16 06, 2021

Integral City Thought Experiment 1: Exploring Doughnut Economics & Spiral Dynamics

By |2021-07-05T11:48:51+00:00June 16th, 2021|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, D. Strategic Intelligences, Emergence, Integral Maps, Lifecycle, Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |2 Comments

Introduction How do you reveal the contribution of Spiral Dynamics integral to Integral City Meshworks? We could start by looking at Integral City’s 5 Maps. Map 4 (in the lower right of the 5 Map image above) shows the Complex, Adaptive Organizational (and Archetypal) Structures that have emerged across the history of human [...]

7 11, 2015

Discovering How Politics of Dignity Counters Politics of Fear

By |2017-04-07T02:57:20+00:00November 7th, 2015|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, D. Strategic Intelligences, Emergence, Level 1 Beige, Level 2 Purple, Level 3 Red, Level 4 Blue|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |1 Comment

In September 2015 the Centre for Human Emergence Netherlands explored with me a proposition: The politics of fear can be trumped by the politics of dignity, regarding refugees, immigrants and voters. We explored this question (drawn from Angela Merkel’s challenge to Europe in the face of the tide of refugees) using Systemic Constellation Work (SCW). [...]

22 12, 2014

Integral City Reflective Organ – December Solstice 2014: Celebrating the Mystery of Power

By |2017-04-07T02:57:23+00:00December 22nd, 2014|Categories: city, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Master Intelligence, Spiritual intelligence, Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |3 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 Power. The concept of morphic or Akashic fields creates the possibility that we could harness the intelligence that is concentrated in the city to generate much greater (more [...]

17 07, 2014

How Adult Development Creates Conditions to Optimize Integral City Impact

By |2017-04-07T02:57:25+00:00July 17th, 2014|Categories: B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, city, Integral Maps, Lifecycle|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |2 Comments

It is amazing to realize that we can optimize the impact of Integral City frameworks in the world simply because adult development is possible. Integral City Map 3: The Scalar Fractal Relationship of Micro, Meso and Macro Human Systems As a pioneering transpersonal psychologist, Roger Walsh emphasized this point at IEC,  he explored [...]

2 07, 2013

Recapitulating Principles for Planet of Integral Cities

By |2017-04-07T02:57:28+00:00July 2nd, 2013|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |2 Comments

Let's recap core blogs that explore the Principles that could guide a Planet of Integral Cities. Recently we explored the evolutionary context of the life-giving Principles of  Anthro-Bio-Cosmo emergence (thanks to Integral Geographer Dr. Brian Eddy). In a much earlier blog we introduced the Principles of Living Systems (developed by Evolutionary Biologist Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris) Then we [...]

7 02, 2013

Integral City Map 1: Loving the Polarities in the City

By |2017-04-07T02:57:30+00:00February 7th, 2013|Categories: Integral Maps|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |13 Comments

Integral City how do I map thee? Let me count the ways ... starting with Map 1. Map 1: 4 quadrant 8 level map of the city When I started to explore the Integral framework for cities I was influenced both by the work of Ken Wilber and Don Beck's Spiral Dynamics model. [...]

27 06, 2012

Inner Intelligence – The Reflective “I” Power of the Human Hive

By |2017-04-07T02:57:32+00:00June 27th, 2012|Categories: B. Individual Intelligences, Inner|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |1 Comment

The Human Hive is powered by individuals. This is rather paradoxical because it is the collection of people that we tend to notice in the Human Hive. But the collective (or in terms of the Integral Model, the social holon) is composed of individual holons. Individual people are whole systems who power and empower the [...]

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