At the Integral Theory Conference 2013,  Integral city presented our (award-winning!!) paper and session on City‐Zen‐Tricity:
 A 
Fractal 
Non‐Local 
Leap
 Toward
 Kosmocentricity
 Taken
 with
 Integral
 Kosmopolitans
 on
 an
 Evolutionary
 Mission.

Learning Lhabitat

Learning Lhabitat

Going beyond merely presenting the paper (see the Abstract below) Integral City Stewards, Marilyn Hamilton and Beth Sanders, with Alia Aurami … facilitated a Learning Lhabitat for participants to learn about the 4 Voices of the City. The following 4 Blogs will share how each voice saw themselves – and how each voice learned about the other voices in the Integral City Quadrants – Cityzen UL); Civic Manager (UR), Civil Society (LL); Business (LR).

After having worked in small groups, the closing circle of 4 City Voices shared that they gained profound insights about the voices that they don’t normally occupy.

Beth Sanders captured the essence of the participant sharings from the Closing Circle with this poem:

Integral City Breath

Overwhelming value
in balance, stepping
in to a sense of city
in community
where the subtle
and not so subtle
colour breathes

in

with the interior unstuck
voices in dialogue
consciously diverse
explore, appreciatively
the beauty of uniqueness
of an integral city technology
of evolutionary role
perspectives
richly
flowing

out

Abstract of Paper

Marilyn Hamilton, joined by Beth Sanders,  recorded the story of a global month-long webinar and action research inquiry about a new operating system for the city – a Director’s cut of how a multi-national-gender-generational team unfolded an evolutionary mission using Integral City’s master code: “take care of self, other and place”. We revealed what it takes to operationalize a Kosmocentric vision for a conference: non-local partnership, worldcentric curriculum development and city-centric relationships. Kosmopolitans unveil the collective intelligence that emerged at every stage of the project and that is now emerging local and online Learning habitats. You may order the mp3 recording from the ITC2013 website (and/or access the presentation paper there and in the forthcoming Journal of Integral Theory and Practice – where it will be published.)