With great gratitude to the gifts and lessons learned from three leaders who embodied so many of Integral City Intelligences, we remember with sadness the passing of Dr. Don Beck, Hazel Henderson and Dr. Brenda Dunne. See Newsletter editorial for Integral City particular expressions of appreciation. In Memorian: Dr. Don Edward Beck [...]
This is one of series of blogs that are a retrospective reflection on Integral City Community of Practice’s experience in taking the In This Together (ITT) course on basic facilitation skills taught by Diane Musho Hamilton and Ten Directions. In the fifth module of the course we moved from the perspectives we can bring to [...]
"When people are afraid or defensive, they have no tolerance for the person at the edge of inside. They want purity, rigid loyalty and lock step unity. But now more than ever we need people who have the courage to live on the edge of inside, who love their parties and organizations so much that [...]
As Guest Editor of the Integral Leadership Review – Canada (ILR – C) issues, in the February instalment, I imagined, the Rideau Canal lock system symbolizing the environment where the authors in ILR-C interact with the leaders and leadership insights that they have contributed to this special Canada issue. (1)... ©2014 Aboriginal Nations Education, [...]
Integral City Meshworks has accepted the invitation to attend the Meeting of the Minds (MotM) Conference in Toronto September 9-11, 2013. Meeting of the Minds 2013 MotM asked me to share some of the “strange” language Integral City Meshworks uses to talk about the city. So here is a Brief History of [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]