Worldview LensIntuitive-Projective
Fantasy-filled, imitative; powerful images absorbed from adults; no stable logic.
How it sounds
God lives in the clouds and watches if you're bad.
Signs in writing
- magical images
- fears and wishes merged with reality
Values
wonder · protection
Fears
abandonment · monsters
Staying healthy at this stage
- safe, loving caregivers and rich stories
Growth edge
- begin sorting real from imagined
How to be heard at this stage
- use images and gentle stories
The same altitude in other models
Mapped by altitude, not measured: models track different lines.
- Impulsive Cook-Greuter
- Impulsive Loevinger
- Sentential Commons
- Imperial mind Kegan
- Opportunist Torbert
- Tribal / Magical Spiral Dynamics
- Obedience & punishment Kohlberg
- Magenta Wilber
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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.