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14 07, 2020

Humanity Rising: Imagine Thriving Human Hives as Gaia’s Reflective Organs

By Marilyn Hamilton|2020-07-16T09:54:07+00:00July 14th, 2020|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, Capacity Building, Caring, Complex Challenges, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Integral Maps, Placecaring, Placemaking|Tags: citizens, civic managers, civil society, Gaia's Reflective Organ, Greta Thunberg, human hive, Humanity Rising Summit, integral city intelligences, Integral Nest City MN, Master Code, resilience, sustainability, whole systems thinking|0 Comments

Humanity Rising Solutions This infographic was created for Humanity Rising Solutions online summit, July 16, 2020. Dowload Links 3 Links to FREE Urban Hub 20: https://integralcity.com/2020/04/14/news-flash-urban-hub-20-accelerating-city-change-in-a-vuca-world/ Amsterdam: Integral City of the Year 2019: https://integralcity.com/2019/12/21/integral-city-2019-amsterdam/ Free Mighty Network with Nest City: https://integral-nest-city.mn.co/members Humanity Rising Solutions July 16 https://humanityrising.solutions/agenda/ Beyond Resilient Online: [...]

21 03, 2020

ORGANIZATIONAL POWER: POWER OVER – POWER WITH – POWER AS

By Marilyn Hamilton|2020-03-21T18:34:34+00:00March 21st, 2020|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, Capacity Building, Complex Challenges, Inner, Integral Maps, Master Intelligence, Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: business, Charles Eisenstein, civil society, Master Code, Monica Sharma, Not-for-Profit, organizations, power as, power over, power with|0 Comments

By Marilyn Hamilton for Enlivening Edge Magazine This article was adapted for Enlivening Edge Magazine with a focus Organizations from an examination of Power in Cities as the editorial in Integral City’s December 2019 Newsletter: Gaia’s Reflective Organ: Power: Over, With and As. Power Over In today’s world too often, Power is associated [...]

20 11, 2019

Integral City Stories for Our Times

By Marilyn Hamilton|2019-11-19T06:42:34+00:00November 20th, 2019|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, Integral Maps, Storytelling - Cultures, Voices|Tags: 4 voices of the city, business, citizens, civic managers, civil society, Delhi, Gaia's Reflective Organ, honey bees, human hive, ISABS, Living Cities Russia, Master Code|0 Comments

“People need stories more than food to stay alive.” (Barry Lopez) That observation has always been one of my favourite insights into the depths of human nature. When I review the epic voyage to 10 cities (BC Canada: Delta, Vancouver, Mission, Abbotsford; Scotland: Findhorn, Edinburgh; India: Auroville, Chennai, Agra, Delhi) in the last six [...]

13 11, 2019

Biomimicry Lessons from the Beehive for Hindustan U Architecture Class

By Marilyn Hamilton|2019-11-14T20:38:01+00:00November 13th, 2019|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, Lifecycle|Tags: 4 voices of the city, business, citizens, civic managers, civil society, honey bees, human hive, integral city intelligences|0 Comments

Dr. Marilyn Hamilton offered a lecture to Dr. Sheeba Chander's class in the Architecture & City Planning Program at Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science in Chennai, India, on October 30, 2019. Here is a picture of the class and the key images we used to illustrate how the honey bee offers lessons in [...]

13 11, 2019

Refocusing Human Sensitivity in a Digital World

By Marilyn Hamilton|2019-11-14T20:42:21+00:00November 13th, 2019|Categories: Book 3, C. Collective Intelligences, Capacity Building, Caring, Contexting, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Master Intelligence, Spiritual intelligence, Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: 4 voices of the city, 7th generation, business, citizens, civic managers, civil society, Gaia's Reflective Organ, granddaughter, human hive, Indian Society of Applied Behavioural Sciences|0 Comments

Through Caring, Contexting, Capacity Building “How are our systems supporting us in the fullness of our humanity?” Answering this research question moved my career from the study of leadership patterns to the connections amongst teams, organizations, communities and now cities – in both face-to-face and digital worlds. I have written three books that explore [...]

25 09, 2019

The Power of the Pebble

By Marilyn Hamilton|2019-09-25T20:36:29+00:00September 25th, 2019|Categories: B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, D. Strategic Intelligences, Enlivening Edge, Inner, Lifecycle, Outer|Tags: 4 voices of the city, business, change, civic managers, civil society, development, dissonance, Enlivening Edge, learning|0 Comments

What happens when we turn up in our organizations and discover the presence of a “pebble”? Our human systems are living through a time when a small act can cause an enormous result—like the power of a pebble to precipitate a land slide or an avalanche. When I look at a city and [...]

6 09, 2019

Citizen & Civil Society Organizations Evolve with Lessons from the Honey Bee

By Marilyn Hamilton|2019-09-06T13:21:08+00:00September 6th, 2019|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, Enlivening Edge|Tags: 4 voices of the city, business, citizens, civic managers, civil society, emergence, evolution, honey bees, human hive, resilience, sustainability|0 Comments

Integral City identifies 4 Voices of the City: Citizens, Civil Society, Civic Managers and Business/Innovators. Each of these Voices has organizational forms, but some are more developed than others. The organizational voices of Civic Managers and Business/Innovators are commonly expressed through their public and private institutions both of which have decades of practices and [...]

1 08, 2019

Global Ecovillage Network Europe 2019 Ecology Panel

By Marilyn Hamilton|2019-08-01T12:26:14+00:00August 1st, 2019|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Integral Maps, Master Intelligence, Meshworking, Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: 4 voices of the city, Albert Bates, business, citizens, civic managers, civil society, ecology, ecovillage, Emergency response, Gaia Hypothesis, Global EcoVillage Network, honey bees, James Lovelock, Peter Harper, visionary, VUCA|0 Comments

Marilyn Hamilton (as Founder of Integral City Meshworks) was honoured to form a trio with panelists, Peter Harper (an expert on climate change and its causes) and Albert Bates (an expert and elder of the Ecovillage Movement and intense sustainability practices like biochar) at the GEN Day 2 focus on Ecology. Capturing our core [...]

1 08, 2019

Integral City Prepares for Ecology Panel at GEN EU 2019 Conference

By Marilyn Hamilton|2019-08-01T12:17:08+00:00August 1st, 2019|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, Complex Challenges, D. Strategic Intelligences, Ecosphere, Master Intelligence, Meshworking, Placecaring, Placemaking, Storytelling - Cultures, Voices|Tags: 4 voices of the city, Banaigh 2019, business, citizens, civic managers, civil society, Ecology Panel, Global EcoVillage Network, Master Code, resilience, sustainability|0 Comments

Before we arrived at the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) 2019 European Conference we were interviewed with our fellow panelists on key questions. Here below is the interview with Marilyn Hamilton, Found of Integral City Meshworks Inc. GEN: What Profile is Marilyn Hamilton bringing to GEN? MH: Marilyn Hamilton is the Founder of Integral [...]

15 06, 2019

Integral City Reflective Organ – June Solstice 2019: 4 Voices Imagine the Human Hive

By Marilyn Hamilton|2019-07-04T18:31:55+00:00June 15th, 2019|Categories: Book 3, C. Collective Intelligences, Capacity Building, Complex Challenges, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Newsletter|Tags: 4 voices of the city, Beyond Resilient, Beyond Smart, business, citizens, civic managers, civil society, Climate change, human hive, integral city intelligences, Master Code, Principles, sustainability|0 Comments

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 People. For tens of thousands of years (or possibly hundreds of thousands of years) humans were contained in local contexts that became the objects of care [...]