Civil Society 2.0 has new power because it is integrating new relationships and a Manifesto for Evolutionary Freedom with social media 2.0. This is creating new resonance and coherence for glocal wellbeing, social justice and environmental sustainability in the human hive. The song sheet that Civil Society is co-creating is quickly emerging new music for all of us in the Integral City [...]
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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 [...]
Sense in the City December 2011 – Occupy, Disturb, Emerge, eLABORATE
Posted in Storytelling - Cultures, tagged disturb, eLABORATORY, emergence, leadership, occupy, sense in the city on December 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
December Solstice Greetings, Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City Today’s Integral City Sparkies for City Emergence: The larger the city the more likely it will span a wider and wider spectrum of individual purposes; ghettoes of differing purposes and intentions will emerge and the demands of governance will need to address these discontinuities. p.181 [...]
Occupy the Voice of Civil Society
Posted in city, Integral Maps, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged culture, generations, grassroots groups, occupy, politics, Principles, wellbeing on December 12, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Civil Society #occupies the We and Heart of the Integral City. As Civil Society We beat with the pulse of cooperatives, credit unions, foundations, institutes, not-for-profits, NGO’s, social enterprises and other agencies who invest in cultural and social capital in our Integral City. As Civil Society Members and Activists our volunteers #occupy principles of city wellbeing. As Civil Society Executive Directors [...]
Remembering for the Future: Freedom Manifesto for 11-11-11
Posted in E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Emergence, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged freedom, remembrance, resilience, universal, values on November 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »
On this Remembrance Day of 11-11-11 let us be grateful for the Freedoms gained by our ancestors, that equip us for the Future. May we Celebrate the Resilience of Life in Remembering our Evolutionary Commitments: to protect our individual needs for physical and spiritual safety and survival; and prevent harm to all individuals. to honour the traditions [...]
Ali’s Warnings Show Pre-Trans Cultural Divides = Strong Guidance for City Governance
Posted in Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, D. Strategic Intelligences, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged city, culture, Holland, Netherlands, politics, pre-trans fallacy on October 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The wise evolution of cultural affinities and loyalties is something nations must pay careful attention to, warns Ayaan Hirst Ali in a National Post article documenting her personal history. In fact it appears from her advice that it is a maxim that cities must understand in order to evolve governance that works in their post-modern pluralistic [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
