How might Integral City learn from an integrally informed re-frame of Reinventing Organizations? Reinventing Organizations Frederic Laloux’s book of that title, examines the emergence of integral organizations (Teal in Wilber- Integral lexicon, Yellow in Spiral Dynamics integralese). Laloux’s exploration of Reinventing Organizations is based on research in eleven organizations who are [...]
This is a re-publication of an article by Keith Rice, published in Eros and Kosmos, August, 2014. It offers an explanation of the Contexting and Strategic Intelligences that lie behind the article I wrote on City Trigger Points, Country Tipping Points also published in Eros and Kosmos. Eugene Pustoshkin, Editor of Eros and Kosmos (the only [...]
What can I do to optimize Integral City Impact? We ask the question again – as an honoured contemplative practice to repeat the question as a doorway to yet deeper knowing. Integral City Map 5: Spirituality in the Human Hive Our spiritual guide in this series of Optimizing Impact has been Dr. Roger Walsh. He [...]
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 do you optimize the impact of Integral City impact by getting our work out to the world? That is the next question that Roger Walsh asked at IEC. First consider how important integral ideas are at this time in the world. The city is the most complex system created by humans – and as [...]
We can optimize the impact of Integral City Work when we come from our direct experience and bring contemplative wisdom into the mainstream. Roger Walsh's Optimizing Guidelines (delivered at IEC), suggested that we transmit to others, our deepest inner experience and deepest contemplative wisdom we have learned from the Masters. Students Learning from Master at Izhevsk Cathedral, [...]
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 [...]
This blog continues to share the Findings from the research conducted in three Learning Lhabitats exploring the 4 Voices of the City in the United States, Canada and Europe in the last year. Today we compare the results that open wider understanding of the role of the Business Voice in the city, from Learning Lhabitats at [...]
This blog continues to share the Findings from the research conducted in three Learning Lhabitats exploring the 4 Voices of the City in the United States, Canada and Europe in the last year. Today we compare the results that open wider understanding of the role of the Civic Manager Voice in the city, from Learning Lhabitats [...]