Session G7
Tracks
Stream G
| Sunday, May 18, 2025 |
| 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM |
Overview
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Presenter
Dr Margo Orum
Towards paradigm change: Exploring how our ego development stage limits change.
10:30 AM - 11:30 AMAbstract
In this workshop you will learn about why it is so hard for us - and our clients - to bring about the kind of changes we desire - even when we desperately want change. Sometimes the reason we are stuck, anxious, or depressed, is that we have run up against the limitations of our own “sense of self” paradigm - in other words, our own stage of ego development.
What exactly are the stages of ego development? This workshop will introduce you to the main evidence-based theories of ego development and the evolving sense of self, according to Jane Loevinger (1976), Susanne Cook-Greuter (2010), and Kegan & Lahey (2009).
We will break into small groups to explore our own (or our clients’) problems with being stuck. In the group work, you will be introduced to a novel exercise that is designed to help us see how and why we may be getting in our own way.
Our sense of self is very difficult to budge, and the self-sabotage can be hard to identify. But unless we do, we may be destined to stay stuck getting the same outcomes.
What has to change in order to enter a fresh new sense of self is no less than our self-paradigm - the place we see ourselves from - the “ultimate” context that we have come to believe we are subject to.
What exactly are the stages of ego development? This workshop will introduce you to the main evidence-based theories of ego development and the evolving sense of self, according to Jane Loevinger (1976), Susanne Cook-Greuter (2010), and Kegan & Lahey (2009).
We will break into small groups to explore our own (or our clients’) problems with being stuck. In the group work, you will be introduced to a novel exercise that is designed to help us see how and why we may be getting in our own way.
Our sense of self is very difficult to budge, and the self-sabotage can be hard to identify. But unless we do, we may be destined to stay stuck getting the same outcomes.
What has to change in order to enter a fresh new sense of self is no less than our self-paradigm - the place we see ourselves from - the “ultimate” context that we have come to believe we are subject to.
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Dr Margo Orum has been a psychologist for 24 years, and is the Founder and Director of Open Sky Psychology - a private psychology practice in Ryde, NSW.
In 2023 she produced an online course called Know Yourself: Stages on the Path to Personal Growth, which explains the nature of the paradigm changes that adults may go through, if their ego (sense of self) continues to develop right across their adult lives.
Margo's early experiences with bipolar disorder fuelled her intellectual curiosity about transformative change and how we update our minds and sense of self, prompting her to become a psychologist and researcher into how the mind works - and how we update our "sense of self", or ego.
Her PhD (2003) investigated whether sudden moments of insight and epiphanies may be involved in accelerating paradigm changes from one stage of ego development to the next.
