This is a Meditation in support of cities, towns and villages in the Ukraine. Some of us have been inspired by the Ukrainian Ecovillages and the story they tell in this video about The Green Road that Global Ecovillages Ukraine have offered to city dwellers to find refuge and a new life. As you [...]
This is a series of blogs inspired by the Edinburgh International Centre for Sustainability and Peace, 2023 Forum: Connecting with Community in the 21st Centure: Spiritual, Social, Policy Perspectives. This was delivered by Marilyn Hamilton, March 1, 2023. Over the last year in the Ecovillage Findhorn we have had to come to terms [...]
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 [...]
Meet Dr. Jude Currivan, Integral City Meshworker 2022. Dr. Jude Currivan is a cosmologist, planetary healer, futurist, author, co-founder of WholeWorld-View and member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle . Jude is a life-long researcher into the scientific and experiential understanding of the nature of reality, integrating leading edge science, research into consciousness and universal [...]
If we want a new story to regenerate and thrive our cities we need a new story of Gaia. Jude Currivan cosmologist, planetary healer and futurist tells that story with flare, focus and finesse in her new book: The Story of Gaia: The Big Breath and the Evolutionary Journey of Our Conscious Planet . [...]
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 Place When the 4 Voices come together, we create conditions to wake them up and grow them up, as a city that is able both to “placecare” [...]
After two and a half years of personal devotion to leading Taizé singing online, David Robinson has decided to step back a little from conducting a global choir 3 times a week, to continue hosting the Tuesday morning sessions. Thankfully, Gloucester-based Elyn will assume Thursday leadership – and Annelise from Leeds has come forward [...]
August 2022 seems such a long way from August 2020 – 2 years since the first summer pandemic lockdown in Scotland (and most other places in the world). Where were you when you realized that you could only associate with the people in your household and when outside the home you were required to [...]
From the Manchester area our pilgrimage continued to Knaresborough announced with the exuberance of a poster circulated by Amanda Faulkner to city Voices, inviting them to celebrate Knaresborough on the Global Stage. Amanda is not only a grad of Integral City Beyond Resilient, but also a Community Action Network with aspirations to implement Donut [...]
I have ancestral roots in the Manchester area – my grandfather was born in Salford. My late husband Peter Dobson, grew up in Tiddlesley/Staley Bridge area of greater Manchester. Also in the early 1980’s I travelled frequently through this area as Peter visited the suppliers to the vehicle testing facilities he was project managing [...]