Hear which perspective you speak from
Read back what you wrote or said about a situation and mark each sentence by the perspective it speaks from.
Pourquoi ça marche
Adult person-perspective research measures perspective through language: the STAGES method scores written sentence completions on three dimensions of language rather than on content. You cannot score yourself that way, but listening to your own sentences for whose view they hold — mine, yours about me, an observer’s, or one that notices its own context — shows which perspectives you reach for and which ones you rarely use.
Comment faire
- Take a journal entry, message or voice note about something that matters to you.
- Mark each sentence: 1 (my experience and wants), 2 (how you see me, or how I see you seeing me), 3 (what a fair outsider would say is true), 4 (how this view was shaped by its context).
- Count the marks without judging the mix.
- Rewrite one paragraph adding a sentence from the perspective you used least.
Données probantes
O’Fallon et al. (2020) describe STAGES scoring as evaluating three dimensions or parameters of language in sentence completions, and report its agreement with Cook-Greuter’s scoring. O’Fallon (2020) notes that the second-person stage begins with a confusion about pronouns themselves — that "I" and "you" change meaning depending on who is speaking. Self-coding your own sentences is a reflective use of these ideas, not a measurement. (mechanistic)
Trained raters score how meaning is made across many completions; marking your own sentences cannot tell you your stage, and written tests may favor people who are more verbally articulate, as the validation study itself notes.
Sources
- O’Fallon, T., Polissar, N., Neradilek, M. B., & Murray, T. (2020). The validation of a new scoring method for assessing ego development based on three dimensions of language. Heliyon, 6(3), e03472.
- O’Fallon, T. (2020). States and STAGES: Waking up Developmentally. Integral Review, 16(1).
Erreur fréquente
Writing more "4" sentences to look developed. The useful finding is the perspective you avoid, not the one you can imitate.
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Plus de pratiques pour First, Second, Third and Fourth Person Perspectives
- Walk one conflict through four perspectives
Write the same disagreement four times — as you, as the other person, as a neutral observer, and as someone seeing how context shaped all three.
- Write their account in their own voice
Tell the story of the disagreement in the first person as the other person, using the words they would use.
- Check your version of them by asking
Treat your picture of someone else’s view as a hypothesis, and get their perspective directly before acting on it.
- Write the observer’s account
Describe your own conflict the way a fair bystander who knows both of you would, using names instead of "I" and "they".
- Notice what shaped every account, including the neutral one
Ask how background, role, culture and setting shaped your view, their view and the observer’s view alike.
- Take their perspective without taking on their feelings
Separate understanding what someone thinks and wants from feeling what they feel, and use the first when you need to solve something together.
- Separate the well-mapped steps from the speculative ones
When you read about person perspectives, sort each claim by what kind of evidence stands behind it.
Concepts associés
- 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
- La théorie sujet-objet de Kegan, en pratique
Passer d'être mené par ses présupposés à pouvoir les examiner
- Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory (AQAL), Made Practical
Five elements for catching what your view of a situation leaves out, held as a map rather than a truth
- Torbert’s Seven Action Logics of Leadership
Seven ways leaders make sense of pressure, how common each is, and how to work with your own
- La prise de distance vis-à-vis de soi : penser clairement à ses propres problèmes
Le paradoxe de Salomon, le dialogue intérieur à la troisième personne, et la science de prendre du recul