Overview: Lines of Development in the Upper Left Quadrant

What am I aware of?

What do I need?

Who am I?

What is important to me?

How do I feel about this?

How should I introspect?

What is of ultimate concern to me?

What is it that I am attracted to?

What can I create or envision?

What is the meaning and purpose of my existence?

How do I understand and express my sexual identity and desires?

Cognitive Intelligence involves the ability to understand, apply knowledge, and improve skills. It's the most widely studied and measured type of intelligence.

The Needs Line focuses on understanding and fulfilling one's physical, emotional, and psychological needs.

Self-Identity Line is about the development of self-concept, self-esteem, and identity.

Values Line centers around what one considers important in life, which guides their behavior and decision-making processes.

Emotional Intelligence involves the ability to understand, use, and manage one's own emotions in positive ways.

Intrapersonal Line is about understanding one's inner self, including thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and motivations.

Spirituality Line focuses on the search for meaning, purpose, and connection with something greater than oneself.

Aesthetics Line involves the appreciation of beauty, balance, and harmony in various forms of expression.

Creative Line is about the ability to think in new and innovative ways, and to create and envision things that never existed before.

Existential Line is concerned with the big questions of human existence, including the meaning and purpose of life.

Psychosexual Line involves the understanding and expression of one's sexual identity and desires.

Jean Piaget's stages of cognitive development, Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences.

Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Clayton Alderfer's ERG theory.

Erik Erikson's stages of psychosocial development, James Marcia's identity status theory.

Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development, Shalom Schwartz's theory of basic human values.

Daniel Goleman's model of emotional intelligence, Mayer and Salovey's four branch model of emotional intelligence.

Howard Gardner's intrapersonal intelligence, Carl Rogers' person-centered theory.

James Fowler's stages of faith, Ken Wilber's integral spirituality.

Immanuel Kant's philosophy of aesthetics, Edmund Burke's theory of the sublime and beautiful.

Teresa Amabile's componential theory of creativity, Robert Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence.

Viktor Frankl's logotherapy, Existential therapy.

Sigmund Freud's psychosexual stages, Alfred Kinsey's sexual behavior in the human male and female.