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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Neuroimaging Research Confirms Values Preferences Are Visible in Brain Patterns
Posted in B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, Outer, Storytelling - Cultures, Uncategorized, tagged Graves, research, spiral dynamics integral, values on April 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Hothouse Bees Show Limits to Human Hothouse Intelligence
Posted in E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Emergence, Lifecycle, Navigating - IVSM, Outer, tagged honey bees, resilience, sustainability on January 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A domesticated cousin to the apis melifera honey bee, is raising questions about how life conditions – including those created by humans – can offer a species the opportunity to expand its territory because of its natural but transplanted capacities. It is a good example of unintended consequences, and may prove to us (yet again) that resilience [...]
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 [...]
Inspire Health – an Integral Practise
Posted in Building - Structures, Inner, Outer, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged health on April 21, 2009 | Comments Off
Integral health is emerging in Vancouver, BC in the Inspire Health Integrated Cancer Care clinic. Check it out at http://www.inspirehealth.ca/ . This service was started 11 years ago by Dr. Hal Gunn and co-founders. It has now served over 5000 patients directly and through the “prescriptions” by which every doctor in BC can refer their patients to Inspire [...]
