This blog is the third prologue for a keynote at the FreshOutlook Feb. 27, 2012 Building SustainABLE Communities Conference. Integral City is a new paradigm for looking at cities that reveals its bio-psycho-cultural-structural evolutionary intelligences. These twelve intelligences cluster into five capacities and are organized into an Integral City Compass that provides direction and alignment [...]
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Meshworking Evolutionary INTELLIGENCES for the Human Hive
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, city, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, Inner, Inquiry, Integral Maps, Lifecycle, Master Intelligence, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Outer, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged Building Sustainable Communities, emergent intelligence, evolution, holarchy, inner intelligence, integral city intelligences, Principles, whole systems thinking on February 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
12 Intelligence Principles for Integral City to Celebrate on Earth Day
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, Inner, Inquiry, Integral Maps, Lifecycle, Master Intelligence, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Outer, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged Earth Day, integral city intelligences, Principles on April 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
P 1. Ecosphere Intelligence 1. Honor the climate and geography of your city. 2. Steward the environment. 3. Add value to the Earth space. P 2. Emerging Intelligence 1. Survive so holons serve each other’s existence. 2. Adapt to the environment. 3. Create a self-regenerating feedback loop, by interconnecting human regeneration cycles so that they [...]
Integral City Intelligences for Sustainable City Class
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, city, climate, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, Inner, Inquiry, Integral Maps, Lifecycle, Master Intelligence, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Outer, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged Colwood, education, integral, integral city intelligences, Resources for Mayors, Royal Roads University, sustainability on February 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I spent last week at Royal Roads University delivering the first Residency of the Sustainability Graduate Certificate. Ten students from across Canada provided a rigorous proving ground for the Integral City approach to sustainability. Using the Integral City Compass to prove the design with three leverage points, here is what we did. Integral City Compass [...]
Multiple Cities, One Location
Posted in Building - Structures, Emergence, Inner, Lifecycle, Panarchy, tagged communication, ecology, multiple cities, sense in the city, water on January 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I have just finished editing an interview I did with one of Integral City’s Advisors, Will Varey, of Emergnc in December, 2010. It will be posted for readers’ listening pleasure on Meshcasts later today. We had a most wide-ranging dialogue that explored cities as living systems. Will’s grounding in sustainability provided a “pingable” trampoline to explore the ecology [...]
Evolutionary Activism — Patten’s Bodhidharma Strategy
Posted in Building - Structures, D. Strategic Intelligences, Inner, Outer, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged Bodhidharma, integral, Integral Theory Conference, strategy on September 6, 2010 | Comments Off
Terry Patten, Founder of Integral Spiritual Practice and a lifelong activist recently spoke at the Integral Theory Conference at JFKU on Integral Activism. I found Terry’s approach to be very relevent to influencing and delivering change in the Integral City. Terry’s three part strategy is refreshingly practical. It embraces a personal commitment to develop one’s capacity and [...]
Who is at Climate Talks and What Do They Seek?
Posted in B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, climate, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Inner, Level 7 Yellow, Level 8 Turquoise, Master Intelligence, Navigating - IVSM, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged Climate change, integral city intelligences, survival, sustainability on December 17, 2009 | Comments Off
This article published early in December 2009, reveals the biases of the voting blocks at Copenhagen, based on their emissions, GDP and % of world population. The spectrum of intelligences hidden inside these numbers does not reveal who the complex thinkers are in each block — those people who can think at a geo-centric level and [...]
