Equinotes are published periodically drawing on the Archives of Integral City's Reflective Organ Newsletter, Blogs, Books and Website. The perspectives of Equinotes weave across: Planet, People, Place and Power. The theme of this issue is Placecaring and Placemaking. September 2024 Equinotes are drawn from these publications: Placecaring & Placemaking: Hamilton, M. 2018. [...]
This week Ecovillage Findhorn has immersed ourselves in a Purpose Quest. We learned from 5 Inspirational Sources (see full inspirations here). Whole Community Purpose Strategic Framework Global Ecovillage Network Dorothy MacLean Patrick Lewington From these inspirations, we drafted 8 Potential Purpose Statements (see them here). And from these we identified 5 Themes: Spiritual [...]
As Findhorn Ecovillage has explored its Community Purpose, it considers how relationships between people and organizations shift and change within the community. Some responses, resistances and resources have surprised me. But then I remembered one of my core learnings about Community comes from Parker Palmer. Many years ago he wrote a quizzical but profound [...]
The Community of Findhorn has been journeying on a Purpose Quest. We started by contemplating 5 Inspirations. Working in small clusters of 5 people, for each inspiration we asked ourselves: In what way does this Inspiration express Community Purpose? (Circle 3 phrases) what do you resonate with – affirm, want to retain? (Strikethrough 2 [...]
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. Findhorn website says from Personal to Planetary Change – so our practices are maturing from [...]
This is an open letter to Alastair McIntosh who focalised the Spiritual Activism: Leadership as Service workshop at Findhorn Foundation Aug 3-8, 2019. Dear Alastair I am sure that the impressions and impacts of your Spiritual Activism workshop will unfold over many weeks. But I wanted just to record some initial impressions before they are [...]
When Integral City works with a city like Durant, we design with a framework based on Values and the 4 Voices of the Human Hive. Our methodologies are designed around the principles for collective impact embedded in: Appreciative Inquiry Action Research The 4 Voices include the Citizens, Civil Society, Civic Managers and Business. [...]
Imagine Durant has created a bold invitation to the 4 Voices of Durant Oklahoma, USA to imagine a vision for the future and develop the strategies to implement it. Building on the economic boom of gaming tourism, and their own journeys as integrally informed leaders, the President of First United Bank and the (now) [...]
The magic of building community starts with small wins. That is one of the secrets that Milenko Matanovic, Founder of Pomegranate Center, shares with everyone he can. Milenko, speaking at the Building Sustainable Communities Conference, was a gold nugget find!! He complemented my image of the human hive with engaging stories about practical actions that the Pomegranate Center [...]