Today ’s cities are being transformed by activists. Tomorrow’s cities will be transformed by AQALists. What is the difference? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Today’s activists demonstrate their beliefs through confrontive action. They stand up against injustices, rules, authorities and infrastructure by blocking access for as many people as possible. They are willing to threaten power, throw projectiles and thrust their bodies [...]
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Integral City 2.0 Requires a Momentous Leap from Activism to AQALism
Posted in B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, city, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Integral Maps, tagged activists, AQALists, belief systems, change, City 2.0, evolution, Gaia, human freedom, inner reflection, integral, ongoing development, spiritual depths, wellbeing on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
How Do We Design Healthcare Systems for Integral City 2.0?
Posted in city, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Lifecycle, Navigating - IVSM, Outer, tagged change, City 2.0, evolution, health, healthcare, healthcare design, human hive, major cities of the world, major healthcare systems, Principles, whole systems thinking on January 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Designing healthcare systems that serve the wellbeing of Integral City 2.0 begins with remembering “health” comes from the same root as the word “whole”. Healthcare in the human hive is based on the principles of Life and Evolution . Wholistic healthcare systems are rooted in natural science and embody values and cultural intentions. Principles that contribute to appropriate [...]
Education Creates Habitats for Learning What Works in City 2.0
Posted in D. Strategic Intelligences, Inner, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged carbon footprint, City 2.0, city education, cycle of life, developmental journey, education, innovation culture, integral, integral education on January 26, 2012 | 3 Comments »
How do we create an education system for the City 2.0 that the TED Prize 2012 imagines? How can we learn to integrate education with innovation, culture, and economic opportunity? When might we agree to reduce the carbon footprint of City 2.0 occupants, facilitate smaller families, and ease the environmental pressure on the world’s rural areas? What will inspire us to create a place [...]
Evolutionary Enlightenment: 5 Tenets for the Human Hive
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Master Intelligence, Spiritual intelligence, tagged energies, evolution, evolutionary intelligences, evolutonary enlightenment, Five Wisdoms, integral city intelligences on October 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Evolutionary Enlightenment, by Andrew Cohen is a refreshingly enlivening read that aligns well with the Evolutionary Intelligences of Integral City. Cohen, starts with the traditional path of enlightenment as the starting place for practitioners to achieve a deep knowing of the evolutionary experience of the “Big Bang”. His description of this as not only a scientific proposition, [...]
Collective Shadow & TheoryU for Sustainability Leaders
Posted in B. Individual Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, Inner, Inquiry, Outer, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged change, shadow work, sustainability, Theory U on September 21, 2011 | 3 Comments »
How do you engage Collective Shadow? How do you design a process for sustainability leaders to address the shadow of self, of the group and of the planet? That was a question that we asked ourselves during the Embody Integral Sustainability inquiry during August 2011 at Venwoude, Netherlands. Behind our questions we found support from [...]
EVA Lanxmeer Lives Like a Human Hive
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Uncategorized, tagged Almere, ecovillage, EVA Lanxmeer, human hive, integral city intelligences, Principles, self-organizing system, sustainability on September 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
EVA Lanxmeer was a destination I was delighted to explore in August while I was in the Netherlands. I went there to visit Peter Merry, Founder of Centre for Human Emergence Netherlands and discover why he had moved to this eco-village. Peter and I walked around EVA Lanxmeer and I recorded his commentary – to [...]
To Be or Not To Be … Free
Posted in Inner, Inquiry, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged Boomers, generations, GenX, GenY, honey bees, information on September 9, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Is information becoming revalued? – so that the more often it is exchanged the more valuable it becomes?? I have been having an interesting conversation with a GenX information packager and distributor. We have been talking about presenters giving away all the presentations from a conference for free. I come from the Boomer generation where we were taught that the scarcity of [...]
3 Research Studies Revealing Integral City Patterns for Leaders & Policy Makers
Posted in B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Integral Maps, tagged integral, integral city intelligences, modern, postmodern, urban theory on May 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Are you “seeking inspiration about the untapped potential of city dynamics”? If so the Canadian Journal of Urban Research (Winter 2010) observes that the book Integral City “opens up a gallery of visionary futures”. While the CJUR book reviewer has some reservations about using the Integral model as a viable framework for viewing the city (see Endnote [...]
Conscious Leadership in Action – Barrett Brown’s PhD Research
Posted in B. Individual Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Inner, Inquiry, Outer, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged integral, Integral Research, leadership, sustainability on April 24, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Congratulations to Barrett Brown who just defended his dissertation on Leadership for Sustainability. Barrett designed an integral methodology to study integrally-informed leaders working in sustainability. His Findings differentiate amongst leaders who work on the system (Strategists), with the system (Alchemists) and as the system (Ironists). This research illuminates the path of both consciousness and action as [...]
