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On a sunny Saturday this autumn, I was sitting on my chair packed into a circle with seven other human beings in the cellar of the bUm in Kreutzberg and discussing the view on the individual in the metamodern era. … Continue reading →

This blog post addresses the relation between stratified hierarchical organizations and self-organizing ones – and tentatively proposes a synthesis. Stratified hierarchical organizations Recently, I was involved in an analysis of Elliott Jaques’ Stratisfied Systems Theory, SST, from different perspectives resulting … Continue reading →

[This is a translation of an article that was recently published in German Integrales forum, no 36, Feb 2017] Last year’s Integral European Conference in Siofok, in Hungary had three main foci: Teal modes of business, applications on Spiral dynamics … Continue reading →

What is the nature of our relationship to language? To our own and to new ones that we might acquire? A common conception is that we have knowledge and thoughts, some of which we can express in language and an … Continue reading →

What is the nature of postconventional relationships? The question arose at a workshop in adult development I was giving this summer and I felt that couldn’t offer a sufficient answer. Research in adult development offers several perspectives on the way the … Continue reading →

This year initiatives around Frederic Laloux’s notion of Teal organizations have emerged around Europe, most notably at the Integral European Conference in May that dedicated a significant space for Teal. But what is Teal, why is it relevant today and … Continue reading →

[The following text presents an analysis of the Swedish response and debate around the refugee crisis from a value systems perspective. It was presented at the conference for Migration and the welfare states in October 2016. ] Abstract The Swedish response … Continue reading →

Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey just released the book An Everyone Culture – Becoming a Deliberatively Developmental Organization. Here are some quick thoughts on it along with some background. In 1982 Kegan wrote The evolving self where he took … Continue reading →

Next spring, in 23-25 May, we will arrange our fifth ESRAD symposium in den Haag in the Netherlands. For this symposium we have formulated four adult development research areas that are of particular interest, one being dialectical thinking. The other … Continue reading →

Why do I have a moon? What happened? I’m not certain, but I think I suffered a severe trauma as a very young planet. A trauma caused by an impact with another celestial object. I was one and I was … Continue reading →