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Sense in the City Summer 2012 – Co-Create the Future of the Human Hive

Posted in Dialogue, F. Training, H. Research, Level 5 Orange, Level 6 Green, Level 7 Yellow, Telecourse, tagged , , , , , on July 5, 2012 |


July Greetings, Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City  

Today’s Integral City Sparkies for City Co-Creators:

Architect Christopher Alexander is experimenting with the “Phenomenon of Life,” co-designing living worlds where building centers, hulls and space are co-created with the stakeholders and future users of the buildings. He and his team are doing this with everyone from poor Mexican workers, to Japanese university students, to groups of house owners in rural and highly urbanized community settings.

Hamilton, M., 2008, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive, p.156

How do we design the city so that I, WE, IT and ITS can co-exist in a vibrant way?

 

We invite you to help us co-create the Future of the City conference by taking 10 minutes to complete this survey: https://www.jitsulab.com/197/0065/The Future of the City Survey. Thanks for returning it by July 15.

Below some of the questions that provoke, engage, question and cross connect co-creators of the Future of the Human Hive!!! We are building a huge excitement and momentum as we ask them with everyone we encounter – in person, online, internationally, through the Blog, in Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.   Let us know what are your burning questions for how to co-exist in the city on our planet of cities?

 

What role are cities playing, as 2012 shifts through the longest/shortest days of its year (depending on your location on the planet)?

  • How are cities surviving the turbulence of life everywhere? How do  cities adapt to polarities of shadow and light in constant play?
  • In the shadows, how do cities survive the misery of the Syrian war, the seeming futility of the EU economic tactics, the searing heat in eastern North America or the disappointment of Rio+20?
  • In the light, what are the implications for cities of the discovery of the Higgs-Boson particle (and the promise of deep understanding of dark energy and dark matter)? What does it mean for cities that human lifecycles are extending beyond 100 years?  What are the lessons for cities about the densifying connections emerging from social media that defy all traditional political assumptions in places like Rangoon, Cairo and Montreal?

How does 2012 call forth new paradigms in just about every sphere of knowledge we care to examine?

  • Where is the kiva for the city where new conversations about city wellbeing can engage City-Zens with scientists, artists, designers, practitioners and faith leaders?
  • How can we discover a new paradigm for the city together? How might we co-create new solutions to: the city’s relationship with its eco-region, indigenous peoples and immigrants from the four corners of the globe; the city’s access to and use of energy, water and food; and the maturing of the city’s collective intelligence?

With more than 50% of people living in cities, how are they the seed pods for the human species where intentions, actions, relationships and productive output collide and co-create our collective habitats?

  • What shifts in our thinking are needed to not only track the quantities of all these interactions, but also to notice the quality and complexity of these exchanges?
  • We wonder, if we take the pulse of more than 50% of humanity in city activity, can we track each city’s essential wellbeing? How does each city’s capacity to achieve wellbeing simultaneously become its measure of resilience?
  • How do cities develop new governance to interact sustainably on a planet of cities?

We invite you to become part of the Brain Trust to design an eLaboratory where we can research new capacities for an Integral City. Start by giving us your ideas and suggestions here: https://www.jitsulab.com/197/0065/The Future of the City Survey

 (BTW, If you are interested in volunteering on the team forming to deliver the conference (rewards provided!!) – find out more here: https://www.jitsulab.com/271/0005/Integral%20City%20eLab%20Volunteer%20Application

 

  1. New Integral City Connections & Resources:

 

  • Integral City joined the Energetic City 2050 in Antwerp in April.  Check out how Alliander (with Partners and Freedom Lab facilitation) have challenged three teams to discover how individuals can generate their own energy in 2050. http://www.energeticcity2050.nl/#slide=expeditie (in Dutch)

 

 

  • Integral City has published - Integral Spirituality in the Human Hive –  the “thirteenth” chapter of the book, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligence for the Human Hive. The new chapter has been published by the German Engineering Journal, Trialog. A pdf is available (with permission) from our Wiki link:   http://www.integralcity.com/wiki.html .  Reference: Hamilton, M. (2012). Integral Spirituality in the Human Hive: A Primer. Trialog, 2010(4), 10-17.

 

2. 2012 Learning Events:

  1. Dr. Don Beck delivers THE MOMENTOUS LEAP in Dallas-Forth Worth Texas September 6-9, 2012. Join him for Spiral Dynamics in Action:Deciphering the Master Code in the Age of Complexity, Collaboration and Emergence. A Functional, Integral Pathway to a Sustainable Future For details and registration click here: 13th Annual SDi Confab
  2. Join us at the October – December, 2012 for EMBODY INTEGRAL SUSTAINABILITY Conference sponsored by Experience Integral in the Netherlands. We are honoured to be part of an extraordinary international faculty leading change-makers and practitioners in the field of SUSTAINABILITY LEADERSHIP. The three month long intensive program is customized to meet personal and organization needs, blending group learning and individualized support. Find out details here: http://www.experienceintegral.org/cl4s

 

3. Marilyn Blogs about Integral City Intelligences through the framework of What, So What, Now What . As a prologue to the September 2012 eLaboratory, check out all our eLaboratory Blogs here http://www.integralcitycollective.com . These are the topics we’ve covered:

Ecosphere Intel Vital to Planet of Cities

  • Designing Ecosphere Economies for Planet of Cities
  • Earth Day: Let’s Celebrate Ecosphere Intelligence Arising in Planet’s Fortune100!!

Hello Human Hive: Welcome Emergent World

  • Emergent Designers Seek Energetic City 2050 for Arnhem
  • Emergent Intelligence Frames Whole System Design

Living Intelligence Renews City Value Proposition

  • Principles for Living Intelligently in a Healthy City
  • Living Intelligence – Are You the Center of Aliveness in Your City?

Integral Intelligence Reveals Whole City Vitality

  • Connect City-Eco-Regional Holarchy: Improve Health
  • Integral Intelligence – Psycho-Activates Gaia’s Reflective Organ

Inner Intelligence – The Reflective “I” Power of the Human Hive

  • Cherry Blossom Happiness Factor of City-Centric Inner Intelligence
  • Inner Intelligence is Seedbed of City’s Intuition, Insight, Innovation

…meshful blessings for this season of Co-Creating Futures for the Human Hive … 

 Marilyn

Useful Links:

www.integralcity.com ; Vimeo Interviews on the Integral City   “What is an Integral City?”Twitter: integralcity ; Integral City Blog  - read new articles, archives and Sense in the City archives

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MESHWORKING Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive

Posted in Classroom course, F. Training, Meshworking, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 16, 2012 | 5 Comments »


This blog is a first prologue for a keynote at the FreshOutlook Feb. 27, 2012 Building SustainABLE Communities Conference.

Meshworking is an intelligence of the human hive (Hamilton, 2008) that creates a “meshwork” by weaving together the best of two operating systems — one that self-organizes, and one that replicates hierarchical structures.

From an Integral City perspective this operating system connects all four quadrants and recalibrates the levels of development (Hamilton, 1999). The resulting meshwork creates and aligns complex responsive interior and exterior structures and systems in the human hive that flex and flow.

Meshworking intelligences are triggered in the mind/brain (and the “hive-mind”) by dissonance (i.e. constraints) in the environment. The hive-mind/ brain is capable of re-organizing itself and releasing new potentials in the human hive. This allows for the emergence of new meaning making, worldviews, values systems and new capacities. At the same time meshworking intelligence utilizes hierarchical structures and capacities to create sorting and selecting mechanisms that allow the humans in the hive to make survival choices. As structural capacities emerge, new values systems emerge as well, creating a level of complexity that develops where both our individual (and hive) minds and brains can meshwork hierarchies and make hierarchies out of meshworks.

Meshworking intelligence uses imagination, courage and powers of attraction. It articulates designs from the meshing of the diversities in people and thereby releases and reorganizes new intelligences that are currently locked and blocked in silos of sameness.

Meshworking catalyzes a shift in the human hive system, so that new capacities emerge and the city system reorganizes itself into something more internally resonant and externally coherent with life conditions. When this occurs a new level of capacity emerges in the complex hierarchy of city systems and we can solve problems that we never could before.

(excerpt from: Hamilton, M. (2010). Meshworking Integral Intelligences for Resilient Environments; Enabling Order and Creativity in the Human Hive. Paper presented at the Enacting an Integral Future Conference.

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Sense in the City News Update June 2011 – Cycles of Life in the City

Posted in Classroom course, Lifecycle, tagged , , , on June 22, 2011 |


June Solstice Greetings, Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City  

 Today’s Integral City Sparkie for the City Body :

 Cultural cohesion can be measured through metrics tracking energetic noise and resonance.

Hamilton, M., 2008, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive, p.299

 The generational wave is a supra-wave of human life patterns that embraces many of the waves in the Integral City. Embracing the waves of consciousness, values and capacity development in holons and social holons, four age cohorts are currently connecting on the Integral City dance floors of the world. These generational cohorts Grok, Talk, Walk and Rock the life conditions and mindsets that influence the emergence of evolutions and revolutions for succeeding generations. We are surmising that the news stories that masquerade as gender differences, cultural clashes and political uprisings may be rooted in unique city cultures differentiated by generational demographics and value sets. (From upcoming article, Generational Cycles, Saecula and Cities: How Do Integral Artists, Boomers, Gen X and Millennial Generations Impact City Values and Policy Development?by Marilyn Hamilton & Cherie Beck.)

Here are some quick updates on the cycle of life flowing through Integral City activities in the season ahead.

  1. Our first Integral City/You Tube Video gives an Introduction to “What is an Integral City?”.  It’s a quick 10 minutes and you can watch it with a click here.
  2. Globe Forum announced the winner of the Sustainable City Awards 2010 . Songpa Korea received this award at the Globe Forum in Stockholm May 11 & 12, 2011.
  3. Join Integral City at Summer 2011 Learning Events:
    1. July 9, 2011 World Future Society’s Annual Conference in Vancouver, Canada. Integral City is joined by Barbara Marx-Hubbard, Cherie Beck and Vanessa Fisher in the Generational Exploration of Grok, Talk, Walk, Rock: Choreographing Four Generations in the City. Click here for details and registration.
    2. July 8, 2011 World Future Society’s Annual Conference in Vancouver, Canada. Integral City welcomes Dr. Don Beck, Elza Maalouf and Said Dawlabani as they get up front and personal about the Bridging Great Divides and Multiple Futures the Middle East. Click here for details and registration.
    3. July 14-17, 2011, Center for Human Emergence Canada is sponsoring, Spiral Dynamics integral Foundations course in Edmonton, Alberta. Our Focus is Connect to the Simplicity Within the Complexity of Our Times. Click here for details and registration.
    4. July 25-27, 2011, Royal Roads University Sustainable Community Development Graduate Certificate concludes with the Capstone Residency Presentation to Colwood’s Climate Action Plan.
    5. August 22, 2011, University of Oslo, Norway welcomes Integral City to present a workshop on “Meshworking Resilience in the Human Hive: Aligning Excellence, Releasing Leadership”. Email us for details.
    6.  August 24-28, Experience Integral, Venwoude, Netherlands, faculty with Barrett Brown, Irini Rockwell, Willow Dea, Anouk Brack and others for Embodying Integral Sustainability. Click here for details and registration.
    7.  August 29-30, University of Wageningen, Netherlands. Lecture and Workshop: “Meshworking Urban and Rural Community Interests”. Email us for details.

 

      4. Recent Blog Postings from marilyn.integralcity.com include:

Spiritual Practices for Dealing with the News

Systems and Resilience Cycles for Sendai Restoration

Crisis of Decision Making: What Underlies Our Inability to Respond to Climate Change

Are Diasporas Potential Meshworkable Cultural Accelerators?

12 Intelligence Principles for Integral City to Celebrate on Earth Day

Almere Principles Guide City Growth

3 Research Studies Revealing Integral City Patterns for Leaders & Policy Makers

…meshful blessings for this season of body energy … 

 Marilyn

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Grok,Talk, Walk & Rock and Bridge the Great Divides at World Future Society

Posted in Classroom course, F. Training, Uncategorized, tagged , , , on June 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »


Join us for two integral-spiral designed sessions at the WFS, Vancouver, BC July 8 & 9 2011.

Bridging the Great Divides: A Spiral Dynamics Workshop on Cultural Integration, Global Cohesion, and Our Multiple Futures. Dr. Don Beck, Elza Maalouf and Said Dawlablani present July 8. 

The end of the Cold War has not brought us peace in our time. New and often explosive social mixtures have overwhelmed our current institutions and modes of decision making. While we continue to focus on the surface level manifestations—dangerous intra- and intercultural tension, threats to environmental sustainability, racial-based conflicts, revenge and pay-back motives, along with growing gaps in affluence and access to technology—the solutions we have to offer appear to often make things worse, not better.

The focus will be on the underlying value systems (vMeme currents and contours) in Building Bridges among the diverse and even competitive economic, political, health care, education, religious, and community-based models. Everything connects to everything else. This session will use the current Israeli–Palestine crisis as a case study; will focus on the nation building dynamics in Iceland following the financial collapse; and will sketch in the master geopolitical code with the power and precision to facilitate the movement of 6.7 billion humans through developmental layers, waves, and worldviews. The workshop will offer bold, innovative, and multidimensional forms of Building Bridges in the twenty-first century.

Who should attend: Individuals looking for better ways to understand diversity, complexity and change and those seeking practical solutions to complex problems and searching for ways of providing practical methods of creating seamless organizations and societies.

Details are here http://www.wfs.org/content/c-6-bridging-great-divides-spiral-dynamics-workshop-cultural-integration-global-cohesion-and

Grok, Talk, Walk, Rock: Choreography for Four Generations: Dr. Marilyn Hamilton, Dr. Barbara Marx-Hubbard, Cherlynn Beck, Vanessa Fisher present July 9.

In today’s Human Hive, how do generational cohorts align (or not) as they clash, coordinate, collaborate, and constellate? What differentiates those born before World War II from the baby boomers, Gen X, and the millennials? How are these four generations archetypal in their thinking, behaviors, relationships, and systems? Join our quartet as we voice the worldviews, capacities, and complexities of four generational patterns and how we open and/or block effective practices and strategies in today’s city. As we Grok, Talk, Walk, and Rock, presenters will reveal the four generational cohorts we represent. Research from Integral City will underline the dynamics of generational values in decision making and resource allocation. This session will finish with a performance that choreographs cosmic cycles with the resilience cycles of the Human Hive.

Who should attend: Anyone who needs a new paradigm for succession planning. Anyone interested in how generational lifecycles affect city dynamics. Anyone who would like to explore theory, research, and non-linear methodologies for shifting relationships in human systems.

Details are here http://www.wfs.org/content/grok-talk-walk-rock-choreography-for-four-generations

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Connect to the Simplicity Within the Complexity of Our Times

Posted in Classroom course, F. Training, tagged , , , , , on June 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »


The Values That Move us Through Conflict to Understanding -
Discover the Foundations of Spiral Dynamics integral* in Edmonton, July 14-17, 2011.

Why do people make such different decisions, given the same information and opportunities? How do
values develop and spread among people? How can we bring our diverse ways of thinking to create a
community that feels good to all of us? How can we make our way through conflict constructively in the
workplace and in our communities?

Over the years I have found that, Spiral Dynamics integral (SDi) is a model for people who think about complex systems –
neighbourhoods, communities, corporations and organizations. It is a way of understanding the
different values or “world views” that people use to make their decisions. Using SDi, leaders can
reduce the tensions in those differences, and create positive change in social and business
systems.

Based on the research of Clare Graves, Don Beck and Ken Wilber, this 3 day course reveals a
complex adaptive model for leadership, team, organizational and community development. You will
explore value conflicts with the intention of seeing opportunities move forward concretely.
SDi offers you tools to:
• Communicate with, and motivate, people in ways that matter to them.
• Construct organizations and relationships that align with the work to be done, the people
who will be doing it, the management that fits those people and the technologies that apply
naturally.
• Weave people, purpose, priorities, profits, programs and processes to bring about change
that is ecologically informed and operationally integrated.
• Discover the origins, foundations and common tributaries that generate human value
systems over time.
• Learn how human values show up and connect individuals, teams, organizations,
communities, regions, countries and the globe.
• Explore the themes generated by value systems in human history and current affairs, and
how they inform our choices in todayʼs complexities.
• See how value systems contribute to the quality and health of our communities,
governments, health institutions, education systems, economic agreements, financial
institutions, production processes, and leadership codes.
• Explore how value systems affect our perceptions, choices, decisions and relationships.

Who attends SDi learning events?
• environmental leaders
• change managers
• city managers
• technology leaders
• health care leaders
• social service leaders
• community leaders
• HR and OD practitioners
• community developers
• entrepreneurs for the 21st C
• university presidents, faculty and admin
• senior leaders in finance, economics
• senior government leaders
• manufacturers
• coaches, mentors
• young president organizations
• resource management leaders
• community planners
• analysts, strategists
• education and learning leaders
• board members

Instructors
Marilyn Hamilton PhD CGA, is the founder of Integral City Meshworks Inc. She supports teams,
projects, and organizations across Canada to chart new directions and strategies for themselves
and their communities. Marilyn is a researcher, facilitator, teacher, writer and blogger. Marilyn
serves as faculty at Royal Roads University, the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser
University, JFK University, The Banff Centre, California Institute of Integral Studies and the Adizes
Graduate School.
Marilyn applies Spiral Dynamics and Integral tools across Canada and internationally by serving
executives of multinational companies, as community foundation president, chamber of commerce
president, designer of sustainable community development programs and as the developer of
Integral Vital Signs Monitor for City Wellbeing. Marilyn is the Canadian leader of Spiral Dynamics in
the Integral Age, a charter member of the Integral Institute, and represents Canada at the Center for
Human Emergence International. She is author of Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the
Human Hive, and a jury member of the Globe Sustainable City Awards. Marilyn is a co-founder of
the Center for Human Emergence: Canada

Beth Sanders BA MCP MCIP RPP, is the founder and President of POPULUS Community
Planning Inc., where she is engaged by individuals, communities, corporations and organizations
seeking to align people, purpose, priorities, profits, programs and processes. As a city planner,
Beth is regularly in the heart of conflict and political wrangling, ranging from siting hog farms or
homeless shelters, to the chaos of building North Americaʼs fastest growing city: Fort McMurray.
Beth applies Spiral Dynamics and Integral tools across Canada with elected officials and municipal
administrators, public and private corporations, a universityʼs board of governors, numerous
community boards, as faculty at the University of Alberta and Brandon University, on the board of
the Community Planning Association of Alberta, and as a convener of tough conversations that lead
to wise action. She received the Mayorʼs Medal in Urban Issues (Winnipeg) for her work in public
engagement. Beth is president of the Alberta Professional Planners Institute and a co-founder of
the Center for Human Emergence: Canada.

For Details and Registration
Full course details and online registration:
http://integralcity.com/discovery-zone/workshops-and-training_current%20trainings.html

*Accredited by Dr. Don Beck, Founder of the Center for Human Emergence and The Spiral Dynamics Group

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RRU Faculty & Students Sustain Community Development Using Integrative, Integral & Evolutionary Models

Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, F. Training, Global/Worldcentric, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on February 28, 2011 |


At Royal Roads University, the inaugural Sustainable Community Development (SCD) cohort has just completed their first Potentials for Adaptive Change Residency on RRU Campus.

In the first week of February, after three weeks online, a cohort, with professions as varied as municipal forester, downtown revitalization director, tourism instructor and sustainability officer, whose members come from geography that spans from Port Hardy to Ottawa and eight other locations in between, met face to face for the first time.

As a backbone of their studies they will be working with one Community of Interest throughout the program. In 2011 it is the Royal Roads University City of Colwood. The cohort accepted a challenge from Colwood to develop strategies for implementing a Climate Action Plan. Using Colwood’s Official Community Plan as a guide for framing a strategy, over the next five months, the cohort will complete two distance learning programs as they determine their recommendations. 

The first distance course will focus on Building Community Engagement and the second with explore Foundations for Resilient Systems.  Throughout the program, the cohort is using ideas, tools and models with a distinctive RRU flavor – from the work of Dr. Ann Dale, Canada Chair of Sustainable Community Development, Dr. Marilyn Hamilton’s Integral City model and Dr. Graeme Taylor’s evolutionary views of global transformation.

By the time the SCD cohort meets again for their Capstone Residency in July, 2011, they will have designed an “integrative model, with effective, implementable tools to engage community stakeholders to strengthen communication and create a culture of resilience regarding climate change and the community’s future.” Echoing, the City’s Mayor Saunders, the cohort believes, “This is an opportunity for our community to be a leader in sustainability”.

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Sense in the City Integral News update Feb. 2011 – Negotiating Relationships

Posted in F. Training, Integral Maps, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged , , , on February 5, 2011 |


February Greetings, Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City  

Today’s Integral City Sparkie for the City Heart :

Through the negotiation of relationships, boundaries are recognized, linked, crossed, embraced, broken, denied and redefined.

Hamilton, M., 2008, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive, p.182

As I write, the clashes in the Middle East have the rest of the world holding our breath. I keep thinking about the advice of Dr. Don Beck, who has often said, “Don’t confuse getting rid of what you don’t want, with getting what you do want.” If Dr.B  is right, then the rulers whom the populace wants ousted may also be right in pleading for a transition plan that offers some significant change of the first order in order to avoid disastrous change (i.e. revolution) of the second order. For anyone who values the future of the city, we have many lessons to learn about how the relationships – between political incumbents and opponents, between honest brokers and thugs, between friendly neighbours and hostile ones,  between meddling nations and opportunistic –all bring pressures to bear on the multiplicity of societies alive in Middle Eastern cities that are simultaneously evolving through multiple stages of human development. (We are not yet at any form of simplicity on the other side of complexity – instead we are witnessing or if we are in the middle of it, experiencing first hand —  the massive mash up that precedes such a longed-for state.)

 

For those readers who can remember what pathetic fallacy is, it is not too irreverent to suppose that Gaia herself is erupting on the opposite side of the world with the floods and winds of equally calamitous proportions in Australia.  

 

For these times, we need all hands on deck from the four points of the compass, so this newsletter reminds us where resources are emerging.

  1. Our newest Meshcast interview is with city wellbeing and emergence researcher, Will Varey, located in Perth Australia. Download the Meshcast and Listen to Will Varey to appreciate his evolutionary perspective on the multiple cities that co-exist in one location and how he has helped policy developers navigate those complexities.
  2. In Vancouver Canada, from March 5-8th,  Dylan Newcomb, founder of UZAZU will be bringing his Language of Energy Explorations to town. For more details click here. (I have been fascinated with Dylan’s work ever since he and his dance lab danced the evolutionary intelligences of Integral City two years ago in The Hague!! Deep city work needs the awareness of the body that Dylan’s energizing sessions can wake up.)
  3. April 7-10, 2011, the Center for Human Emergence Netherlands is sponsoring the SDi EuroConfab in the City of Almere, NL, using a case study of the City of Almere. Integral City will be presenting, along Dr. Beck, Dr. Remmers +++ Get details and register here.   
  4. Globe Forum is reviewing the final nominations for its Sustainable City Awards 2010 (deadline in Feb. 4, 2011). This award will be announced at the Globe Forum in Stockholm May 11 & 12, 2011.  Globe Forum Stockholm will focus on Business Innovation for Sustainable City Growth.
  5. Gil Friend, author of The Truth About Green Business has announced an eLearning version of The Truth About Green Business – Sustainability In Practice — (developed together with partners at Tripos Software) . It will be available in Q1 – delivering engaging, on-demand, interactive learning to your employees’ desktops. Click here to send Gil info about your interests.
  6. In January we started delivering the inaugural Graduate Certificate for Sustainable Community Development at Royal Roads University. We are working with the Green, University Learning, Solar, City of Colwood as our Community of Interest.  And we are already taking registrations for next year.  Click here.
  7. World Future Society’s Annual Conference is in Vancouver, Canada, July 8-10, 2011. Integral City has been invited to deliver a seminar on “Grok, Talk, Walk, Rock: Constellating a Choreography for Four Generations in the City”.
  8. Center for Human Emergence Canada is sponsoring a Catalytic Conversation on the Livable City in early June (date tbc) and a Spiral Dynamics integral Level 1 Training in Edmonton, July 14-17, 2011. For details contact Civic Meshworker, Beth Sanders at beth@populus.ca.
  9. Recent Blog Postings from marilyn.integralcity.com include:

 

Vegetable Grower Mid East’s Rosa Parks?

Death of Personal Responsibility & Nanny State => System Social Responsibility?

One City: A Clash of Healths

Resourceless or Resourceful: Megacities, Dinosaurs & Supercyles

Multiple Cities, One Location

Ecology of Energy Exchange Emerging Thru Messiness?

Hothouse Bees Show Limits to Human Hothouse Intelligence

10000 Gardens Within Multiply Stories on Shipboard Learning Lab

Colony Collapse for Human Hive or Cracks Where Light Gets In?  

…meshful blessings for the month of heart energy … 

 Marilyn

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September Sense in the City Updates

Posted in Classroom course, D. Strategic Intelligences, F. Training, Telecourse, tagged , on September 9, 2010 |


September Greetings, Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City  

 Today’s Integral City Sparkie for the City Body:

 When we reframe the city, from being merely the built environment outside of us, to the built environment as simply an extension of us, our relationship with the “objective” city becomes ever so much more personal.      Hamilton, M., 2008, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive, p.240

 Listen for the change of season with our new Meshcasts, Telecourses and other integral news – read on…

  1.  Download NEW mp3 Meshcast Interviews with Integral Activist Terry Patten & Integral Developer Lawrence Bloom here: http://integralcity.com/Podcasts/podcasts.html   
  2. Join the Telecourse Sept 16-Oct 7, 2010 The Map, The Mesh and The Human Hive –– details and registration at  http://integralcity.com/discovery-zone/map%20mesh%20human%20hive.html  
  3. Check out the new Profiles for Meshworkers, Catalysts, Practitioners here: http://integralcity.com/about-us/integral-city-meshworkers.html  
  4. Read the Research on City Values and Integral Vital Signs Monitor – check it out at http://www.integralcity.com/discovery-zone/research.html  
  5. Register for Royal Roads University, January 2011– July, 2011 Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Community Development Grad Certificate – http://www.royalroads.ca/program/graduate-certificate-sustainable-community-development  
  6. Join the Dialogue with Terry Patten and 27 spiritual leaders at Beyond Awakening Free Teleseminar Series http://beyondawakeningseries.com/  
  7. What if we aren’t planning to survive?  Join Alberta Association of Canadian Institute of Planners at their annual conference, Lake Louise AB, October 17-19, 2010. Join us.  http://www.spoken-herd.ca/index.php  
  8. Join Renaissance2, Oct. 14, 2010  Making a Living While Making a Difference, Free Webinar  http://www.renaissance2.eu/events/event-detail.php?id=804967680  
  9. Attend Renaissance2, Oct. 21-25, 2010, Thrive! Gathering: Real Challenges, Inspired Innovators, Transformative Outcomes http://www.renaissance2.eu/events/event-detail.php?id=498975449  
  10. Attend Business Innovation for Sustainable Growth. Globe Forum Dublin in November 17-18, 2010. Marilyn Hamilton, Keynote Speaker on Integral City Innovation, Evolution & Resilience http://www.globeforum.com/
  11. 11.  Register for Royal Roads University, Nov. 22, 2010 The Human Hive: Creating Intelligent Livable Cities  http://www.royalroads.ca/continuing-studies/CYGLEL2241-Y10.htm 
  12. Participate in the workshop Nov. 25-26,2010  Grok, Talk, Walk and Rock Spiral Change Agendas for All the Generations in Integral City  Pre-Register rockchange@integralcity.com  
  13. Nominate your City for Globe Forum, Jury of the Globe Sustainable City awards (in Stockholm in May, 2011). http://www.globeaward.org/

 …meshful blessings for new seasons, north south east west… 

 Marilyn

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July-Dec. 2010 Sense in the City Where Why How

Posted in Classroom course, D. Strategic Intelligences, Dialogue, F. Training, Inquiry, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Telecourse, tagged , , , , on July 4, 2010 |


July Greetings, Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City  

We are already into the second half of 2010! Happy 4th of July to American readers! This is a quick link summary of what we have been up to in the first half of 2010 and where we will be going in the second half of 2010. (These are also posted on the blog marilyn.integralcity.com .)

  •  We are happy to announce new research and new podcasts that have been posted to the website (see items 1 and 2).
  • Also below are some of the events and places where we will be contributing until the end of 2010 and into 2011.
  • As usual we look forward to seeing you as we seek to catalyze evolutionary intelligences in the Human Hive

Today’s Integral City Sparkie for the City Mind/Heart:

In the history of the city, human systems have too rarely asked, what ought to be the conscious intention of citizens (or even what is the conscious duty of citizens)?

 Hamilton, M., 2008, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive, p.179

  1. New Research on City Values and Integral Vital Signs Monitor – check it out at http://www.integralcity.com/discovery-zone/research.html
  2. New Podcasts – Preface and 12 Chapters of Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive – download mp3’s http://integralcity.com/Podcasts/podcasts.html
  3. Integral Theory Conference: Enacting an Integral Future – JF Kennedy University, Pleasant Hill, California http://www.integraltheoryconference.org/default.html
    1. July 29, 2010 830am – 12pm Guest of Bert Parlee on Sexual Boundaries in the Integral Community: A Process Workshop
    2. July 29, 2010 1245-415 Generational Cycles, Saecula & Cities: What do Integral Boomers Gen X,Y, Z Need to Let Go Of & Create Anew? Presenter with Cherie Beck
    3. July 30, 2010 200 – 300pm Meshworking Integral Intelligences for Resilient Environments: Enabling Order and Creativity in the Human Hive.  Presenter
    4. July 30, 2010 – 330 pm Panel Moderator: Spiral Dynamics in Academia: The Transdisciplinary Dance of Dissonance
    5. July 31, 2010 1230 – 1:45pm Ginger Group Collaborative, ACE-Its
    6. July 31, 2010 200 – 300pm Panel Member: Women’s Panel: Creating a Full-Spectrum Ecology for Women’s Development
  4. Next Step Integral Conference: Integral Education and Integral Ecology – Presenter, 12 Intelligences of the Human Hive http://i-edu.org/
  5. The Map, The Mesh and The Human Hive – Telecourse, September 2010 – forward inquiries to map@integralcity.com
  6. Royal Roads University, September 13, 2010 – April, 2011 Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Community Development Grad Certificate – Designer, Co-Developer and Faculty for Residency and Distance Learning Courses. http://www.royalroads.ca/program/graduate-certificate-sustainable-community-development
  7. Renaissance2,  Designing a Resilient Civilization Oct. 21-23, Conscious Evolution 24-25 2010. http://www.renaissance2.eu/events/event-detail.php?id=498975449
  8. What if we aren’t planning to survive?  Asks Alberta Association of Canadian Institute of Planners at their annual conference, Lake Louise AB, October 17-19, 2010. Join us.  http://www.aacip.com/public/conferences.html
  9. Business Innovation for Sustainable Growth. Globe Forum Dublin in November 17-18, 2010. Keynote Speaker on Integral City Innovation, Evolution & Resilience http://www.globeforum.com/
  10. Globe Forum, Jury of the Globe Sustainable City awards (in Stockholm in May, 2011). http://www.globeaward.org/

 

…meshful summer blessings … and see you soon.

 Marilyn

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The Change the World Needs Now!!

Posted in Classroom course, F. Training, G. Levels: Developmental/Evolutionary, tagged , , on July 6, 2009 |


I just returned from two weeks in Europe, designing the Renaissance2 Great Shift Conference in Perpignan France for October 22-26; and workshopping Integral City in the Netherlands with Centre for Human Emergence NL, EnlightenNext NL, The Hub, the Integral Institute for Sustainability and Danslab.

Europe is in a much more positive frame of mind than North America right now!! What a relief. I spent two weeks with people whose direction of consciousness is aimed at very high purpose. They are not just talking about Enlightened Enterprise — they are doing it using technologies like Spiral Dynamics integral. They are not just talking about Renewable Energy — they are already using it in the form of solar voltaic and wind turbines. They are not just talking about Resilient Environments — they are applying it through Meshworking and Cradle-to-Cradle.

I see the Europeans (particularly the Dutch) leading the world in the technologies, intelligences and practices that Gaia needs now to address climate change, alternative energies and financial impasses. My European contacts, colleagues and co-conspirators are designing new currencies, new economies, new business models, new neighbourhoods, new governance systems with clients, governments and stakeholders of all kinds. They have stepped out beyond the development of individual consciousness and are reaching for a collective intelligence that is shifting them into active co-creators of a culture that transcends and includes a complex world of values, ethnicities, races, beliefs, expectations and intentions. Europeans see the glass as half full and are acting as if they intend to top it up and revitalize themselves with the whole drink.

North Americans (including Canadians) however are seeing the glass as half empty right now and are struggling to prevent it from draining further. This inspires me to remind Canada, that in 2001 I had the same dream of a Great Calling for our country.

On the history changing day of September 11, 2001, I vowed to bring Spiral Dynamics integral to Canada to change our sense of who we are and what our role is in the world. I wanted to wake Canada up to its natural contribution to the world — to see itself as a catalyser, leader and supporter of new paradigms for global change. In a country, blessed by all the natural resources the world needs most — from water, to oil, to food, to people, are Canadians sleep walking through a time when we should be wide awake, creating new capacities, like our EU cousins??

Canada has the city with the most diversity in the world – Toronto. But do we have the governance systems needed to live with such a concentration of cultural differences? BC is about to host the 2010 Olympics — but are we ready to ski over and around the world class economic bumps that have jumped onto our path? Vancouver is the city most often named the most livable city in the world, but have we the commitment and capacity to make it resilient in the face of rising sea levels?

I have never over-promised what Spiral Dynamics integral can contribute to the change the world needs now. But after working with SDi for 10 years, I can vouch for the fact that it can open your eyes to the developmental, evolutionary nature of these times. It can help you understand the natural bio-psycho-cultural-social ways that people change, and how to support their purpose, principles, profits, priorities and planet in that change. It can show you a trajectory of possibilities for designing meshworks, partnerships, collaborations, teams, organizations, communities and governance systems. The Spiral Dynamics integral Community of Practise introduces you to ideas, technologies and people who can integrate what you are doing now with a larger purpose, deeper consciousness and peer support for you to make the momentous leap that will shift your world into a new Renaissance.

Since September 11, 2002 we have offered Spiral Dynamics integral Foundations and Advanced training, based on the research of Clare Graves and Dr. Don Beck (and licensed by Spiral Dynamics Group) in nine Canadian locations. I personally invite you to join us for the 25th training on August 13-15, 2009, of Spiral Dynamics integral Foundations  in Vancouver BC. It is time you added your gifts and talents to the Spiral Dynamics integral Communities of Practise and its Centres for Human Emergence, that can do the change the world needs done now.
 
You can find full details and online registration at http://www.integralcity.com/DiscoveryZone/Training/SDiL1%20generic.html . Please feel free to contact me about donation, scholarship and instalment options and share this invitation with your networks — especially with those you know who are ready and just waiting for the right time — the right time is now!!. (We have extended the Early Bird rates till July 13 to make this easy.)
 
With passion and optimism that we can all take the momentous leap of human emergence!!

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