Cognitive Process Consulting for Professionals
This course presupposes the Gateway self study course. It uses the metaphor of the Three Houses to structure conversations focused on the way a client presently constructs his/her world conceptually. The Houses are different but related mental spaces in which work is carried out. They reflect the way in which a person constructs his or her internal workplace. Clients’ internal work place is the foundation for how work is actually done. This space has three facets: they way one conducts oneself (Self House), the way one approaches and carries out tasks (Task House), and the way one relates one’s work to the organizational or broader social environment (Organizational House)
In each of the Houses, the consultant focuses the client’s attention in different ways, to elicit evidence about “how the client thinks”. Pragmatically, the main purpose in this focusing is to open the client’s mind regarding alternative ways of thinking about whatever the topic of the conversation may be. Since the Houses reflect the way in which the client constructs his/her internal work place, they naturally comprise all intellectual subject matter that might be at issue and come up for discussion.
In probing for the structure of a client’s thinking, in focus is the client’s use of abstractions and theoretical models, more specifically the degree to which the client is able to transcend formal logical (‘black and white’) thinking toward dialectical systemic thinking. Such thinking evolves in adults over the lifespan in four different phases (Basseches, 1984). Since the cognitive aspects of the client’s functioning are clearly distinguished from social-emotional aspects, his or her intellectual capabilities emerge clearly enough for undertaking effective interventions.
Tuition for Cognitive Process Consulting pays for:
- Set of 6 2-hour audio recordings of a 2008 tele-class on cognitive development (2008)
- PDF of Section Three of volume 2 of Measuring Hidden Dimensions (2008) on interviewing
- Two articles on the CDF methodology (Laske 2008; 1999)
- Access to other IDM articles and presentations
- Completion interview with Dr. Laske to assess your interviewing
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