Self-authoring → Self-transforming
Beginning to see own system as partial; testing its limits.
How it sounds
I'm starting to see my principles as one lens, and I'm curious what it hides from me.
Signs in writing
- questions own framework
- curious about contradictions
- partial identification with own ideology
Values
growth · openness
Fears
losing coherence
Staying healthy at this stage
- dialogue partners who challenge your system
Growth edge
- let contradictions reshape the self
How to be heard at this stage
- invite them to explore the edges of their system
The same altitude in other models
Mapped by altitude, not measured: models track different lines.
- Pluralist Cook-Greuter
- Individualistic Loevinger
- Systematic Commons
- Conjunctive Fowler
- Individualist Torbert
- Communitarian / Egalitarian Spiral Dynamics
- Universal ethical principles Kohlberg
- Green Wilber
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