THE PSYCHOLOGY BEHIND APG

When you coach using the patterns of APG you are using some of the distinctions that I found and developed from Developmental Psychology. This is the psychology that informs us about how we humans grow and develop over our lifespan. It is the psychology of our psycho-sexual development, our psycho-social development, our cognitive development, our faith development, our moral development, and so on. It is the psychology developed by Piaget, Eric Erickson, Fowler, and many others.

Why is this important and how does it relate to APG? It’s important because one of the key interferences that prevent people from unleashing their highest potentials involves how human beings can get stuck at various stages of development. For example, people can so easily get stuck when they don’t recognize or claim their innate powers for responding. Or they can get stuck when they don’t value, accept, and appreciate themselves. Or they can get stuck when they don’t know how to enjoy and endow things with joy and pleasure.