This year’s Integral City Award is to an ecosystem with three sub-systems each of which and all together are demonstrating Integral City Intelligences. The first subsystem is Neighbourhood Parliaments – now often know as Neighbourhood Democracy or Neighborocracy. The second is Children’s Parliaments. The third sub-system is SONEC. Let’s consider the “organs” in [...]
This is a series of Infographics that share the journey of the 4 Voices of the Park Ecovillage Findhorn, Scotland. The stories follow them as they explore integral perspectives while they collaborate on preparing a Local Place Plan to deliver to Moray municipality. The articles were originally published in the Rainbow Bridge - the [...]
This is a series of Infographics that share the journey of the 4 Voices of the Park Ecovillage Findhorn, Scotland. The stories follow them as they explore integral perspectives while they collaborate on preparing a Local Place Plan to deliver to Moray municipality. The articles were originally published in the Rainbow Bridge - the [...]
This is a series of Infographics that share the journey of the 4 Voices of the Park Ecovillage Findhorn, Scotland. The stories follow them as they explore integral perspectives while they collaborate on preparing a Local Place Plan to deliver to Moray municipality. The articles were originally published in the Rainbow Bridge - the [...]
This is a series of Infographics that share the journey of the 4 Voices of the Park Ecovillage Findhorn, Scotland. The stories follow them as they explore integral perspectives while they collaborate on preparing a Local Place Plan to deliver to Moray municipality. The articles were originally published in the Rainbow Bridge - the [...]
This is a series of Infographics that share the journey of the 4 Voices of the Park Ecovillage Findhorn, Scotland. The stories follow them as they explore integral perspectives while they collaborate on preparing a Local Place Plan to deliver to Moray municipality. The articles were originally published in the Rainbow Bridge - the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]