This an infographic framing the dialogue for Edinburgh International Centre for Sustainability & Peace (EICSP), exploring Prof-essencing (as opposed to Professing) our Spiritual Selves to our Teaching and Facilitiating. A Dialogical Inquiry: Spirituality and Our Quiet Resolve - Essencing and Presencing Our Professing (January 15, 2025)
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. The unusual and captivating hero of this book is the city. Not an inert mass of buildings, but a collective, a hive, a holarchy that [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In 2022 we asked and looked around the world for a city or city association that exemplified best the qualities of Integral City. However, receiving no nominations, we looked into the eyes of the co-founders of LivingCities:Earth (LCE) and decided to recognize the initiative of a nascent, energizing collaboration that holds great promise to [...]
A New Media System Guest Blog by Indra Adnan, Co-Initiator of Alternative Planet, in Conversation with Alternative Community Action Network CANCan ULAB Fast Prototype Team (Maria Dorothy Skov London, Pieter Wackers Amsterdam, Amanda Faulkner Knaresborough, Simon Divecha Isle of Harris, Scotland, Marilyn Hamilton Findhorn Ecovillage Scotland) June 23, 2022 What I'm giving here is [...]
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” Antoine de St. Exupery This is a story about how Gaia is calling from her four directions hearts, minds and souls to [...]
Designing a Peace Room for Integral Cities of Peace Barbara Marx Hubbard used to imagine a Peace Room (instead of war room) where we could overview the emergence of Peace. Here is how Living Cities::Earth could develop a possible design. An energy field for recovering a broken City growing the potential for an Integral [...]
Whole Systems Design: Inquiries in the Knowing Field by Diana Claire Douglas Constellating for the Collective is how Diana Claire Douglas describes her work. And if you want to learn how she came to facilitating constellations for the collective, then read this book. Whole Systems Design is not only logical and informative with [...]
I need a new language to describe what I see going on in the world. Russia is making so-called “non-war” on Ukraine. Ukraine is defending itself from physical military attack and at the same time it is being accused of acting as the instigator of genocide and aggressive action (a fake story from the [...]