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 [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
Almere NL New Town Appreciates, Celebrates, Blossoms
Posted in C. Collective Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, Inquiry, Integral Maps, Lifecycle, Storytelling - Cultures, Uncategorized, tagged Almere, appreciative inquiry, city, integral, integral city intelligences, meshwork, sustainability, whole systems thinking on April 18, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Last week Almere Netherlands was the location of my learning and the focus of my attention. Attending the fifth Centre for Human Emergence, NL, fifth Spiral Dynamics Integral Confab, Almere was featured in case studies to explore the city with Integral City related lenses. Almere was created as a New Town, 30 years ago, using [...]
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 [...]
Human Hive Judging if Should Swallow Tough Medicine or Stave Off Disaster?
Posted in C. Collective Intelligences, Inquiry, Master Intelligence, Navigating - IVSM, tagged financial, inner judges, Ireland, resource allocators on November 14, 2010 | Comments Off
Further to the Australian Federal Elections reported here in September. And the US Elections completed two weeks ago, I am noticing more action in the human hive, that says Resource Allocators and Inner Judges are busy trying to decide what to do next. The US Elections brought similar results to those in Australia — very [...]
Alberta Professional Planners Institute 2010 Conference
Posted in Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, city, D. Strategic Intelligences, Inquiry, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged Alberta, professional planners, world planners congress on November 14, 2010 | Comments Off
At the World Planners Congress (WPC), in June, 2006 I witnessed a notable public paradigm shift when Planning Leaders from around the world issued a position paper on the New Urban Planning (Farmer et al., 2006). In 2006, the authors stated that New Urban Planning was smart planning because it is a responsive learning system. [...]
