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"The prophetic soul of the big
world' was already pregnant with the Myth: if science has not
met the imaginative need, science would not have been so
popular. But probably every age gets, within certain limits,
the science it desires." - C.S. Lewis
A developmentalist is someone who
is versed in adult developmental models, understands and uses
the tools of FLOW; such as to be able to fashion the
assessment of capability along a trajectory of development;
most likely inborn into the personal dynamics, which are
predisposed to filtering and biasing reality in a way as to
promote a lifelong growth; towards inherent happiness and
intersubjective success requirements along the path of
maturation.
In doing work with the developmentalist tools, which are the
personality dynamics in a portfolio:
- how you learn
- how you manage conflict
- your intrinsic motives
- your preferences
- your DiSC traits and Personal Interests
- Your metaprograms
- your strengths
I have found these to be helpful in telling a story about you
in self-report as to the different inbornness attributes in
these areas, which are often leveraging in knowing and
knowable differences about one another in life, work and
relationships.
The next layer of assessment has to do with a portolio of
development:
assessing capability
assessing leadership decision making perspectives
assessing ego complexity
assessing hierarchical task performance
assessing subject/object relations
assessing social perspective
These assessments are done by a scorer and not a program, as
in the personality dynamics, where self-report is key, and
where in the developmental assessments, they are done, with
bias, but by scorers who are familiar with and trained in
scoring the development.
As a developmentalist, it is key to begin to understand that
each person in development has a unique journey, and while
similar in some levels because at one level we are almost all
similar and at another level, we are all almost different.
In genetics, we share 99.2% of the same genetic code among
24,000 genes or so.
Yet, this .8% seems to make us night and day in a lot of
respects.
I like to look at a staged approach to developmentalism:
-how personality emerges from our inbornness and gives us
basic biases and filters of reality,
-how this emergent personality is maturing through time on a
developmental trajectory, and
-what emerges as behavior when the intersubjective nature of
cultural scaffolding is present
to be succinct:
personality
maturation
behavior
are often very important, actionable leverage points that help
us understand the mystery of being, doing, having and becoming
as it unfolds.
Some people are interested in understanding and codifying
these three leverage points for a variety of reasons which are
often important to design in many ways, personal,
professional, business and network resilience as it might
unfold or be enhanced.
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