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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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Sense in the City December 2011 – Occupy, Disturb, Emerge, eLABORATE

Posted in Storytelling - Cultures, tagged , , , , , on December 21, 2011 |


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

Today’s Integral City Sparkies for City Emergence:

The larger the city the more likely it will span a wider and wider spectrum of individual purposes; ghettoes of differing purposes and intentions will emerge and the demands of governance will need to address these discontinuities. p.181

The capacity of community and leadership are co-determined. Each arises simultaneously, with the community being the container for holding the emergence of leadership and leadership being the catalyst for emerging community. p.187

The new bottom line for leaders who have consciousness to the Power of 8, will be to enable emergence and evolution in people, organizations, cities and the world simultaneously. p.195

Health … emerges from resilience — a capacity to flexibly relate to one’s environment, including relating to others in it – so that sourcing nourishment, sustaining life and reproducing may continue to occur despite conditions of change in the environment. p.224

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

As 2011 moves into the season of Light, we embrace the City around the world as both the stage and the actor where change is emerging fastest. The City has not only been occupied literally but occupies our mind symbolically as the centre where structural emergence is exploding into new forms. Highly leveraged, deeply connected, integrally enmeshed, the City now pulses with both individual freedom and a new wave of collective reformation. I am the City and the City is me. We are the City and the City is us.

Integral City will reach beyond the OCCUPY disturbances of 2011, to EMERGE  new leaders, actions, relationships and structures to evolve the City through 2012 and beyond.

1. INTEGRAL CITY e-LABORATORY 2012:

Mark you calendars for September 2012 – Integral City Meshworks in partnership with 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 2012. Get on our e-arly Bird update list by sending an email to eLAB@integralcity.com

2. 2012 Learning Events:

1. Reframe Life in the Human Hive: What if Sustainability Were Easy? January 23, 2011, RRU, Victoria BC. What if sustainability generated beauty? What if it was fun? What if sustainability was a personal journey marked by laughter, love and liveliness? This is a one day workshop inviting participants to begin a new path to freedom that shifts the search for sustainability from the outer world to the inner world. It begins with self, can be shared at home and changes the world one appreciative act at a time. Click title for Details and Registration.

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 as we begin 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. 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 +++.

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

…meshful blessings for this season of light and emergence…

Marilyn Hamilton PhD CGA CSP, Editor

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Sense in the City News Update September 2011 – Embody Integral Sustain-Ability

Posted in Integral Maps, tagged , , , , , , on September 21, 2011 |


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

Today’s Integral City Sparkie for City Embodiment :

The carrying capacity for each city is intimately tied to its eco-region, even though cities have attempted to import their needs from increasingly distant locations.
(Hamilton, M., 2008, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive, p.152)

Integral Sustainable Design, by Mark DeKay works on the body, mind, heart and soul as it serves three audiences – each captured in one word of its title. Firstly it guides the scholar of Integral Theory to explore the principles of Design. Secondly, the book serves the student of Sustainability to appreciate the fundamentals of wholism, living systems, systems thinking and ecology. Thirdly its primary audience is designers and students of design and architecture to whom it introduces and explores the emerging field of Integral Design.
 (From Volume 6, Issue 3, September, 2011 Journal of Integral Theory & Practice,  Book Review by Marilyn Hamilton of Integral Sustainable Design, by Mark DeKay (Earthscan 2011) .

Here are some ways that Integral City is meshworking sustainability practices with practitioners in cities, regions and countries around the world.

Publications and Learning Events:

  1. Read Journal of Integral Theory and Practice, Volume 6, Issue 3, September, 2011. JITP is publishing our Review of Mark DeKay’s new book Integral Sustainable Design (ISD). This is a “must-have” reference for anyone trying to understand and/or implement the design elements of an Integral City.
  2. 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 +++.
  3.  Take a first hand tour of an EcoVillage which embodies many of the principles, perspectives and prospects explored by Mark DeKay in ISD. Discover EVA Lanxmeer, award winning neighbourhood of the City of Culemborg, in the Netherlands. Join me on Talking/Walking Tour with Peter Merry, Founder of Center for Human Emergence, NL.
  4. Read our Inquiry and Research articles related to Generational Exploration:
    i.  Grok, Talk, Walk, Rock: Choreographing Four Generations in the City. Click here to read presentation from World Future Society, July 2011.ii.  Generational Cycles, Saecula and Cities: How Do Integral Artists, Boomers, Gen X and Millennial Generations Impact City Values and Policy Development? Access the article published in Integral Leadership Review, August, 2011.
  5. Attend Conscious Leadership for Sustainability, October 3-5 to December 6-7, 2011, Venwoude, NL. Course features Barrett Brown, Ken Wilber, David Ballard, Anouk Brack, and other thought leaders.
  6. Reframe Life in the Human Hive: What if Sustainability Were Easy? December 2, 2011, RRU, Victoria BC. What if sustainability generated beauty? What if it was fun? What if sustainability was a personal journey marked by laughter, love and liveliness? This is a one day workshop inviting participants to begin a new path to freedom that shifts the search for sustainability from the outer world to the inner world. It begins with self, can be shared at home and changes the world one appreciative act at a time. Click title for Details and Registration.
  7. Click to Review the Report and Case Studies on Sustainable Colwood: A Strategy for a Climate Action Plan. These are the key deliverables from Royal Roads University, inaugural cohort of the Sustainable Community Development Graduate Certificate. Congratulations to the students and the City of Colwood for their successful collaboration.
  8. Apply Integral City principles to a Community of Interest in January, 2012 at Royal Roads University Sustainable Community Development Graduate Certificate. We begin 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, wesupply a cohort of highly motivated Action Learning researchers!

2. Recent Blog Postings from marilyn.integralcity.com include:
EVA Lanxmeer Like a Human Hive
To Be or Not to Be … Free
TheoryU Design for Integral Sustainability Meshwork
Collective Shadow & TheoryU for Sustainability Leaders
Five Wisdoms=Evolutionary Intelligences for Sustainability in the Human Hive
New Science Explains City Behaviours

…meshful blessings for this season of embodiment …
 Marilyn

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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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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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Multiple Cities, One Location

Posted in Building - Structures, Emergence, Inner, Lifecycle, Panarchy, tagged , , , , on January 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »


I have just finished editing an interview I did with one of Integral City’s Advisors,  Will Varey, of Emergnc in December, 2010. It will be posted for readers’ listening pleasure on Meshcasts later today.

We had a most wide-ranging dialogue that explored cities as living systems. Will’s grounding in sustainability provided a “pingable” trampoline to explore the ecology of the city’s values, perspectives, experiences, cultures, healths and wellbeing.

We shared the discovery that a city is not just one simple location. Rather it is one location that is experienced differently by every person in the city, because each person has their own unique values, worldviews and perspectives. They may be influenced strongly by the family and ethnic culture to which they belong, but essentially, each citizen is walking around with their own distinctive inner map of the city. This is mind-boggling to consider. I imagine everyone’s  inner lives floating above and around and through each person like cartoon balloons. They are constantly bumping into each other, overlapping, dissolving, being assimilated, re-forming, shape-shifting. They are invisible fields of inform-ation that become accessible when we communicate. Is there any wonder we have such a need to communicate? Isn’t it a wonder that we can make meaning of these myriad versions of the city at all?

In fact Will pointed out a major dilemma of these multiple cities in one location is that they have to make use of one infrastructure – like a water system. The location and its outer infrastructure tend to be a singular reality on which the multiple inner cities must come to agreement on how to share. It is the job of policy developers and administrators to frame and manage such agreements. And when you paint the challenge that faces these (often faceless) managers, that they must make sense of multiple inner cities to operate a single outer city,  it ought to call forth from us a new respect for every city infrastructure manager (think water, waste, transportation, communications) who does their job well.

One of the great advantages of the Integral Model for the city, is that it helps to notice the patterns in the multiple cities that people experience and make sense of them in this one location. As you negotiate your city today, be curious about the multiple cities that surround you and appreciative of the one location (and its managers) that supports you (with a little help from its imported footprint of resources).

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Sense in the City News Update November 2010

Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, climate, Global/Worldcentric, tagged , , , , , , on November 30, 2010 |


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

Today’s Integral City Sparkie for the City Brain :

… a tension in favor of the values and behavior that are most coherent with the current life conditions will tend to be maintained. The flip side of this behavior is that the dominant culture will protect itself against diversity generation. When life conditions finally require the solutions that diversity generation can offer, the problems created by the conformity enforcer values will usually have become so acute that the majority are willing to change. It appears that these natural evolutionary cycles are fractal and emerge at all levels of scale …

Hamilton, M., 2008, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive, p.187

What a difference a month makes. From October’s jubilant Chilean miners’ rescue to November’s desperate Irish economic rescue. We must ponder, how do we know if an eruption of the underworld brings nutrients to the surface or merely toxic discharge? Is it the season of Advent, regrouping, full body scans, pat downs, WikiLeaks, shadows, surrender, pollination, dormancy, climate change or long economic emergencies? We live in a world where tensions, seasons, cultures and expectations are so jumbled we need an integral map to sort out mind, brain, heart and body – so that we can notice the pattern language of the evolutionary impulse as it emerges more resilient meshes.

 

So amongst the seeming disruptions, this month’s newsletter notices signs of hope from Ireland (yes!), Sweden, and Canada.

  1. This month I spent a week in Ireland. While the media reported on the jaded negotiations of the EU and IMF with the Dail, Integral City was contributing to Globe Forum Dublin, witnessing 200 of Ireland’s best researchers and innovators demonstrate Ireland’s real recovery plan in their innovation, ideas and intellect. Listen to our interview with Globe Forum Founder Johan Gorecki and see the Innovating Ireland that Globe Forum catalyzed in November. 
  2. Also check out here Globe Forum Dublin’s Highlight coverage.    
  3. Integral City spoke on Cities as Innovation Ecosystems. Click here for the summary and a great video of our evolutionary teachers, the honey bee.
  4. Nominate your City for Globe Forum, Sustainable City Awards 2010 (deadline in Feb. 4, 2011). This award focuses on a holistic approach to Sustainability  in cities and integrates different types of capital for a better future in cities around the world. If your city can demonstrate one or more special initiatives that it has undertaken in the last two years in one or more of the various types of capital (environmental, intellectual, social, financial, technical, cultural, political) to reach a more sustainable future, then Click here to find the details and invitation links .  
  5. Review the new Research by three Graduates of the Master’s of Strategic Leadership Towards Sustainability Program (Bleckinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden). Juan Carlos Kaiten, Kara Stonehouse and Sonja Niederhumer describe their work in  The Magic Canoe – Large Scale Collaboration Towards Sustainable Development. Click here to download a summary and full thesis.   In resonance with the PhD Researchers and Innovators in Dublin the authors say this about their Findings:

The magic canoe is a story about a collaboration process that magically expands in size to include any participants wanting to help in the effort towards achieving a common goal.

In order to ensure the actions taken in the complex system are not accidentally counterproductive, a strategic approach to sustainable development can be undertaken.

The concept of backcasting from basic sustainability principles using systems thinking is the core of strategic sustainable development, and can be can be applied to the collaborative body….

This research attempts to further the body of knowledge for collaboration in complex social systems, as well as link it directly to Strategic Sustainable Development. [The Research Question was:]

How do we foster effective collaboration for systemic sustainable development?

  • Sub Question 1: What are the conditions of success for collaboration?
  • Sub Question 2: How can a process of collaboration be described?
  • Sub Question 3: Based on the process, what guidelines lead to success?

 6. Download PDF of Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Community Development Grad Certificate at Royal Roads University, January 2011– July, 2011 – click here.

 7. Register for Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC, Feb.14, 2011 The Human Hive Creating Intelligent Livable Cities.  

 8. Click on these links for ongoing Integral City Resources:

…meshful blessings for the light that inevitably emerges from the depths in the evolutionary cycle of Life … 

 Marilyn

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Marilyn Hamilton PhD CGA

Founder & President, Integral City Meshworks Inc.

www.integralcity.com

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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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