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26 06, 2022

Reflective Organ Newsletter June Solstice 2022: Living and Dying for Gen7

By Marilyn Hamilton|2022-06-28T09:09:29+00:00June 26th, 2022|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, Caring, Ecosphere, Emergence, Inquiry, Living Cities Earth, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Placecaring, Placemaking, Reframing, Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: 7th generation, Alternative Planet, CANCan, Community Action Network, Gaia's Reflective Organ, Indra Adnan, Living Cities Earth, New Media, Planet of Cities, ULab, whole systems thinking|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 Action Research is a powerful methodology to use for city change because it involves people inquiring together. It starts with an initiating researcher (I/We), a [...]

16 06, 2021

CAN’s, Competition, Coalitions, Collaborations

By Marilyn Hamilton|2021-06-16T11:31:15+00:00June 16th, 2021|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Emergence, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: 4 voices of the city, CAN, change, coalitions, collaborations, Community Action Network, connections, cooperatives, health of a system, hierarchical structures, interconnections, Map 3, Meg Wheatley, pandemic, Recalibration, self-organizing system|0 Comments

As the world cycles in and out of lockdowns, pandemic levels and recovery stimuli, new webs are emerging through building, rebuilding, reconnecting and weaving systemic connections that seem to indicate a distinguishing impact of the global pandemic involves recalibrating worldwide interconnections. How does Gaia respond when fundamental boundaries are crossed that result in ill [...]