Worldview LensAlchemist
Generates social transformations; attuned to the moment and to symbolic meaning across many stakeholders.
How it sounds
The protest outside is part of the conversation we need to have; let's invite it in.
How we act this week will become a story our whole town tells; let's make it one worth telling.
Signs in writing
- symbolic, timely action
- reframes crisis as shared opportunity
- integrates material, social and spiritual dimensions
Values
witnessing · truthfulness about construction · freedom from fixed identity
Fears
self-deception · the ego co-opting insight
Staying healthy at this stage
- contemplative practice
- companions who can meet you here
Growth edge
- rest in awareness beyond constructs
- let go of the effort to be further along
How to be heard at this stage
- use paradox and humor
- point beyond the words
- don't cling to your own framing
The same altitude in other models
Mapped by altitude, not measured: models track different lines.
- Construct-aware Cook-Greuter
- Integrated Loevinger
- Paradigmatic Commons
- Universalizing Fowler
- Self-transforming mind Kegan
- Holistic Spiral Dynamics
- Universal ethical principles Kohlberg
- Turquoise 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.