Improvising Personal and Social Evolution with TPD and CMM | Sergej van Middendorp & Abbie VanMeter | 2024 Dabrowski Congress
Sergej van Middendorp and Abbie VanMeter at the 2024 Dabrowski Congress Presentation
Improvising Personal and Social Evolution with TPD and CMM | Sergej van Middendorp & Abbie VanMeter
The Theory of Positive Disintegration (TPD) helps us understand factors influencing individual development and how to support personal evolution towards a personality ideal rooted in authenticity. The Coordinated Management of Meaning Theory (CMM) helps us understand how our social worlds are constructed in communication and how to support social evolution through the making of better social worlds. TPD and CMM are both rooted in decades of research and theory development and both have attracted committed communities of scholar-practitioners. We want to use our presentation to explore similarities and differences between the two in order to see how both the theories and the communities can strengthen each other. We are playing with the idea to use the metaphor of (organizational) improvisation to create relations between the theories and communities as one way to generate personal and social evolution.
This presentation was recorded at the 16th International Dabrowski Congress, which took place from July 11-13, 2024, virtually and in person at the University of Denver, Colorado, USA.
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And you can learn more about the Theory of Positive Disintegration on Substack here.
