into their practice, exchanging findings and thereby nourishing each other, empowering others to do likewise.
  • Our mission is to grow the understanding of dialectical thinking, not as something that is abstract and of use only to high-minded philosophers, but as a practical tool for all adults to apply in thinking about the complex problems that surround us in today’s world. 

Next Salon:

Thursday Sept 17th 1900 CEST:  “Maturity Indicators and the Growth Lever Approach to Coaching”

In this Salon we will return to explore the concept and use of Leadershipmaturity.ai 's maturity indicators and growth levers. Lily Truong and her colleagues Bettina Geiken and Pamela Potts will facilitate a discussion on how insight can be translated into practical action.

Lily writes: With the discovery of the ten Maturity Indicators and recommended Growth Levers, we hope to offer invitations for targeted coaching engagement. Maturity Indicators describe distinct dimensions of how a person thinks, feels, relates and makes meaning, while Growth Levers are the capacities most likely to be catalytic for that particular client: an approach we compare to precision medicine for leadership growth.

This Salon continues a thread from Tamas Madl's earlier session,The Hidden Structure of Adult Development: How AI Can Map and Catalyze Vertical Growth, and follows it to where practitioners actually live: what happens after the assessment. A developmental stage score — derived from responses to a Sentence Completion Test (SCTi-MAP) — offers a rough map of how a person makes meaning of themselves and their world at a particular moment. But it's just that: a snapshot. The score alone rarely tells a coach what to do and what to focus on during debrief and coaching with the client and what is alive for the client at this point in time

In practice, developmental coaching draws on several things at once: stage characteristics as described across various developmental frameworks; the modalities and tools the coach has trained in; and the tailored recommendations within the report itself — which vary with the provider's deliverable package, the scorer's read of the patterns in the responses, and the scorer's own training background and focus. Maturity Indicators and Growth Levers are our approach to bring more precision to that last piece.

By responsibly applying technology to SCTi-MAP scoring and research, we hope to support our evolving understanding and practice of developing leadership maturity capacities.

The work sits in the Loevinger–Cook-Greuter line of ego development, with Dr. Susanne Cook-Greuter as Chief Knowledge Advisor. LeadershipMaturity.ai offers a computational psychometrics platform with purpose-built models custom-trained for adult developmental assessments (Madl & Cook-Greuter, in press, Frontiers in Psychology). It delivers expert-grade leadership maturity assessments in minutes rather than weeks. Notably, no report is ever handed to a client on its own: every result is interpreted in a live debrief with a certified coach. More at https://www.leadershipmaturity.ai/ and https://www.growthlevers.ai/

Presenters & Facilitators

Dr. Bettina Geiken

Lily Truong, MA

Pamela Potts, PCC

Recent Salons:

  • Tue May 12th: Grainne McAnallen - Can Yoga Nidra support and accelerate the evolution to higher states of consciousness and pave the way for the dialectical re-organisation of thinking?
  • Thursday 9th July: John Kesler - Integral Polarity Practice 

Calendar:
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Past Salons: 

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The current expert practitioners holding the platform:

 

Some of the people at least loosely connected with CAD and their resources (in progress):

CAD - Otto Laske / interdevelopmentals.org