At the Building Sustainable Communities conference, accelerating the development of leaders, was the topic of a three-way lunch, I enjoyed with Milenko Matanovic (Founder of the Pomegranate Center) and Michael Simpson (Founder of One Sky). We were all curious about how to do that and what had worked in our lived experience as leadership development designers. Milenko related the [...]
This blog is the fourth prologue for a keynote at the FreshOutlook Feb. 27, 2012 Building SustainABLE Communities Conference. An Integral City is a complex adaptive human system that concentrates habitat for humans like a bee hive does for bees. Let me tell you about why I am attracted to the story of the human [...]
This blog is the third prologue for a keynote at the FreshOutlook Feb. 27, 2012 Building SustainABLE Communities Conference. Integral City is a new paradigm for looking at cities that reveals its bio-psycho-cultural-structural evolutionary intelligences. These twelve intelligences cluster into five capacities and are organized into an Integral City Compass that provides direction and alignment [...]
This blog is the second prologue for a keynote at the FreshOutlook Feb. 27, 2012 Building SustainABLE Communities Conference. Evolutionary Intelligence is the capacity to transcend and include the intelligences we currently demonstrate, in order to allow new intelligences to emerge. Evolutionary Intelligence is an impulse present at the centre of our Integral City compass, that springs [...]
I want to love the city as my self. I want to care for the city – not just take her for granted. I want to observe and think and feel and want for the city, as if she were a living person – because she is an extension of me and all the people [...]
Today 's cities are being transformed by activists. Tomorrow's cities will be transformed by AQALists. What is the difference? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Today's activists demonstrate their beliefs through confrontive action. They stand up against injustices, rules, authorities and infrastructure by blocking access for as many people as possible. They are willing to threaten power, throw projectiles and thrust their bodies [...]
Civil Society 2.0 has new power because it is integrating new relationships and a Manifesto for Evolutionary Freedom with social media 2.0. This is creating new resonance and coherence for glocal wellbeing, social justice and environmental sustainability in the human hive. The song sheet that Civil Society is co-creating is quickly emerging new music for all of us in the Integral City [...]
Designing healthcare systems that serve the wellbeing of Integral City 2.0 begins with remembering "health" comes from the same root as the word "whole". Healthcare in the human hive is based on the principles of Life and Evolution . Wholistic healthcare systems are rooted in natural science and embody values and cultural intentions. Principles that contribute to appropriate [...]
New research shows the power of the web to spread diversity and infect conformity by the provocation of weak signals. Farhad Manjoo from Slate reconsiders his(?) book True Enough's proposition that the web was narrowing networkers' worlds to the news/info selections that they chose. Now Facebook has released a study with an interesting design (based on millions [...]
Integral City has blasted into outer space! Or at least sub-orbital flight. Teaming up with astronaut, Dr. Mindy Howard, we are contributing to the Next Generation Sub-orbital Research Conference (Feb 27-29 Palo Alto). Check out Mindy and team's itinerary for blast off under Flight Training Peak Experience: Optimizing the Conditions of Inner Space for Outer Space. This is a [...]