Spring Equinox Greetings, Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City Today's Integral City Sparkies for City Diversity Generators: What city in the world has developed a course of study and practise that enables a person to methodically progress from cradle to peak prformance at the defined levels of complexity that deliver leadership to the powers 1 through [...]
Join us for two integral-spiral designed sessions at the WFS, Vancouver, BC July 8 & 9 2011. Bridging the Great Divides: A Spiral Dynamics Workshop on Cultural Integration, Global Cohesion, and Our Multiple Futures. Dr. Don Beck, Elza Maalouf and Said Dawlablani present July 8. The end of the Cold War has not brought us [...]
The Values That Move us Through Conflict to Understanding - Discover the Foundations of Spiral Dynamics integral* in Edmonton, July 14-17, 2011. Why do people make such different decisions, given the same information and opportunities? How do values develop and spread among people? How can we bring our diverse ways of thinking to create a [...]
Dr. Clare Graves(1) (and many researchers since) proposed that human values systems emerged in alternating stages of Individualistic expression and Collectivist embrace. He had the insight to propose that evidence would be found in the biological domains (as well as psychological and social) long before technology like fMRI scanning had been invented. Graves proposition is fundamental to [...]
How do you integrate five of the resilience models that I have used in Integral City? How can they help us understand how to respond, repair and restore the city as a living system in disasters like we have seen this year in Brisbane, Christchurch and Sendai? Integral City(p. 43) illustrates the four stages of the resilience cycle as they progress through [...]
I just returned from two weeks in Europe, designing the Renaissance2 Great Shift Conference in Perpignan France for October 22-26; and workshopping Integral City in the Netherlands with Centre for Human Emergence NL, EnlightenNext NL, The Hub, the Integral Institute for Sustainability and Danslab. Europe is in a much more positive frame of mind than [...]
May Greetings, Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City Today's Integral City Sparkie for the City Mind: A city which can merely feed, clothe and shelter its citizens lacks the intelligence to sustain itself, because the intelligence for sustainability comes from a commitment to learning about self, others and our shared life conditions. Hamilton, M., 2008, [...]