Blog Action Day! The Power of WE! What and how did we discover the Power of WE in the recent Integral City 2.0 Online Conference? Without the many WE’s in our conference, we could never have emerged the insights to create a new operating system for the Human Hive. But with the power of WE [...]
Ten days after the final Integral City 2.0 Online Conference (IC2OC) ... and we have celebrated our first Thanksgiving (whose timing we borrow from Canada :-)) We are thankful for the people who made the IC2OC possible: all the volunteers, the speakers, the affiliates and the participants - in a constantly intermeshing order. We have [...]
Effective city leadership requires an understanding of the dynamics of individual & group mind, heart, spirit & body @icityelab
The influence each person has on others depends very much on their center of gravity of developmental levels & lines http://ow.ly/dp2eU
Individual emotions thoughts talents & spirituality impact behaviors cultures&social systems in the city? http://ow.ly/dp1Eu
The relevance of evolution intelligence to the whole field of city wellbeing influences how the city develops its purpose, identity, vision, values, cultural relationships and even its infrastructures. When a city can be aligned around core evolutionary values in an explicit way (like storytelling instead of non-inclusive city planning practices) it can more easily sustain quality of [...]
Exploring the intelligence of the city is a necessary research project to ensure the survival of the human species on this earth. Bucky Fuller "The 21st century is when we find out if the human race is a failed experiment." "We do not have a political problem, we have a design problem. We must design [...]
Evolutionary intelligence is the capacity to transcend and include the intelligences we currently demonstrate, in order to allow new intelligences to emerge. Evolutionary intelligence looks backward at our evolutionary history and forward to our evolutionary future. It assumes that life conditions will continue to change and the human species will change and adapt and evolve [...]
From an Integral Vital Signs Monitor design, the Integral Scorecard can become the reporting vehicle for informing all the stakeholders of the city. It tells us whether we are achieving the purpose and objectives of the city in a sustainable way. It reveals to us if we are amassing the energy, matter and information that [...]
Navigating intelligence allows us to scan the environment and make decisions about our course corrections using Integral Vital Signs Monitors (IVSM). An IVSM is a reporting system whose design is based on an integral framework. It utilizes life-sustaining indicators and communicates its results in a universal language. An IVSM system mines existing databases, gathers new data [...]