Meta Security in the Human Hive: ISSS 2013 Presentation

July 16, 2013, 8:54 pm

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Meta security in the Human Hive – was the topic presented by Integral City to the International Society for Systems Sciences in Haiphong, Vietnam, July 16, 2013. The presentation looked at how integrally aligning sustainability responses to a  trajectory of evolutionary threats reveals the strata of intelligent capacities available to sustainability systems thinkers. Here is […]

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Meta Blog 2013 – Integral City Field Notes for Practitioners, Catalysts and Meshworkers

December 20, 2013, 2:30 am

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Here is the Integral City 2013 Meta Blog. It connects Integral City Practitioners, Catalysts and Meshworkers to the Planet, Principles, Prosperity, Practise and Potentials that energized us in 2013. 15 Years of Integral City – A Brief History of the Basics (Meeting of the Minds Conference – Toronto, ON) Systems Thinking for Cities (Waterlution, Toronto, […]

Preamble Russian Book Launch in Moscow: Gateways to Wellbeing in Integral City

June 10, 2014, 7:46 am

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How do you prepare for a book launch of the Russian translation of Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive? Dmitry Baranov, Publisher of the Russian Translation and Founder of iPraktik asked for an interview. And special thanks to Victor Shiryaev for the translation – which Dmitry then published in Russian in the Theory and […]

How to Optimize the Impact of Integral City Work

July 8, 2014, 8:38 am

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How can you optimize the impact of “integral”? That was the question asked by Roger Walsh at his keynote at the Integral Europe Conference. As ever, his wisdom was framed to inspire practise as well as contemplation. We always gain insights about Integral City work from Roger’s guidance (see the blog series on “5 Practical Steps for […]

How to Optimize the Impact of Integral City Work from Direct Experience and Deep Wisdom

July 10, 2014, 3:35 pm

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We can optimize the impact of Integral City Work when we come from our direct experience and bring contemplative wisdom into the mainstream. Roger Walsh‘s Optimizing Guidelines (delivered at IEC), suggested that we transmit to others, our deepest inner experience and deepest contemplative wisdom we have learned from the Masters. Three practices can support us in optimizing from […]

How to Optimize Integral City Impact By Getting Ideas Out to the World

July 16, 2014, 10:45 am

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How do you optimize the impact of Integral City impact by getting our work out to the world? That is the next question that Roger Walsh asked at IEC. First consider how important integral ideas are at this time in the world. The city is the most complex system created by humans – and as […]

How Adult Development Creates Conditions to Optimize Integral City Impact

July 17, 2014, 9:04 am

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It is amazing to realize that we can optimize the impact of Integral City frameworks in the world simply because adult development is possible. As a pioneering transpersonal psychologist, Roger Walsh emphasized this point at IEC,  he explored how to optimize the impacts of the integral paradigm everywhere. While integral thinkers not only belong to […]

How to Optimize Integral City Impact as Integral Practitioners

July 31, 2014, 3:29 pm

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What can I do to optimize Integral City impact? Is there a compass to show me the way? That is a question that every Practitioner, Catalyst and Meshworker asks themselves? Barrett Brown’s research on leaders in sustainability, suggests that our Integral City leaders will frame their work as it relates to working “on” the city, or […]

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How to Optimize Integral City Impact as an Accomplice to the Divine

August 19, 2014, 9:11 am

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When we are called to be of service to the Highest Good, we cross a threshold that moves us beyond ego into something deeper, more alive, more awake, more demanding – even into the realm of Divine Mystery. Essentially we offer our work of optimizing Integral City to the Divine. And in doing so we […]

How Might Reinventing Organizations Reinvent the City?

September 4, 2014, 9:15 am

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How might Integral City learn from an integrally informed re-frame of Reinventing Organizations?     Frederic Laloux’s book of that title, examines the emergence of integral organizations (Teal in Wilber- Integral lexicon, Yellow in Spiral Dynamics integralese). Laloux’s exploration of Reinventing Organizations is based on research in eleven organizations who are demonstrating the qualities and […]

Organic Strategies Reinvent Integral Cities

September 16, 2014, 8:36 am

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Eleven organizations contributed to the research behind the book Reinventing Organizations, by author Frederic Laloux.  If so few organizations passed the filter of Tier 2 qualifications will we have to wait centuries for enough organizations to mature to this stage before we can reinvent our cities? That is a sobering thought – and one that […]

Spirit of Integral City Celebrates Global Oneness Day

October 24, 2014, 10:43 am

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Spirit of Integral City … I am ONE: I tune into the heart-beat of the earth. I receive impulse waves from the cosmos. I exist in time and space and beyond both in Mystery. I am Essence and I am Spirit. I want to be linked with the Spirits of cities who are ready to […]

Integral City Connects Communities of Practice

October 28, 2014, 8:49 am

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What paradigms might best guide humanity’s Communities of Practice around connecting global and local conversations about change? Why do we connect? We value connecting and intend to connect. Whom do we connect with? Knowing our values, and understanding our purpose and our world, illuminate relevance. How do we connect well? We constantly evolve practices for […]

Space Golf – Rosetta Lands Hole-in-One on Par 6 bb Km Hole

November 13, 2014, 4:36 pm

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I am truly awed with the announcement that the European Space Agency has finessed a washing machine sized lander on the ubiquitous Comet 67P/C.   That’s like driving a hole-in-one to a comet not much larger than an earth-sized 4 km golf course – but with a drive that is 6.4 billion km long and that takes […]

ISO Fast Tracks Standard for City Quality of Life

November 18, 2014, 9:24 am

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International \Organization for Standards (ISO) has announced a new standard for quality of life in cities. In London, UK on November 17-18, 2014, ISO in conjunction the World Council on City Data (WCCD) launches the  the first international standard for sustainable cities, ISO 37120: Sustainable development of communities — Indicators for city services and quality of […]

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Transportation Crossroads in the City

March 14, 2015, 4:52 pm

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Lessons from history abound to warn us that the shift involved in moving from one worldview, or system of intelligibility, to another, is unlikely to be smooth or easy.  (Brian and Mary Nattrass, Integral Leadership Review – January- February 2015) Today in thinking about our Evolutionary Crossroads in the city I want to consider the […]

Cities are Evolving Climate Story

March 19, 2015, 2:52 pm

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Humans and the cities we have created are permanently locked into a never-ending learning cycle, to create ever more complex adaptations to protect increasingly more complex cities. In the Integral City 2.0 Online Conference (2012), five critical threats to human populations in cities were identified: climate, energy, water, food and finance (Hamilton et al., 2013; […]

Integral City Leaders Use Generative Change

March 26, 2015, 12:18 pm

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Out beyond the smart city, out beyond the resilient city, Lives the Integral City.   Integral Leadership Review – Canada Issue offered a Leadership Tip on Generative Change, by Tam Lundy, that acted as a Guide to appreciating all the articles. Tam’s Tip gave the reader an energy boost as you passed through the Totem Entry […]

Integral City Intelligences Build on Generative Change

April 8, 2015, 4:22 pm

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When Integral City is asked to work with cities, inevitably the invitation comes from leaders who have in mind the wellbeing of their city. Tam Lundy’s leadership tip (offered in Integral Leadership Review – Canada Issue offered a Leadership Tip on Generative Change) explains this impulse in terms of the desire of the leaders to generate change […]

Pope Francis Offers Blueprint for a Planet of Integral Cities

June 21, 2015, 2:44 pm

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Pope Francis thinks as big as a Planet of Integral Cities. Pope Francis has gifted the world with a Kosmic view of the environment and the implications for climate change. He instructs the faithful that God has not given dominion to man to dominate the environment but to respect all Life. He explicates what Integral […]