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 [...]
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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 »
How is Integral City a Human Hive?
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, tagged generativity, honey bees, human hive, integral, matter and energy, regional scale, sustainability, wellbeing, whole systems thinking on January 12, 2012 | 2 Comments »
An Integral City is a complex adaptive human system that concentrates habitat for humans like a bee hive does for bees. As a natural system it faces all the same issues, factors and challenges that affect the concentration of life anywhere: sustaining flows of information, matter and energy for the survival of human life. Serving [...]
Dynamic Meshworking Patterns the Human Hive
Posted in Building - Structures, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Emergence, Meshworking, tagged human hive, infrastructure development, integral city intelligences, linear city, linear patterns, meshwork, meshworks, self-organizing system, whole systems thinking on December 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Energy, information and matter tracking technology is revealing behavioral secrets of the Human Hive. Three of the best examples I’ve found are: Britain from Above - this BBC series explores explores the evolution of Britain’s infrastructure development from agriculture to transportation, communication to education, and cities to rural redevelopment across the ages. Mesh Cities – a new website whose [...]
Seeds for Integral City Acupuncture Atlas?
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, Navigating - IVSM, tagged acupuncture nodes, global, integral, maps, quadrants, wellbeing, whole systems thinking on October 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Metropolitan World Atlas (MWA)by Arjen van Susteren gives us a glimpse of what an atlas of Integral City acupuncture points might look like. MWA identifies 101 metroplitan areas of the world which include the world’s 50 largest cities, 25 largest seaports, 30 largest airports, 30 largest telecom ports and 12 other metropolitan areas. The atlas [...]
Wellbeing indicator of a living system – “Could I die happy?”
Posted in E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Lifecycle, Uncategorized, tagged connecting with environment, happiness, indicators, living systems, reproducing, surviving, whole systems thinking on August 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Indicators of wellbeing have been a fascination of mine for many decades. Today I am contemplating the indicator of happiness – as in “Could I die happy today?” The EU calls and I have my powerpoint bags packed with all the trends that show the Big Picture of Global Sustainability to share with Experience Integral [...]
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 [...]
Almere NL New Town Appreciates, Celebrates, Blossoms
Posted in C. Collective Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, Inquiry, Integral Maps, Lifecycle, Storytelling - Cultures, Uncategorized, tagged Almere, appreciative inquiry, city, integral, integral city intelligences, meshwork, sustainability, whole systems thinking on April 18, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Last week Almere Netherlands was the location of my learning and the focus of my attention. Attending the fifth Centre for Human Emergence, NL, fifth Spiral Dynamics Integral Confab, Almere was featured in case studies to explore the city with Integral City related lenses. Almere was created as a New Town, 30 years ago, using [...]
Spiritual Practices for Dealing with the News
Posted in C. Collective Intelligences, Emergence, Global/Worldcentric, Integral Maps, Level 8 Turquoise, tagged evolution, news, spiritual practise, Terry Patten, wellbeing, whole systems thinking on March 23, 2011 | Comments Off
As a follow up to my blog on the Systems and Resilience Cycles for the Restoration of Sendai, Integral City Spiritual Advisor, Terry Patten blogs a much needed set of practices for dealing with the News – good, bad and otherwise. Terry says: “The news so far during 2011 has been particularly electrifying: Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, [...]
Systems and Resilience Cycles for Sendai Restoration
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, Integral Maps, Lifecycle, Panarchy, tagged city, disaster, integral city intelligences, Japan, recovery, resilience, spiral dynamics integral, whole systems thinking on March 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
How do you integrate five of the resilience models that I have used in Integral City? How can they help us understand how to respond, repair and restore the city as a living system in disasters like we have seen this year in Brisbane, Christchurch and Sendai? Integral City(p. 43) illustrates the four stages of the resilience cycle as they progress through [...]
