EVA Lanxmeer was a destination I was delighted to explore in August while I was in the Netherlands. I went there to visit Peter Merry, Founder of Centre for Human Emergence Netherlands and discover why he had moved to this eco-village. Peter and I walked around EVA Lanxmeer and I recorded his commentary - to [...]
Is information becoming revalued? - so that the more often it is exchanged the more valuable it becomes?? I have been having an interesting conversation with a GenX information packager and distributor. We have been talking about presenters giving away all the presentations from a conference for free. I come from the Boomer generation where we were taught that the scarcity of [...]
The Experience Integral Conference 2011 incorporated powerful practitioners and technologies into its design for the Embodying Integral Sustainability Conference. Five Wisdoms was a new approach for Integral City to working with spiritual practice, energy and collaboration. Five Wisdoms lead us to a place where we could apply it to the Roles in the Sustainability Leadership Meshwork that we [...]
Go listen to Geoffrey West - there he is again! My friends and colleagues say go to hear his talk on Why Cities Keep Growing. When more than three people recommend a site to me, then I sit up and take notice. In this case I am happy to say that I followed the link [...]
Indicators of wellbeing have been a fascination of mine for many decades. Today I am contemplating the indicator of happiness - as in "Could I die happy today?" The EU calls and I have my powerpoint bags packed with all the trends that show the Big Picture of Global Sustainability to share with Experience Integral [...]
June Solstice Greetings, Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City Today's Integral City Sparkie for the City Body : Cultural cohesion can be measured through metrics tracking energetic noise and resonance. Hamilton, M., 2008, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive, p.299 The generational wave is a supra-wave of human life patterns that embraces many of [...]
Join us for two integral-spiral designed sessions at the WFS, Vancouver, BC July 8 & 9 2011. Bridging the Great Divides: A Spiral Dynamics Workshop on Cultural Integration, Global Cohesion, and Our Multiple Futures. Dr. Don Beck, Elza Maalouf and Said Dawlablani present July 8. The end of the Cold War has not brought us [...]
The Values That Move us Through Conflict to Understanding - Discover the Foundations of Spiral Dynamics integral* in Edmonton, July 14-17, 2011. 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 [...]
Are you "seeking inspiration about the untapped potential of city dynamics"? If so the Canadian Journal of Urban Research (Winter 2010) observes that the book Integral City "opens up a gallery of visionary futures". While the CJUR book reviewer has some reservations about using the Integral model as a viable framework for viewing the city (see Endnote [...]
Congratulations to Barrett Brown who just defended his dissertation on Leadership for Sustainability. Barrett designed an integral methodology to study integrally-informed leaders working in sustainability. His Findings differentiate amongst leaders who work on the system (Strategists), with the system (Alchemists) and as the system (Ironists). This research illuminates the path of both consciousness and action as [...]