IDM Gateway
“Introduction to the Multidimensional Client: Linking Social-Emotional, Cognitive, and Psychological Perspectives”
The IDM Gateway course, whether taught live or based on self study, introduces students to three dimensions in which clients need to be understood in order to carry out effective interventions. Insight into these dimensions stems from decades of validated research since the 1970s but has not been widely taught in such a way that the dimensions are synthesized and seen together, rather than remaining separate.
For this reason, IDM offers this course in which three client dimensions -- social-emotional, cognitive, and psychological – are shown to form an integrated whole. Through this course, students form a holistic picture of clients, and begin to broaden their purview of how to approach and work with clients. Even if in their work they do not always follow all three dimensions, having taken this course will remind them of what they are leaving out.
Essentially Gateway is an introduction to the multidimensional coaching client. It helps coaches decide how much they care to know about a client (compared to what they could know if they followed a multi-dimensional approach).
Two Purposes of the Course
In its present form, Gateway is mandatory for coaches entering the assessment certificate track and optional for those who enter the Evidence Based Coaching Program. Each of the three dimensions is defined through CDF, the Constructive Developmental Framework, which helps coaches to support clients in answering the following three central questions:
- What should I do and for whom? – the social-emotional question
- What can I do and what are my options? – the cognitive questions
- How am I doing? – psychological questions regarding a client’s self conduct, approach to tasks, and interpersonal perspective in the workplace.
Outcomes
To judge from testimonials over the years, students experience Gateway as revolutionary (“overthrowing their apple cart”), in that it broadens their perspective on themselves and their clients. The course does so by making students aware of the fact that the social world in which they live and work is developmentally stratified in the sense that people live on, and act from, different levels of social-emotional meaning making and at the same time are in different phases of cognitive development, whatever may be their psychological profile and cultural environment.
By including instruction on phases of cognitive development and clients’ psychogenic needs, not found elsewhere, the course broadens students’ knowledge of adult development, making it easier for them to see what is most likely to be the core issue in coaching, leadership development, and psychotherapy (present assumptions in the Kohlberg and Integral Schools notwithstanding). Materials for Gateway Self-Study include:
- Access to six 2-hour audio recordings of a 2008 live Gateway teleclass
- Course handouts – over 200 pages
- Article on methodology
- Completion Interview with Dr. Laske to assess your learning
The Live Gateway Teleclass includes:
- Six 2-hour live Gateway teleclasses (audio recordings provided for each class)
- Course slides covering applied developmental theory – over 200 pages
- Article on methodology
Textbooks
IDM has published two textbooks for helping students understand in depth the social-emotional, psychological, and cognitive dimensions of coachees. Available also is a multitude of articles, as well as the IDM Newsletter and free teleseminars; see IDM Resources).
Textbooks can be obtained in ebook or softcover print form and are found at IDM Press.
For questions regarding the substance of the course write to the Director of Education, Otto Laske, at otto@interdevelopmentals.org. For logistic questions write to the Technical and Administrative Director, Greg Welstead, at admin@interdevelopmentals.org.
Tuition payments are accepted in form of check, money order or major credit card using our secure online system. Those aiming to register for an entire program in advance will receive a discount.
Registration
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