"Overall, Developmental Action Inquiry strikes a different balance from Wilber's AQAL model. DAI theory and method put primary emphasis on the four attentional and experiential territories of experience we can engage at each moment, rather than on four conceptual fields. DAI puts secondary emphasis on interweaving 1st, 2nd and 3rd-person research and practice in the present, rather than bifurcating attention between the individual and the collective. DAI puts tertiary emphasis on creating communities of living inquiry with single-, double, and triple-loop learning at their heart, rather than communities of shared belief. And DAI puts quartenary emphasis on data-based cognitive maps of developmental action-logics, such as the AQAL model".
From Developmental Action Inquiry: A Distinct Integral Theory That Actually Integrates
Developmental Theory, Practice and Research, by Torbet et. al. Paper presented to the Integral Theory in Academia Conference 2008.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
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Interesting distinction, Bill. I would add that they're categorically different, and not apples to apples models. It seems DAI enacts the subject from a first-person stance, and is thus primarily a 1st-person exemplar. AQAL, on the other hand, is a 3rd person conceptual template. Both can certainly reinforce each other, but using AQAL as a 3rd-person primer is perhaps easier for most people. The developmental sophistication needed to enact DAI is much more substantial in terms of needed awareness-presence.
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