The Integral City GPS image is the central guiding metaphor to use for navigating the 5 Sets of Integral City Intelligences. This is more dynamic and systemic than the quadrant model alone, as it shows relational flow, directionality, and the evolutionary propulsion of the city as a living system. Let's explore the GPS structure in [...]
This is an invitation, to explore this page: https://integralcity.com/voices-intelligences/, which outlines the 12 Intelligences of the Integral City across four quadrants: (Upper Left: Individual-Interior, Upper Right: Individual-Exterior, Lower Left: Collective-Interior, Lower Right: Collective-Exterior). Notice how deeply these Intelligences align with Beauty, Truth, and Goodness. Let’s explore how these Intelligences connect cities to their Souls [...]
This beautiful poem was composed by Dr. Julie Krull in service to World Unity Week. It so powerfully aligns with Integral City's intention to reconnect the Soul of the City through Beauty, Truth and Goodness that I asked permission to publish it here. Many thanks to Julie's Mainstreet Mystic Spirit for her golden agreement. [...]
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 People. The unusual and captivating hero of this book is the city. Not an inert mass of buildings, but a collective, a hive, a holarchy that [...]
As summer unfurls across the Northern Hemisphere, and winter expands across the Southern hemisphere, the natural world reminds us: transformation is not linear. It is a dance of unfolding — messy, mysterious, and necessary. In the same way that caterpillars surrender to the chrysalis, cities around the world are entering their own season of [...]
As the Human Hive navigates the metamorphic threshold from breakdown to breakthrough, the question facing every urban steward is not just how to sustain, but how to regenerate. In his thoughtful post, “10 Reasons Why Urban Environment Stakeholders Should Cultivate Regeneration,” Menno Lammers outlines a compelling case for why cities must evolve beyond extractive [...]
Just as Christiane Seuhs-Schoeller had been invited to open Integral European Conference 2025, she was also invited to close it. And she did so with this beautiful poem. The Matriarch's Call.
Christiane Seuhs-Schoeller opened the IEC 2025 with an inspiration to open the theme Finding Wholeness for an Integral Age. Christiane is a pioneering entrepreneur and a leading voice in transforming how humans relate to power and how they collaborate. With a career rooted in challenging the entrenched dominance hierarchies of society, she has dedicated [...]
Three years ago, at Ecovillage Findhorn, Scotland, we began Saturday morning meditations to create Islands of Calm in a VUCA world—volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous. Inspired by David Spangler’s reminder that calm within can ripple outward to 1,000 others, we gathered to cultivate inner stillness. Since then, our practice has evolved. In today’s world [...]
This is the outline of a presentation by Dr. Marilyn Hamilton at Integral Europe Conference 2025. Click here to download: Pdf of these Notes: AQtivating Soul Power Action Research Design for Cities in MetacrisisIEC 2025 Article final Pdf of Powerpoint slides AQtivating Soul Power Action Research Design for Cities in MetacrisisIEC 2025 Abstract [...]