How do you engage Collective Shadow? How do you design a process for sustainability leaders to address the shadow of self, of the group and of the planet? That was a question that we asked ourselves during the Embody Integral Sustainability inquiry during August 2011 at Venwoude, Netherlands. Behind our questions we found support from [...]
At Experience Integral's Embody Integral Sustainability Conference convenor Anouk Brack very wisely used a Theory U design for the five day discovery process. Theory U process is based on the work of Otto Scharmer and is a multi-stage experience that enables a group to traverse the territory from initiation, to sensing, to presencing, to crystallizing to prototyping. and co-creating. I [...]
EVA Lanxmeer was a destination I was delighted to explore in August while I was in the Netherlands. I went there to visit Peter Merry, Founder of Centre for Human Emergence Netherlands and discover why he had moved to this eco-village. Peter and I walked around EVA Lanxmeer and I recorded his commentary - to [...]
Is information becoming revalued? - so that the more often it is exchanged the more valuable it becomes?? I have been having an interesting conversation with a GenX information packager and distributor. We have been talking about presenters giving away all the presentations from a conference for free. I come from the Boomer generation where we were taught that the scarcity of [...]
The Experience Integral Conference 2011 incorporated powerful practitioners and technologies into its design for the Embodying Integral Sustainability Conference. Five Wisdoms was a new approach for Integral City to working with spiritual practice, energy and collaboration. Five Wisdoms lead us to a place where we could apply it to the Roles in the Sustainability Leadership Meshwork that we [...]
Go listen to Geoffrey West - there he is again! My friends and colleagues say go to hear his talk on Why Cities Keep Growing. When more than three people recommend a site to me, then I sit up and take notice. In this case I am happy to say that I followed the link [...]
Congratulations to Barrett Brown who just defended his dissertation on Leadership for Sustainability. Barrett designed an integral methodology to study integrally-informed leaders working in sustainability. His Findings differentiate amongst leaders who work on the system (Strategists), with the system (Alchemists) and as the system (Ironists). This research illuminates the path of both consciousness and action as [...]
P 1. Ecosphere Intelligence 1. Honor the climate and geography of your city. 2. Steward the environment. 3. Add value to the Earth space. P 2. Emerging Intelligence 1. Survive so holons serve each other’s existence. 2. Adapt to the environment. 3. Create a self-regenerating feedback loop, by interconnecting human regeneration cycles so that they [...]
Almere NL, a city of 190,000 is getting ready for a "scale jump" to double in size by 2030. Seeking guidelines to renew and transform itself, in 2008, it invited Cradle to Cradle authors William McDonough and Michael Braungart to craft principles by which the city could grow sustainably in balance with its unique polder environment and [...]
Last week Almere Netherlands was the location of my learning and the focus of my attention. Attending the fifth Centre for Human Emergence, NL, fifth Spiral Dynamics Integral Confab, Almere was featured in case studies to explore the city with Integral City related lenses. Almere was created as a New Town, 30 years ago, using [...]