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What is adult development?
Whether we are 9, 99, or anywhere in between, the opportunity to grow and develop is always before us. The challenge is not in seeking these opportunities but recognizing where we are developmentally and navigating the path to new, enriching perspectives. We are often so captivated by our relationships, careers, and ideas that we avoid the obstacles and opportunities that offer us the greatest chances for personal evolution. These territories can be confusing or frustrating.. The STAGES Matrix offers clarity through this terrain of human development by describing the way that alternating processes of “being” and “becoming” can alter our very own perspective and change how we experience the world. At times we are in a “being” stage and others we are “becoming”. This transition happens when a confusion arises, something like, “This is not working” or “Who am I?. The STAGES Matrix helps map these transitions (confusions) as well as how these confusions resolve opening up the capacity to take on more complex perspectives and access deeper resources within ourselves. Our communities, courses, and coaches can provide support through these transformations. Join the STAGES community to find support along your developmental journey.
STAGES Assessments
There is power in perspective. Our scientifically backed assessments are now bundled in courses so you can learn your developmental level & unlock your full potential. Assessments are at the heart of STAGES. Take your first course and assessment or get connected with a trained professional scorer.
Is STAGES for me?
Individuals
Empower greater capacities for your passionate engagement in your family and work, in the world, for the benefit of humanity, the planet and beyond.
Leadership
Better motivate, inspire, and satisfy the needs of those who bring the institution to life.
Companies
Transforms how your team works and communicates in ways that inspire greater clarity, creative solutions, and effective and efficient action.
Academics
Address issues in climate change, pedagogy, psychology, conflict resolution, economics, social justice, and more.
What's New
Check out our newest courses
Intro to Shadow
Healthy robustness at each developmental level is just as important as vertical development. "Shadow work" involves cleaning up earlier levels of development and deeply supports the overall health of self and the world. Join Kim Barta on a shadow work journey to foster health at every stage. Intro to Shadow is coming soon. Enroll in The Institute to get the latest update on it's release.
Parenting With Perspective
Whether you are a parent, or someone who works with parents, children and or families, you will find this to be a highly valuable course, for dealing with real life children, real life parents, and real life environments. This course teaches how to skillfully address real life parenting issues. You will discover the basics of childhood development so you can work with the child's development and not against it. You will also learn about parenting perspectives. You will learn how each perspective has assets and problems. By being a little more flexible with your parenting perspective you can adjust to the needs of the child in a way that makes parenting and child development a lot easier and more enjoyable. The new parenting series is coming soon. Enroll in The Institute to get the latest update on its release.
Complex Problems
When living in an increasingly polarized and divided world, how do we make meaning of these challenging times and implement solutions that honor the creative tensions of complexity among diverse participants? It's important for us to appreciate how perspective-taking and self-understanding can evolve across a lifetime, and how each stage of human development contributes to the health and robustness of the whole.
Unfolding the Living Map of Life
The STAGES model reveals predictable patterns and provides a roadmap for understanding the world around us. It allow us to :
ONE : Understand how perspective evolves across a lifetime, and explore how each stage of human development contributes to the health of the whole.
TWO : View the world through a lens that honors complexity and empowers us to adapt to today’s rapidly evolving systems.
THREE : Address the roots of life’s challenges and generate more effective and ethical impact.
Uncover the transformative qualities of the STAGES model.
STAGES Partnerships
Terri O’Fallon is one of the very most important integrally informed researchers now working. I highly recommend checking her out at your earliest opportunity!
Post-conventional developmental stages are one of the most important yet under researched areas of Integral studies, and we can all be grateful to Terri O’Fallon, who is one of the very few researchers exploring this crucial topic.
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