Sitemap - 2023 - Vertical Development: How Grown-ups Grow Up

This Year, Try Setting Intentions Instead of Goals

Embodiment and Vertical Development

We All Stand on the Shoulders of Giants. To Grow, We Must Take Them off Their Pedestals.

Positive Disintegration

Narrating Your Growth: Lifelong Lessons from Keeping a Journal

The Halo of Expertise

Neuroscience and Vertical Development

Our obsession with 'Doing' is burning out our bodies and stunting our inner growth.

The Art of 'Listening' as a Developmental Practice

A Systems Perspective on Vertical Development

Are you wrestling with Time or dancing with(in) it?

Debunking Vertical Development Myths: Later stages are 'better'

Coming Full Circle: What I learnt about my own vertical development from doing a PhD while starting life over at the other end of the world

Coach Supervision and Vertical Development

Developmental Coaching Starts With the Coach

Invite your friends to read "Vertical Development: How Grown-ups Grow Up"

What Does it Mean to Be a Developmental Leader?

Shame: The Emotion Nobody Wants to Feel.

Walking the Talk of Maturity: Competition and Collaboration in the Vertical Development Space (and beyond)

Check out our "One Coaching Session" Project

Enter the Vertical Development Institute's Course Library

Welcome to the Vertical Development Institute's (VDI) Substack!

Is Giving Advice Helping Others’ Vertical Development or Stealing Their Learning?

Walking the Talk of Vertical Development: How To Keep Ourselves Honest and Avoid WTT Bypassing

How Do We Design Learning for Vertical Development?

Vertical Development and Parenting: How Raising Kids Raises Us

Why Compulsory Leadership Programs Don’t Work: The Role of “Choice” and “Readiness” in Vertical Development

“Be Yourself!” - What Does That Even Mean? The Messy Question of Identity and Vertical Development

Giftedness, Neurodivergence and Vertical Development

The Way OUT Is THROUGH: Contrasting Emotions and Vertical Development

Mindfulness: A Path to Vertical Development

Inspiration is NOT Transformation: Let’s Not Confuse Peak States With Stages in Vertical Development

Friendship: Catalyst for Vertical Development

Lines and Stages in Vertical Development: Why Assessments and Coaching Models Are Valuable Maps, But NOT The Territory

Dr. Valerie Livesay on Fallback: How We Grow from Being at Our Worst