UrbanA culminated in creating the 4 Sets of 17 Keys for unlocking Sustainable and Just Cities. Integral City of the Year 2021 is a city association spanning a whole region: Urban Arena Europe - affectionately known as UrbanA. In its trans-European work over the last few years, UrbanA has made visible many of [...]
Dear Earth, Dear Earth, let me tell you how I feel. You have given me such treasure. I love you so. The above refrain is a simple Taizé song that awakens my growing edges. Because it honours my relationship to the Earth that birthed all Life, including me, it opens my heart to [...]
Last week when I was interviewing, futurist Dr. Anneloes Smitsman about her r3.0 Educational Transformation Blueprint, she remarked about the importance of feedback and celebrating the special moments of life in community. They are like rites of passage. That reminded me to tell her of our experience here in Findhorn Ecovillage this year. [...]
On the 11th of September 2001, when three planes not only crashed but destroyed the lives of thousands of people, they also woke up the world to our profound interconnectedness. The Future that day brought both deep shadow and unexpected light. I didn’t realize how intently the Future was calling me as I [...]
Cities aka Human Hives need Regeneration First Responders. More than 50% of humanity lives in cities – up to 90% in the developed world. Cities are responsible for emitting 50% of CO2 that is now quickly warming our planet beyond the tolerance for humans and all life. Those of you who have endured the [...]
This was a transmission from Gaia that Marilyn Hamilton shared for the Femme Q Online Summit July 30, 2021. Feminine Intelligence (Femme Q) is the emergence of a new level of consciousness where the deepest instincts of the heart in both men and women – compassion, informed intelligence and a longing to protect, heal [...]
We continue our Thought Experiment in this instalment by looking at Doughnut Economics (DE) and its relationship to Spiral Dynamics and Integral City through a Globalcentric Worldview. As we noted in our first blog, the Globalcentric Worldview spans Levels 7 and 8 in Spiral Dynamics (see Table 5). A globalcentric worldview embraces the [...]
We continue our Thought Experiment in this instalment by looking at Doughnut Economics (DE) and its relationship to Spiral Dynamics and Integral City through a Regionalcentric Worldview. As we noted in our first blog, the Regionalcentric Worldview spans Levels 5 and 6 in Spiral Dynamics (see Table 4). A regionalcentric worldview embraces the [...]
We continue our Thought Experiment in this instalment by looking at Doughnut Economics (DE) and its relationship to Spiral Dynamics and Integral City through an Egocentric Worldview. As we noted in our first blog, the Egocentric Worldview spans Levels 1 and 2 in Spiral Dynamics (see Table 2). An egocentric worldview embraces the [...]
Introduction How do you reveal the contribution of Spiral Dynamics integral to Integral City Meshworks? We could start by looking at Integral City’s 5 Maps. Map 4 (in the lower right of the 5 Map image above) shows the Complex, Adaptive Organizational (and Archetypal) Structures that have emerged across the history of human [...]