This beautiful poem was composed by Dr. Julie Krull in service to World Unity Week. It so powerfully aligns with Integral City's intention to reconnect the Soul of the City through Beauty, Truth and Goodness that I asked permission to publish it here. Many thanks to Julie's Mainstreet Mystic Spirit for her golden agreement. [...]
As summer unfurls across the Northern Hemisphere, and winter expands across the Southern hemisphere, the natural world reminds us: transformation is not linear. It is a dance of unfolding — messy, mysterious, and necessary. In the same way that caterpillars surrender to the chrysalis, cities around the world are entering their own season of [...]
Just as Christiane Seuhs-Schoeller had been invited to open Integral European Conference 2025, she was also invited to close it. And she did so with this beautiful poem. The Matriarch's Call.
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 [...]
On October 30, 2020 – on the eve of the 2020 American elections, Integral City published this prayer from Sue Cooper – who, along with Integral City’s Marilyn Hamilton is a Co-Founder of Living Cities. Earth. It seems more appropriate than ever to re-publish this prayer today – just on the eve of the [...]
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 [...]
In 2011 I wrote an article, published in the Integral Leadership Review, that is integrally interwoven into my thoughts on Collaboration. I explore the question "Where are the Women in the Integral Movement?" It provides the roots of my thoughts in this series about Radical Collaboration - and perhaps it profers the most radical [...]
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 a Meditation in support of cities, towns and villages in the Ukraine. Some of us have been inspired by the Ukrainian Ecovillages and the story they tell in this video about The Green Road that Global Ecovillages Ukraine have offered to city dwellers to find refuge and a new life. As you [...]