Phase model
The phase model as such does not look very complicated. It looks as if it would be simple to apply. In practice it is otherwise, however.
It is as a manager who worked with the Phase Model once said: 'You can study it and find it interesting, but it is not until the penny has dropped that it really comes to life'. Stated differently: you can deal with it in an intellectualistic, analytical way, from the outside, as it were. But if this is your approach, the Phase Model will remain closed.
Only when you look in depth at the various phases, and let them come to life in you, they begin to speak and show their truth.
This is so because we deal here with archetypical patterns or processes of the human evolution. These kinds of truths don't come to life for you until you learn to observe and recognize them from the inside on various levels of life. The mysterious aspect is that you yourself are thereby changed.
A Spanish entrepreneur and consultant, José Miguel López, who read the English translation of the book about the Phase Model (Transforming People and Organizations: The Seven Steps of Spiritual Development) puts it as follows:
'I can say that during the past months I have been occupied day and night by the seven phases. I read them, I lived in them meditatively, I translated them into Spanish, and I compared my own life and my own experiences with them.
'The result was that I gained an entirely new relationship with my past.
'At the same time a sense of responsibility towards the world grew in me, and I became much more aware of the tasks that other people face in their personal and professional lives.'
People emphasized that talking with others and exchanging experiences, helped them greatly in finding a personal relationship to the developmental processes of the Phase Model.
Below follow two kinds of experiences with the Phase Model:
a. Personal experiences
b. Reports of organizations that use the model.
Some people who did trainings and courses with me, nowadays give one or more of these courses from their own office.
For more information, please see their website: