Ironist

Witnesses and plays with action-logics themselves: deliberately takes up a frame, acts through it, and sets it down, with humor about the whole business, including the noticing.

How it sounds

Every 'strategy' is a story we tell to act together; let's choose one we can laugh about.

Today I'll be the hard-nosed operator because the budget needs one; tomorrow the board needs a poet, and I'll be that, knowing both are costumes.

Signs in writing

• lightness about all frames, including own
• uses frames as tools in the middle of acting, switching on purpose rather than searching for the right one
• catches own frame-making as it happens and finds it funny rather than troubling
• timeless perspective
• paradoxical intervention

Staying healthy at this stage

• ordinary life lived fully
• service

Growth edge

• deepen embodiment and ordinariness

How to be heard at this stage

• meet them in silence and simplicity

The same altitude in other models

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

• Unitive Cook-Greuter
• Integrated Loevinger
• Cross-paradigmatic Commons
• Universalizing Fowler
• Self-transforming mind Kegan
• Coral Spiral Dynamics
• Universal ethical principles Kohlberg
• Indigo 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.