Sentential
Simple sentences stringing words; imitation of phrases.
How it sounds
I like that. That's bad.
He took my phone.
Signs in writing
- simple subject-verb sentences
- no reasons given
Values
expression
Fears
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Staying healthy at this stage
- simple, clear statements
Growth edge
- join sentences into a sequence or story
How to be heard at this stage
- use short, concrete sentences
The same altitude in other models
Mapped by altitude, not measured: models track different lines.
- Impulsive Cook-Greuter
- Impulsive Loevinger
- Intuitive-Projective Fowler
- Imperial mind Kegan
- Opportunist Torbert
- Tribal / Magical Spiral Dynamics
- Obedience & punishment Kohlberg
- Magenta Wilber
See the stage of anything you read. Worldview Lens is a Chrome extension that reads posts, threads, articles and books through 9 stage models, including this one, and helps you say things so people at any stage can hear them.
Add to Chrome, free How scoring worksStage descriptions are paraphrased summaries for orientation, written for Worldview Lens; they are not the official scoring manuals. Example sentences were written to illustrate each stage.