Teal (Integral / Holistic)

The writer themselves integrates: on a live issue, weighs several worldviews as each true but partial, including their own, and designs a response that honours each. Distinguishes healthy from dominator hierarchy.

How it sounds

On this zoning fight, the old-timers are protecting belonging, the developers progress, and the activists fairness. I lean toward the activists, so I need to check what my lean is hiding.

Rather than pick a side, let's design a policy that keeps the safety the traditionalists want and the freedom the reformers want.

Signs in writing

• applies multiple perspectives to a concrete, live question rather than describing them
• names own vantage point as partial
• values earlier stages' healthy forms while naming their limits
• growth hierarchy without superiority or contempt

Staying healthy at this stage

• integral practice

Growth edge

• feel the integration, not just think it

How to be heard at this stage

• meet each level on its own terms

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
• Integrative / Systemic Spiral Dynamics
• Universal ethical principles Kohlberg

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.