The below blog entries all focus on the “Levels of Development” mapped out by Don Riso. Since some of them also include other tags, the same articles might show up in other collections, too.
Wants, needs, and levels of balance — what “psychological maturity” looks like
A while back, in a presentation of Don Riso’s “Levels of Development” a question around wants and needs came up — do they go away at the healthy levels, or change? Is detachment from wants and needs what we’re after in our strive for balance and diminished ego-identification? Here are some further thoughts on the topic.
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Don Riso’s “Levels of Development” — the dynamics of ego-identification
An often marginalised although critical part of the understanding of Enneagram points is the vertical aspect of balance that Don Riso discovered, mapped out and coined the Levels of Development. The levels explain how the same type can spawn saints as well as terrorists (and how some people could go from one to the other in one life-span) — and, at…
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Why do a uniform course on working with the Levels of Development if the whole point is working from my current level?
The levels of development mapped out by Don Riso have been different things to me at different points in my journey. At first, they seemed theoretical and, while they made total sense to me, still curiously hard to nail down within myself, in my own moment-to-moment experience. Later, the sense they made started appearing in my experiential understanding, too — not…
Moving to higher ground — utilising the concept of the Levels of Development
The “Levels of Development” within the Enneagram always made sense to me — in theory. When I first encountered them (which was basically when I discovered the work of Don Riso and Russ Hudson, which was quite soon after discovering the Enneagram overall more than 20 years ago), they lifted a flat system into three-dimensionality. Moreover, in a way, they also…
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