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Guiding Step 5: Dream, Vision, Imagine Your City

Posted in Inquiry, Meshworking, Spiritual intelligence, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on January 24, 2013 | 1 Comment »


Make no small plans for they do not have the power to move human souls!

Imagine Abbotsford

One person can dream a Vision that empowers his/her soul. But to dream a Vision that attracts the souls of others is a necessary step in the whole approach to evolving an Integral City. Many cities market their unique attractions for living, working or recreating. But few cities imagine a Vision of themselves as integral contributors to the great values chain of a Planet of Cities.

We live in a time, where every city needs a Vision of the unique value it offers not just internally to its city-zens and stakeholders, but externally to our Planet of Cities.

Appreciative Inquiry is one methodology that helps a group move through 4 key stages in a creation cycle, with a strong emphasis on Visioning:

  1. Discover – who cares about the city and will explore our common intentions, interests, skills, capacities?
  2. Dream – what Vision can we imagine that we can create together?
  3. Design – how will our dream manifest in the world?
  4. Deliver – how can we build our design?

The first 4 steps in our Practical Guide for Applying Integral City Theory have really been unpacking the Discovery Stage 1 of the Appreciative Inquiry model. Now that we have completed an Analysis, discovered our Assumptions, made sense of the city with integrally informed Information and shifted our Perspectives – we are finally ready to Dream Together.

Without a vision – a Dream – people perish. Why? Because they lack a destination to focus their capacities. When we embrace the four quadrants of an Integral Vision we open gateways for a whole flood of ideas, actions, relationships and systems. We create the re-sourceful pool from which Design can spring forth – and we even psycho-activate it!

Dreaming, visioning and imagining our city, enacts the stream of development that will move our network of connections, to communities of practise and ultimately emerge a meshwork  of the capacities that we need to Deliver our Vision – to make the Dream of an Integral City into a reality that serves the Planet.

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Guiding Step 4: Systems Thinking Shifts Perspectives

Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, tagged , , , , , on January 22, 2013 | 3 Comments »


How can I shift my perspective of the city when I am not aware of the perspective I hold?

IntegralCity Aliveness

A shift in perspective assumes that a change in my view occurs. Unpacking such a shift requires the answers to some basic questions:

  1. What is my current perspective?
  2. Why would I change it?
  3. How can I change it?
  4. When will I shift my perspective?

Starting with the first question, it is natural to ask, “Shift from what [perspective] to what [perspective]?” It is the fundamental starting point of any change – become aware of where I stand, thus providing an awareness of me and my environment (or context).

The second question, may be one of internal motivation – should I choose (voluntarily) to shift my perspective? Or do external circumstances give me no choice? Have I been knocked off my current position by outside forces  - literally pushed aside by person(s), thing(s), idea(s) and/or circumstance(s)?

The third question emerges from the second, and brings our response and/or resources to shifting perspective into play – do I raise or lower my view – and by how much? Does my perspective become clearer? shorter? longer or change otherwise? when I include immediate, near or distant reference points of myself, others and place? This may even extend to including soft technologies like inquiry, facilitation processes or experimentation (as I negotiate perspectives with other individuals, groups, competitors, neighbourhoods) to hard technologies that change perspectives through the use of the microscope, telescope or satellite (to gain insights about biota, geography or GIS mapping systems).

The fourth question involves timing that may or may not allow for the answers to the first three questions to emerge gradually, orderly, chaotically, unexpectedly or instantly. Such timing may mean the difference between shifting perspective on my own terms (like learning a new skill or moving my place of residence) or without agreement (like being expropriated or catching a communicable disease) resulting in Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome or disability.

Each of these questions reveals a quality of systems thinking that we can use to help ourselves and others shift perspectives. Each question supports us to see (and respect) ourselves as a whole living system, in relationship to other whole living systems, within the larger context of dynamic place and environmental systems and ultimately the earth as a whole planetary system.

Shifting perspectives will inevitably lead us through using these questions to think through the systems about which we have perspectives. Thinking in systems impacts how we can shift perspectives and thus how we are able to adapt and innovate, design and lead, and grow and expand our capacity for caring, for the living systems we are, relate to and co-create.

Endnote:

(1) This was presented to Waterlution Toronto, Learning Lab Journey ” Exploring Complexity & Innovative Leadership Around Water & Energy in Ontario”. January 26, 2013. See also Systems Thinking: A Primer

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Guiding Step 3: Make Better Sense of the City – Provide Integrally In-formed Information

Posted in B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, Integral Maps, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 17, 2013 | 2 Comments »


Is information in your city easy to come by? or is it difficult to make sense of your city because information is scarce or misaligned?

Integral City AQAL

Information in the Integral City is critical to the city’s functioning, wellbeing and thriving. But when we are overwhelmed by electronic news blasts it can be difficult to know what to pay attention to, because over-stimulation  can make us shut down. Ironically in the midst of the internet’s mediation of our news frenzy we can feel socially cut off from our nearest neighbours.

How can information that is Integrally In-Formed prevent both the overwhelm and help us interpret what really matters?

Firstly we can use the 4 quadrants of the Integral City map to be mindful that we are receiving and noticing information through all our lenses. For instance, consider information that is useful for your neighbourhood’s transportation system – how would you answer these questions?

  1. How safe do I feel in all the ways I travel?
  2. What modes of travel do I use? walking, bicycling, busing, rail, car driving, flying?
  3. What relationships impact the way I travel? family, friends, work colleagues, strangers?
  4. How does the city maintain city transportation systems? roads, buses, railway, airports?

We can use this simple system to filter the information overwhelm that too often deluges us. And we can also use it as a simple checklist to gain information from all 4 quadrants, when we are in dialogue with others about anything in the city that is important to us. Those conversations can be easily catalyzed by simple starting questions such as:

  1. Why is this [issue] important to you (how is it valuable, or not)?
  2. What is working?
  3. What is not working?
  4. What could work better?

The answers to these questions can then be sorted into the categories of the 4 quadrants noted above.

Using this simple integrally informed information gathering and management system, organizes our personal and collective realities (of thought/feelings, actions, relationships and systems). It creates an intelligent, wholes systems way of  impacting and actually in-forming our decisions, behaviours, cultures and economic opportunities.

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Radically Optimistic Solstice Exec Summary from Integral City 2.0 Online Conference

Posted in E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Master Intelligence, Spiritual intelligence, tagged , , , , , , , , , on December 21, 2012 | 3 Comments »


The Integral City 2.0 Online Conference gathered 60 visionary thought leaders, designers and practitioners, with 600 participants from 6 continents, to inquire into how to design a new operating system for the city. The 12-day Conference allowed exploration of each of the 12 intelligences from the book, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive, and their contributions to city vitality.

IntegralCity collective City 2.0

The Conference was designed to be co-generative and appreciative, with an action research focus, collecting data through guided interviews aligned with each of the 12 intelligences. Over 70 hours of recorded interviews and dialogue were generated (audio podcasts and webinars), and subsequently transcribed into over 500 pages of transcripts. 660 thought leaders, designers, practitioners and participants gathered synchronously and asynchronously in a spirit of radical optimism, an essential evolutionary aspect of life.

The four voices of the Integral City – city-zens (UL) , civil society (LL), government/agency (UR), and business/organization (LR) – confirmed that a new operating system for the city is needed because cities face global crises related to water, food, energy, finance and climate change. The four Integral City voices say that this operating system resides within each of us and between us. Moreover, the new operating system is epitomized by, and optimized with, the Master Code: take care of self, take care of others, take care of this place/planet.

In exploring the Master Code, we found that principles of living systems resonate with the intelligences and principles of Integral City. This was independently confirmed by 5 visionaries using different lenses of human systems: groups, cities, sustainable design, investment and organizations. Our data shows that our ecological transactions, cultural translations, structural transformations and planetary evolution are emerging the early stages of a collective consciousness. The city is co-creating us and we are co-creating it. The city is alive.

The new operating system for cities embraces a transdisciplinary design with strategies that embrace all four Integral quadrants: UL Intentional, LL Cultural, UR Behavioral, and LR Structural. It embraces a desire to act as a planet of cities embedding living system, resilience and life cycle strategies. The Integral intelligence of the new operating system allows cities to be Gaia’s reflective organs, with human city-zens as the cells in that organ, their wellbeing dependent on their relationships with each other and the planet. The logic processors of the new operating system connect the dots by aligning purpose, priorities, people and planet with the natural flow of information, energy and matter. Finally the power source for the new operating system is an evolutionary manifestation of the Master Code, with care and compassion as core, renewing energy.

It is not enough to ask what can the city do for us? It is time to ask what can we do for the city? City-centric individuals and organizations with vested city interests (governments/agencies, business, civil society) must play catalytic roles – to co-generate inquiry, innovate learning and strengthen city relationships as the true currency for evolving city capacity and spirit.

This is our Executive Summary of the Radically Optimistic Inquiry into Operating System 2.0. The full proceedings will be released in January 2013. Drop us a line if you want to be on our notice list. Subject: Proceedings  integralcity@gmail.com

… the city sends signals to itself
for speed, agility, vitality
using any channel
to connect
civilization to nature
making sense together
using all means
to manifest
connectivity …

Meshworks Manifest, B. Sanders

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Thanksgivings and Question-Harvests in the Human Hive

Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, city, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Master Intelligence, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 10, 2012 | 2 Comments »


Ten days after the final Integral City 2.0 Online Conference (IC2OC) … and we have celebrated our first Thanksgiving (whose timing we borrow from Canada :-) )

We are thankful for the people who made the IC2OC possible: all the volunteers, the speakers, the affiliates and the participants – in a constantly
intermeshing order.

We have an inventory of harvest outcomes that is almost overwhelming in its plenitude: products like 50 mp3 recordings; 36 pdf transcripts of
interviews (in various stages of completion); daily harvest summaries; website postings from participants; conference member profiles; weekly harvest paintings; music; video; social media and more to come.

We are grateful for all the relationships we discovered – not only with individuals, but with affiliates, partners and suppliers to name a few.

We are awed by the complex learning and research processes we created to produce the eLaboratory and Live Event phase of IC2OC.

And now we are harvesting a process that took 36 months to produce 36 Live Event sessions. We are noticing natural patterns emerging as we
immerse ourselves in a sea of amazing data about the Human Hive.

These I pose now simply as research questions, that we will be exploring as we gather, store, appreciate and re-purpose the Harvest in service to our Planet and her Cities.

  • What have we learned about designing a new operating system for the city on a Planet of Cities?
  • How is the new paradigm of the city integrally based on the Principles of Life?
  • How do those principles of sustainability and resilience emerge from Energy, Matter and Information?
  • What are the protocols of behaviour, thought, relationship and systems that we need in our cities on a Planet of Cities?
  • What is the new story of the city on a Planet of Cities?
  • What are the life-giving practices for individuals and communities in our cities?
  • How do we source and re-source Life in our cities for our planet?
  • What is the relationship of City Spirit to the new operating for this city on a Planet of Cities?
  • What have we come to understand about how the Master Code impacted our inquiry, our processes, our conference?

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What Makes a Good Question?

Posted in D. Strategic Intelligences, Inquiry, tagged , , , , on August 10, 2012 |


Effective and authentic inquiry is often a process that we need to relearn many times.

What makes a good question?  The kinds of questions we want to ask for generative inquiry have the qualities of being:

  • Personal (Tell us a time when you experience an emotional response to your neighbourhood?)
  • Open (Start the question with What, Why, Where, How, When, Who?)
  • Appreciative (Framed to draw on the positive)

How to ask good open ended questions that invite genuine input is an art. Einstein suggested that a powerful question is many times more powerful than a ready answer. Staying in the question long enough can help us get beyond where we are stuck and lead to real breakthroughs!!

Three simple rules (or principles) for applying Integral City Inquiry Intelligences might be these:

  1. Ask what’s working (and not) and co-generate a vision for the city’s contribution to the planet.
  2. Frame your questions to create an integral city and community plan.
  3. Keep asking “who else should be here?” when implementing and managing the city plan appropriately at all scales in the city.

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This blog is a prologue to the Integral City webinar conference  City 2.0 Co-Creating the Future of the Human Hive . We are inventing a new operating system for the city.  Click to get more details re the Free Expo and eLaboratory membership  scheduled September 4-27  2012. You are invited to attend and participate.

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Values-Based Inquiry Shows Many Answers to One Question

Posted in D. Strategic Intelligences, Inquiry, tagged , , , , , , , on August 9, 2012 |


Inquiry is so much more productive for the wellbeing of the city, than prescriptions for health, because it opens the doors of innovation and generativity.

For a truly vibrant city, each inquiry question reveals a whole system of values all of which must be healthy, in order for the whole city to be healthy.

The eight value systems that have currently evolved are represented in these themes:

  1. Individual safety and survival
  2. Bonding, family relationships, clan and tribal customs
  3. Individual expressiveness, joy, personal power
  4. Order, authority, rules, laws, bylaws, ordinances, infrastructure
  5. Organization, efficiency, effectiveness, strategies, results
  6. Community, diversity, acceptance of differences, equal rights
  7. Whole systems thinking, ecological connections
  8. Global worldviews, shared world emergence

The deficiencies and blocks identified in an inquiry indicate the barriers to the natural flow of resources to, within and through a healthy human hive. In our quest for city improvement, how can we overcome the causes of such blocks and recreate the vibrant health that sustain our city?

One of the most powerful outcomes of using this values mapping inquiry process is that it creates a common language to interpret and talk about our Human Hives. And we learn that we can have many answers to one question.

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This blog is a prologue to the Integral City webinar conference  City 2.0 Co-Creating the Future of the Human Hive . We are inventing a new operating system for the city.  Click to get more details re the Free Expo and eLaboratory membership  scheduled September 4-27  2012. You are invited to attend and participate.

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Sense in the City Spring 2012 – Generating Change in the Human Hive

Posted in Global/Worldcentric, Inquiry, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on March 22, 2012 |


Spring Equinox Greetings, Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City  

Today’s Integral City Sparkies for City Diversity Generators:

What city in the world has developed a course of study and practise that enables a person to methodically progress from cradle to peak prformance at the defined levels of complexity that deliver leadership to the powers 1 through 8?. p.120

Preparing leaders to the Power of 8, involves capacity development with a curriculum and experience that aligns knowledge, values, structures and life conditions.. p.123

We may be standing on a whole new threshold of human capacity emergence that will make the Level 8 leadership competencies (which we explored in some detail in Chapter 5) look primitive.p.140

 Our senses, our learning and our science now tell us that behaviors in the city can become more intelligent. Our aspirations tell us that we must become more intelligent. p.144

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

2012 is a year pregnant with the anticipation of change. Many look to the storylines presaged by the Mayan calendar, that this year is the end of an old way of Being, and the beginning of a new way of Becoming. The shifts from theatres of war to congresses of peace; the revisiting of the first Rio sustainability conference; the many tensions of the 2012 US election; the craziest aberrations in weather patterns; and the continued ambiguities of the old monetary system – all these life conditions call attention to the scale of change that is occurring at a global level. We sense the uncertainties of the future, the non-linear jumps in our experience of time, place and moral influence, the continuous flow of scientific discovery that reveals the amazing miracle of life and the surprising practise of compassion that embraces the deepest tragedies of human and kosmic shifts.

It is a time for the Diversity Generators of the Human Hive to intensify the messages in their dance that show new resources, new directions, and new potentials for the City – the most complex of Human Systems. It is time for the intelligence of the Human Hive to be recalibrated to the Power of 8 and beyond. In 2012 Integral City will initiate the course of study that enables the City to learn through the lenses of the Integral Paradigm. We are ready to open the doors of an eLaboratory where we invite all who are part of the Brain Trust to collaborate on designing and putting into practise a new operating system for the City.

Integral City will leverage the change climate of 2012 to meshwork the What, the So What and the Now What of action learning, to integrate scientists, philosophers, designers and practitioners into a community of People, Purpose, Practise and Priorities in service to the wellbeing of our Cities and our Planet.

 1. INTEGRAL CITY e-LABORATORY 2012:

See the invitation and mark you calendars for September 2012  - Integral City Meshworks in partnership with Integral Initiative and Integral Leadership Review is sponsoring the Integral City e-LABORATORY throughout September 2012. Modelled on the smash-hit of 2011 the Integral Leadership Collaboratory the e-LABORATORY will explore how Integral Frameworks and Best Practices are evolving intelligences in cities around the world. With Keynote Speakers from City Leaders and the Integral World; Design Labs with Global Developers and Civic Managers; and Community Circles Lead by Activists and Civil Society Entrepreneurs we will deliver four weeks of non-stop exploration about the City, that will open your eyes to environmental breakthroughs, career opportunities and evolutionary collaborations, all at the convenience of your nearest e-screen. Details will be released in the months ahead. Let us know if you’d like to volunteer, support, sponsor and/or be part of our powerful list of speakers and panelists already confirmed (including Hazel Henderson, Don Beck, Bill Rees, Bob Willard, Richard Register, Ann Dale). Get on our Early Bird update list by sending an email to eLAB@integralcity.com

2. 2012 Learning Events:

  1. Birth 2012: Co-Creating Planetary Shift – Join Evolutionists, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Jean Houston, Stephen Dinan and the Shift Team on Conception Day – April 22, 2012 to celebrate and plan for December 22, 2012 to create a planetary shift. Free Registration is at: http://conceptionday2012.com . Let’s create a wave for change that exceeds the 100 million people this event intends to attract.
  2. Apply Integral City principles to a Community of Interest in April, 2012 at Royal Roads University Sustainable Community Development Graduate Certificate. The Capital Regional District of Victoria will be our Community of Interest and we will be working with them on their Master Pedestrian and Cycling Plan for our second Graduate Certificate Course. Click here for Registration Details. Or contact us if you’d like to nominate a location for a Community of Interest rru@integralcity.com . You supply the place, we supply a cohort of highly motivated Action Learning researchers!
  3. Join Dr. Don Beck at the Adizes Graduate School in Santa Barbara for his timely Spiral Dynamics: The Quest for the Master Code . April 9-14, 2012. For registration, contact stephanie@adizes.com
  4. Foresight Canada www.foresightcanada.ca is offering a course on systems mapping as one of the foundational skills for seeing and shaping the future, March 22 & 23, 2012 in Calgary. They are also offering in Ottawa, April 26-27 Is our Civilization Sustainable;  May 10-11, in Victoria, New Tools for Foresight; and October 18-19 in Calgary, Governing Whole Systems for our Shared Future. Contact Ruben Nelson, ED at foresightcanada@shaw.ca
  5. Center for Human Emergence is sponsoring a Global/Local Change series in October/November 2012. Send inquiries to CHEChange@integralcity.com . Stay tuned for dates and locations.
  6. Order the DVD of the August, 2011 Embody Integral Sustainability Conference sponsored by Experience Integral at Venwoude, NL. This DVD includes presentations by Barrett Brown, Marilyn Hamilton, Irini Rockwell, Anouk Brack +++.

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

…meshful blessings for this season of Birth and Generativity … 

 Marilyn

Useful Links:

Twitter: integralcity; LinkedIn: Marilyn Hamilton

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Integral City e-Learning: AN INVITATION TO SEPTEMBER 2012 E-LABORATORY

Posted in D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Inquiry, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged , , , , , , , , , on March 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »


Integral City eLaboratory: Co-Creating the Future of the Human Hive

“Humans are Gaia’s reflective organ.” James Lovelock

Now that 50% of humanity lives in the city – each person is like a cell in Gaia’s reflective organ. 

40 cities in the world produce 30% of its wealth … Gaia’s cities belong to a system of reflective organs.

It is time for the inhabitants of Gaia’s reflective organ system to create the conditions of prosperity that evolve themselves, the city and Gaia.

Geoffrey West says companies die, whereas cities persist. What is the secret of city persistence? Is it a good feature that supports human development and prosperity or is it an impediment that slows down evolution?

Integral City e-Laboratory convenes a series of web-based conversations with evolutionary practitioners, thought leaders, policy makers and citi-zens to explore the tensions, transactions and transformations that contribute to Integral City 2.0’s purpose, people, priorities and prosperity.

This webinar e-Laboratory convenes the brain trust with the intelligences to create Integral City 2.0.

Why is it critical to do this now? City life, challenged by global and local security, sustainability and resilience needs Leaders to work on the system, with the system, and as the system.  The city is home to more than 50% of humanity  and  its old operating system is fragmented by traditional reductionism, modern management and post-modern social safety nets. Integral City 2.0 deserves an integral operating system that is globally attuned but locally adapted.

City voices from citi-zens, civil society, civic management and conscious capital developers express worldviews at the ego-ethno-world-kosmo-centric stages of development. These dissonances create conflicts within and across the city silos of education, health, business, civil society and governance.

The e-Laboratory invites the voices of experts to share leading edge insights that align us ; meshes diverse thought leaders into transdisciplinary dialogues that engage us; enables policy makers to learn from transectoral conversation cafes that renew us ; and facilitates citi-zen response-ability that activates us.

This online e-Laboratory connects the many views and voices of the city. It opens the door for transdisciplinary  inquiry and action through the lenses of: evolution, large scale psychology, leadership, conscious capitalism,  sustainability, resilience, education, health care, community, civic governance, eco-regional ecology,  spirituality, city design, cultural change, women, generations, creativity and economics.

YOU ARE INVITED TO CONTRIBUTE YOUR BRILLIANCE AS WE INTEGRATE  ART, SCIENCE AND SPIRIT INTO A NEW OPERATING SYSTEM FOR INTEGRAL CITY 2.0.  For details and registration for the webinar click here.

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Civility Cultivates Sustainability

Posted in C. Collective Intelligences, Inquiry, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on March 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »


The magic of building community starts with small wins. That is one of the secrets that Milenko Matanovic, Founder of Pomegranate Center, shares with everyone he can.

Milenko, speaking at the Building Sustainable Communities Conference, was a gold nugget find!! He complemented my image of the human hive with engaging stories about practical actions that the Pomegranate Center  (in Issaquah WA) has catalysed during a series of remarkable community projects over the last 25 years.

Do you remember the last time you avoided a public meeting related to sustainability issues, you knew you should attend? Did you feel guilty because you knew the intentions were aligned with what you believed needed to be done? But did you feel defeated before you started because your experience at the last meeting was so depressing? Was it because the last time you went, you felt ignored? you were bored to tears? you hated the confrontations? you felt uneasy? nothing changed? Did you encounter what Milenko has called the 4 Horsemen of Community Inaction: NIMBY’s, naysayers, curmudgeons and grandstanders?

In terms of the human hive, these are the core of Conformity Enforcers, resistant to change that will offer resilience to sustain the hive. These folks are unwilling to listen or respond to any of the ideas put forward by the Diversity Generators.

But if you were at a meeting of the Human Hive, which Milenko facilitated, he would offer three core resources that would unsnarl the blockages and cultivate the community that can support sustainability. (These are documented in Pomegranate Center’s fast and free handbook – see the link below). Milenko shares simple guidelines of Civility, Inquiry and Creativity.

Civility lies at the core of Milenko’s Community Building approach. (It is related to the Intelligence we call Storytelling or Cultural Intelligence in Integral City.) The simple rules are:

  • Share airtime: Everyone participates; no one is allowed to dominate
  • Assume that together we know more: Work to understand the assumptions, opinions, and ideas of
  • others
  • Reject the culture of blame: Be tough on ideas, gentle on people
  • Put yourself in someone else’s shoes: Represent those not present

Inquiry complements Civility with its invitation to participate.(It is a close cousing to the Intelligence we call Inquiry Intelligence in Integral City.) Its simple rules are:

  • Open your ears and your mind: Listening is NOT just waiting for your turn to speak
  • Do your homework: Understand the problem and its history
  • Look for common solutions: Then commit to them
  • Seek the community’s highest good for both present and future

Creativity builds on Civility and Inquiry to enable differences to emerge shared capacity. (It is related to the Intelligence we call Meshworking Intelligence in Integral City.) The simple rules here are:

  • Forge Multiple Victories: The best ideas solve more than one problem at a time
  • Explore unconventional approaches: New conditions demand new solutions
  • Turn opposition into proposition: Instead of fighting a weak idea, come up with a better one
  • Transform differences into gifts: Arguing over the differences among us wastes money, time, resources, goodwill, and talent. Exchanging ideas with others leads to greater insights, and more inclusive, creative solutions
  • Change your mind in light of new information: Do your part to create an atmosphere where
  • meetings are about discovery and collaboration, not platforms for convincing others that your idea is
  • king
  • Maintain the balance between heart and mind, knowledge and intuition, expertise and passion

I recommend that you download your own copy of Pomegranate Center’s, (click and download) Building Better Communities Handbook - each page is full of processes and resources that build healthy and sustainable human hives.

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