People and development
Staying connected is a skill
Some people keep others present inside them, even when you are not there right now. With others, you fade as soon as you have disappeared from the room, the chat, their life.
Incommensurability
How do you deal with incommensurability? I stumbled over this word because it named something I had been circling for years without being able to put it into language.
As what is a child wanted?
As what were you wanted as a child?
At the threshold between power and relationship
You recognize something because you expect relationship.
The existential side of developmental maturity
There is a misunderstanding about developmental maturity.
How to sense whether someone can truly hold you
Sometimes it takes us a while to show ourselves. In many spaces we quickly close up again.
Prerequisites for an integral We
When people truly connect with one another, something happens that is greater than the sum of the individuals.
When we trick ourselves: 4 ways of not looking
I know this well: Something hits me, and before I even consciously notice it, I have already shut down.
Who do I resemble right now?
“Who do I resemble right now?” That is one of the most effective questions I ask myself in challenging moments.
Development does not end
We often act as if life were settled once school, vocational training, or university is over—“finished” and grown up.
AI and the evolution of thinking: from storytelling to manipulating reality
I keep thinking about how our thinking is changing (and has changed)—and with it, what holds meaning for us
The thing about the carrot
We all have carrots that we run after. It is in our nature: we fixate.
Development as an egg
I spend a lot of time on development: personal, systemic, organizational. And yet: some impulses work beyond theory or method.
Founding or birth, seen anew
A change of perspective: founding or birth, seen anew.
Connectedness
In times of uncertainty, connectedness beyond roles and results can be the most valuable thing we can give.
Spiritual meta-programs
I first consciously noticed and made sense of the term meta-programs in one of my NLP trainings.
The gaze
I am sitting in my favorite café. Across from me sit parents with their daughter, who is sitting in a stroller.
Consciousness and levels of development
Consciousness and Spiral Dynamics. Thoughts from #personaldevelopment to #consciousnessdevelopment; shortened in structure, content, and emotion.