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 Planet. Popular wisdom urges us to examine human behavior so that the quality of human life can be improved. We focus on overpopulation, pollution and greenhouse gas emissions [...]
Humans and the cities we have created are permanently locked into a never-ending learning cycle, to create ever more complex adaptations to protect increasingly more complex cities. In the Integral City 2.0 Online Conference (2012), five critical threats to human populations in cities were identified: climate, energy, water, food and finance (Hamilton et al., 2013; [...]
Lessons from history abound to warn us that the shift involved in moving from one worldview, or system of intelligibility, to another, is unlikely to be smooth or easy. (Brian and Mary Nattrass, Integral Leadership Review – January- February 2015) Urban Metabolism http://sustainablecommunities.environment.ucla.edu/2011/07/energy-baselines-the-urban-metabolism-of-los-angeles-county/ Today in thinking about our Evolutionary Crossroads in the city [...]
Here is the Integral City 2014 Meta Blog. It connects the 4 Voices of the Integral City to the Planet, People, Place and Power that energized us in 2014. It follows the tradition of Integral City Meta Blog 2013 Integral City Logo History 1989-2014 Equinox/Solstice Newsletters – Integral City Reflective Organ Integral City [...]
We are Peer Spirits learning to read five Maps[i] of Integral City’s Intelligences and dance with her Communities of Practice. Peer Spirits in the Dance Apart, we situate our connections in the city as mentors[ii] to individual growth; as coaches[iii] to holarchic relationships between individuals and groups;[iv] as facilitator[v] for fractal synergetics of [...]
Eleven organizations contributed to the research behind the book Reinventing Organizations, by author Frederic Laloux. If so few organizations passed the filter of Tier 2 qualifications will we have to wait centuries for enough organizations to mature to this stage before we can reinvent our cities? That is a sobering thought – and one that [...]
What is an organic strategy? Reinventing Organizations, author Frederic Laloux differentiates Tier 2 organizations from Tier 1 in the ways that they relate to strategy. Tier 1 organizations interpret strategy from the perspective of a worldview that uses strategy to produce results. Strategy arises from intentions to produce profitable bottom lines. Priorities tend to [...]
Mom always used to say, “be careful of the company you keep”. Transpersonal psychologist, Integral pioneer and wise elder, Dr. Roger Walsh, at IEC, emphasized the importance of the company you keep, to support your Integral spiritual practice. By gathering with, for and as the people who embrace the paradigms of evolutionary consciousness and culture, [...]
How can you optimize the impact of "integral"? That was the question asked by Roger Walsh at his keynote at the Integral Europe Conference. As ever, his wisdom was framed to inspire practise as well as contemplation. We always gain insights about Integral City work from Roger's guidance (see the blog series on "5 Practical Steps [...]
In May I visited Russia and was surprised to have my stereotypes of the country and the people overturned. Using Integral City eyes, helped me penetrate behind two polarizing veils – one defensive and self-justifying (aggrandizing?) filter created by Russia herself through state-influenced (controlled?) media and the other an accusatory finger-pointing filter fabricated by the [...]