Panorama Lab

13/02/2021

PANORAMA LAB -
your comprehensive guide for the sustainable development and growth

12/12/2020

The science of organizational and personal development cannot be ignored anymore.

It needs to be known, it needs to be applied by each of us individually and in our organizations.

It needs to be integrated if we truly want to create sustainable growth for human beings, our organizations, our society, and our planet, and to thrive in this constantly changing environment.

10/12/2020

All stages of development are important and have something good in them.
Every stage has its own time.
Processes & people matter, interactions & relationships matter, inside and outside the organization - in different ways at any stage.

You can’t impose the higher stage for individuals and organizations, but you can create enabling conditions for them to evolve to the higher stage - as long as you know
1) where the organization and individuals are in this developmental matrix, and
2) if you can include the values and achievements of previous stages.

09/12/2020

No human mind can produce 100% error.
No human mind can be 100% wrong.
Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

07/12/2020

As we continue to evolve across the vectors of development, described earlier, we are able to see where people are in their development – we begin to understand the value of different opinions, we appreciate the differences, we can work with and through these differences, and create new shared meanings through a constructive dialogue.
We create Unity in Diversity in the organizations and the world by empowering personal growth.

05/12/2020

How do we grow up, evolve, mature, and thrive as human beings?
What do we need to clean up, transcend, and include to move to the higher stages of development?
How do we open up across multiple lines of development?
How can we wake up to conscious living on this planet?
How do we show up in this world across all dimensions of existence and experience?

04/12/2020

“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” (World Health Organization).

We can add that embodying our "four states" - body, mind, emotions/feelings, spirit - is the roadmap to health, wellness, and understanding our true being.

03/12/2020

Making sense of experience is one of the fundamental drives in human nature. It is our ego’s function to ceaselessly interpret experience and to try to make sense of it.

Think of ego as the central processing unit, if you prefer hard sciences. Think of ego as the story-teller inside your head, If liberal arts are more your style.

Our worldview expands overtime from egocentric, to ethnocentric, to worldcentric. So does our ego - it goes through the stages of development.

Each later stage is more differentiated, integrated, flexible and capable of optimally functioning in a rapidly changing and ever more complex world.
It includes and transcends the previous stages.
The earlier perspectives remain part of our current experience and knowledge (just as when a child learns to run, it doesn’t stop to be able to walk).

A person who has reached a later stage can understand earlier worldviews, but a person at an earlier stage cannot understand the later ones.

02/12/2020

30/11/2020

As human beings, we all possess a repertoire of intelligences. These multiple intelligences are independent of one another to a significant extent and can be considered as lines of development.

Someone can have highly developed cognitive abilities, have a doctorate in anthropology and medicine, but completely lack moral intelligence and perform deadly experiments on humans. Someone can have exceptional aesthetic talents and be a world-known painter but would be considered weirdo due to low interpersonal intelligence.

Our genetics and life experience to-date will define how evolved we are on each of these developmental lines.

27/11/2020

We find ourselves in different states of consciousness based on how we perceive and interpret what is happing around us and what we want to do about it (if anything).

We often move through these states "by default".
Once you recognize which state you are in the moment, you can deliberately move to a higher state.

There are many tools and ways available for it to happen. And... practice makes it possible.

27/11/2020

We are all different in so many aspects!

Understanding different personality types is one of the important steps for creating a truly inclusive environment. It is essential for those focused on enhancing employee experience.

No matter which personality assessment you choose - just consider using one, for yourself, for your team, for your company.

26/11/2020

We know that our worldview evolves as we grow up.

Research in the areas of developmental studies shows that all humans go through the same stages of development: from egocentric, to ethnocentric, to (hopefully) worldcentric, and some even to kosmocentric.

Each stage represents what one is aware of, what one values and identifies with.

24/11/2020

People are multidimensional ever-evolving beings.
We see and experience the world differently based on our individual worldview.
Our worldview is determined by innate factors and external conditions of life.
It becomes more inclusive over time as it evolves through the successive stages of development.

23/11/2020

People are touched and moved in different ways by any decision that we take and any change that we implement in our organizations.
That's the diversity of our human nature.

Inspirations, mindsets, emotions, psychodynamics, politics, in addition to the logic / rationale - these 6 factors are always present when working with the multitude of personalities, views and opinions, even if we can't always see them.

20/11/2020

Full integration of the strengths of the previous developmental stages is required for successful evolution and functioning of any organization.
This integration is also necessary for any organization aspiring to become .

19/11/2020

Organizations evolve through stages of development – from conventional (traditional, then modern), to post-conventional (post-modern), to integral.
Each stage has its strengths and limitations.

Transition to the new stage requires full integration of the previous stage AND organizational readiness at all levels – people, processes and systems, and culture.

You cannot skip the stages, but you can help accelerate the development of your organization to the next stage.

18/11/2020

Did you know that Panorama Lab was established online by two passionate souls - Marina Demchenko and Olga Romanovskaya Gerardin - searching for integral solutions for sustainable development and growth amid the increasing pace of global changes, instability, tensions and polarization in the world?
We wanted to find new ways for organizations, people and communities to thrive in these ever-changing conditions.

Through our research, we have developed a comprehensive methodology founded on the decades of work of the leading minds of our time in the areas of integral theory, organizational development, organizational psychology, holistic marketing and management, sustainable territory development, and even holistic medicine.

The result of our research - new "system of coordinates".
It enables anyone to have the panoramic view of any situation, see "the situational landscape" as a whole and in detail, and orientate in this ever-changing complex reality.
It includes dimensions of the outer conditions of the world we live in (social, economic, political), and the inner world of the individuals and the collective (psyche, emotions, beliefs, values).
These dimensions are essential for individuals, organizations and societies to thrive.

More to come...