Ian McDonald, member of Centre for Human Emergence Global, makes some on-the-scene integrally informed observations of the morning after the Brexit Vote. Ian writes. As you might imagine, it has been an interesting 18 hours in the UK since we [CHE Global} spoke. As I suspected the voter engagement was very high with 72% of [...]
I am curious how many readers think of themselves as belonging to a Human Hive? Human Hive I wonder how many people reading this blog keep or have kept bees (or have seen beekeepers at work)? Or have a role that contributes to the wellbeing and functioning of the [...]
When Integral City is asked to work with cities, inevitably the invitation comes from leaders who have in mind the wellbeing of their city. Integral City Compass Tam Lundy’s leadership tip (offered in Integral Leadership Review – Canada Issue offered a Leadership Tip on Generative Change) explains this impulse in terms of the desire of [...]
It’s all a question of story. That is how Brian and May Nattrass start their exploration of where we stand on the path of waking up to our new global realities and responsibilities. http://www.noramusu.com/event/nora-musu-storytellers-truth-told-exhibit/ The stories we tell ourselves are always rooted in time. They explain the past. They comment on the present. [...]
Can you invent Tier 2 organizations without being embedded in an ecology/economy of Tier 1 organizations? Dojos of Oranizations (Adapted from Spiral Dynamics, Beck & Cowan, 1996) As I consider how Reinventing Organizations casts light on Reinventing the City, I am speculating that so-called Tier 2 organizations cannot exist without the competencies of [...]
Reinventing Organizations at the second tier rests on a core organizational process that is centered on Purpose. On Purpose Organizations - What if They Connected? When organizations are seen as living entities within an evolutionary worldview, it is natural that they discover the Purpose that they are alive to serve. Organizationally they are [...]
It is amazing to realize that we can optimize the impact of Integral City frameworks in the world simply because adult development is possible. Integral City Map 3: The Scalar Fractal Relationship of Micro, Meso and Macro Human Systems As a pioneering transpersonal psychologist, Roger Walsh emphasized this point at IEC, he explored [...]
Like community musical impresarios, Beth Sanders and Dnyanesh Deshpande are innovators in composing, scoring and conducting an Integral City 2.0 planning process for mature neighbourhood planning. In 2013 this civic meshworker (Beth) and city planner (Dnyanesh) guided the 4 Voices of Strathcona County, Alberta, through a planning process that inspired uncommon participation, intelligent engagement [...]
We are starting a new set of Integral City learning (ad)ventures. We call them Learning Lhabitats. Learning Laboratories and Habitats are being designed for people who sense a new Integrator Role is emerging in cities. They know MUCH change is needed and MANY voices are clamouring for attention. Those concerns lead to key questions, city [...]
What is the equivalent for the Human Hive of producing 40 pounds of honey in the bee hive? That is the question that I have been inquiring into through the lenses of bio-psycho-cultural-social-mimicry. In the generative seed bed of my recent visit to San Francisco, glimpses of the ingredients for producing "Honey" in our Human [...]