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Working notes on inner development, developmental science, and the design of developmental spaces. This is a garden, not a book: notes vary from polished to raw, grow over time, and link to each other. It began as the knowledge base for the Intro to Deliberately Developmental Spaces course (course announcement) and now serves as the wiki layer of Developmental Spaces.

For the polished statements of the ideas, see the whitepaper and the Build stream.

Starting points

Why developmental spaces:

• Why we want DDS - three levels a) second renaissance b) resilience in metacrisis c) simple flourishing
• What terminology to use? inner development, inner growth, ontogenesis, cultivating inner capacities?

The science of development:

• ontogenesis aka inner development
• Domains, maps, rafts
• From Piaget to Dawson - the evolution of adult developmental metrics
• Kurt Fischer's Dynamic Skills Theory
• Models of Hierarchical Complexity
• Rosetta stone aka glossary of terms with mappings · Glossary

Waking up (states) vs growing up (stages):

• DMR waking up
• Wilber Coombs matrix and Correlation in the Wilber-Coombs matrix and generally correlation and complementarity across domains
• Ten stages of meditation (Mind Illuminated)
• Dark Night of the Soul
• fundamental-wellbeing and the Martin Matrix

Practices and programs:

• assessment-of-transformative-programs
• meditation · beginning-anew · holotropic-breathwork · hoffman-process · deep-democracy-intensive

The course: Course overview and course-readme hold the original course outline, session materials and library links (readings in Zotero). Note: some Raw N links in the readme refer to planned notes that were never written.

Reference clippings

Externally sourced notes (Lectica, developmental measurement, etc.) live under clippings/.

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Part of Developmental Spaces. Contributions and corrections welcome: developmentalspaces [at] lifeitself [dot] org.