Integral City can be occupied in many ways. It's time to pay attention to the #Occupy Voices with their messages from the Inner Judges of the Human Hive. If we listen closely to the voices of the 99, we can hear "Occupy" as a strong signal to pay attention to the wellbeing of our cities - where more than 50% of [...]
What patterns are showing up in my world? was the catalytic conversation I had today with my tribe from Centre for Human Emergence (CHE) Canada. It's Fall here in the Pacific north-west. The wind blew off all the leaves from the acer tree outside my window, exposing trembling dry maple pods. What a change from just a week ago when [...]
On this Remembrance Day of 11-11-11 let us be grateful for the Freedoms gained by our ancestors, that equip us for the Future. May we Celebrate the Resilience of Life in Remembering our Evolutionary Commitments: to protect our individual needs for physical and spiritual safety and survival; and prevent harm to all individuals. to honour the traditions [...]
Evolutionary Enlightenment, by Andrew Cohen is a refreshingly enlivening read that aligns well with the Evolutionary Intelligences of Integral City. Cohen, starts with the traditional path of enlightenment as the starting place for practitioners to achieve a deep knowing of the evolutionary experience of the "Big Bang". His description of this as not only a scientific proposition, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Indicators of wellbeing have been a fascination of mine for many decades. Today I am contemplating the indicator of happiness - as in "Could I die happy today?" The EU calls and I have my powerpoint bags packed with all the trends that show the Big Picture of Global Sustainability to share with Experience Integral [...]
Are you "seeking inspiration about the untapped potential of city dynamics"? If so the Canadian Journal of Urban Research (Winter 2010) observes that the book Integral City "opens up a gallery of visionary futures". While the CJUR book reviewer has some reservations about using the Integral model as a viable framework for viewing the city (see Endnote [...]