eena Sharma and Corey deVos explore the important relationship between polarities and adult development — and how polarity thinking not only helps accelerate our development toward integral stages of maturity, but also helps us to be more of ourselves, wherever we happen to be in our developmental trajectory.
Beena and Corey are also joined by Susanne Cook Greuter, who offers her own thoughts around the fascinating intersection between polarity thinking and her own models of ego development.
“The whole purpose of this is that, if you can name it — and if this lens helps you to understand what’s going on — then you can integrate it within yourself, and you can support that integration in others, implicitly and/or explicitly.
So one of the biggest advantages or benefits of this work is, as we use the map to measure people’s stage of development, we also look at the polarities that show up in their map assessment. We look at the polarities that show up naturally at a particular stage of development. And now we have a tool to coach people, to do developmental coaching based on polarities. Sometimes we are coaching them to integrate a polarity at their stage and be more whole, and sometimes we are coaching them to embrace another pole, which actually will give them the impetus to step into the next stage, to begin to experiment.”
—Beena Sharma
Previous Episodes of Polarity Wisdom
The Myth of Evil: Why Polarities, Not Villains, Drive Injustice
Barry Johnson
September 6, 2024
INTEGRATING POLARITIES
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About Beena Sharma
Beena Sharma is President of the Vertical Development Academy, and an international consultant committed to serving leaders and organizations in their growth endeavors. . Beena is a Certified MAP Scorer, Certified Leadership Maturity Coach and certifying Master Coach. Beena is a lead facilitator of the VeDA Coach Certification Program and consults with organizations interested in implementing vertical development. Beena is trained in Polarity Thinking at the Mastery level and integrates that expertise in her coaching and consulting practice.
About Susanne Cook-Greuter
Dr. Susanne Cook-Greuter is a world-renowned expert in mature adult development and self-actualization who expanded on Loevinger's work to create the Ego Development Theory (EDT), also known as the Leadership Maturity Framework (LMF). Over her 45-year career, she specialized in the Integral Sentence Completion Test (SCTi-MAP), training and certifying scorers since the early 1980s. Prompted by Bill Torbert at Boston College, she began applying this assessment tool to coaching, eventually co-developing global training programs in the 2000s to bring developmental perspectives into corporations. Though now retired, her foundational research powers many modern leadership services, and her list of certified associates can be found at www.cook-greuter.com.
About Corey deVos
Corey W. deVos is editor and producer of Integral Life. He has worked for Integral Institute/Integal Life since Spring of 2003, and has been a student of integral theory and practice since 1996. Corey is also a professional woodworker, and many of his artworks can be found in his VisionLogix art gallery.