Collaborating In the World I start at an obvious beginning – the meaning of the word “collaboration.” To Co-Labour” – labour together. Labour for what? Is there a Spiral of Co-Laboration? Beige Beginnings - Birth – the very beginning of life – women go into labour to deliver the child. Purple Tribe - [...]
May this Manifesto of Peace honour the universal values of All Life @ *PPPP= Person, People, Place, Planet In Gratitude may we Celebrate the Master Code of Care as we fulfil our Commitments: to protect our individual needs for physical and spiritual safety and survival; and prevent harm to all individuals so that we may serve [...]
As we celebrate March Equinox 2022, let us be grateful for the values evolved by Gaia - for, through and as – her Reflective Organs. May this Manifesto of Peace honour the universal values of All Life @ *PPPP= Person, People, Place, Planet. In Gratitude may we Celebrate the Master Code of Care [...]
During Humanity Risings 12-day broadcast on COP 26, we learned from Rob de Laet about the Importance of the Rain Forest. Following COP 26 Rob Laet published another article, applying his deep knowledge of the forest and the power of the water cycle to the challenge of cooling the Earth. We have received permission [...]
We continue our Thought Experiment in this instalment by looking at Doughnut Economics (DE) and its relationship to Spiral Dynamics and Integral City through a Globalcentric Worldview. As we noted in our first blog, the Globalcentric Worldview spans Levels 7 and 8 in Spiral Dynamics (see Table 5). A globalcentric worldview embraces the [...]
On Valentine's Day, February 14, 2019, Integral City initiated an interview series with Integral Pioneers. We started with Sean Esborn-Hargens, Co-Author of Integral Ecology and Founder of Metaintegral and Metaimpact. As Interviewer, Marilyn Hamilton, Founder of Integral City commenced her introduction with the memory of the time the two Integral pioneers first met [...]
Currently, a Second Tier society doesn’t exist yet. But in some countries like The Netherlands and especially in the world-wide networks of Yellow people, something new is emerging. In my international calls with Integral Coaches, MondoZen practitioners and other integral people, immediately there is an intimacy, openness and understanding, we can easily listen to [...]
Based on our (limited) knowledge of and experience with the transition from First to Second Tier and what it means to think and act from the Yellow/Integral Perspective, we describe what an integral project would look like. It will be characterised by certain values, a specific structure, leadership and communication. Below are the results [...]
Not many people in the world have yet had the opportunity to develop towards the Integral Perspective. In the Netherlands, at this moment, as a rich country which has developed Orange-Green and is expressing a relatively healthy Green, several Yellow individuals and organisations can be found. In this section I will describe various characteristics [...]
What does it look like when this momentous leap will happen and when the transition from Postmodern/Green to Integral/Yellow, from First to Second Tier, becomes reality? Life in Second Tier has Ken Wilber waxing lyrical. “We are heading towards that point where Integral/Second Tier will be the Leading Edge. And the impact on the [...]