Practice the orientation your stage is not leaning toward

If your stage leans individual, deliberately practice the collective view, and the reverse.

Pourquoi ça marche

One of the three STAGES questions is whether a stage leans toward an individual or a collective view; the model alternates between them (for example 3.5 Achiever leans individual, 4.0 Pluralist collective, 4.5 Strategist individual-and-collective). The lean shapes which perspectives come easily and which are effortful. Practicing the less-favored orientation widens what a person can take in without claiming to change their stage.

Comment faire

1. Notice your default when a decision comes up: do you first ask "what do I want and think?" or "what does the group need and feel?"
2. For one week, in each meaningful decision, answer the other question first and in writing.
3. Notice what the less-favored question surfaces that you would have missed.
4. Keep what was useful; you are widening your range, not swapping one default for another.

Données probantes

The individual/collective alternation is one of the three defining parameters of the STAGES matrix (O’Fallon, 2020; Murray & O’Fallon, 2020). The deliberate-practice exercise is an application of the parameter and has not been tested as an intervention. (mechanistic)

A person’s lean in a given decision may reflect role, culture, or temperament rather than developmental stage.

Sources

• Murray, T., & O’Fallon, T. (2020). A Summary of Research on and with the STAGES Developmental Model. Integral Review, 16(1).
• O’Fallon, T. (2020). States and STAGES: Waking up Developmentally. Integral Review, 16(1).

Erreur fréquente

Concluding that the collective view is more developed than the individual one, or the reverse. In the model, both recur at every tier.