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Toward competently applying the LAS...

Posted February 28th, 2009 by Jim Arsenault in Toward competently applying the LAS
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Think You Understand Development? Think Again.

Thank you!  This e-learning is perfect timing, since I am currently transitioning from a "flatland" programmer to an integral life or career coach (haven't flipped a coin yet!)...  Since I will be new to coaching, I was thinking that it would be helpful during the client "assessment phase" to get an idea of a person's altitude, (among various other dimensions), as this knowledge might help begin to establish a high-level picture of the client.  I had written to other assessment experts asking if I could make use of their existing assessment tool.  Their response, which I found reasonable, was that one has to first become certified in administering the test before making use of it. 

This is all well and good, but may be inefficient (although it may also be necessary - I am not certain at this point and could use your help on this).  Since I started thinking about this last month, I keep seeing a vision of a module-based organizational model (in the shape of a growth hierarchy) in which attributes such as "Self Development", "Self Marketing", and "Trending", for example, rest within the "<Subject> Node".  <Subject> is variable and changes according to the area of interest.  Within each subject reside one or more modules.  I am probably not being very clear, but take Integral Coaching and Integral Psychotherapy as an example.  Both may wish to make use of a module such as "LAS Integral Altitude Assessor" or whatnot.  So I was thinking, rather than require each coach and therapist to become certified in LAS (at least initially), I was thinking that the module itself could rest within the Integral Coaching and Integral Psychotherapy nodes, and be available (at a cost) to Integralists.  The full certification could also be made available as a module.  In this way I, as an Integral Coach in training, could administer a LAS through the keepers of the module rather than having to be certified (at least initially).

Please let me know if you think it would be best for me to become certified in some form of "altitude assessment".

Thanks and Regards,

-- Jim Arsenault

 

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Where Integral Life is Headed

Posted March 1st, 2009 by Robb Smith

Jim - this is exactly where we're headed with Integral Life.  IL launches its Integral Coaching services in the next 90 days, which uses a full AQAL matrix and subject-object theory for transformational change and growth, certainly the most profound and embodied application of integral I've ever seen anywhere.  In addition to that we are also discussing how to incorporate rigorous altitude testing like the LAS into IL's service offering.  It would be optional, of course, but it would provide a much richer degree of interaction amongst community members.

For example, you can go look at my member profile and see my Integral Life Constellation, a 6-lens AQAL view of who I am and how I operate, and if I could see yours this in turn helps us looks "as" each other when we communicate, and not just "at" each other.  This is the future of media, in my opinion, so IL is attempting to pioneer this in the coming few years.

Next month we are releasing another absolutely groundbreaking e-learning presentation called "Your Native Perspective,"which will help you self-determine which quadrant is your "home" perspective and all of the ways this will impact your life and dictate your communication with other people, particularly those with other native quadrants or terrains.  You will see on my Integral Life Constellation that I orient from the upper-left, for example.

Robb Smith