What percentage of the community needs to turn up to inquire about community Purpose? Are cities discovering there is a peak size or a form of relationship that enables optimal wellbeing? (and/or climate change responsiveness?) When we notice the tensions between individual agency and collective consciousness is there an uber-voice that presences the whole [...]
We continue the story of Ecovillage Findhorn seeking its Community Purpose and Aims. Last Sunday, at another community gathering, we moved on from exploring Purpose to defining Primary Aims. Guided by Gordon McAlpine/NFA and Tessa Brock/EF, we welcomed back 55 Questors including 11 Harvest Hosts. In groups of 5 we took the challenge [...]
by Marilyn Hamilton, PhD This is the transcript for the Edinburgh International Centre for Sustainability and Peace, Online Zoom Forum 21 February 2024: True Professionalism: A Spirituality of Service, Creativity, and Caring When I think of myself as a Professional I can look back over my life and point to being at least three [...]
Here is the Integral City 2023 Meta Blog. It connects the 4 Voices of the Integral City to the Planet, People, Place and Power that energized us in 2023. It follows the traditions of: Integral City Meta Blog 2022 Integral City Meta Blog 2021 Integral City Meta Blog 2020 Integral City Meta Blog 2019 [...]
Our universe started with a Big Breath (not a Big Bang) – so affirms cosmologist, Jude Currivan, author of The Story of Gaia. And from that breath released over 14 billion years ago, in-formation has guided matter and energy to manifest all life – including this planet and all she has created. Gaia [...]
Collaborating In the World I start at an obvious beginning – the meaning of the word “collaboration.” To Co-Labour” – labour together. Labour for what? Is there a Spiral of Co-Laboration? Beige Beginnings - Birth – the very beginning of life – women go into labour to deliver the child. Purple Tribe - [...]
Several days ago George Por appeared in my email. George is an expert in many things but he has long impressed me as a world expert on collective consciousness and a true shaman of human development (and an original action researcher into Integral City 2.0). George asked, “Did you give some thought to how [...]
So much is happening in the world – including/especially in the world of cities. I have a deep impulse to reconnect with you all. I invite us to a Solstice family gathering to share how the evolutionary impulse of Integral City Meshworks is flowing through our lives. A perfect opportunity has arisen for [...]
This is part of a series of blogs reflecting on the program of Integral Europe Conference 2023, whose theme was Planetary Awakening 2.0. This blog introduces a Keynote from the conference – curated in an Action Research Format – summarizing What the speaker said, So What could we take as the meaning? and Now What are options for action. What [...]
This is part of a series of blogs reflecting on the program of Integral Europe Conference 2023, whose theme was Planetary Awakening 2.0. This blog introduces a Keynote from the conference – curated in an Action Research Format – summarizing What the speaker said, So What could we take as the meaning? and Now What are options for action. What [...]