Sketch where your development is uneven
Draw a rough bar chart of your capacities — thinking, feeling, relating, moral judgment, body — to see where you are strong and where you lag.
Warum es wirkt
Integral theory holds that development happens along separate lines — cognitive, emotional, interpersonal, moral and others — that can move at different rates in the same person. Esbjörn-Hargens describes the "psychograph", a simple chart of a person’s lines, as the tool for showing this. Seeing the unevenness explains why being capable in one area does not carry over to another, and points to where effort is most needed.
So gehst du vor
- Draw six bars labelled thinking, feeling, relating, moral judgment, body, and one of your choice.
- Shade each bar by how well you handle hard situations in that area, using concrete recent examples rather than how you would like to be.
- Ask someone who knows you well to shade the same chart for you.
- Compare the two. Pick the lowest bar both of you agree on.
- Choose one situation this month in which to use a stronger line to support the weaker one — for example, using clear thinking to prepare for a hard emotional conversation.
Evidenz
Wilber describes developmental lines (which he also calls streams) as able to develop at different rates in Integral Psychology (2000) and in his 2003 outline of integral psychology. Esbjörn-Hargens’s overview introduces the psychograph and suggests using stronger lines to support weaker ones. The psychograph is an illustration, not a validated measure. (anecdotal)
The list of lines is not drawn from a single validated instrument, and self-ratings are unreliable — which is why the second rater matters.
Quellen
- Wilber, K. (2000). Integral Psychology: Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy. Shambhala.
- Wilber, K. (2003). Waves, streams, states, and self: An outline of an integral psychology. The Humanistic Psychologist, 31(2–3), 22–49.
- Esbjörn-Hargens, S. (2010). An Overview of Integral Theory: An All-Inclusive Framework for the Twenty-First Century. In S. Esbjörn-Hargens (Ed.), Integral Theory in Action: Applied, Theoretical, and Constructive Perspectives on the AQAL Model. SUNY Press. (First circulated as Integral Institute Resource Paper No. 1, 2009.)
Häufiger Fehler
Shading by self-image instead of by recent behaviour. Most people rate the line they value most as their strongest.
Übe das mit IX Coach
Weitere Übungen für Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory (AQAL), Made Practical
- Run a five-element check-in on one real situation
Take a situation you are stuck on and ask one question for each AQAL element to find the piece you have been leaving out.
- Check whether you are flattening an inside into an outside
Notice when you explain something felt or shared only by its measurable correlates — or the reverse — and put the missing side back.
- Ask how you know it: first, second or third person
Sort what you believe about a situation by how you came to know it — your own experience, talking with others, or outside observation.
- Find what each side gets right before deciding
When two views clash, write down the part of each that is true before arguing for either one.
- Tell a passing state from a lasting stage
After a powerful experience, separate what you glimpsed in a state from how you actually make sense of things day to day.
- Separate a difference in style from a difference in maturity
When someone does things differently, ask whether it is a type — a stable style — before treating it as less developed.
- Read the critics and hold the model lightly
Before you rely on AQAL, read a serious critique of it, so the map stays a tool rather than a belief.
Verwandte Konzepte
- Spiral Dynamics, praktisch angewendet
Verstehen, wie sich Wertesysteme entwickeln, und wie man zwischen ihnen navigiert
- Kegans Subjekt-Objekt-Theorie, praktisch erklärt
Vom Beherrschtwerden durch die eigenen Annahmen zur Fähigkeit, sie zu untersuchen
- Terri O’Fallon’s STAGES Model, Made Practical
Twelve stages built from three repeating questions, and how to work with the one you are in
- Schattenarbeit
Den Teilen von dir begegnen, die du bisher ignoriert hast
- Das Enneagramm
Typ als Linse nutzen, nicht als Etikett
- Das Big-Five-Persönlichkeitsmodell
Was die am besten validierte Persönlichkeitswissenschaft dir wirklich über dich selbst sagt