How do you react to the word "Master"? I have always associated "master" with mastery – the successful learning of some practice. It represents a maturing of skills and experience and adeptness. It is the top level of a series of stages from apprentice to journeyperson to master. It represents a superordinate category [...]
This is a guest blog by, Govert Van Ginkel, Graduate of Integral City Beyond Smart and Beyond Resilient Courses I was asked in the Integral City online community, “What Energizes You About a City You Have Visited?” I think what I appreciate most about a city is when it has a heart. A city [...]
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 The ninth and final class of the course focused on enjoying our roles as facilitators. We started with a reminder that facilitators do well to consider the old wisdom that [...]
This blog continues to share the Findings from the research conducted in three Learning Lhabitats exploring the 4 Voices of the City in the United States, Canada and Europe in the last year. Today we compare the results that open wider understanding of the role of the Civil Society Voice in the city, from Learning [...]
Continuing on the theme of Regenerativity, I remember well how 4 women (1) from a Saeculum (2) of Generations shared their Gifts to the Future Generations (at the World Future Society 2011). We called it BIRTHING NEW OPENINGS FOR LIFE . Recognizing that we have arrived at the 4th turning of the Planetary Shift, we designed a [...]
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. [...]
Assumptions in the city arise not only from the four voices of the city - but from the worldviews being expressed in those voices. Worldviews emerge from the beliefs of what is important around here and how those values are translated by the city's voices. In the most basic ego-centric way, assumptions are implicit - [...]
Ten days after the final Integral City 2.0 Online Conference (IC2OC) ... and we have celebrated our first Thanksgiving (whose timing we borrow from Canada :-)) We are thankful for the people who made the IC2OC possible: all the volunteers, the speakers, the affiliates and the participants - in a constantly intermeshing order. We have [...]
Relationships may be the prime “currency” of the Integral City. Our interpersonal relationships tell us do we have the capacity to survive together? connect with our environment (including other people)? and reproduce? recreate? regenerate? In a living system, relationships are the bonds that link identities (holons) and information. Relationships make exchanges possible. The formation of [...]
Cultural intelligence represents the “We” life of the city. It is the beating heart of the Human Hive. This heart-based intelligence embraces the relationships in the city. These relationships transcend boundaries that both contain and separate families, groups, organizations and all the collectives of people in the city. It includes the individual and the group [...]