A hiring guide arguing every role has an optimal developmental stage, addressing how to match candidates to jobs, what to do when employees evolve into a counterproductive stage, and how to isolate roles that need a different mindset.
A workplace guide to shifting yourself and your team into the optimal developmental stage for a task, using targeted questions for quick shifts and resources and homework for lasting change, with examples for customer service and innovation.
An ethics discussion on using knowledge of the developmental stages at work, cautioning against moving people between stages without their awareness or permission and favoring forward, consensual, temporary shifts for genuine connection.
A business-application guide to the eleven-stage development model, explaining how to temporarily shift teams into a stage suited to a task and match job functions such as HR, management, innovation, and PR to the stage best fit for their work.
A guide to identifying your organization’s primary developmental stage, the stage that draws your customers and shapes hiring and branding, with examples of the kinds of businesses that typically operate in each of the eleven stages.
A practical guide to recognizing which developmental stage coworkers and customers occupy by listening to how they seek validation, so you can meet them where they are and help them move toward a more productive stage.
A short announcement of a YouTube playlist in which the author discusses using the developmental stages for management and leadership, marketing and sales, employee retention and hiring, and negotiation.
An audience-question answer explaining how the author attracts consulting clients without advertising or sales funnels — through deliberate decision, focused meditative intention, and the consciousness of the later stages — as an alternative to conventional prospecting and marketing.
An audience-question answer challenging the idea that we are defined by our work or by how we spend most of our time — arguing that chronic overwork can be a way of avoiding oneself, and that real identity lives in the quiet hours of connection.
A Stage Nine teaching from the Purna Asatti journey on gathering the skills and knowledge your purpose requires, breaking large goals into small daily steps, and quieting the inner negative voice that resists any effort to grow.
A Stage Eight teaching from the Purna Asatti journey on designing your ideal life once your ideology is principle-based and ego has quieted — being specific and honest across every area, researching what each element requires, and manifesting from positive emotion.
A Stage Six teaching on taking full responsibility and authority for one’s own life — recognizing that one’s own choices, not other people, cause and can solve most problems — as the foundation for lasting change.
A teaching on treating everything taken in through the six senses — food, media, sounds, smells, touch, and energy — like a diet, deliberately curating a sensory environment that fuels your goals and filters out what works against them.
The foundational teaching defining Purna Asatti, or complete connection: connecting fully to self, others, and reality across every aspect of being, mapped to the chakras, and reframing tantra as enlightenment through connection rather than sexuality alone.
An introductory roadmap to self-development presenting the author’s model of universal stages of human growth, synthesized from Kegan, Fowler, and others, framed as the guide she wished she had when her own journey began at thirty-one.
A personal essay on how reducing commitments, possessions, and relationships frees up attention, which in turn enables focused intention and creative flow, and on trusting a let-go, unscheduled approach to balancing writing, music, art, and language.
A brief method for focusing effort in difficult moments by asking what one needs to BE rather than what one needs to do, letting the desired way of being reveal the concrete actions to take.
A teaching piece on manifestation and purpose, arguing that struggle is a signal the universe is blocking something counter to your path, and that recognizing and trusting that resistance helps you make choices aligned with your true purpose.
A teaching essay on the danger of accepting labels for our core self, from others or from ourselves — distinguishing real, learnable skills from an ever-changing ‘self’ that doesn’t truly exist, and warning how borrowed labels become limiting beliefs.
A practical teaching essay offering a method for hard decisions: list each option’s reasons, reduce each to its root emotional trigger, and notice whether the pull comes from the human mind — greed, ego, fear — or from the soul’s purpose, service and love.