IDM Program One, Module A

"Deepening Developmental Listening"

Once you have an overview of social-emotional development based on Gateway, you’ll want to deepen your insight by working on actual utterances of adults, to learn to ‘decode’ them in terms of the level of meaning making from which a particular adult speaks in a semi-structured interview. You will also want to learn how to administer such an interview for the purpose of eliciting developmentally valid information.

These two purposes are served by Module A. Throughout the Module, you begin to internalize ‘how an adult at stage 2 sounds’, and so for all remaining main and intermediate stages. Consequently, you’ll begin to listen to yourself differently, as well as to your clients.

But developmental listening is only one of the things you learn in Module A, although a most important one. You also begin to be able to speak with others, clients or not, in a way that informs you of “where they are coming from developmentally,” that is, how much responsibility they can take for themselves. And finally, you’ll be able to give an evaluative score to an entire interview on which feedback can be given to a client.

This may sound a little scary, but you still have a long way to go to make what people say entirely transparent to yourself. Social-emotional development is only one strand of adult development, and without also understanding the cognitive strand, you have only scratched the surface.

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