Module 4 Reflective

ORGL 3050. Kegan & Lahey. Three Phases Part II. Subject and Object

One of the interesting aspects of Kegan and Lahey’s conceptual framework is that they ask us to look at our self in two ways. At each level of the process, we are both a subject (as in a thinking subject, the subject “I” in the sentence “I think”) and as an object, something that can be studied, as in “the object of one’s attention.”

From: Kegan, Robert, & Lahey, Lisa Laskow (2010). From subject to object: A constructive- developmental approach to reflective practice (chapter 22, pp. 433-449) in Nona Lyons (Ed.) Handbook of Reflection and Reflective Inquiry. New York: Springer.

Photo of Robert Kegan taken from: https://www.gse.harvard.edu/faculty/robert-kegan

Photo of Lisa Laskow Lahey from taken from: https://www.amazon.com/Lisa-Laskow-Lahey/e/B001KH9ZQC