Integral City Workshops, Seminars, Keynotes for
 
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Values Exploratory: Learning a Common Language to Bridge Personal, Group and Global Values
An introduction to Spiral Dynamics integral shows learners the basic developmental, evolutionary, complex adaptive bio-psycho-cultural-social framework. Participants complete the Values Test, receive their results and are walked through the interpretation. Stories, case studies and Q&A give participants insights into individual and group results as a microcosm of the world.
Building the Bow and Arrow of Four Quadrant Attention and Intention
- Integrate your attention with your intention
- Springboard into new territories of personal growth
- Use 4 quadrant thinking for PRACTICAL application
- Re-vitalize every aspect of your inquiry into mind and self
- Use 4 quadrant thinking to build an emergent community of practice
- Up the level of your training and coaching skills both in power and creative impact
- Optional Co-Presenter: Dr. Marilyn Atkinson, Founder Erickson College
New Tools for New Times
Why do people make such different decisions, given the same information and opportunities? How do values develop and spread among people? How can we bring our diverse ways of thinking to create a community that feels good to all of us?
Spiral Dynamics integral is a model for people who think about complex systems – like neighbourhoods, communities, and organizations. It is a way of understanding the different values or “world views” that people use to make their decisions. Using Spiral Dynamics integral, leaders can reduce the tensions in those differences, and create positive change in social and business systems.
The Spiral Dynamics integral model helps us understand our next steps towards creating a constructive community atmosphere in a changing situation―wherever we are in our work at this moment. It shows us what’s working, what’s blocking progress, and how we can dream for our future.
Learn how communities, associations and professionals from Halifax, First Nations, Winnipeg, Abbotsford, Creative City, New Westminster, the Netherlands, UK and South Africa have used Spiral Dynamics integral for practical solutions.
Presenter: Marilyn Hamilton PhD CGA
Exploring the Ecology of Leadership: Values for a Complex World
This workshop gives leaders lenses to see their leadership in terms of its evolutionary, developmental, self-organizing nature. Leaders assess their leadership within this Spiral Dynamic integral framework and prepare to experience its application in interactive scenarios. They explore levels of complexity; bio-psycho-cultural-social expression; express self / sacrifice self stages; and acceptance / rejection of values. They gain an understanding of the ecology of leadership within complex life conditions and obtain resources for integral leadership development.
From Eco-Activist to Evo-Artist: Creating the Conditions for Change the World Needs Done
This one day workshop will engage participants to move beyond eco-activism into evolutionary-artistry. They will learn natural design principles that will enable them to get out from under the canopy of their own assumptions; move beyond the safe embrace of communities of practice; and discover the true diversity that lies beneath the surface of human emergence. Participants will gain access lenses of the developmental, evolutionary, complex adaptive system called Spiral Dynamics integral. They will learn key secrets behind the ongoing metamorphosis of global activists like Greenpeace, Forest Ethics and Integral Ecology and Sustainability. More than "being the change they want to see in the world," this workshop will challenge participants "to DO the change the world needs done," and give them tools for doing it.
Optionally Co-Facilitated with Dr. Don Beck Founder of the Center for Human Emergence and co-author of Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership and Change
Leadership That's Always One Step Ahead
How do you lead in a workplace that is always changing? Is your leadership approach appropriate to the values and worldviews of the people you are called to lead? How do leaders develop strategies that keep them one step ahead of change? This course will engage leaders with values and change to help them stay one step ahead of those they are leading. This workshop will use online self-assessment, classroom lecture and feedback, small group work, experiential exercises and/or case studies.
Discovering the Artistry of Leadership for a Changing World
This two day session creates learning conditions where leaders are granted artistic license to experience the never-ending quest in their leadership story. Leaders are guided to gain deep insights, through artistic expressions of their evolutionary, developmental, self-organizing journey. Leaders interpret their leadership values, using multiple art-forms to tell their story and understand it within a Spiral Dynamic integral framework in order to open gateways for discovering the future art of their leadership practice.
Co-presented with Linda Naiman, Corporate Alchemist, www.creativityatwork.com
Quantum Woman: How Are We Awakening to the Integral Age?
This is an inquiry, for women only, about the evolution of women; how women contribute to our species’ survival, adaptation and emergence; and what is natural, needed and next for women at this time in evolution.
The objective of this inquiry is to reframe our understanding of integral and spiral human system dynamics from the paradigm of the double helix to the paradigm of the triple helix. The triple helix recognizes that women and men have separate but intertwining evolutionary journeys with their life conditions. (The double helix of Clare Graves does not differentiate the uniquely embodied realities of women and men.) Quantum Woman makes visible, the woman who has been conflated with the man in the double helix view of the human evolutionary journey. We explore woman as an adaptive, relational, inspirational co-evolutionary partner who has enabled the journey of human emergence through survival hearths and family clans, even up to and including patriarchal hierarchies, bureaucracies, competitive enterprises and social networks. Beyond the emergence of the humanistic acceptance of diversity and equality, Quantum Woman asks, what is woman’s role in re-leasing, re-forming and re-membering the human system through the intelligences of flex-flow into new ways of living, learning and leading? This inquiry integrally supports women to explore who they are called to be in the Quantum Leap era of human evolution.
Co-presented with Dr. Elizabeth Debold, Senior Editor, EnlightenNext
Teams, Organizations, Associations
4 Questions That Can Release Potential for Well Being
Discover how the answers to four simple questions can tell us the natural place to apply resources and energy to further the well-being of a leader, team, organization, community or city. Humans naturally create complex living systems. Our integral approach provides clear insight into how resources, efforts and collaboration can be best invested to release the potential for well being.
Dialogue, Deliberation and Design:
Connecting All the Dots
Optional Co-Presenter: Dr. Don Beck
CultureSCAN for
Optimizing Team Performance: Accessing Multiple
Intelligences in the Dynamic Workplace This retreat
provides an introduction to Spiral Dynamics integral
through the CultureSCAN process and technology.
Participants gain insights about their priorities,
values, readiness for change, preference for first or
second order change, preferred work structures, executive
intelligences and right/left brain capacities. It
explores the foundations of Spiral Dynamics integral as
a common language for team effectiveness. Individuals in
small and large groups, are coached to apply
communication strategies that bridge workplace cultures.
Optional module links to the team Enneagram
process with coaching to integrate communication and
Spiral Dynamics integral skills. Post-Course Coaching
available. Optional
Co-Facilitators: Michael Keller, Barry Stevenson
Emerging Organization:
Exploring Complex Adaptive Teams and Organizations
Participants consider the paradigms of leadership
and organization that emerge from their experience,
values, worldviews and environment. They examine the contexts of their organizations in
the workplace where leadership and learning occur and
learn:
Organization Wellness This
session explores the patterns, processes and structures
of organizations in relation to their identity,
relationships and information sharing. Organization
wellness is explored through stages of development,
sectoral maturity, priorities and the integral spiral lenses
of developmental, evolutionary perspectives.
Participants gain discernment between natural system
growth, transitions, transformations and dis-ease.
Deep Listening
Participants
ground and centre themselves for organizing the way
in which they give and receive feedback from self and
others. They explore the power of
guided reflection through the lenses of perception,
thinking, feeling and wanting. This builds a foundation
for mutual trust and respect, team performance and
communication.
Spiral Dynamics integral Praxis:
Applying Assessment Tools to Self,
Others & Organizations This
workshop gives participants practice in using and
applying Spiral Dynamics integral assessment tools.
They review and interpret the results of the Values,
Change State and CultureSCAN assessments. They
have an opportunity to apply the tools to individuals,
teams and one or more organizations, using a case
study. They experience the advantages of working as
community of practise.
Spiral
Dynamics integral
(SDi) reveals how to focus and mesh authority, power and
influence for appropriate collaboration and governance
at all levels of human systems. This SDi workshop
introduces the insights for designing elegant, natural,
systemic problem-solutions that meet people and address
situations where they are.
Generational Cycles, Saecula and Cities: What do Integral Boomers, Gen X, Y & Z need to let go of? What do we need to create anew?
Are cities living organisms - entities that are born and grow with life cycles like humans? Do you wrestle with large systemic gridlocks or small hyperlocal mashups? In this session we delve into the principles of "transcend and include" through the lens of Integral Cities and generational cycles. We will explore what we might have to release, in order to create wellbeing in our communities and cities. We may not solve this evolutionary challenge in half a day! Engage your multi-generational awareness and integral perspectives to identify actions that awaken the individual and collective intelligences that move us forward. (Keynote, half day, full day workshops) Dr. Hamilton with Cherie Beck
Meshworking Integral Intelligences for Resilient Environments; Enabling Order and Creativity in the Human Hive
How does the practise of meshworking expand integral intelligences for the human hive (aka city)? This session shows how meshworks integrate the self-organizing network of city relationships with hierarchies of structural organization, so that collaborations are recalibrated through networks to communities and holarchies of practise. Drawing on years of ?glocal? civic activism, transnational inquiry, organizational capacity growing and public engagement, the presenter links the intelligences of meshworking and navigating with integral vital signs monitors. Join us to discover how the practical application of meshworking stimulates life conditions where integral capacities can naturally evolve and enable resilience in the human hive. (Keynote, half day, full day workshops)
Waking Up the Human Hive to Integral Education and Ecology
In this workshop we explore the role of 12 evolutionary intelligences for thriving in the human hive. Dr. Hamilton will draw on her recent research and her book, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive, demonstrating the special role of education to integrate the city back into a whole. The presentation will show the vital intersection of ecology and education and how they contribute to waking up the human hive to its responsibilities and possibilities in the integral era. (Keynote, half day, full day workshops)
Sustainable Community Development Graduate Certificate Royal Roads University
The Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Community Development responds to the growing need for leaders in communities to excel at understanding and leading sustainable development. This 6-month interdisciplinary graduate program builds a foundation of leading practices for exploring resilient systems and building community engagement. The program focuses on developing leadership skills to integrate the economic, social, cultural and environmental capacities for developing sustainable communities. The program is designed for professionals with a desire to learn how to build tomorrow?s thriving communities, appealing to practitioners from a diverse range of backgrounds, including NFP, NGO, government, urban and rural planners, legal, financial, health care and transportation professionals, educators and community advocates, city managers and other professionals working in communities.
How the Program is structured
This Graduate Certificate has an on campus residency focused on Uncovering Potentials for Adaptive Change and is followed by two online courses: Building Community Engagement and Exploring Foundations for Resilient Systems. The program concludes with the presentation of a capstone project. This program places emphasis on the development of the people skills required to build sustainable communities. Through multiple experiences of team building, learning in community and working for a Community of Interest, it offers dynamic, evolutionary, intelligent practices, tools and frameworks throughout all course modules.
Community of Interest & Beneficiary of the 6 Month?s Studies & Capstone Project
The program is focused around three leverage points:
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Understanding Community in Context of its
environment, eco-region and evolution:
- Explores case studies of leading practices in systems, science and social structures
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Designing Capacity Building Systems for people,
organizations, communities and cities:
- Challenges and designs bridges across the silos, stovepipes and solitudes that fragment current community sectors
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Developing Strategies for Evaluating, Decision
Making and Civic Engagement:
- Offers designs, strategies and tools for community engagement that build social capital
How Communities Learn to
Thrive in Challenging Times
Moving from Concern to Action: Communicating for Change
- We are living in a time in which change has as many variations as people who experience it. Whether you are in the business of community health, literacy, economic development, sustainability, local government or transportation management, you are witnessing the emergence of new (global and local) challenges, opportunities, and shifting contexts in which you do your work.
- Do you wonder how cohesion and a unifying direction could improve our current direction? How can we find the unifying threads that support social change?
- For some, change is new, exciting, and an invitation to innovation and creativity. For others change can be scary, risky, and paralyzing.
This workshop will support you to develop your knowledge, skills, and abilities to effectively influence change through your communications with diverse audiences. It helps you understand how you can translate your message/communication so that people can hear it and align your message so that people can act to support it.
This workshop helps to uncover a common, unifying, and integrating framework that can guide us in times of turbulence and promote physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, and social values and community capacity building that considers the whole person in the whole community.
The Map, The Mesh and the Human
Hive: 3 Module Telecourse
Location: Telephone Bridge Line to be Advised After Registration
Time: Noon to 12 noon to 2pm Pacific Daylight Time (GMT+8) for all dates
Module 1 The Map (Integral Capacity)
Module 2 The Mesh (Complex Relationships)
Module 3 The Human Hive (Resilient Adaptiveness)
Each session is recorded and three chapters of my Talking Book Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive will be downloadable and included in the fee.
Each session includes: Introductions, a Mini-lecture from me, Facilitated Discussion, Q&A, Summary.
Integral City: The City Behind the Story
This is an engaging and interactive keynote:
- Listen to Marilyn’s reflections on how Abbotsford inspired her to think about cities in a new way and influenced her new book, Integral City
- Discover how differences make a difference; unusual connections open new pathways; imagination creates city learning
- Ask questions! Find out if your name, idea, past or future is in the book!!
Resilient cities adapt best when many different types of intelligences are integrated from diverse sources in a whole systems approach. Marilyn will reminisce about the Abbotsford people, events, life conditions and challenges that contribute to how she sees life in the “human hive” -- the most complex system ever created by humans.
4 Questions That Can Release the Potential in Your Community
A city or community is a complex living system. This workshop introduces a simple, low cost, low technology approach to provide clear insight into how resources, taxes and grants can be best invested to release the potential of the city. Participants learn the Spiral Dynamics integral (SDi) framework that gives the power to this approach. SDi shows how people and communities naturally develop and how development gets blocked and how it can be unblocked. SDI integrates the spectrum of cultures within communities, within a city and reveals how they can naturally move forward. The answers to four questions tell us the natural place to apply resources and energy to further the city’s development.
Regional Placemaking Through Meshworking
Cities and Regions are
too often fractured by solitudes, silos and stovepipes
(Dale, 2001). In order to emerge a view and practise of
regional place that is whole and integral, meshworking
integrates hierarchies and self-organizing webs of
relationships, uniting data and people for effective
action and outcomes. Meshworking as a practise can
originate from the bottom of a system or the top of a
system, creating complex structures that flex and flow,
able to self-organize, while at the same time direct
behaviour in dependable, learned ways. Meshworks,
operate like our brains and appear to offer a powerful
explanation of how communities, cities and regions
function, evolve and place-make. Meshworkers act like
catalysts in the system, using imagination, courage and
powers of attraction to articulate intelligent designs
from the meshing of the diversities in people and
places. This session will describe the work of key
meshworkers and their practises.
Communicating Planning by Design: A New Way of
Lensing, Languaging and Aligning Differences in a
Neighbourhood
Communication is the primary work
medium of all planning. Yet few planners have learned
how to uncover what’s beneath the cacophony of voices
and emotions in the neighbourhood, how to translate
between voices, or how to communicate for coherence. In
this workshop, you will learn how to communicate with
people who have different understandings of what counts.
Using an Appreciative Inquiry
framework, the presenters will mesh the various
interests in the room with discoveries from their work.
They will share the results of their learning lab in the
Spence Neighbourhood in 2007, and demonstrate how they
used eight communication lenses – derived from Spiral
Dynamics integral (SDi) – to design a communications
strategy. You will learn how to recognize the different
lenses, or thought patterns, of people in any
neighbourhood. You will see how you can engage with
various groups, even when they appear unfriendly. You
will discover the secrets of “outing” the voices that
need to be heard. Through practice, you will experience
the potency of languaging your communication for
different sets of ears and different contexts, so it can
be heard and acted upon. You will learn how to align or
‘meshwork’ the messages, to reflect the community as a
whole. Optional
Co-Facilitators: Joyce Rankin
Founder, Appreciative Energy; Edith Friesen Founder, Zipple Ink.
Sustaining Cities: Rethinking and
Reframing Healthy Change
In today's environment, change in cities can mean anything from rearranging the benches on the street; to implementing responses to systemic inequities like homelessness or drug abuse; agreeing on an official community plan; or responding to the chaos caused by toxic spills, natural disasters and cultural clashes. Regardless of the scale of change, cities need a framework large enough to hold an adaptive, responsive spectrum of analysis. This session will present you with an integral, practical model framework for sustaining healthy change in cities.
Helping Cities Do More With Less Optional
Co-Presenter: Dr. Don Beck
Flower Power In Your Global
Village
How has your community become a global village? What do
we know about the rich diversity of our communities that
thrive below the surface of our observations and
assumptions, like a flower bulb beneath the soil? A
unique map, lets you appreciate how communities are
emerging into global villages with qualities as vibrant
as multi-coloured spring flowers. Explore what makes
the quality of your work, personal actions, family life
and spiritual development thrive or wither. Gain new
insights into how your personal, professional and
organizational values add “flower power” to the
development of your community as a global village.
Bio-Security Challenges in the
Global Village
The design for a secure Bio-Security for diseases in the
Urban Environment needs to recognize the impact of the
"Human Factor". There are many jurisdictions involved in
highly complex bio-threat situation. This brings into
play the plurality of human systems and potential
disconnections and breaches of any security system
design. Solutions are found through urban planning, city
leadership, & education.
Optional Co-Presenter: Anita Burke
From Risk to Resilience: Integral
Scorecards as a New Standard for Urban Resilience
Management
This session aims at reframing the risk management
paradigm for the unplanned (and unplannable) risks in Urban Planning. This session
introduces a new standard in establishing risk in urban areas.
Optional Co-Presenters: David Johnston, Founder
What's Working; Morel Fourman, Founder Gaiasoft
Bridging the Global and Local Deep
Divides: Deep Values, Integral Strategies and Design
Tools
Reframe surface level issues around deep value codes
that cause disruptions, conflicts and divides. Discover
a set of tools and processes that contribute to
designing, meshing and integrating invisible
diversities. Explore case studies, research, and
practical examples.
Optional Co-Presenter: Dr. Don Beck
Integral City, Integral
Nation, Integral World:
New Maps for New Times
Frustrated with just “being the change” for new times?
Get some new maps to “do the change”. Use new
[integral] maps for new [ever dynamic] times. Marilyn
shares her curiosity about what’s new for your
community/city/nation and how you can map your answers
to key questions to gain integral insights? Join Marilyn
in an interactive session to explore and expand the
integral maps she is collecting on what people say is
important to them. Discover how the Maple Leaf Meme
Project introduces integral and spiral dynamic
frameworks to chart cultural values and capacities for
change in cities, countries and the world.
Values-Based ROI, Integral Scorecards, and Vital
Signs Monitors
Accountants have a new future! Cross-disciplinary
research shows how accountants can move beyond even
Balanced Needs Scorecards, to develop
Values-Based ROI and Vital Signs Monitors. This
workshop will explore the patterns from hard and soft
sciences that make possible multi-dimensional vital
signs monitors to track the health of human systems in
teams, organizations and cultures. The presentation
will share research, pilot projects and publications,
demonstrating how designing integral vital signs
monitors offers whole new perspectives for accountants,
who can describe benchmarks for what we want to change,
how to track the change and how we develop processes to
influence change.
Integral Methods from the Margins: Finding Myself in
the Research - A Retrospective of Integral Leadership
Development Methods Using Online Dialogue Analysis, a
Competency Development Framework and Action Research This retrospective explores three
integral methodologies from the presenter’s decade of
self/other discovery as researcher, professor, writer
and leadership learning process designer. Dr. Hamilton
shares the Ethnographic Codebook developed for her
dissertation, studying learning and leadership in the
self-organizing online Berkana Community of
Conversations. She outlines the integral competency
framework, she co-designed for the Masters Leadership
degree at Royal Roads University, to provide leadership
development feedback by self/peer/instructor. Lastly
Hamilton shares her experience in coaching 50 Action
Research theses and how the integral competency
framework, integral methodological pluralism and
participatory action research can enable students
gaining two developmental levels in two years. The
presentation concludes with comparisons to newer
leadership technologies and recommendations for further
development.
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Learn how Integral City Systems (ICS) is a value managed
approach to urban management and development. Explore a
decision making framework for both the built environment
and quality of life. Examine human values systems and
engineering techniques that optimize available resources
for strategic outcomes. Learn a common language for
stakeholder participation, professional expertise and
dynamic urban change.