Vertical Development made simple, clear and practical
While much valuable content exists on this topic, often its practical implications and applications are obscured in academic language. Here we aim to make this complex theory easily accessible and practically relevant for leaders, coaches and L&D practitioners, while preserving its rigour and constantly offering you resources to dive much deeper if you wish.
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What’s so special about Vertical Development?
What all of these theories have in common is the proposition that human beings continue maturing mentally and psychologically way after they stopped growing up physically. They all also propose this type of development is very different from simply accumulating more information, knowledge or skills and it is in fact a series of profound transformations in a person’s worldview and fundamental engagement with life, but also in their capacity to access more and more internal complexity to adequately respond to a complex world.