Pick the map whose resolution matches your question

Choose the model that draws the distinction your question depends on, instead of defaulting to whichever chart you saw first.

Perché funziona

A map can only show the distinctions it draws. Murray and O’Fallon report that Cook-Greuter extended Loevinger’s final stage by splitting it into two, Construct Aware and Unitive. Construct Aware is the first MetAware level in O’Fallon’s STAGES (5.0), and the sources read here name Unitive without describing it in detail. O’Fallon’s STAGES splits that late territory into four levels (5.0, 5.5, 6.0 and 6.5) and also splits the Conformist level. On this page’s reading, a question about the late stages is poorly served by a map that gives them one box, and a question about a finer distinction needs the map that makes it. The fit between map and question is a working assumption here, not a tested rule.

Come farlo

1. Write your question in one line, for example “How do I respond when my authority is challenged?” or “Where do my late-stage insights sit?”
2. Find which map splits the part of the range your question touches: 8 levels in Loevinger’s test, 9 in the Cook-Greuter and Torbert family, 12 in STAGES.
3. Use the map that draws the distinction your question needs, and write down what that map cannot distinguish.
4. If two maps answer differently, write down the difference instead of averaging the two answers.

Prove scientifiche

Murray and O’Fallon (2020) describe how many levels each map defines and where STAGES draws distinctions above 4.5 that the Cook-Greuter and Torbert models define differently. O’Fallon (2020) says STAGES adds detail at the earliest and latest stages compared with prior models. Choosing a map by the resolution a question needs follows from those descriptions; it has not been tested as a procedure. (mechanistic)

Murray and O’Fallon say the models define levels above 4.5 in relatively different ways, and that their data did not allow a robust comparison of those levels.

Fonti

• 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).

Errore comune

Choosing the map with the most levels because it sounds more precise. More levels only help where the model has evidence for each distinction it draws.