At IEC 2025, Said Dawlabani stood once again at the crossroads of history and evolution. Known for his work with Spiral Dynamics integral and as author of Second Sapiens (for which I was honoured to write the foreword) and Memenomics, Dawlabani invited us to see today’s upheavals as part of a profound life cycle [...]
At the 2025 Integral European Conference, Tomas Björkman reminded us that humanity is standing at a bifurcation point — facing breakdown, oppression, or breakthrough. Through the Inner Development Goals (IDGs), he calls for a global narrative shift: to recognize that solving the great crises of our time requires cultivating inner capacities as much as [...]
At IEC 2025, the theme of Finding Wholeness for an Integral Age rang through many contributions. Among them, Dr. Elke Fein’s keynote on Wholeness in Politics and my own workshop on AQtivating Soul Power for Cities in Metacrisis revealed strikingly parallel paths. One spoke the language of politics, the other the language of cities. [...]
Here is the Integral City 2024 Meta Blog. It connects the 4 Voices of the Integral City to the Planet, People, Place and Power that energized us in 2024. It follows the traditions of: Integral City Meta Blog 2023 Integral City Meta Blog 2022 Integral City Meta Blog 2021 Integral City Meta Blog 2020 [...]
Our universe started with a Big Breath (not a Big Bang) – so affirms cosmologist, Jude Currivan, author of The Story of Gaia. And from that breath released over 14 billion years ago, in-formation has guided matter and energy to manifest all life – including this planet and all she has created. Gaia [...]
This is part of a series of blogs reflecting on the program of Integral Europe Conference 2023, whose theme was Planetary Awakening 2.0. This blog introduces a Keynote from the conference – curated in an Action Research Format – summarizing What the speaker said, So What could we take as the meaning? and Now What are options for action. What [...]
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 Power. Celebrating Our Cities as Power Places of Recalibration in 2022-23 If you want to improve the health of a system, connect it to more of [...]
Here is the Integral City 2022 Meta Blog. It connects the 4 Voices of the Integral City to the Planet, People, Place and Power that energized us in 2022. It follows the traditions of: Integral City Meta Blog 2021 Integral City Meta Blog 2020 Integral City Meta Blog 2019 Integral City Meta Blog 2018 [...]
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” Antoine de St. Exupery This is a story about how Gaia is calling from her four directions hearts, minds and souls to [...]
Here is the Integral City 2021 Meta Blog. It connects the 4 Voices of the Integral City to the Planet, People, Place and Power that energized us in 2021. It follows the traditions of: Integral City Meta Blog 2020 Integral City Meta Blog 2019 Integral City Meta Blog 2018 Integral City Meta Blog 2017 [...]