Integrative / Systemic

The writer acts from the whole spiral: on a live problem, fits the response to the conditions and value systems involved, flexibly and without needing to convert anyone.

How it sounds

For the plant floor we need clear rules; for the R&D lab, freedom; I'll set each up that way and change it when conditions change.

I don't need them to share my values to work with them; I just need to know which ones are driving this.

Signs in writing

• matches approach to conditions on a concrete problem
• values each system's healthy function in practice
• functional, low-ego, comfortable with change
• not merely describing second tier

Staying healthy at this stage

• freedom to design systems that work

Growth edge

• feel the whole as a living unity

How to be heard at this stage

• be competent and concise; show the systemic picture

The same altitude in other models

Mapped by altitude, not measured: models track different lines.

• Strategist Cook-Greuter
• Autonomous Loevinger
• Metasystematic Commons
• Conjunctive Fowler
• Self-authoring → Self-transforming Kegan
• Strategist Torbert
• Universal ethical principles Kohlberg
• Teal Wilber

Stage 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.