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 [...]
"If you knew she could feel, you would stop," says Charles Eisenstein about the living Earth. We met at the Climate Change and Consciousness CCC19 conference at Findhorn Scotland. Charles made it very clear in his plenary keynote, workshop and new book "Climate" that he agreed with James Lovelock that Earth was a living [...]
From April 20 to 26 2019, Integral City’s Founder Marilyn Hamilton, immersed herself in the Climate Change and Consciousness Conference 2019 CCC19. With more than a month to consider the impact, we consider how the Integral City Intelligences reveal the capacities and outcomes of CCC19 in terms of Integral City inquiry, action and impact. [...]
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 Planet. … when we look at the scale of life on this planet, we notice that cities as human systems are in the center of the [...]
In early March I had an opportunity to explore the question, “Are Cities Evolving as Gaia’s Reflective Organs?” My audience was an erudite gathering of the online 3 Horizons University (3Huni for short). I proposed to explore the case for the evolution of cities, not as a bane on the Earth, but as a [...]
In early March I had an opportunity to explore the question, “Are Cities Evolving as Gaia’s Reflective Organs?” My audience was an erudite gathering of the online 3 Horizons University (3Huni for short). I proposed to explore the case for the evolution of cities, not as a bane on the Earth, but as a [...]
Dear Tamarack I was last with you in your Vancouver 2017 Conference, sharing my second book, Inquiry & Action, Designing Impact for the Human Hive. Earlier that year I was with you in Kitchener/Waterloo exploring Placecaring and Placemaking in your Collective Impact Conference. This letter is to renew and continue an inspiring partnership - [...]
Diversity Generators (DG's) play a special role in the processes of Creativity in Gaia's Human Hives. Integral City 3.7 has a special chapter on the DG's and another on how creativity arises naturally through evolution in the Integral City. This is a short infographic series to introduce Book 3. The series includes: Book [...]
Integral City 3.7 explores the Invisible City through Caring (values), Contexting (life conditions) and Capacity Building (at multiple scales). Through these lenses the hidden but very real dynamics of the city can be explored - especially for the ".7" in the title - calling us to make decisions in consideration of the 7th generation [...]
Integral City 3 .7: Reframing Complex Challenges for Gaia's Human Hives contains the "missing" chapter from earlier books in the series - namely Spirituality in the Human Hive. This is a short infographic series to introduce Book 3. The series includes: Book 3 Emerges: Reframe Complex Challenges for Gaia’s Human Hives Integral City [...]