Towards Motivation for Personal Development. David R. Hawkins’s Map of Consciousness

Abstract

The aim is to examine how the level of consciousness of an individual determines his/her motivation for personal development. In the first part of the paper, authors present the concept of the Map of Consciousness created by the American psychiatrist and researcher David R. Hawkins. In the second part, they discuss how the model can be applied to coaching practice, allowing the coach to fully support the coachee not only in fulfilling his/her development needs stemming from his/her current level of consciousness, but also in reaching subsequent levels of self-improvement.