20 09, 2025

IEC25 From Skills to Soul: Weaving Björkman’s IDGs into the Evolutionary Impulse of Wholeness

By |2025-09-23T13:33:24+00:00September 20th, 2025|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, H. Research, Inner, Integral European Conference, Integral Maps, Navigating - IVSM, Outer, Spiritual intelligence, Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

At the 2025 Integral European Conference, Tomas Björkman reminded us that humanity is standing at a bifurcation point — facing breakdown, oppression, or breakthrough. Through the Inner Development Goals (IDGs), he calls for a global narrative shift: to recognize that solving the great crises of our time requires cultivating inner capacities as much as [...]

18 09, 2025

IEC25 Fein’s Wholeness in Politics Connects Wholeness in Cities

By |2025-09-23T13:35:53+00:00September 18th, 2025|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, Caring, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Inner, Integral Maps, Meshworking, Outer, Politics, Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

At IEC 2025, the theme of Finding Wholeness for an Integral Age rang through many contributions. Among them, Dr. Elke Fein’s keynote on Wholeness in Politics and my own workshop on AQtivating Soul Power for Cities in Metacrisis revealed strikingly parallel paths. One spoke the language of politics, the other the language of cities. [...]

16 09, 2025

Governance in Transition – Tough Love with Collective Responsibility

By |2025-09-16T18:41:28+00:00September 16th, 2025|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, Complex Challenges, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Inner, Master Intelligence, Meshworking, Outer, Reframing, Spiritual intelligence, Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Tough Love and Collective Responsibility Every living system evolves. Ecovillage Findhorn is no exception. As our governance structures shift from the legacy of the Findhorn Foundation Scottish Charity Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) toward a more community-based model, we are learning what it means to embrace tough love alongside collective responsibility. Entanglement Recently, I have [...]

30 06, 2025

How AI can Deepen, Enhance, and Synergize the Intelligences in each Integral City Intelligence Set

By |2025-06-30T13:05:39+00:00June 30th, 2025|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, Inner, Inquiry, Integral Maps, Lifecycle, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Outer, Spiritual intelligence, Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

The Integral City GPS image is the central guiding metaphor to use for navigating the 5 Sets of Integral City Intelligences. This is more dynamic and systemic than the quadrant model alone, as it shows relational flow, directionality, and the evolutionary propulsion of the city as a living system. Let's explore the GPS structure in [...]

30 06, 2025

How the Soul of the City is Revealed through 12 Intelligences

By |2025-06-30T13:01:31+00:00June 30th, 2025|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, Inner, Inquiry, Integral Maps, Lifecycle, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Outer, Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: , , , , , |0 Comments

This is an invitation, to explore this page: https://integralcity.com/voices-intelligences/, which outlines the 12 Intelligences of the Integral City across four quadrants: (Upper Left: Individual-Interior, Upper Right: Individual-Exterior, Lower Left: Collective-Interior, Lower Right: Collective-Exterior). Notice how deeply these Intelligences align with Beauty, Truth, and Goodness. Let’s explore how these Intelligences connect cities to their Souls [...]

16 12, 2024

Integral City Ecosystem of the Year 2024: Neighbourocracy, Children’s Parliaments, SONEC

By |2024-12-21T21:44:07+00:00December 16th, 2024|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, City of Year, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, Inner, Inquiry, Integral Maps, Lifecycle, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Outer, Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

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 [...]

14 05, 2024

What’s the Purpose of Purpose for Ecovillage?

By |2024-05-15T08:39:55+00:00May 14th, 2024|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, Capacity Building, Caring, Designing Impact, Emergence, Householder Dharma, Inner, Lifecycle, Outer|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

This clutch of blogs explores the thinking and background that goes into developing an Ecovillage as it matures from teenager to young adult: How to re-think the stewardship of Commons? How to transfer land holdings from a founding organization to the community? How to design Governance for a community of organizations? How to develop [...]

18 12, 2023

Integral City Network of Year 2023: Global Ecovillage Network

By |2023-12-23T13:08:43+00:00December 18th, 2023|Categories: B. Individual Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, City of Year, D. Strategic Intelligences, Inner, Inquiry, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Outer, Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) is Integral City Network of the Year 2023. The Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) catalyzes communities for a regenerative world. GEN is a growing network of regenerative communities and initiatives that bridge cultures, countries, and continents. GEN builds bridges between the 4+1 Voices of the City - that GEN names [...]

6 09, 2023

Artificial Intelligence or Amplified Intelligences in the Integral City?

By |2023-09-06T09:15:27+00:00September 6th, 2023|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, Inner, Inquiry, Integral Maps, Level 8 Turquoise, Level 9 Coral, Lifecycle, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Outer, Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: , , , , , , , |2 Comments

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 [...]

17 08, 2023

Cool Blocks & Carbon Neutral Ecovillage Findhorn

By |2023-08-19T16:59:10+00:00August 17th, 2023|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, Capacity Building, Caring, climate, Contexting, Ecosphere, Householder Dharma, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Outer, Placecaring, Placemaking, Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Welcome to our Infographic on Cool Blocks* as it has unfolded in Ecovillage Findhorn, Scotland. We followed simple steps in 8 Topics that helped us translate our Carbon Neutral 2030 plan into positive actions to improve our resilience and improve our quality of life. (Cool Blocks* is an initiative of Empowerment Institute coolblock.org) CLICK [...]

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