Jonathan Caddy is awarded Integral City Meshworker of the Year 2025 in recognition of a lifetime of meshworking intelligence expressed through land stewardship, education, community governance, and ecological restoration. Born in the original Findhorn caravan to two of the Ecovillage’s founders, Jonathan has spent over six decades weaving together inner guidance, ecological science, [...]
Bioregional Weaving Labs (BWLs) - the collective that is geographically grounded communities of action that organise people, place, and projects to regenerate bioregions is Integral City Weaving Lab of 2025. Between 2025 and 2030, the BWL Collective positions its work as long‑arc, place‑based systems change: weaving ecological regeneration, social cohesion, cultural renewal, economic transformation, [...]
Villa Unspunnen, Interlaken, Switzerland · August 25–29, 2025 A Living Field for the Integral City There are moments when a gathering becomes more than a retreat. More than a program. More even than a shared intention. The Spirit of Oneness Retreat, held at Villa Unspunnen in the heart of Europe, was one such moment [...]
At IEC 2025, the theme of Finding Wholeness for an Integral Age rang through many contributions. Among them, Dr. Elke Fein’s keynote on Wholeness in Politics and my own workshop on AQtivating Soul Power for Cities in Metacrisis revealed strikingly parallel paths. One spoke the language of politics, the other the language of cities. [...]
Microcosm in Service to Gaia What distinguishes Ecovillage Findhorn is not just its longevity or its reputation as a pioneering eco-village. What makes it truly significant is its ongoing evolution into a regenerative learning community — a microcosm of what human settlements could become in service to Gaia. Miniature Whole Systems When I [...]
Tough Love and Collective Responsibility Every living system evolves. Ecovillage Findhorn is no exception. As our governance structures shift from the legacy of the Findhorn Foundation Scottish Charity Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) toward a more community-based model, we are learning what it means to embrace tough love alongside collective responsibility. Entanglement Recently, I have [...]
At the Heart of Great Shift At the heart of every great shift lies a whisper — a still, small voice that invites us to imagine life differently. For one who arrived at Ecovillage Findhorn, that whisper became a call: What if you lived here? Hearing the Whisper For me, the call first [...]
The Integral City GPS image is the central guiding metaphor to use for navigating the 5 Sets of Integral City Intelligences. This is more dynamic and systemic than the quadrant model alone, as it shows relational flow, directionality, and the evolutionary propulsion of the city as a living system. Let's explore the GPS structure in [...]
This is an invitation, to explore this page: https://integralcity.com/voices-intelligences/, which outlines the 12 Intelligences of the Integral City across four quadrants: (Upper Left: Individual-Interior, Upper Right: Individual-Exterior, Lower Left: Collective-Interior, Lower Right: Collective-Exterior). Notice how deeply these Intelligences align with Beauty, Truth, and Goodness. Let’s explore how these Intelligences connect cities to their Souls [...]
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 [...]