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IDM COMMUNITY KICK-OFF MEETING
FOR THE US AND EUROPE
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2 PM EST
FOR ASIA PACIFIC
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 6 PM EST
This is an invitation to join us for a kick-off meeting on the two upcoming Tuesdays this month. We would love to hear about your ideas and wishes for how to assemble, strengthen, and structure the international IDM Community using the Linked-in Group “IDM Space”. We urge you to join this group, as it will be the platform for personal and professional exchanges between IDM staff, students and alumni.
IDM member Nick Shannon (UK), has suggested we propose to open the group to those also who have never studied here. We would like to encourage you to invite your LinkedIn contacts, to further strengthen and enliven the IDM Space group created by Kathleen Jenulis and organized by Greg Welstead.
All meetings will take place over GoToMeeting based on which we send you this invitation. In this software, only a small download is required. The presenter can appoint other presenters during the meeting, and work with any number of panelists. As with free IDM teleseminars, our meetings will be recorded for access by those unable to partake in person.
We invite those who may miss the two meetings above to be in touch by joining the IDM Linked-in group and write us about their ideas regarding this community. Without your participation we are all the poorer!
In future meetings, IDM graduates will present CDF related ideas and materials in their native language, but presentations in English are not at all discouraged. If you want to speak about how you use CDF and want to invite colleagues to get to know your CDF practice, let Greg know at admin@interdevelopmentals.org, and we will work with you to make it happen.
Register for US AND EUROPE Session (Tuesday, February 7, 2012):
Register for ASIA PACIFIC Session (Thursday, February 16, 2012):
Previous Teleseminars
You are welcome to download the audio recordings using the links below.
Why Clients Benefit From Developmental Thinking and Listening More Than Ever In Difficult Times
Thursday January 12, 2012 at 11 am ET (=5 pm CET; =4 pm UK time)
2012-01-12 Teleseminar- Streaming
2012-01-12 Teleseminar - Download MP3
A new year is upon is. In the helping professions, we ought to think about what, in these for many people difficult times, we can bring to them that is of real benefit. “Best practices” won’t do: NEW THINKING IS NEEDED, not the replication of old thinking. New thinking comes from new data!
In this spirit, Otto Laske is going to talk about what he sees as a special benefit for clients, of working with them from an evidence-based developmental perspective. In particular, he will emphasize that while situations and crises come and go, knowledge about one’s own personal strengths and challenges in the workplace, when clarified by developmental assessment, is a real gift.
New Year resolutions based on one’s own fuzzy knowledge of oneself typically wear off after 2-4 weeks. By contrast, insight based on developmental assessment, when deeply received, can provoke a revolution in one way of working and living.
Otto will also talk about three purely developmentally grounded life situations that coaches and leadership developers focused on “behavior”, “competences”, or “spirit” cannot understand and deal with; these situations are clearly revealed only by way of developmental assessment (such as by CDF):
- conflictual social-emotional positions
- weakness of cognitive profile in social-emotionally highly mature people
- pernicious influences of psychological bottlenecks on both social-emotional and cognitive growth.
Everybody is welcome, especially coaches and consultants working with highly responsible leaders and managers. Often, such leaders have a hard time hearing the truth about themselves shielded, as they are, from the truth by their own power. A developmental consultant can break through this defense. But to do so takes deep developmental knowledge based on empirical data, and a commitment to learning developmental theory for strengthening one’s practice.
Thursday, December 15, 2011, 5 pm CET (Europe), 11 am ET (USA)
"On The Two IDM Coaching Programs, with an Emphasis on Participants with English as a Second Language"
Learn how you can become a developmental coach over 12-15 months.
2011-12-15 Information Session - Streaming
2011-12-15 Information Session - Download MP3
In this tele-seminar, Otto Laske will talk about 2 ways of becoming a developmental coach through studies at the Interdevelopmental Institute. He will emphasize that evidence based developmental coaching is still far from common in the coaching world at large, and why and how studies at IDM make a contribution to a higher professional standing of coaches. He will show why coaches taught at IDM combine the abilities of assessment of a psychologist with the abilities of supporting people in their mental growth of a psychotherapist, and in that sense do more complex work than practitioners in these traditional disciplines.
In addition to the topics taught here, how they are taught to coaches for whom English is a second language at IDM is also relevant. Being a non-native speaker of English himself, Otto has become an expert in understanding many varieties of English the world over. He is known for speaking slowly and reflectively, and being an outstanding listener to all kinds of English (for which his knowledge of German, French, and Dutch is highly valuable).
Essentially, Otto teaches coaches four sets of skills:
- understanding at a deeper level how clients make meaning of their experiences in life and at work different from others, and to coach them in harmony with coaches’ assessment-based understanding of them (Module A);
- thinking in coaching with greater fluidity, or “dialectically”, able to describe, by way of assessment, how clients presently think in ways other than those of formal logical thinking (Module B);
- gaining insight into psychological problems of coaching clients based on a psychological assessment, and give feedback to them about assessed findings (Module C);
- pulling together insights from Modules A, B, and C in a case study on a single client by using yourself as an instrument of qualitative research.
Through step 4 extraordinary clarity and effectiveness of coaching results (see the testimonials at /testimonials.php). Otto will take questions and comments about what might best suit you in a particular phase of your coaching career.
"IDM Fall Programs & Courses Information Session"
Learn about our new certificate courses for coaches and consultants including Effective Leadership, and Dialectical Thinking
Friday, September 23, 2011
Dr. Otto Laske describes how IDM's unique approach and programs enables coaches, consultants, facilitators and other "helping professionals" to create additional value for their clients in light of today's complex socio-economic and business challenges. Otto is joined by IDM student Cortlandt Wilson and Greg Welstead, IDM Director of Administration & Technology.
2011-09-23 Information Session - Streaming
2011-09-23 Information Session - Download MP3
Supporting Effective Leadership
Hosted by Otto Laske and Jan De Visch
Friday, August 5, 2011, 9 am ET, 3 pm European Time (CET)
(During the August 5 teleseminar our recording system failed, so we are grateful to be able to provide you this recording made by Martina McGrenaghan. Special thanks to Cortlandt Wilson for his diligent efforts to make this recording as "listenable" as possible.)
NOTE: Given that many interested persons are still on holiday and have asked us to postpone the course, we have decided to start the course on Monday, September 12, 2011, 1 pm ET = 7 pm CET European time, instead of August 22nd.
2011-08-05 Leadership Teleseminar - Streaming
2011-08-05 Leadership Teleseminar - Download MP3
In today's economic climate, leaders in multidivisional and multinational companies face a uniquely broad set of challenges. While putting in place the systems, relationships, and strategies that foster business unit success, they must also lead the business as a whole, optimizing financial strategy in a turbulent global economy, generating synergies across units, and creating opportunities beyond the current business.
The theories and models that guided decision making in past decades no longer seem to provide leaders with effective answers. In addition, most executive coaches do not and cannot adequately support individuals in leadership positions; e.g., most of them are not familiar with the notion of “work levels” that would provide them with a more cogent perspective on how value is created on different levels of an organization, and what value creation in the present and future entails for mastering leadership.
This free teleseminar, led by both Jan De Visch, Belgium, (www.connecttransform.be) and Otto Laske is directed to both managers in leadership positions and to coaches. It will provide an overview of the new leadership course Jan and Otto will teach together starting Monday, September 12, 2011, 1 pm ET = 7 pm CET European time (see /leadership.php).
"Requisite Leadership and Organizational Accountability"
Understanding Leadership in terms of Size of Role and Size of Person: A Course starting June 23rd, 8:30 am ET, at the Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM)
Monday June 13, 8AM Eastern
Audio Recording:
2011-06-13 Leadership Course Teleseminar - Streaming
2011-06-13 Leadership Course Teleseminar - Download MP3
This free teleseminar will introduce those interested in leadership in the 8-session course starting June 23rd, 2011. Otto Laske will describe the unique perspective this course on leadership is taking, based on his own and Elliott Jaques’ as well as Jan De Visch work. The seminar provides an opportunity to ask questions about the topic, the materials, and the logistics of the course, as well as the difference between this course and other approaches to leadership.
Among the materials of the course is the book by Jan De Visch entitled “The Vertical Dimension” (2010) which needs to be ordered in time for course work to be effective. Ordering the book will take time, therefore those interested in the course are requested to register for it as soon as possible at to get course materials. For course details and registration see /leadership.php.
"A Gateway to the Multidimensional Coaching Client"
Understanding Coaching Clients in their Social-emotional, Cognitive, and Psychological Complexity For Doing Effective Transformational Work"
Friday, May 13, 4 pm ET
Audio Recording:
2011-05-13 Gateway Teleseminar - Streaming
2011-05-13 Gateway Teleseminar - Download MP3
This seminar will introduce participants to the "IDM Gateway" perspective on coaching clients which comprises three dimensions: social-emotional, cognitive, and psychological. Otto Laske will open up for you the mind-opening potential of the Gateway Live course, simultaneously introducing, and fielding questions about, the two IDM coaching programs built upon Gateway: (1) the entirely live Evidence Based Coaching Program, and (2) the partly self-study based Dialectics in Coaching Programs. Nadia Sleem, a recent Program II graduate, will be Otto's co-discussant. After introducing Gateway, Otto will explain the difference between these two programs both in their substance and logistics. Your questions and reflections will be most welcome.
The underlying tenet of the seminar is that social-emotional, or meaning making, coaching and consulting, as now widely practiced in one-to-one sessions as well as public seminars, is based on a conception of clients that is too narrow for working with them effectively in the long term. Especially when "immunity to change" or "resistance to change" issues are targeted, not much can be achieved without assessment based insight into the cognitive and psychological causes of clients' immunity. Nor can such immunity to change be eliminated by "developmental persuasion".
On account of a decade of work with the Constructive Developmental Framework, Dr. Laske has been shown, against his own initial assumptions, that the three dimensions mentioned are not just cumulative, but integrative. He learned hands-on, through assessment and coaching, that without knowing how to relate assessment scores from three dimensions mentioned, coaching work remains woefully amateurish, and an "industry service" at best, but cannot be seen as professional.
In order to be able to inform themselves about the tenet of the seminar, those who register for the teleseminar will receive a recent paper by Dr. Laske on the topic of linking the three dimensions of CDF in order to understand coaching clients in depth. You will also receive a link to the recording of the session in the event you are unable to participate in person.
Information About IDM's 2011 Summer Course in Dialectical Thinking
** Save if you register by July 15 **.
Learn more about the 2011 Summer Program.
Duration: 55 minutes
Audio Recording:
2011-04-01 Information Session About IDM Summer Course - Streaming
2011-04-01 Information Session About IDM Summer Course - Download MP3
Typically, logical thinking and emotion are seen as opposites, but that is a half-truth. In reality, thinking and emotion merge to an extraordinary degree. When it comes to professional work with other people, this is even more true: the way we "feel about" somebody has a lot to do with how we model that person in our mind conceptually.
In light of this, the opportunity we offer a small circle of self aware people through our August 2011 Dialectical Thinking Course at IDM is a unique one. As a member of a cohort no larger than 10 you can take a new perspective on how you presently think and what might be missing in the world you construct for yourself through thinking (in fact what might be missing in the world even regardless of your own thinking). Over five days you will be immersed in opening your mind to new thought forms that will broaden not only your conceptual models but your emotions as well.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE AN IDM STUDENT to benefit from this intensive course in dialectical thinking.
As taught this year, the IDM Summer Course is for all interested parties and has no preconditions other than your excitement about, and curiosity regarding, your own thinking. Whatever you want to apply to what you learn during the course is up to you: it is just content. What you will learn at IDM essentially has to do with the STRUCTURE of your present thinking, not any particular content.
Such an offer is, you might say, "philosophical", and thus rare. The offer is also highly respectful of your present thinking. YOU ARE INVITED TO CRITIQUE YOUR OWN THINKING, we don't do it for you. We only provide you with a context and holding environment for doing so.
The content and concerns you may bring to the course are your unique contribution to it. We will playfully and systematically explore the dynamic of our thinking as it unfolds during the course. As a guide, we use Otto Laske's Thought Form Manual which you receive free of charge when registering for the course; he will guide you through it.
Registration is open until August 1st, 2011. HOWEVER, lodging in Rockport and even Gloucester, MA, the larger city nearby, tends to run out in the beginning of June at the latest, due to the fact that "IDM at Folly Cove" lies in an area of rare beauty at the Atlantic Coast, between conservation land, woods, and the sea.
We therefore advise you to make up your mind soon. If you have questions, write to summercourse@interdevelopmentals.org. We are here to assist you.
An Introduction to the New Evidence Based Coaching Program at IDM
Wednesday, March 16, 4 pm Eastern Daylight Savings Time (USA east coast time zone).
Duration: 55 minutes
Audio Recording:
2011-03-16 Evidence Based Coaching Program Information Session - Streaming
2011-03-16 Evidence Based Coaching Program Information Session - Download MP3
Bonus Download:
"How Much Do You Care To Know About Your Client?" Presentation by Dr. Otto Laske to the ICC Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, October 18, 2009
Teleseminar Description
In order to acquaint interested parties with the new Coaching Certificate Program starting May 6th, 2011, Director of Education Otto Laske will speak about reasons for launching this program and answer questions about it from the audience.
You can learn about the new program at Certificate in Evidence Based Coaching.
As all IDM programs, the new program is evidence based in the sense of requiring mastery of an assessment methodology. However, while the Assessment Certification Program, now in its 11th year, requires all three dimensions of adult development — social-emotional, cognitive, and psychological/behavioral — to be studied and documented in case studies, the new program lets the student choose one of these foci. Also, the case study requirement has been set to 3, not 4, case studies, to enable a deeper engagement with the individual cases. As the title conveys, the new program is specific to coaching as a professional, that is to say, evidence based, discipline.
Here are some topics to be addressed during the teleseminar outside of those brought up by members of the audience:
- the unfulfilled promise of evidence based coaching leading coaches beyond an "industry service" to a true profession.
- the benefit for coaching professionals to work with assessment evidence: to know whom they are actually helping
- the mind-opening character of each of the three adult-developmental dimensions when working with clients, and their relationship to each other
- logistics of the new program: preconditions, time required, tuition, teaching mode, class materials, interaction of cohort members, and others.
All are welcome, and so are all questions.
IDM GATEWAY AND PROGRAM ONE INFORMATION SESSION
Monday January 24 at 4 PM ET
Duration: 55 minutes
Audio Recording:
2011-01-24 IDM Information Session - Streaming
2011-01-24 IDM Information Session - Download MP3
In response to recent inquiries, Dr. Otto Laske will answer questions regarding the IDM Gateway Self Study and Program One Certification. Everybody is welcome. Please register using the form below.
If before or after the Jan 24 session you are interested in learning more about IDM research written about by former IDM alumni, you can check out the 2010 publication of a German science publisher that shows you the varied uses of IDM's Constructive Developmental Framework (CDF). This publication on Work Capability and Adult Development is available at /publications-papers.php.
"Dialogic, Dialectic, and Adult Development"
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 at 5 pm ET (7 am Sydney time on November 10, 2010)
Duration: 55 minutes
Audio Recording:
2010-11-09 Russ Volckmann Teleseminar - Streaming
2010-11-09 Russ Volckmann Teleseminar - Download MP3
This teleseminar comprises a dialog between Russ Volckmann, Editor of the Integral Leadership Review, and Otto Laske, Founder and Director of the Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM). The seminar will address questions regarding the benefit of dialogic and dialectic thinking for understanding one’s own and others’ development.
To clarify issues, a distinction will be drawn between “learning” and “development”. In focus will be the question of what those who would empirically gauge levels of adult development need to observe, listen for, know, know how to do, and acquire mastery in, for the purpose of gaining insight into clients' meaning and sense making in order to enhance their development.
The following central questions will help focus the seminar:
- What is the difference between a dialogic and a monologic framework for discerning and promoting adult development?
- How can a dialogic framework be enhanced by introducing dialectic?
- In what way does dialectical thinking enhance cognitive functioning and, indirectly, social-emotional development?
In regard to the third topic of the teleseminar, please take note that IDM has just introduced a short 2x2 hr course called “Introduction to Dialectical Thinking for Coaches and Consultants”. The course starts on November 10, 1-3 pm ET; its second session is held a week later, on November 17, at the same time. Registration for the course is at /dialectical-thinking-introduction.php.
"Empirical assessment of adult development for professional practitioners"
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at 5 pm ET
Duration: 55 minutes
Audio Recording:
2010-10-19 Assessment Teleseminar - Streaming
2010-10-19 Assessment Teleseminar - Download MP3
This teleseminar addressed questions regarding the empirical assessment of social-emotional stage and cognitive phase of adult development, which are central to IDM's teachings.
Dr. Otto Laske also spoke to the following issues, addressing the Integral Community:
- Why should we care about empirical data? The risk that a group’s way of thinking out of touch with empirical data turns the group into a sect (Adorno, Wilber, and others)
- What types of evidence are relevant in the theory and practice of adult development?
- How is evidence obtained through semi-structured interviews?
- What is the benefit of such evidence both for working with clients and in strict theoretical terms?
- What does it take on the part of the “assessor” to do competent developmental interviews and learn to evaluate (“score”) them?
- In what way does developmental interviewing transfer to all professional conversations and the use of social deliberative skills?
“How the Integral Community and IDM Can Work Together Toward Enacting an Integral Future”, September 28, 2010, 5 pm ET
Tuesday, September 28, 5 pm ET
Audio Recording:
2010-09-28 IDM-ITC Collaboration Teleseminar - Streaming
2010-09-28 IDM-ITC Collaboration Teleseminar - Download MP3
On account of the welcoming reception of IDM teachings at the Integral Theory Conference in California this August (as shown by an award to Otto Laske for his paper On the Autonomy and Influence of the Cognitive Developmental Line: Reflections on Adult Cognitive Development Peaking in Dialectical Thinking found at http://www.interdevelopmentals.org/pubs/IDM-OLaske-Integral-Conference-ITC-2010-paper.pdf), Otto Laske together with Brendan Cartmel (Melbourne, Australia) will hold a free IDM teleseminar on the topic mentioned above. We invite all interested ITC and IDM parties to join us in deliberating and debating suggestions and visions regarding the issues articulated in the featured articles of this newsletter and related ideas.
IDM graduates Nick Shannon, U.K. and Jean Ogilvie, authors of featured articles in our September 2010 newsletter, will participate in the discussion.
Recommended Reading: Nick Shannon's recent presentation on the work of Otto Laske: http://interdevelopmentals.org/teleseminars/Nick-Shannon-on-Otto-Laske-London-2010.pdf
“Challenges & Opportunities in Coaching International Executives”
Friday May 28, 2010
Audio Recording:
2010-05-28 Infosession - Streaming
2010-05-28 Infosession - Download MP3
We invite you to join Dr. Otto Laske in conversation with special guest Dr. Shaker Mustafa on Friday May 28, 2010 at 8AM US Eastern time, 8PM Malaysia time. The focus will be to explain why IDM is not a “coaching school”, and what this means for the coaches and consultants we teach.
Dr. Mustafa will share his unique perspective as an advanced student of Dr. Laske's teachings at the Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM), the global leader in developmental education for coaches, consultants and other human resources professionals.
In this 50-minute free tele-session we will shed light on how IDM Programs assist coaches in focusing on the structure of thinking and meaning making practiced by managers and leaders, rather than only on “problems” brought before coaches. We will show why there is a need for triple loop learning, and why in this regard dialectical thinking is the most suited for business people who want to perform at the highest level in the face of current global business challenges.
There will be an opportunity for teleseminar participants to ask questions about IDM's programs, including two new Professional Practice workshops designed for managers: Social-Emotional Awareness, and Dialectical Thinking.
“Dialectics in Coaching for the Experienced Professional”
Friday, March 26, 2010 at 11 am ET
Handouts:
Dialectics in Coaching Presentation Slides (PDF)
BONUS: Just published CDF special issue of Wirtschaftpsychologie (100 page PDF - articles by various coaching practitioners and researchers in German and English):
Wirtschaftpsychologie Special Issue on CDF applications (100 page PDF)
English Introduction to the Wirtschaftpsychologie Special Issue
Audio Recording:
Telesession Description
This interactive information session is designed for experienced coaches who want to enhance their practice by leveraging the latest ideas, models, and approaches from adult developmental research.
IDM's Dialectics in Coaching Program represents the leading edge of evidence-based advanced education for coaches and other helping professionals.
The notion of Dialectics emphasizes:
- the intertwinement of social-emotional and cognitive elements of coaching practice, and
- the mastery of shifting focus from “feeling” to “thinking” in advanced developmental coaching, both in actual conversations and in formulating coaching plans.
This teleseminar, led by internationally acclaimed author and educator Dr. Otto Laske, will provide participants a forum to ask questions about how Dialectics in Coaching works logistically — what steps it requires — and in terms of substance — what the classes achieve.
We will also discuss the interplay beween self-study of adult developmental theory and live teleclassess classes in which the self-study learnings are exercised and expanded to achieve coaching mastery. The approach and benefits of the practical and affordable Dialectics in Coaching Program will be compared to IDM's Certificate Program.
There is NO COST to attend this teleseminar. Everyone who registers will receive the call-in number plus a link to a PDF file with slides that describe the Dialectics in Coaching program. Within 24 hours we will send you a link to the audio recording of the session.
“Positioning Yourself As A Developmental Professional”
January 22, 11 am ET
2010-01-22 Teleseminar With Tim Wachtel - Streaming
2010-01-22 Teleseminar With Tim Wachtel - Download MP3
Original Description
Since adult developmental research is starkly under-publicized, clients often are not aware of the new findings about the human condition and professional development this research has unearthed. As a result, developmentally educated professionals find it difficult to sell their niche services which could be of great benefit if acknowledged and understood more widely beyond academia.
This telesession with Special Guest Tim Wachtel will make you better informed about why your developmental offerings may not be asked for or why, if asked for, they are not well understood in their impact on an entire organization. Tim aims to reveal and diminish the "hidden dimensions" of adult development; he will converse with participants and IDM staff about:
- Tim's project to create an International Advocacy and Training Organization for Adult Development
- How IDM educated practitioners can become active in advocacy promoting adult development from a research-based perspective
- How IDM students can begin to train a larger number of trainers in applied adult development in diverse consultancy fields
The structure of the 1-hr seminar is as follows:
- Introduction of participants: Why are you here?
- Introduction of Tim Wachtel
- Background on the impetus behind Tim's Advocacy Project
- Discussion of core topics by all participants
- Call to action
Information TeleSession - "Supporting Leaders in Times of Change" - Friday December 11, 2009
2009-12-11 Information Teleseminar - Streaming
2009-12-11 Information Teleseminar - Download MP3
Original Description
This is a free teleseminar on the benefits of developmental and dialectical thinking and listening in coaching, management consulting, and leadership development. Overall, this seminar is about the timely updating of your education to better position yourself in your market niche, and to develop programs to which organizations will respond.
This seminar, led by Otto Laske, Director of IDM, will feature the following topics, guided by participants’ wishes:
- In this time of recession, how can a knowledge of developmental thinking and listening contribute to your effectiveness as a professional beyond present behavioral work you do in your field — and how can IDM help you build your tool kit?
- What are the benefits of working with social-emotional and cognitive data about clients in a) coaching, b) HR, c) management consulting, and d) leadership development — and how can IDM help you position yourself in the market?
To help you answer these questions, graduate students of IDM will be on hand to report on what they have learned at IDM, in their work with global leaders and in large organizations, including:
- How to help senior management tackle questions of strategy execution and talent management by including CDF concepts in organizational projects (for consultants)
- How to help coaching clients on higher executive levels (senior management, CEOs) to not only gain self-insight but open their eyes to the talent around them (for coaches)
- How to help leaders to become sponsors of change and engage with change efforts in an intense and sustained way (for leadership developers).
We will also share our experiences at recent conferences in Europe and South America where IDM was represented.
To purchase audio recordings of past teleseminars, see Teleseminar Digital Products.