Traditional Swiss Paper Cutting (Scherenschnitte)

Paper cutting has been around in many forms in Switzerland since the 17th century – from devotional religious images to silhouettes popular among the elite. But it is Johann Jakob Hauswirth (1809-1871) who is considered the father of traditional Swiss paper cutting. The traditional art form is characterized by symmetrical designs, often created by folding paper before cutting, and typically depicts scenes of the Swiss countryside.

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For me, it is in this art form that I started to acquire a different way of "seeing" -- a relationship between form and formlessness. 

Maturity Assessment Profile (MAP)

The MAP is the Sentence completion test that measures a person’s ego development. It was also formerly referred to as the Leadership Development Profile (LDP) and the Integral Sentence Completion Test (SCTi). The MAP and its analysis has evolved since 1980 out of Loevinger's Washington University Sentence Completion Test (WUSCT). After scoring over scoring over 4500 Sentence Completion Tests and collected 130,000 pieces of evidence, in 1999 I revised and expanded the measuring instrument, adding linguistic dimension to scoring mechanism, adjusted calculation rules (Ogive) to accommodate the discovery of later developmental stages, created the Integral Sentence Completion Test (SCTi). 

Leadership Maturity Framework (LMF)

Although the term appeared the first time in 2010 in the re-printed version of my Harvard dissertation (originally published by Pro Quest dissertation services, publication #9933122 in Sept. 1999), the evolution of the framework started in the early 1980s when started scoring the WUSCT and observing interesting patterns in the collected data. The LMF is part of Ego Development Theory (EDT). EDT is a theory of how self-identity forms and expands. It is based on and amplifies Jane Loevinger’s EDT 1970). It addresses the whole person from three main dimensions: Thinking, Being and Doing. It shows how meaning making can evolve. The LMF is based on research that documents the human potential for life-long transformation.

Leadership Maturity Coaching (LMC)

Leadership Maturity Coaching (LMC), co-developed with Beena Sharma, is a specialized form of developmental coaching, tailored for executive and business coaching. As human beings, we face challenges through life. From a developmental perspective, what changes are not the basic challenges that human beings encounter in life, but the relationship to these challenges that a person can have. The LMC approach built on the Leadership Maturity Framework and philosophical principles defines eight distinct developmental movements through which trained and certified practitioners can guide leaders on their individual paths to be more mature leaders who are more integrated.