About IDM

The InterDevelopMental Institute (IDM) is the world's leading provider of research-based adult-developmental education for consultants, coaches, HR strategists, facilitators, mediators, social workers, and psychologists. The Institute's consulting arm, Interdevelopmental Associates (IDMA), delivers teaching, mentoring, leadership development coaching, and capability management services to innovative organizations worldwide who seek to leverage cutting-edge research on adult development in optimizing innovation.

IDM owes its reputation as an educational institution to the pioneering effort made since 2000, to lift consultation to a level on which developmental knowledge about adults’ mental growth becomes part and parcel of consulting activity. This entails more than acquiring a new set of skills. Rather, it requires of the professional him- or herself a developmental shift to the self-authoring level, on which consultations are firmly based on one’s own values and principles, rather than mere “best practices”.

The Institute has developed a highly structured teaching and certification program. Teaching focus is on concepts and skills needed in process consultation, a consultation to clients’ mental process (E. Schein). Process consultation requires of the consultant a deep understanding of clients’ way of making meaning and sense of their work and life.