Today ’s cities are being transformed by activists. Tomorrow’s cities will be transformed by AQALists. What is the difference? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Today’s activists demonstrate their beliefs through confrontive action. They stand up against injustices, rules, authorities and infrastructure by blocking access for as many people as possible. They are willing to threaten power, throw projectiles and thrust their bodies [...]
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Integral City 2.0 Requires a Momentous Leap from Activism to AQALism
Posted in B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, city, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Integral Maps, tagged activists, AQALists, belief systems, change, City 2.0, evolution, Gaia, human freedom, inner reflection, integral, ongoing development, spiritual depths, wellbeing on February 10, 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 [...]
Occupy the Voice of Integral Citizen
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged change, citizen, economy, emergence, occupy, voice on December 10, 2011 | 5 Comments »
How do I #Occupy the voice of the Integral Citizen? I begin with the power of who I am as the “I” of the city. As such I actually occupy the ”mind” of the city. My voice occupies a tone that resounds with my full aliveness. Its melody is my purpose. Its chorus is my family and friendships. Its bass notes are my [...]
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 [...]
New Science Explains City Behaviours
Posted in E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Meshworking, Uncategorized, tagged change, design, fractal;, Geoffrey West, integral city intelligences, meshwork, sustainability on September 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Go listen to Geoffrey West – there he is again! My friends and colleagues say go to hear his talk on Why Cities Keep Growing. When more than three people recommend a site to me, then I sit up and take notice. In this case I am happy to say that I followed the link [...]
Connect to the Simplicity Within the Complexity of Our Times
Posted in Classroom course, F. Training, tagged change, complexity, education, spiral dynamics integral, sustainability, whole systems thinking 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 [...]
Vegetable Grower Mid East’s Rosa Parks?
Posted in E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Emergence, tagged change, culture, development, Egypt, Middle East, resilience, self-organizing system, Tunisia on February 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Events in Egypt this last week show how the consciousness of people in the rural area that serves cities can ignite a whole culture. The amazing pictures of hundreds of thousands marching in Cairo and the Mubarak government’s progressive retreat in the face of the population’s fearless demands mark what the media call a “regime change”. [...]
Colony Collapse for Human Hive or Cracks Where Light Gets In?
Posted in E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Emergence, tagged change, colony collapse disorder, honey bees, human hive on January 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Colony collapse disorder (CCD) for the honey bee has been giving me warning signs to look at the equivalent possibility for the human hive. Three stories from this week’s news offer some strong “weak signals” that may be indications of onset of the human hive’s CCD in America. The Tucson shooting of Gabrielle Giffords and many others are [...]
Afterthoughts on Copenhagen Forum
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, Integral Maps, tagged change, Climate change, evolution, resilience, votes, wellbeing on January 17, 2010 | Comments Off
I have begun to reframe the results of Copenhagen Climate Forum in light of my experience over the years with changing the political will/mind. Two decades ago, in the small city where I live, I served as President of the Chamber of Commerce. Actually the Chamber served two municipalities which had grown together so closely [...]
Canadians Do Care About Climate Change – They Are Fasting in Support
Posted in C. Collective Intelligences, Level 7 Yellow, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged change, Climate change, sustainability on December 11, 2009 | Comments Off
Fast and Vigil for Courage in Copenhagen: December 7 to 18 2009 Factsheet: Copenhagen, Canada and the Climate Crisis Why Are The Climate Talks In Copenhagen So Important? These talks are meant to produce a treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol, the first international agreement to fight global warming, which expires in 2012. Not every [...]
