The Know All - Wisdom

Wisdom skills (and meaning making maturity) involve the application of cognitive or reasoning capacities to the domains of human life

Attributes:
* critical thinking;
* creativity,
* self-understanding,
* abstract reasoning,
* social/emotional/communication skills,
* curiosity and inquiry skills,
* understanding systems and wholes,
* grounding ideas in pragmatic realitie
* multi-stakeholder perspective taking,
* robustness within paradox and uncertainty (“dialectical thinking”),
* empathy, humility
* self-reflection

Skills:
1. self-understanding, including self-reflection, self-awareness;
2. seeing big pictures, including relational dynamics, contexts, and systems;
3. perspective-taking, empathy, compassion, and an appreciation for the diversity of human values, abilities, and contexts;
4. tolerance of and appreciation for uncertainty, paradox, and ambiguity;
5. a humility that includes being aware of the fallibilities in one’s own beliefs and the limits of human reasoning in general; and
6. sound pragmatic judgment that accounts for observable reality, i.e. a balanced appreciation for the actual and specific complexities of human nature and of physical reality on earth.

The diverse set of wisdom capacities are closely related to each other, influence each other, and, in a very rough sense, tend to grow together

In particular, the higher individuals are in ego development, the more they are open to experience, appreciate alternative values and new ideas, and have aesthetic interests. They are more creative and psychologically minded and think in more complex ways. Finally they have more mature, mutually respectful relationships, adopt more androgynous gender role definitions, and they are more responsive to psychological conflict.

Research:

education and workforce development

AACU, 2007;
NSTA, 2011;
Clark et al., 2009;
Pellegrino & Hilton, 2012;
Scardamalia et al., 2012
Muhlberger & Weber, 2006;
Manners, 2001

democracy

Rosenberg, 2004, 2007
Walsh, 2015;

wisdom

Baltes & Staudinger, 2000;
Meeks & Jeste, 2009;
Bangen et al. 2013;
Fry & Wigglesworth, 2013

theory

Loevinger SCT 1970, 1976
Cook-Greuter, 2002
Rooke & Torbert, 2005
Kegan, 1994
Wilber’s Integral Theory (1995)