IDM ESTABLISHES INTERDEVELOPMENTAL ASSOCIATES LLC
By Otto Laske
Until now, we have focused on the education of coaches who feel a need to adopt research-based principles for understanding their clients better, that is, at a deeper level. Very often, this need is displaced by the need to earn a living, and its gratification thus postponed, often indefinitely.
However, in reality a better understanding of one's clients and peers is a foremost professional obligation of consultants and coaches. In the long run, there is no better way to succeed in one’s practice other than to invest oneself in one’s own development. As our classes have shown, becoming aware of the entire range of adult-developmental stages by itself has positive developmental effects, especially if it is deepened by insight into one’s own developmental stage at the present time.
Developmental insight is also paramount when taking on more communal issues such as talent management and succession planning in organizations, and shaping the human capital strategies of organizations and public administrations from a holistic, "whole person" point of view.
An additional issue that is salient both in North America and Europe is evidence based teaching, – refocusing educational strategies based on developmental assessments of students and principals that support excellence in the classroom. With all this in mind, a small number of students have, together with me, formed the INTERDEVELOPMENTAL ASSOCIATES LLC, for short IDA. Our mission statement is as follows:
Interdevelopmental Associates (IDA) is a multilingual, developmentally oriented international consulting firm at home both in North America and Europe. We specialize in the management of human capital on the level of assessed developmental potential — rather than only performance — delivering powerful change technologies on the individual, team, and group levels.
Our focus is on the integration of prognostic assessments with strategies presently used by our clients, for the sake of talent management, succession planning, executive development, and coaching, both in the context of the non-profit and for-profit sectors.
As a result, the IDM Hidden Dimensions Newsletter will in the future be focused on business and community consulting through IDA. We will consider IDM as IDA's "teaching branch", and will uphold its path-breaking course program to expand the community of developmentally thinking practitioners. In this effort, we will make use of the publication opportunities afforded us by IDM Press.
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Call for Submissions of Book Manuscripts
If you have a manuscript that may be relevant to the field of developmentally based consultation including coaching, IDM Press would be pleased to consider your submission. Our press is in its infancy. We have issued one — well selling — publication, namely, volume 1 of Otto Laske’s Measuring Hidden Dimensions. At this time, we are interested in receiving bonafide materials based on the following criteria and/or procedures:
- Your text should be a contribution to empirical scholarship in the field, carried out from an original vantage point
- The text should follow APA (American Psychological Association) format in its layout and references, and be minimally 80 pages long
- The text should be submitted to the editors print ready, and in 8.25 x 11 format as a pdf (if you need more info, we can help you)
- The cover image should be in .tif format.
IDM Press is described in Dustbooks as follows:
IDM Press, Otto Laske PhD, PsyD, Editor in Chief; Nancy Moynihan M.Sc., Assistant Editor, 51 Mystic St, Medford, MA 02155, MA 02155-3643, 781.391.2361. 2005. Music, non-fiction. IDM Press specializes in social science based text- and handbooks for the college and adult education market.
A recent contributor is Dr. Otto Laske, a well-known social scientist and psychologist writing on coaching and process consultation. As to music, we publish musicology texts, especially those focusing on musical cognition and music theory. We occasionally publish poetry, mostly bilingual. avg. press run 1000. Expects 2 titles 2006, 5 titles 2007. Discounts: 55%. 300-500pp. Reporting time: 4 weeks at most. Simultaneous submissions accepted: No. Publishes 10% of manuscripts submitted. Payment: We typically expect print ready texts. Does not copyright for author. Subjects: Consulting, Education, Ethics, Management, Sociology, Textbooks.
For further questions, write to info@interdevelopmentals.org.
From Coach Training to Coach Education: Teaching Coaching Within a Comprehensively Evidence Based Framework
Otto Laske’s paper of the above title is to appear in volume 4.1 of the bi-annual peer-reviewed International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring this month. The journal can be found http://www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/education/ijebcm/. A brief synopsis of the paper is below.
Coaching is a discipline that is presently without a theory. It is a discipline in transition that is increasingly groping for research based underpinnings to justify its existence and special nature. Since coaching did not start on secure theoretical foundations, many eclectic, add-on approaches are now developing, meant to give coaching more legitimacy. Otto's paper suggests that what is really needed is a comprehensively evidence based framework as put in place at the Interdevelopmental Institute. By "evidence based" is meant not only teaching based on the use of empirical data, but foremost establishing cohesive conceptual frameworks from within which accurate data can be generated. In this paper, he describes in detail the structure of the IDM program, its structure, modules, and curricular sequence, to give an example of the pedagogical revolution needed.
In brief, the IDM program is based on Wilber's Integral Approach. It provides the instrumentation for that approach through an assessment of three crucial aspects of adult development over the lifespan:
- Social emotional self — stages of developmental maturity
- Cognitive self — levels of cognitive information processing complexity
- Behavioral self — relationship of behavioral dimensions such as self conduct, approach to tasks, and emotional intelligence.
As Otto’s article points out, coach training presently does not honor adult capabilities to the degree possible, by not taking coaches adult development pedagogically into account. Rather, coach training "undersells" adult capacities of learning, rather than deepening adults' propensity to expand their consciousness and systemic thinking capacity. No add-ons to the present training programs will ultimately suffice to ensure a future for coaching in this society.
Otto's paper pays particular attention to the curricular sequence in which developmental coaching should be taught. To startle learners into self awareness, an emotional charge is initially needed. At IDM, this charge is provided by the assessment of the social emotional self as detailed in Otto’s Measuring Hidden Dimensions, volume 1. This initial step comprises IDM Program One Gateway and Module A courses.
In a second step, focus shifts to cognitive assessment, making available to the coach a set of Thought Forms which in work with clients are used as mind openers. (Program One Module B). The third curricular step comprises techniques for assessing behavioral symptoms of a client’s developmental position, such as ways of conducting oneself in a social environment, the way one approaches tasks, and one’s emotional intelligence (Program One, Module C).
As practiced at IDM, insights from these three assessment perspectives are brought together in Module D of Program One, leading to the delivery of an individual case study that systemically synthesizes the three perspectives. In terms of its rigor, the resulting Certificate of Developmental Assessment corresponds to post-graduate certification in thinking developmentally in coaching.
Developmental Coaching Instruction at Seneca College, Toronto, Canada
The IDM Gateway course is being taught at Seneca College, Toronto, as an integral part of PERFORMANCE COACHING FOR THE WORKPLACE, under the title of Developmental Coaching; it is scheduled to start in April of 2006. The course description reads:
This course provides an introduction to evidence-based coaching, Developmental Coaching - a coaching model that examines a person’s fundamental frame of reference through their use of language. Changes in belief, lead to changes in behaviour, and subsequent positive changes in action. Learning takes place through discussion, application, and practice labs. Developmental Coaching is offered in partnership with the Interdevelopmental Institute and employs cutting edge research from the Kohlberg School at Harvard University.
For more information, go to http://www.senecac.on.ca/performancecoaching/, or contact Wendy Knowles, Program Director, at wendy.knowles@senecac.on.ca.
Teleclasses on Learning to Listen Developmentally in Coaching
IDM's Developmental Listening/Interviewing Practicum is offered in two languages. It starts in German on Thursday March 2nd, 2006, 2 pm ET (20 CET); the English language equivalent starts on Thursday March 23rd, 2006, 7 pm ET (4 pm PST). Either session consists of four 2-hour teleclasses.
In this class, we focus on how you presently listen to your clients and give you insight into WHAT YOU COULD BE LISTENING FOR IF YOU WERE THINKING DEVELOPMENTALLY. We show you how to be more perceptive about what you hear, and what you can do to assist your client.
The German Practicum requires prior attendance of Gateway.
The English language class has no pre-conditions except 3-year coaching experience. English language participants in the March 23rd class please register below.
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Thursday March 23, 7 pm ET (4 pm PST) |
$350
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| German |
Thursday, March 2, 2 PM EST (20 CET) |
Euro 295
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Introduction to Developmental Coaching
IDM'S Gateway is the time-proven introduction to developmental thinking in coaching and consultation in North America. The class prepares participants for entering IDM Program One. A new 8x2 hr Gateway class starts Tuesday, March 7, 2006 from 4-6 PM EST.
Tuition: $495 (approx. Euro 400)
To register: Register for Gateway
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