About Marilyn Hamilton

HI I am the Founder of Integral City Meshworks Inc. and Editor -in-Chief and Chief Blogger. Working with cities and eco-regions, I ‘meshwork’ or weave people, purpose, priorities, profits, programs and processes to align contexts, grow capacity and develop strategies for sustainability and resilience in the Integral City. You can read more details about me here http://integralcity.com/about/about-the-founder/
30 10, 2014

Gaia Whispers to Change Seekers

By |2017-04-07T02:57:24+00:00October 30th, 2014|Categories: city|Tags: , , , |5 Comments

Cities are the most complex, diverse, and novel human construction. I love them. Gaia Whispers   At the most basic level, cities are made of zillions of tiny connections: the interactions of people conducting their lives in them. It makes me feel so alive! Exhilarating! In Humanity’s New Story, city-zens live better when [...]

29 10, 2014

Integral City Dances With Peer Spirits

By |2017-04-07T02:57:24+00:00October 29th, 2014|Categories: Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, city, D. Strategic Intelligences, Meshworking, Spiritual intelligence, Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |5 Comments

We are Peer Spirits learning to read five Maps[i] of Integral City’s Intelligences and dance with her Communities of Practice. Peer Spirits in the Dance Apart, we situate our connections in the city as mentors[ii] to individual growth; as coaches[iii] to holarchic relationships between individuals and groups;[iv] as facilitator[v] for fractal synergetics of [...]

28 10, 2014

Integral City Connects Communities of Practice

By |2017-04-07T02:57:24+00:00October 28th, 2014|Categories: city, Integral Maps, Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |5 Comments

What paradigms might best guide humanity’s Communities of Practice around connecting global and local conversations about change? Indra's Web Why do we connect? We value connecting and intend to connect. Whom do we connect with? Knowing our values, and understanding our purpose and our world, illuminate relevance. How do we connect well? We [...]

24 10, 2014

Spirit of Integral City Celebrates Global Oneness Day

By |2017-04-07T02:57:24+00:00October 24th, 2014|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, city, Spirituality|Tags: , , , , , , |5 Comments

Spirit of Integral City ... I am ONE: Spirit of Integral City - Global Oneness Day I tune into the heart-beat of the earth. I receive impulse waves from the cosmos. I exist in time and space and beyond both in Mystery. I am Essence and I am Spirit. I want to be [...]

25 09, 2014

Integral City Reflective Organ – September Equinox 2014: Celebrating the Power of Place

By |2017-04-07T02:57:24+00:00September 25th, 2014|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, city, Ecosphere, Emergence, Global/Worldcentric, Newsletter|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |4 Comments

This newsletter is published quarterly using a cycle of perspectives on the Integral City viewed from: Planet, People, Place and Power. The theme of this issue is Place. … When we consider the complexity of hierarchies and centers that make up a city, it is easy to see why cities represent the pinnacle of human [...]

18 09, 2014

City as Dojo for Reinventing Organizations

By |2017-04-07T02:57:24+00:00September 18th, 2014|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, city, Learning Lhabitat, Lifecycle|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |3 Comments

Can you invent Tier 2 organizations without being embedded in an ecology/economy of Tier 1 organizations? Dojos of Oranizations (Adapted from Spiral Dynamics, Beck & Cowan, 1996) As I consider how Reinventing Organizations casts light on Reinventing the City, I am speculating that so-called Tier 2 organizations cannot exist without the competencies of [...]

16 09, 2014

Organic Strategies Reinvent Integral Cities

By |2017-04-07T02:57:24+00:00September 16th, 2014|Categories: Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, city, D. Strategic Intelligences, Inquiry, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Voices|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |1 Comment

Eleven organizations contributed to the research behind the book Reinventing Organizations, by author Frederic Laloux.  If so few organizations passed the filter of Tier 2 qualifications will we have to wait centuries for enough organizations to mature to this stage before we can reinvent our cities? That is a sobering thought – and one that [...]

12 09, 2014

Organic Strategies Meshwork Integral Cities

By |2017-04-07T02:57:24+00:00September 12th, 2014|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, city, D. Strategic Intelligences, Integral Maps, Meshworking|Tags: , , , , , , , , |1 Comment

What is an organic strategy?   Reinventing Organizations, author Frederic Laloux differentiates Tier 2 organizations from Tier 1 in the ways that they relate to strategy. Tier 1 organizations interpret strategy from the perspective of a worldview that uses strategy to produce results. Strategy arises from intentions to produce profitable bottom lines. Priorities tend to [...]

10 09, 2014

On-Purpose Organizations Seed On-Purpose Cities

By |2017-04-07T02:57:24+00:00September 10th, 2014|Categories: B. Individual Intelligences, city, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Inner, Lifecycle|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |4 Comments

Reinventing Organizations at the second tier rests on a core organizational process that is centered on Purpose. On Purpose Organizations - What if They Connected? When organizations are seen as living entities within an evolutionary worldview, it is natural that they discover the Purpose that they are alive to serve. Organizationally they are [...]

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