Three years ago, at Ecovillage Findhorn, Scotland, we began Saturday morning meditations to create Islands of Calm in a VUCA world—volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous. Inspired by David Spangler’s reminder that calm within can ripple outward to 1,000 others, we gathered to cultivate inner stillness. Since then, our practice has evolved. In today’s world [...]
Occasionally I share insights into what it is like to live in Park Ecovillage Findhorn (PEF) in Scotland. This short article originally published in the community's weekly magazine, Rainbow Bridge, inquires about the kind of legacy PEF is creating as we consider our future through decision making, voting and relating to one another. How [...]
In prior blogs, Integral City has explored how the city is broken and how it can be healed. In the Guardian (Feb. 19, 2025) Bernie Sanders is setting out to walk the land as he proposes critical dimensions of healing for the brokenness in America. Because most Americans live in cities, Sanders is essentially offering [...]
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 People. Communities and cities who care have the capaocity to rapidly respond and evolve into new ways of being and becoming together. Research is showing that [...]
So much is happening in the world – including/especially in the world of cities. I have a deep impulse to reconnect with you all. I invite us to a Solstice family gathering to share how the evolutionary impulse of Integral City Meshworks is flowing through our lives. A perfect opportunity has arisen for [...]
I have ancestral roots in the Manchester area – my grandfather was born in Salford. My late husband Peter Dobson, grew up in Tiddlesley/Staley Bridge area of greater Manchester. Also in the early 1980’s I travelled frequently through this area as Peter visited the suppliers to the vehicle testing facilities he was project managing [...]
10 years ago, Integral City sponsored the first major outreach project after the publication of the first book in the Integral City book series (2008, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive). We called our online initiative Integral City 2.0 Online Conference or ELab 2012 for short. Before Zoom was ubiquitous, we [...]
This was a transmission from Gaia that Marilyn Hamilton shared for the Femme Q Online Summit July 30, 2021. Feminine Intelligence (Femme Q) is the emergence of a new level of consciousness where the deepest instincts of the heart in both men and women – compassion, informed intelligence and a longing to protect, heal [...]
Meet Jim Garrison, Integral City Meshworker 2021 Jim Garrison is the Founder and President of Ubiquity University and producer of Humanity Rising. His passion and the purpose of Humanity Rising is to create a historical gathering of great minds and hearts responding to the pandemic "as a crisis not to be wasted". As [...]
What was the appropriate response to our dilemma – of the Findhorn destruction by arson of our sacred buildings? Under the circumstances it would not be surprising for anger, blame, despair and retribution to be on the minds and lips and bodies of our residents. Instead, as I interacted with people throughout the [...]