Three Roads to Higher Adult Development

Why Some People Need Healing, Some Need Skills, and Some Are Ready for the Next Stage of Leadership

In my previous article, I explored an important question:

What are we actually developing toward?

The adult-development models of Robert Kegan, Abraham Maslow, and Carl Jung give us remarkably complementary answers.

Kegan points toward the Self-Authoring and Self-Transforming Mind.

Maslow points toward self-actualization and ultimately self-transcendence.

Jung describes individuation and self-realization—the lifelong movement toward greater integration and wholeness around the Self.

Inner Shift translates these ideas into a simpler practical aspiration:

Grow beyond fear-based protection into love-based True Self Leadership.

But that raises another question:

How do we get there?

This is where my own journey taught me something important.

I gradually realized that people do not all begin their developmental journey from the same place.