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21 12, 2024

Metablog 2024

By |2024-12-21T13:19:59+00:00December 21st, 2024|D. Strategic Intelligences, Inquiry, Integral Maps, Meta Blog, Navigating - IVSM, Spiritual intelligence, Storytelling - Cultures|0 Comments

Here is the Integral City 2024 Meta Blog. It connects the 4 Voices of the Integral City to the Planet, People, Place and Power that energized us in 2024. It follows the traditions of: Integral City Meta Blog 2023 Integral City Meta Blog 2022 Integral City Meta Blog 2021 Integral City Meta Blog 2020 [...]

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|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|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 [...]

19 09, 2024

Listening to Local Place Plan Voices – Economy, Education, Enterprise – 5/5

By |2024-09-19T13:37:03+00:00September 19th, 2024|A. Contexting Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, Events, Householder Dharma, Integral Maps, Meshworking, Storytelling - Cultures, Voices|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 [...]

19 09, 2024

Listening to Local Place Plan Voices – Environment – 4/5

By |2024-09-19T13:36:27+00:00September 19th, 2024|A. Contexting Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, Householder Dharma, Inquiry, 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 [...]

18 09, 2024

Listening to Local Place Plan Voices – Housing2 -3/5

By |2024-09-19T13:33:52+00:00September 18th, 2024|A. Contexting Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, 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 [...]

18 09, 2024

Listening to Local Place Plan Voices – Housing1 – 2/5

By |2024-09-19T13:34:39+00:00September 18th, 2024|A. Contexting Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, 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 [...]

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 [...]

14 06, 2024

From Purpose Quest to Exploring Aims

By |2024-06-14T11:18:55+00:00June 14th, 2024|Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Emergence, Integral Maps, Storytelling - Cultures|0 Comments

We continue the story of Ecovillage Findhorn seeking its Community Purpose and Aims. Last Sunday, at another community gathering, we moved on from exploring Purpose to defining Primary Aims. Guided by Gordon McAlpine/NFA and Tessa Brock/EF, we welcomed back 55 Questors including 11 Harvest Hosts. In groups of 5 we took the challenge [...]

5 06, 2024

Post Partum Suffering for a Greater Reality

By |2024-06-11T07:37:55+00:00June 5th, 2024|A. Contexting Intelligences, Emergence, Inner, Lifecycle, Storytelling - Cultures, Voices|0 Comments

This week Ecovillage Findhorn has immersed ourselves in a Purpose Quest. We learned from 5 Inspirational Sources (see full inspirations here). Whole Community Purpose Strategic Framework Global Ecovillage Network Dorothy MacLean Patrick Lewington From these inspirations, we drafted 8 Potential Purpose Statements (see them here).  And from these we identified 5 Themes: Spiritual [...]

5 06, 2024

Revisiting Parker Palmer’s 13 + 1 Reflections on Community

By |2024-06-11T10:58:48+00:00June 5th, 2024|A. Contexting Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, Caring, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Lifecycle, Storytelling - Cultures|0 Comments

As Findhorn Ecovillage has explored its Community Purpose, it considers how relationships between people and organizations shift and change within the community. Some responses, resistances and resources have surprised me. But then I remembered one of my core learnings about Community comes from Parker Palmer. Many years ago he wrote a quizzical but profound [...]

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