23 04, 2025

Sing the Song of Democracy – Stephen Dinan Breaks Deafening Silence

By |2025-04-23T08:46:29+00:00April 23rd, 2025|A. Contexting Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, Capacity Building, Complex Challenges, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM|0 Comments

As 2025 has unfolded the terrible assault on democracy that the world is witnessing in the United States, I have been troubled by the "deafening silence" of the usually powerful American voice. Finally Stephen Dinan speaks truths I have been hoping to be named - but he also tells the world how we can [...]

25 02, 2025

March 2025 Equinotes: Regenerating Our Planet’s Soul

By |2025-03-18T19:16:19+00:00February 25th, 2025|A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, Capacity Building, Caring, Complex Challenges, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Emergence, EquiNotes, Inner, Meshworking, Storytelling - Cultures|0 Comments

Equinotes are published periodically drawing on the Archives of Integral City's Reflective Organ Newsletter, Blogs, Books and Website. The perspectives of Equinotes weave across: Planet, People, Place and Power. The theme of this issue is Regenerating Our Planet's Soul. March 2025 Equinotes are drawn from these publications: Integral City – Enemy or Ally [...]

21 02, 2025

Bernie Sanders Walks the Needs Path of the City

By |2025-03-04T14:00:32+00:00February 21st, 2025|A. Contexting Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, Capacity Building, Caring, Complex Challenges, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Integral Maps|1 Comment

In prior blogs, Integral City has explored how the city is broken and how it can be healed. In the Guardian (Feb. 19, 2025) Bernie Sanders is setting out to walk the land as he proposes critical dimensions of healing for the brokenness in America. Because most Americans live in cities, Sanders is essentially offering [...]

16 01, 2025

Second Sapiens: The Rise of the Planetary Mind and The Future of Humanity

By |2025-01-17T15:37:27+00:00January 16th, 2025|A. Contexting Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, Capacity Building, Caring, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, Integral Maps, Level 8 Turquoise, Level 9 Coral, Navigating - IVSM|1 Comment

What will it take for us to preserve what remains of life on the planet? Is humanity itself at risk? These are the overarching questions that Said Dawlabani asks in his new book Second Sapiens: The Rise of the Planetary Mind and the Future of Humanity. Second Sapiens answers the question: what would Mother [...]

18 09, 2024

Listening to Local Place Plan Voices – Infrastructure – 1/5

By |2024-09-19T13:35:12+00:00September 18th, 2024|A. Contexting Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, Capacity Building, Designing Impact, Householder Dharma, Integral Maps, Storytelling - Cultures|0 Comments

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 [...]

5 06, 2024

Patterns of Purpose – 5 Themes for Findhorn Community

By |2024-06-05T10:33:46+00:00June 5th, 2024|Capacity Building, Caring, Designing Impact, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Meshworking, Storytelling - Cultures|0 Comments

From the 5 Inspirations and 8 Potential Purpose Statements the Findhorn Community discovered 5 Key Themes. Exploring how they resonated with the expressions of those themes revealed where was most energy for Patterns of Purpose. We are a Spiritual Community. We connect with the Intelligences of Nature. We Evolve and Support [...]

5 06, 2024

Findhorn: Work in Progresss – Draft Purpose Statements

By |2024-06-05T10:12:04+00:00June 5th, 2024|A. Contexting Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, Capacity Building, Caring, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Emergence, Reframing, Storytelling - Cultures|0 Comments

As Ecovillage Findhorn Community explored 5 Inspirations for its Community Purpose, it drafted 8 potent and potential Purpose Statements. (Inspired by Strategic Framework): We are an inclusive, vibrant spiritual community exploring co-creation with all life, seen and unseen. We are a caring community here for the benefit of all. We take personal and [...]

14 05, 2024

What’s the Purpose of Purpose for Ecovillage?

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

17 08, 2023

Cool Blocks & Carbon Neutral Ecovillage Findhorn

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

19 06, 2023

Reflective Organ Newsletter June Solstice 2023: We-Space, Ecologies, Holobionts

By |2023-11-30T15:13:48+00:00June 19th, 2023|A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, Capacity Building, Global/Worldcentric, Living Cities Earth|0 Comments

This newsletter is published quarterly using a cycle of perspectives on the Integral City viewed from: Planet, People, Place and Power. The theme of this issue is People. Communities and cities who care have the capaocity to rapidly respond and evolve into new ways of being and becoming together. Research is showing that [...]

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