Season's Greetings from IDM

• IDM Press Launches Flagship Book: “Measuring Hidden Dimensions” IDM Press Release
• “Measuring Hidden Dimensions” Book Reviews (on IDM web site)
• Course Descriptions : Short description of IDM courses leading to Certificate in Developmental Assessment, and the designation of Certified Developmental Consultant/Coach
• Featured Article : Short Description of Measuring Hidden Dimensions, by Otto Laske (on IDM web site)
• Schedule of Courses taught during the period of November 2005 to March 2006

Course Title

Teaching Focus

CERTIFICATION COURSES

Hidden Dimension Workshop (Verborgene Dimensionen Workshop)

Participants are introduced to using developmental thinking skills in consulting and coaching, with an emphasis on the theoretical framework of adult stages. No preconditions.

Gateway [16 course hrs.]

Participants learn about “main” and “intermediate” social-emotional stages and complete elementary exercises in developmental interviewing. (HD participants can enter this course with reduced tuition.) Gateway has no prerequisites, but is a precondition for participating in Course One.

COURSE ONE [32 weeks or 8 months, with 1-2 months for submitting a case study; 80 ICF coach training credits]

The basic IDM course. Participants learn how to hold three different perspectives on the client: social-emotional (A), cognitive (B), and behavioral (C). Participation in this course is a pre-requisite for Courses Two and Three.

Course One, Module A

Participants gain solid and fluent knowledge of social-emotional stage theory and its applications in process consultation and coaching. A developmental assessment of participants prior to, or during, Module A is strongly recommended. Textbook: Measuring Hidden Dimensions, volume 1 (2005/6).

Course One, Module B

Participants learn to take a cognitive perspective on clients, and the specific interviewing that perspective requires. They reflect on their use of thought forms and concepts in relation to their clients, and learn how to challenge and boost their clients’ thinking. Textbook: Measuring Hidden Dimensions, volume 2 (2006).

Course One, Module C

Participants use a detailed behavioral assessment (‘Need/ Press’) for gauging a client’s unconscious strength and bottlenecks in self conduct, task approach, and interpersonal perspective in the work place. They learn how to relate questionnaire data to the developmental perspectives taught in Modules A and B, and thereby explain them.

Course One, Module D

Participants carrying out their first client case study are supervised by the instructor in how they are using the tools learned in Modules A to C. They are mentored in synthesizing all three perspectives learned on a client, and readied for submitting their data to IDM in order to obtain a Certificate in Developmental Assessment.

COURSE TWO [3 months; 45 ICF coach training hrs.]

Participants attend a Master Class based on engaging with three further case studies by which to make their developmental expertise become ‘second nature.’ The instructor intermittently serves as a consultant to their process, and as a supervisor of their work. At the end of three months, participants submit their data to IDM in order to be certified as a Developmental Consultant or Coach.

COURSE THREE [variable duration; 40 ICF coach training hrs.]

Participants engage in academic research based on IDM’s constructive-developmental framework (CDF), in order to complete a Masters or doctoral thesis at a university or college of their choice. The instructor serves as an academic coach and mentor, and as a co-reader of their thesis or dissertation.

NON-CERTIFICATE COURSES

Free Monthly Teleforum [English & German; 1 hr]

Participants learn about a specific topic in developmental coaching; alternatively, they are introduced to IDM course offerings and other IDM resources.

Mastering Developmental Listening in Coaching [4 hrs.]

Participants acquire deeper insight into the technique of developmental interviewing specifically in coaching.

Understanding Your Coaching Strengths and Bottlenecks [17 hrs.]

Participants complete a behavioral assessment based on whose interpretation in class they learn about their own strengths and potential bottlenecks in working with coaching clients. A 1-hr personal feedback on their personal data by the instructor is part of the course.

Business Coaching for Potential [16 hrs.]

Participants learn how to administer and interpret behavioral data forthcoming from clients, and how to gear their coaching to particular coaching needs the client cannot be fully aware of.