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Reflective Organ Newsletter December Solstice 2021: Rejoice, Remember, Regenerate

This newsletter is published quarterly using a cycle of perspectives on the Integral City viewed from: Planet, People, Place and Power. The theme of this issue is Power.

On a never-ending quest within an ecology of Integral influences, I consider spirituality to be a universal life force that cycles through existence as an involutionary and evolutionary impulse. The first stage of the cycle, called involution, originates at the non-dual “source” that lies at the center of existence where it descends from the invisible to the visible; from the immanent to that which is presenced; from the unmanifest to the manifest. The second stage of the cycle, called evolution, attracts all creation back to source so that it ascends from the manifest to the source; from the visible to the invisible; from gross physical bodies to subtle energetic bodies to causal energetic bodies to non-dual source. Spirituality is not outside of city creation but embedded in it as the source, field and resource of its core.

Hamilton, M. (2018). Integral City 3.7: Reframing Complex Challenges for Gaia’s Human Hives. Minneapolis, MN: Amaranth Press,LLC p. 10; Map 5

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Integral City Ecosystem:10 Years Incubating Gaia’s Human Hives

10 years ago, Integral City sponsored our first major outreach project after the publication of the Book 1 in the Integral City book series (2008, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive).

We called our online initiative Integral City 2.0 Online Conference or ELab 2012 for short. Before Zoom was ubiquitous, we used the Meeting Maestro platform to design and deliver a 30-day online lab. Each of 4 weeks featured 3 of the Intelligences explored in Book 1, interviewing Thought Leaders, Designers and Practitioners related to each Intelligence.

You can find the details of the conference proceedings in these (free downloadable) publications of A Radically Optimistic Inquiry into Operating System 2.0.

Executive Summary (85 pages) Interviews Appendices A1-12 (659 pages) Harvest Weeks 1-4 / Days 1-12 / Appendix A13 (32 Pages)

We remember with affection and appreciation (and not a little awe at our hutzpah) the doors that we opened at that time, introducing the world to the Thought Leaders, Designers and Practitioners of Integral City’s 12 Intelligences.

We could never have succeeded with this endeavour without the team that gathered to co-create this conference.

It is heart-warming to report that the majority of that team has remained together as Gaia’s Human Hive Integrators – affectionately shortened to DG’s – the Divine Gaians and our invaluable Constellation Team. We have convened monthly for more than 10 years holding the space for Integral City to incubate and mature our various callings to be shared, supported, nurtured and appreciated.

At the end of 2021 when the post COP26 world is still gasping and grasping for ways to respond and reverse Code Red, our DG’s have good reason to celebrate a growing lineage of Care, Complexity and Capacity for Gaia’s Human Hives. So many manifestations have come from our relationships to Integral City and one another. This powerful team has founded organizations and websites, authored books, blogs and videos, created games and spawned their own communities of practice. (Not surprisingly, 4 of these talented co-creators have been honoured as Integral City Meshworkers of the Year – Beth Sanders, Diana Claire Douglas, Ellen van Dongen, Anne-Marie Voorhoev.) As a result, it appears that we have co-created the conditions for an Ecosystem of Integral City Practice.

(For the full editorial and description of the work of our Constellation Team click here.)

In this sacred season it is a wonderful time to rejoice in the dance of integration and differentiation that flows through our Integral City DG’s and the ecosystem that is emerging.

The inspiring mystery of how we DGs continue to flow and impact each other and the world, augurs well for our intention to create Integral Cities as Gaia’s City Regeneration Hubs (the next stage arising from our Schooling for a Planet of Integral Cities).

I can sense the Overlighting Evolutionary Impulse (that lies at the centre of our Integral City GPS) calling us together into a global garden seeded by many co-creative expressions of local and trans-global manifestations. We are incubating a whole seedbed of organs (Gaia’s Reflective Organs!) reading and willing to collaborate with other regenerative ecosystems.

We invite you to celebrate the Integral City breakthroughs from 2021 – click on the links in the full editorial. Appreciate the many ways we have lived into our Master Code of Care in the Meta Blog 2021. Then follow us down the many paths to the future we are tracking on all the Integral City Maps as we walk, run, fly and attune to the wellbeing of Gaia’s Human Hives.

Join us at our gateways into 2022. As Human Hive incubators, we are co-creating regeneration energies over the next 9 years, for Integral City to change the climate colour of Gaia’s Human Hives from Code Red into Code Green.

Out Beyond the Smart City, Out Beyond the Resilient City … lies the Integral City … there is a Knowing Field … we will meet you there.

What?

What happens when you accept the invitation to join the Science and Consciousness Conference, November 14-18, 2021, convened by Ubiquity University’s Chief Innovation Officer, Peter Merry and hosted at Broughton Hall Estate, the home for 1000 years (yes one thousand) of the family of Roger Tempest?

…So What?

I share the details of our amazing 4 day experience so readers can appreciate the fullness and variety of our experience. (For Gina Lazenby’s sharing of her experience check her blog here.)

And now that I am literally one month into the future beyond that time together, I have paused long enough to glean what this might mean to the understanding of the Human Hive Mind in the Integral City?

Certainly the processes that we experienced at the conference were Integral in their design – tapping into the 4 quadrants of I/We/It/Its. Shifting through the complexities of Ego/Ethno/World/Cosmas. Exploring the roles of Giving and Receiving. Dancing in a meshwork of self-organizing creativity and structuring patterns. Living, working, playing, relating simply and mindfully.I ask, “If we can control consciousness how can we map it with the Integral City 5 Maps. How do we improve our capacity for leading the 4 Voices of the City?”As I practise the Islands of Calm Meditation with Subtle Activism every Saturday morning at Findhorn – how could I literally track with the REG the influence each of us might be having on 1000 others?And for Findhorn who would like to track the change in Consciousness that arises from guests studying in situ or at distance (online) how can we borrow what the REGs teach us and have been adapted by Institue of Noetic Sciences (IONS) to measure the impact of their programs? Or by Heartmath Institute to invite in the global practice of attuning our frequencies to the Earth’s own frequency?How will becoming conscious of our frequency show humans how we impact, influence and improve the Earth that we recognize as our Mother? How can attunement become something more than wishful hope but be recognized (like Mindfulness is now) as a practise of coherence and wellbeing?I think that organizations like Integral City and Findhorn Foundation could use these metrics generated by REG to provide the evidence of our impact on people, place and planet -giving us feedback as we live the Master Code of Care. All these scales of life are impacted by collective consciousness – that is WYRD and Wonderful.I also think this opens us up to a whole new taxonomy of epistemologies and invites us to research into other ways of knowing like Systemic Constellation Work – (and The Hague Centres’ Institute for Field Research into the Knowing Field – represented at the conference by Drs. Anne-Marie Voorhoeve.)Click here to read the full blog and find out the direction Integral City will take in pursuit of Now What?

Integral City Meshworker of Year 2021: Jim GarrisonMeet Jim Garrison, Integral City Meshworker 2021

Jim Garrison is the Founder and President of Ubiquity University and producer of Humanity Rising. His passion and the purpose of Humanity Rising is to create a historical gathering of great minds and hearts responding to the pandemic “as a crisis not to be wasted”.

Jim listens to the Evolutonary Impulse that flows strongly through his being. With Humanity Rising, he has cross-pollinated a whole year of deep insights, intricate interconnections and new relationships across the globe. The energy of these discoveries has attracted the Beauty, Truth and Goodness that Jim natrually amplifies in the fields around him. Jim is a real lifeforce of the Human Hive who cannot deny the Evolutionary Impulse he is called to serve. Gaia is a planet better able to nurture her cities as Gaia’s Reflective Organs because of Jim Garrison.

For personal, professional, intelligent investment in Humanity Rising’s initiatives we are proud to award Jim Garrison, Meshworker of Year, 2021.

Click here for Details.

Integral Cities of Year 2021: Urban Arena EuropeRotterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, BrusselsUrban Arena Europe Develops 17 Keys to Sustainable Just Cities

Urban Area Europe believes that sustainability and justice go hand in hand. Their initiative over the last 3 years collected news and resources on how to create cities that are both sustainable and just. They aimed to support and provide tools for decision-makers, administrators, activists, and other city-makers in their work towards an equal, inclusive, and sustainable future.

They created a platform based on the work done by the EU-funded UrbanA project. UrbanA is a community of individuals and organizations committed to transformative change across Europe.

Read about how the 4 Sets of Keys (that make up a whole key-ring of 17 qualities) reveal Integral City patterns, intelligences and frameworks here.

Book Preview: Whole Systems Design: Inquiries in the Knowing Field

Diana Claire Douglas writes in Chapter 6, Doorways into the Collective of her forthcoming book:

One of the key differences between Constellating for the Collective and the other branches is that Family and Organizational Constellation Work each work with a client, whereas in Constellating for the Collective, no one person is representing the individual or organization as a client. For example, Humanity may be the client, or Society may be the client.

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Integral City is reinventing how cities work. We say, “Out beyond the traditional city, driven by transactional exchanges of the basics of life; out beyond the Smart City, driven by technology and industry; out beyond the Resilient City, driven by ecological and eco-regional inter-dependence; lives the Integral City, driven by the flex and flow of cultures, consciousness, and care.”6An integral city is a whole living system which Marilyn calls the “Human Hive.” As the beehive is for honeybees, the integral city is the collective habitat for the human species.
I have been part of this core team, which has been called a Community of Practice (ICCOP), since 2012. We meet monthly, if not more often, and as a group, we did many Constellations each year until 2017. We now do Constellations irregularly. Through workshops and trainings, the Community of Practice has grown and expanded to be a system of influence in a variety of locations.
As Marilyn said, “Systemic Constellation Work offers an energetically empowering technology that embraces the non-linear, ambiguous, invisible complexity of the Knowing Field for all those in service to the evolution of the city and the Planet of Cities.”7
And another quotation from Marilyn, “Through inviting in the Knowing Field, this situates the Integral City work in the realm of consciousness. We have found this vital in making accessible the energetic qualities of the city at all scales of human systems . . . the Knowing Field gives insights into the invisible aspects of a city that we believe are continually impacting it through energy, habits, lineages, traumas, and wisdom.”8

To connect to more of the book and download the Chapter 6 Click Here.

Upcoming Integral City & Constellation Events with Power PurposeLearning Line Up (early 2022)Integral City and City Nestworks are offering a range of courses in 2022. Marilyn will be teaching through Ubiquity University and Beth will be teaching in our Mighty Network.

(Note: Registration for courses at Ubiquity University is through Ubiquity University. Registration for Mighty Network courses is through “Courses” in the Mighty Network. Links are provided below.)

Cities Rising for a Regenerative World (Ubiquity University)

With its roots in the Humanity Rising 2021 Cities Rising for a Regenerative World, this micro-course focuses on human systems at the scale of the city. We define “city” as the human habitat (or “human hive”) at scales from village to megalopolis, embracing the ecoregion in which the city is located. The inquiry embedded in Cities Rising complements other courses in the BRA/MRA, by highlighting the context–cities–in which most humans live, and the contribution cities can make to a Regenerative World.

This is a 6-hour micro course offered through Ubiquity University. Course details and registration can be found on the course page at Ubiquity University. This is an asynchronous, self-directed course you can take at any time.

Beyond Smart (Ubiquity University)

Beyond Smart introduces “practitioners” to just the basics of the Integral City model. You will learn the framework of practices, tools and maps that reveal the common patterns that impact the lives of individuals, organizations and communities within your city. This short course explores three powerful images animating Integral City systems – the integral map, the meshwork and the human hive. You will learn from your own situations (and other student sharings in the Ubiverse Group) how the toolkit guides you beyond models for Urban Ecovillages and Traditional, Smart and Resilient Cities.

Beyond Smart is a 12-hour micro course offered through Ubiquity University. Course details and registration can be found on the course page at Ubiquity University. This is an asynchronous, self-directed course you can take at any time.

Beyond Resilient (Ubiquity University)

Beyond Resilient enables Practitioners, Catalysts and Meshworkers to build capacitating scaffolds so that cities work for everyone. Participants grow their leadership to serve the city to thrive within the Master Code of Care: Caring for Self, Others, Place, Planet.

This course explores the city as the Human Hive and co-creates the conditions for you to catalyze and explore all the Voices who inhabit your spheres of influence – including family, neighbourhood, workplaces, recreation zones, communities, city, and eco-regions.

Beyond Resilient is a 12-week macro course offered for credit through Ubiquity University. Course details and registration can be found on the course page at Ubiquity University. There are two options to take this course:

Asynchronously, in a self-directed fashion, any time you like OR“Live” with Marilyn Hamilton, Beth Sanders and wonderful classmates. (Recommended–so you have the live experience of community. Next live offering will be September to December 2022.)Islands of Calm for Global Cities – Monthly City Subtle Activism Meditation (lead by Marilyn Hamilton on 3rd Saturday of Month on a rota of different timezones. Check the Mighty Network for the schedule.The City Nestmaking Series (Mighty Network)

Three 4-week courses that you can take individually or bundle them together.

All courses are four weeks in duration. All course calls are hosted by Beth Sanders on Wednesdays from noon to 1:30 pm Mountain Time.

#1 City Making (starts January 26, 2022 in our Mighty Network)

We do the work we do, whether paid or unpaid, to improve our cities. To make that work count, it is vital to understand that “city building” looks at only half the equation of “city making.”

To register, “Buy” the course in the Mighty Network.

#2 Working with Tension (starts March 2, 2022 in our Mighty Network)

City life puts us on edge, asking us to learn about ourselves and others and our conflicting values in the city. What if we are not supposed to have the same values?

To register, “Buy” the course in the Mighty Network.

#3 Engaging Inquiry (starts on March 30, 2022 in our Mighty Network)

Cultivate your capacity (and your city’s) to foster adaptation, resilience and transition. We’ll explore how inquiry is a means to ensure vital feedback loops that inform city making.

To register, “Buy” the course in the Mighty Network.

Community of Civic Practice (Mighty Network)

The Community of Civic Practice. is a small group coaching experience hosted by Beth Sanders. This is dedicated time for self-awareness, to explore as individuals and as a small group, the people and civic practitioners we are becoming. We will gather to explore the challenges and opportunities we face while receiving and offering support to each other so we can offer our best selves to our communities and cities, whether our work is paid or unpaid.

The course calls are hosted by Beth Sanders on Wednesdays (March 2, 9, 16 and 23, 2022) from 2:00 to 3:30 Mountain Time.

To register, “Buy” the course in the Mighty Network.

Join Marilyn Hamilton/Integral City for periodic zoom interviews Interviews from the Balcony

Join Beth Sanders/Nest City monthly for free zoom Street Corner Visiting – – 8pm BST – 4th Tuesday of the Month.

Adventures in Reinventing Work was inspired by the 2021 Teal Around the World festival, a self-organized group of volunteers including 11 writers and 14 storytellers came together and worked for many months conducting interviews, writing, and co-creating, to bring this book of stories to you and to the benefit of our collective purpose – to create a sustainable, prosperous future that empowers and uplifts everyone.

This book explores the personal journeys of ordinary people who are choosing to create our future. They have no easy models to follow from our past. They are trying to fix the unfixable. They are paving new paths for us to create a sustainable, prosperous, future that empowers and uplifts all of humanity.

This is a book about real personal struggles for answers, explorers who are knee deep in muddy terrains, navigating their way, falling down all the time, and never failing to rise back up. It is a book of hope. It provides guideposts to help us navigate our journey and gives us inspiration to be as brave and bold as we need to be, to reinvent our future.

Ordering information available at: https://www.tealaroundtheworld.com/book

Celebrating Our Cities as Places of Regenerative Power in 2021-22

Gaia – as our life giving mother, has profound wisdom for all of us.

She only uses the energy needed for all she achieves.

She fits form to function with underlying simplicity, exquisite beauty and intricate precision.

She recycles everything and with no waste.

She shares and in-forms her skills locally and globally.

She embodies collaboration throughout her biosphere; appreciating healthy competition and encouraging holarchic cooperation.

She exults in diversity and knows it to imbue resilience and collective genius.

She exists, evolves and thrives within the wholistic limits and emergent opportunities of her planetary gaiasphere.

– And she’s been doing so for more than four billion years”.

Jude Currivan, 2021

December 21 marks the start of what Integral City calls the Power Quarter (from December 21 to March 20 ). This has been a difficult year where we might often have felt power-LESS instead of power-FULL. Covid has returned with a new fast-spreading variant. COP26 seemed a disappointment. Wild weather seems to augur every climate disaster scenario imaginable. Yet, people have come together through Compassionate Cities, Community Action Networks, Kindness Corners and Positively Empowering Kids. What signs of optimism, capacity building and evolutionary adaptation have you noticed in your community? your city? your bioregion? What new opportunities have surprised you in your work, your play, your recreation? Where have keys to cooperation and collaboration that have been hidden now become visible because we are daring to live the change we want to be and see? Visit us on our Integral City Website and Blog or post a comment about your city interests on our Mighty Network.

Meshful Blessings of this Sacred Season Celebrating Power in our Planet of Cities …Marilyn Hamilton and the Integral City Constellation Corps TeamPS Here are some FREE resources for uplifting Integral City Places:Ellen van Dongen, Lifemaps 6 Integral City Scenarioshttps://www.lifemaps.nl/lifemaps-for-integral-city/https://www.lifemaps.nl/en/catalogus/becoming-a-global-citizen-in-a-doughnut-economy/Peter Merry 3-2-1 of Changing the World https://petermerry.org/the3-2-1-of-changing-the-worldJorge Garza Medium – Humanity at Crossroads – Regeneration https://medium.com/@jorge.garza/human...Stop Ecocide Progress Report Sept. 2021Charles Landry 9 Free Books+ https://charleslandry.cmail20.com/t/ViewEmail/r/5BCBE1547B7995E72540EF23F30FEDED/74234A5F9E763FF82C69F821C9DCC086Ash Pachauri – POP Newsletter https://mailchi.mp/a6617dbd8cc5/newsletter-volume-5-issue-5POP previous newsletters: https://thepopmovement.org/pop-newsletters/Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas September 2021 Volume XII Special Issue full Digest archives .BRAZIL, KENYA, SOUTH AFRICA, NIGERIA & THE US Sustainable Favela Network International Exchange, Part 1: Communities from 5 Nations Implement Climate Justice – Julia Rosselli, RioOnWatch (video available directly on YouTubeAngelika Pohnitzer, Thesis: Be:Longing in the City – Adult Development and Urban Resiliencehttps://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab...YES! Why Public Art is Good for Cities https://www.yesmagazine.org/health-ha...Bloomberg: Designing for Care https://www.bloomberg.com/news/featur...Plastic Bank: We are turning plastic into gold by revolutionizing the world’s recycling systems https://plasticbank.com/about/Integral City Blogs

Integral City Needs/Creates Global First Responders

Long Covid? Re-Sizing, Right-Sizing, Re-Shaping Cities

On 9/11/01 What Did the Future Show Us? Ask Us?

13 Recommendations from R3.0 Blueprint for Education – How do they apply to the city?

Signs of Hope at Findhorn CC

Fragile Earth

Whole Systems Design: Inquiries in the Knowing Field

Dear Earth – Integral City Treasures Dedicated to You

Waking, Growing, Cleaning, Wholing to Adapt, Transform and Regenerate

Integral City Region of Year 2021: UrbanA, Urban Arenas for Sustainable and Just Cities

Science & Consciousness – What? So What? Now What?

Integral City Ecosystem: 10 Years Incubating Gaia’s Human Hives

Climate Change: COP 26The EARTHSHOT to Cool our Planet COP 26: Forests Saving our Planet Humanity Rising COP 26 Grand Finale People’s Declaration COP 26 COP 26 Days 3-7 Humanity Rising Global Panels COP 26 Day 2: Soil Our Future Beneath our Feet Cities are Gaia’s Regeneration Hubs – Infographic COP 26 Day 1 Humanity Rising Day 351(2) Inside/Outside COP COP 26 Day 1 Humanity Rising Day 351: Code Red for Humanity A COP26 Message from the Subtle Realms, via David Spangler COP 26 – Cities are Gaia’s Regeneration Hubs COP 26 – Preparing the Ground – Code Red on Humanity Rising Day 3507. Newsletters Past Issues 2021 and 2020 Integral City Reflective Organ – September Equinox 2021: Code Red for Regenerative Action Integral City Reflective Organ – June Solstice 2021 -Unity, CAN’s, Competition, Coalitions, Collaborations Integral City Reflective Organ – March Equinox 2021 – Translate Care for Gaia with Impact, Training, Story Integral City Reflective Organ — December Solstice 2020 – Cities Waking Up, Growing Up

8. Integral City MetaBlog 2021 – A Synthesis and index of all Integral City Blogs from 2021

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Published on December 20, 2021 02:53

The EARTHSHOT to Cool Our Planet

During Humanity Risings 12-day broadcast on COP 26, we learned from Rob de Laet about the Importance of the Rain Forest.

Following COP 26 Rob Laet published another article, applying his deep knowledge of the for est and the power of the water cycle to the challenge of cooling the Earth. We have received permission to publish Rob’s article below. The relevance for cities is again obvious – in order for us to address climate change we need not only to embrace the CO2 issue, but it may be even more important for us to appreciate and respond to Gaia’s water cycle as it supports not only the Amazon Rain Forest but all life on the planet. Thank you Rob for permission to share your insights in this blog.

by Guest Contributor: Rob de LaetOUR PLANET IS ALIVE

To understand why we have such a perfectly balanced climate on planet Earth conducive to life that has been developing for 3,8 billion years on our watery planet, we need to accept and postulate that the planet is alive. ‘’The available paleodata testify for a stable maintenance of the values of global mean surface temperatures within the interval 5-25 C during the last seven hundred million years.’’ (A. Makarieva [1]). It is complex, interactive life itself that is regulating the global surface temperature through the interaction with the water cycle, with water being the major greenhouse gas on Earth. The fact that the Earth is alive, is a basic understanding of Indigenous knowledge. Now western science needs to accept this Copernican shift in mindset and step out of the geo-mechanical world view in order to solve the crisis of life on our planet in dialogue with nature. The damage we have done to the biosphere will soon pass tipping points that will take her millions of years to rebalance into a new homeostasis, most likely without the human species, unless we act with this insight and with action the size and speed needed to turn the tide as fast as we can.

NATURE WILL SAVE OUR SPECIES IF WE SUPPORT HER

Forests are planetary organs of our planet that cool in at least three powerful ways:

Storage of water in its soils and vegetation and sequestration of atmospheric carbon [2]The biotic pump function irrigating the continents and transporting heat to the outer atmosphereThe creation of clouds increasing the albedo-effect of the planet reflecting energy back into space

Emerging science [3] supports the insights that the combined cooling effect of these three mechanisms is much stronger than currently understood. Forests can really cool our planet!

Through forest and forest-like smart landscapes, including agroforestry and climate-smart cities, we can cool the planet at the speed and scale needed to avert a climate catastrophe. Restoring nature at scale will not only harvest significant amounts of CO2 but will also effectively restore the cooling capacity through the hydrological cycle, driven by the interaction between forests and the atmosphere and the recreation of lifegiving soils, securing carbon. We can reactivate and enhance the cooling power of Earth considerably by:

preserving existing forests and creating new biodiverse forests supporting farmers worldwide to create agroforestry landscapes for food production with high cooling capacity.support smart regreening of our cities and other human infrastructure.

In return, nature will not only increase the Earth’s cooling capacity, it will also have a dampening effect on extreme weather events and regulate the hydrocycle better, decreasing the immediate damage to the global economy. This frontloading of regreening the planet and especially the tropical zones, has positive consequences for the economy, from the perspective of risk management and has a large positive social impact, inverting the deeply painful inequality that exists. Meanwhile we can achieve our climate goals faster, cheaper and in a way that is just and deeply meaningful.

But we are running out of time, and we need to get this underway in years before climate chaos is overtaking us. Top scientist Luciana Gatti of INPE (the Brazilian counterpart of NASA) tells us that we have five years to avert a tipping point [4] in the Amazon Rainforest. Once we lose that forest, all our other efforts will be in vain.

THE EARTHSHOT TO COOL OUR PLANET

To turn things around, we need to embark NOW on this connected set of connected projects:

Spread the deep knowledge that we are part of a living, intelligent planet and bring new research to the front page demonstrating the combined cooling power of especially tropical forests, which has been hugely underestimated. Two cooling mechanisms have been largely overlooked: the biotic pump function and the formation of clouds by healthy forests increasing the albedo of the planet, reflecting energy back into space. The effect of healthy soils created by the foliage, creates sponges that retain water longer, increasing the time that vegetation can grow.

We are calling on a group of top scientists [5] to calculate the total cooling effect, but it is very likely that the outcome is astonishing and shows that we can cool the planet with forests, while the decarbonization of the economy and the energy transition are continuing, driven by a price on carbon between 50 and 100 USD per ton and all the while the principles of Doughnut Economics and circular economics are being applied.

2. Create a global financial structure for sizable amounts to enter the regeneration at scale and speed, involving the payment of hundreds of millions of people, minimizing red tape through technology:

3. Create a digital architecture for global regeneration, existing of three elements:

A. A global, but partly regionalized platform to bring all stakeholders of regeneration together with their skill sets, possibilities, finance, project proposals and needs together to create a global regreening project ecosystem, powered by hybrid finance including the automated payout of carbon credits based on satellite measurements of biomass increase. B. An application, called the Arara App connecting the rural poor to the internet, including information, communication, (micro-) finance and income based on the creation of biomass, C. Once A & B have sufficient volume, the creation of a regenerative currency called Earth to provide the flywheel of regeneration by keeping the currency circulating within the regenerative economy.

4. Roll out large projects on the tropical continents to pay for the protection and regeneration of forests and the introduction of large scale multi layered forms of agroforestry to produce food and other produce, while having a global moratorium on the destruction of all primary forests and continu protection, regeneration and reforestation efforts in the other climates.

5. The most urgent of these large projects is the creation of the Great Green Wall for the Amazon Averting the Tipping Point of Dieback of the great forest before the dieback gathers pace and becomes an unstoppable run-away effect.

6. Start large scale local pilot projects based on the above knowledge and possibilities in 2022. In Brazil, the 413.000-hectare Araribóia Indigenous Territory of the Guajajara People is ready to implement this under the leadership of the Indigenous Peoples. It will include tokenization for nature protection.

7. Roll out dozens of ambitious > 1000.000-hectare projects in the tropics, specifically in West- and Central Africa, mountainous regions of Eastern Africa, in Southern and NE India, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, South-China, on Sumatra, Kalimantan , West-Papua, North Australia, mangroves and even regreen some deserts.

I am asking you to connect your heart to our living Earth and future generations and help create a fast, huge mobilization based on these insights the size of which is unprecedented and join hands with Nature to avert a climate catastrophe through a sweeping movement taking over COP27 as a starting point to cool our beautiful, living, intelligent planet of which we are all born, our only mother Earth.

‘’Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.’’ Margaret Mead

Ubaíra, Brazil, 11 December 2021

Rob de Laet

Footnotes:

Biotic regulation: climate https://cbmjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13021-018-0110-8/tables/2 Revealing the widespread potential of forests to increase low level cloud cover.Impending Amazon tipping point puts biome and world at risk scientists warnSee below scientist we are talking to to come together to quantify total forest coolingAbout the author: Rob de Laet

Co-founder of the World Climate School, member of Climate Change and Consciousness, Guardians Worldwide, Alliance for the Restoration of the Amazon, Doughnut Brazil, Metamorphosis, Amazon Investor Coalition and Extinction Rebellion.

Rob de Laet, Dutch, born 1956, adventurer, world traveller, philosopher, now living in a remote valley in the Brazilian rainforest, regenerating and rewilding himself. From an early age in the grip of the question of consciousness, the crisis humanity was heading for and is now in the midst of. Since 2013 full time focusing on resolving the crisis our species and planet are in. Member of several climate organisations.

‘’We will need to reinvent ourselves urgently to create a sustainable future for our offspring and all living creatures. We need to limit the damage to Nature and reconnect to our beautiful living, intelligent planet Earth, while birthing a new collective consciousness and an ecological civilization. In fact we need to all realize that we are indigenous to this miracle that is our planet, our only mother Earth.’’

With special thanks to: Hans Joergen Rasmussen, Stephanie Mines, Daniel Pinchbeck, Connie Meyer, Carlos Nobre, Antonio Donato Nobre, Inger-Mette Stenseth, Charles Eisenstein, Jonah Wittkamper, Marcel de Berg, Pieter Paul de Kluiver and my dear uncle Guboo Ted Thomas.

Notes:

[5] Scientists we are reaching out or talking to, in order to form a group to quantify total minimum forest cooling effects:

Dr. Antonio Donato Nobre

Dr. Luciana Gatti

Dr. Anastassia Makarieva

Dr. Peter Bunyard

Dr. Ugo Bardi

M.sc. Pieter-Paul de Kluiver

Dr. Walter Jehne

and Tartatchenko, Pocorny, Duvellier, Millan.

Additional reading:

Biotic Pump Greening Group

Tokenizers can help protect the Amazon Forest and the Climate

Green Water Cools

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Published on December 20, 2021 01:40

Integral City Meta Blog 2021

Here is the Integral City 2021 Meta Blog. It connects the 4 Voices of the Integral City to the Planet, People, Place and Power that energized us in 2021.

It follows the traditions of:

Integral City Meta Blog 2020 Integral City Meta Blog 2019 Integral City Meta Blog 2018 Integral City Meta Blog 2017 Integral City Meta Blog 2016 Integral City Meta Blog 2015 Integral City Meta Blog 2014 Integral City Meta Blog 2013 1. Equinox/Solstice Newsletters – Integral City Reflective Organ

Reflective Organ Newsletter March Equinox 2021: Translate Care for Gaia with Impact, Training & Story

Reflective Organ Newsletter June Solstice 2021: Unity, CAN’s, Competition, Coalitions, Collaborations

Reflective Organ Newsletter September Equinox 2021: Code Red for Regenerative Action

Reflective Organ Newsletter December Solstice 2021: Rejoice, Remember, Regenerate

2. City Region of Year 2021: Urban Arena Europe

Read about the City of the Year award here.

3. Meshworker of the Year 2021: Jim Garrison, Humanity Rising

Read the full story of Meshworker of the Year 2021 here.

Global Regeneration Summit Day 8: Cities Are Gaia’s Regeneration Hubs 4 Voices of the City with Marilyn Hamilton and Marina Demchenko Marilyn Hamilton World UNITY Week 2021 Ambassador Global MOMM 2021 Findhorn Eco Community EARTHwise Centre – IntegralCities interview with Anneloes Smitsman Humanity Rising Day 296 – Global Regeneration Corps Beyond Smart, Beyond Resilient, Beyond Complexity: Are Cities Evolving as Gaia’s Reflective Organs? (password: H3UniHamilton)This collection of videos features Integral City founder Marilyn Hamilton speaking about various aspects of the Integral City.Dr. Tom Henfrey Interviews Dr. Marilyn Hamilton for UrbanA ResearchDr. Sheeba Chander Interviews Dr. Marilyn Hamilton re Ecocity World Summit plansWatch 2 Green Manifestos delivered by Oleg Lega and Marilyn Hamilton at Amsterdam’s 2019 WeMakethe.City FestivalPassword for all video’s: WeMakeTheCity1!After movie: https://vimeo.com/344647596Oleg: https://vimeo.com/344652468Marilyn: https://vimeo.com/344653330Discussion: https://vimeo.com/344653036.fusion-fullwidth.fusion-builder-row-6 { overflow:visible; }

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Meta Blog 2021

Here is the Integral City 2021 Meta Blog. It connects the 4 Voices of the Integral City to the Planet, People, Place and Power that energized us in 2021.

It follows the traditions of:

Integral City Meta Blog 2020 Integral City Meta Blog 2019 Integral City Meta Blog 2018 Integral City Meta Blog 2017 Integral City Meta Blog 2016 Integral City Meta Blog 2015 Integral City Meta Blog 2014 Integral City Meta Blog 2013 1. Equinox/Solstice Newsletters – Integral City Reflective Organ

Reflective Organ Newsletter March Equinox 2021: Translate Care for Gaia with Impact, Training & Story

Reflective Organ Newsletter June Solstice 2021: Unity, CAN’s, Competition, Coalitions, Collaborations

Reflective Organ Newsletter September Equinox 2021: Code Red for Regenerative Action

2. City of the Year 2021: Urban Arena Europe

Read about the City of the Year award here.

3. Meshworker of the Year 2021: Jim Garrison, Humanity Rising

Read the full story of Meshworker of the Year 2021 here.

Global Regeneration Summit Day 8: Cities Are Gaia’s Regeneration Hubs 4 Voices of the City with Marilyn Hamilton and Marina Demchenko Marilyn Hamilton World UNITY Week 2021 Ambassador Global MOMM 2021 Findhorn Eco Community EARTHwise Centre – IntegralCities interview with Anneloes Smitsman Humanity Rising Day 296 – Global Regeneration Corps Beyond Smart, Beyond Resilient, Beyond Complexity: Are Cities Evolving as Gaia’s Reflective Organs? (password: H3UniHamilton)This collection of videos features Integral City founder Marilyn Hamilton speaking about various aspects of the Integral City.Dr. Tom Henfrey Interviews Dr. Marilyn Hamilton for UrbanA ResearchDr. Sheeba Chander Interviews Dr. Marilyn Hamilton re Ecocity World Summit plansWatch 2 Green Manifestos delivered by Oleg Lega and Marilyn Hamilton at Amsterdam’s 2019 WeMakethe.City FestivalPassword for all video’s: WeMakeTheCity1!After movie: https://vimeo.com/344647596Oleg: https://vimeo.com/344652468Marilyn: https://vimeo.com/344653330Discussion: https://vimeo.com/344653036.fusion-fullwidth.fusion-builder-row-2 { overflow:visible; }

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Integral City Ecosystem: 10 Years Incubating Gaia’s Human Hives

10 years ago, Integral City sponsored the first major outreach project after the publication of the first book in the Integral City book series (2008, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive).

We called our online initiative Integral City 2.0 Online Conference or ELab 2012 for short. Before Zoom was ubiquitous, we used the Meeting Maestro to design and deliver a 30-day online lab. Each of 4 weeks featured 3 of the Intelligences explored in the book, interviewing Thought Leaders, Designers and Practitioners related to each Intelligence.

You can find the details of the conference proceedings in these (free downloadable) publications of A Radically Optimistic Inquiry into Operating System 2.0.

Executive Summary (85 pages) Interviews Appendices A1-12 (659 pages) Harvest Weeks 1-4 / Days 1-12 / Appendix A13 (32 Pages)

We remember with affection and appreciation (and not a little awe at our hutzpah) the doors that we opened at that time, introducing the world to the Thought Leaders, Designers and Practitioners of Integral City’s 12 Intelligences.

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Whole Systems Design

Lifemaps

Reinventing Work

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We could never have succeeded with this endeavour without the team that gathered to co-create this conference.

It is heart-warming to report that the majority of that team has remained together as Gaia’s Human Hive Integrators – affectionately shortened to DG’s – the Divine Gaians and our invaluable Constellation Team. We have convened monthly for more than 10 years holding the space for Integral City to incubate and mature our various callings to be shared, supported, nurtured and appreciated.

At the end of 2021 when the post COP26 world is still gasping and grasping for ways to respond and reverse Code Red, our DG’s have good reason to celebrate a growing lineage of Care, Complexity and Capacity for Gaia Human Hives. So many manifestations have come from our relationships to Integral City and one another. This powerful team has founded organizations and websites, authored books, blogs and videos, created games and spawned their own communities of practice. (Not surprisingly, 4 of these talented co-creators have been honoured as Integral City Meshworkers of the Year – Beth, Diana Claire, Ellen, Anne-Marie.) As a result, it appears that we have co-created the conditions for an Ecosystem of Integral City Practice.

Beth Sanders, founder of Nest City, has published Nest City: How Citizens Serve Cities and Cities serve Citizens. supporting her work in the world through the website, a series of delightfully illustrated blogs and podcasts.

Diana Claire Douglas, founder of Knowing Field Designs, is on the verge of publishing Whole Systems Design (see short introduction and link to pdf of Chapter 6 here) – sharing her experiences with Integral City both as an organization and as an example of inspiration for Systemic Constellation Work in social contexts, capturing the fractal nature of IC’s complex adaptive patterns.

Ellen van Dongen founder of Lifemaps has created Lifemaps, with 6 scenarios based on Integral City’s Master Code of Care and 4 Voices. (Explore more in the March 2021 Newsletter here.)

Alia Aurami Chief Editor of Enlivening Edge has just curated an e-book on Reinventing the Teal Organization (see Newsletter December 2021). Furthermore, she is in the last stages of publishing the first of a trilogy of books that develops many of Integral City’s core frameworks – her first one will focus on Worldviews.

Anne-Marie Voorhoeve co-founder of The Hague Center of Global Governance, Innovation and Emergence continues to use the Integral City GPS in many venues from The Hague Centre’s initiatives to World Unity Week, UN Peace Youth Assemblies, Co-Creating Europe and Evolutionary Leaders.

Pieter Wackers Integral City Training Faculty, and videographer has been using Integral City 4 Voices and 5 Maps to introduce Social Architecture to architectural students and supporting The Hague Center to build regenerating capacities for Peace Youth Assemblies.

Linda Shore and Joan Arnott serve the Integral City Ecology of Practice as gifted “space holders” who presence the Evolutionary Impulse to hold our many endeavours in sacred space wherever and whenever we are serving around the world.

Patrizzia Rocha, Integral City Intern created the IntegralCity EcoRegion YouTube Channel – accessible here. (She is also serving the youngest generations in our Integral Cities as a gifted Montessori Teacher embarking on creating Forest Schools.)

In this sacred season it is a wonderful time to celebrate the dance of integration and differentiation that flows through our Integral City DG’s and the ecosystem that is emerging.

The inspiring mystery of how we DGs continue to flow and impact each other and the world, augurs well for our intention to create Integral Cities as Gaia’s City Regeneration Hubs (the next stage arising from our Schooling for a Planet of Integral Cities).

I can sense the Overlighting Evolutionary Impulse (that lies at the centre of our Integral City GPS) calling us together into a global garden seeded by many co-creative expressions of local and trans-global manifestations. We are incubating a whole seedbed of organs (Gaia’s Reflective Organs!) reading and willing to collaborate with other regenerative ecosystems.

We invite you to celebrate the Integral City breakthroughs from 2021 – click on the links above. Appreciate the many ways we have lived into our Master Code of Care in the Meta Blog 2021. Then follow us down the many paths to the future we are tracking on all the Integral City Maps as we walk, run, fly and attune to the wellbeing of Gaia’s Human Hives.

Join us at our gateways into 2022. As Human Hive incubators, we are co-creating regeneration energies over the next 9 years, for Integral City to change the climate colour of Gaia’s Human Hives from Code Red into Code Green.

Out Beyond the Smart City, Out Beyond the Resilient City … lies the Integral City … there is a Knowing Field … we will meet you there.

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Integral City Ecology of Practice: 10 Years Incubating Gaia’s Human Hives

10 years ago, Integral City sponsored the first major outreach project after the publication of the first book in the Integral City book series (2008, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive).

We called our online initiative Integral City 2.0 Online Conference or ELab 2012 for short. Before Zoom was ubiquitous, we used the Meeting Maestro to design and deliver a 30-day online lab. Each of 4 weeks featured 3 of the Intelligences explored in the book, interviewing Thought Leaders, Designers and Practitioners related to each Intelligence.

You can find the details of the conference proceedings in these (free downloadable) publications of A Radically Optimistic Inquiry into Operating System 2.0.

Executive Summary (85 pages) Interviews Appendices A1-12 (659 pages) Harvest Weeks 1-4 / Days 1-12 / Appendix A13 (32 Pages)

We remember with affection and appreciation (and not a little awe at our hutzpah) the doors that we opened at that time, introducing the world to the Thought Leaders, Designers and Practitioners of Integral City’s 12 Intelligences.

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Whole Systems Design

Lifemaps

Reinventing Work

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We could never have succeeded with this endeavour without the team that gathered to co-create this conference.

It is heart-warming to report that the majority of that team has remained together as Gaia’s Human Hive Integrators – affectionately shortened to DG’s – the Divine Gaians and our invaluable Constellation Team. We have convened monthly for more than 10 years holding the space for Integral City to incubate and mature our various callings to be shared, supported, nurtured and appreciated.

At the end of 2021 when the post COP26 world is still gasping and grasping for ways to respond and reverse Code Red, our DG’s have good reason to celebrate a growing lineage of Care, Complexity and Capacity for Gaia Human Hives. So many manifestations have come from our relationships to Integral City and one another. This powerful team has founded organizations and websites, authored books, blogs and videos, created games and spawned their own communities of practice. (Not surprisingly, 4 of these talented co-creators have been honoured as Integral City Meshworkers of the Year – Beth, Diana Claire, Ellen, Anne-Marie.) As a result, it appears that we have co-created the conditions for an Ecology of Integral City Practice.

Beth Sanders, founder of Nest City, has published Nest City: How Citizens Serve Cities and Cities serve Citizens. supporting her work in the world through the website, a series of delightfully illustrated blogs and podcasts.

Diana Claire Douglas, founder of Knowing Field Designs, is on the verge of publishing Whole Systems Design (see short introduction and link to pdf of Chapter 6 here) – sharing her experiences with Integral City both as an organization and as an example of inspiration for Systemic Constellation Work in social contexts, capturing the fractal nature of IC’s complex adaptive patterns.

Ellen van Dongen founder of Lifemaps has created Lifemaps, with 6 scenarios based on Integral City’s Master Code of Care and 4 Voices. (Explore more in the March 2021 Newsletter here.)

Alia Aurami Chief Editor of Enlivening Edge has just curated an e-book on Reinventing the Teal Organization – here. Furthermore, she is in the last stages of publishing the first of a trilogy of books that develops many of Integral City’s core frameworks – this first one is on Worldviews.

Anne-Marie Voorhoeve founder of The Hague Centre of Global Governance, Innovation and Emergence continues to use the Integral City GPS in many venues from The Hague Centre’s initiatives to World Unity Week, UN Peace Youth Assemblies, Co-Creating Europe and Evolutionary Leaders.

Pieter Wackers Integral City Training Faculty, and videographer has been using Integral City 4 Voices and 5 Maps to introduce Social Architecture to architectural students and supporting The Hague Centre to build regenerating capacities for the UN Peace Youth Assemblies.

Linda Shore and Joan Arnott serve the Integral City Ecology of Practice as gifted “space holders” who presence the Evolutionary Impulse to hold our many endeavours in sacred space wherever and whenever we are serving around the world.

Patrizzia Rocha, Integral City Intern created the IntegralCity EcoRegion YouTube Channel – accessible here. (She is also serving the youngest generations in our Integral Cities as a gifted Montessori Teacher embarking on creating Forest Schools.)

In this sacred season it is a wonderful time to celebrate the dance of integration and differentiation that flows through our Integral City DG’s and the ecosystem that is emerging.

The inspiring mystery of how we DGs continue to flow and impact each other and the world, augurs well for our next intention to create Integral Cities as Gaia’s City Regeneration Hubs (the next stage arising from our Schooling for a Planet of Integral Cities).

I can sense the Overlighting Evolutionary Impulse (that lies at the centre of our Integral City GPS) calling us together into a global garden seeded by many co-creative expressions of local and trans-global manifestations. We are incubating a whole seedbed of organs (Gaia’s Reflective Organs!) reading and willing to collaborate with other regenerative ecologies.

We invite you to celebrate the Integral City breakthroughs from 2021 – click on the links above. Appreciate the many ways we have lived into our Master Code of Care in the Meta Blog 2021. Then follow us down the many paths to the future we are tracking on all the Integral City Maps as we walk, run, fly and attune to the wellbeing of Gaia’s Human Hives.

Join us at our gateways into 2022. As Human Hive incubators, we are co-creating regeneration energies over the next 9 years, for Integral City to change the climate colour Gaia’s Human Hives from Code Red into Code Green.

Out Beyond the Smart City, Out Beyond the Resilient City … lies the Integral City … there is a Knowing Field … we will meet you there.

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Science & Consciousness – What? So What? Now What?

What?What happens when you accept the invitation to join the Science and Consciousness Conference, November 14-18, 2021, convened by Ubiquity University’s Chief Innovation Officer, Peter Merry and hosted at Broughton Hall Estate, the home for 1000 years (yes one thousand) of the family of Roger Tempest?

Stage 1: Introduction

At Stage 1 you introduce yourself as being interested in the Human Hive Mind.

You are taken back to the future when you enter the blissful serenity of the futurisitic glass Sanctuary just a short walk through lovingly landscaped grounds of the Broughton estate home, which displays an impressive art collection in every room from library to great room, reflecting the history of England and the UK.

These two buildings were the meeting venues of much of our Science and Consciousness experience. But as impressive as these time-spanning structures were, they were not the most provocative locations of the conference. That was reserved for the WYRD Experience Lab – located in a re-purposed out-building. WYRD is a transplanted lab from Princeton University – where Dr. Bob Jahn and his colleague Dr. Brenda Dunne operated the PEAR program – Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research. PEAR has been lovingly relocated – including comfy sofa, pear art, nostalgic photo album and all the strange and exotic equipment – from the storage container that captured the artefacts of their research journey, after Bob and Brenda retired in 2007.

The new WYRD Experience lab is a time capsule that has been re-opened to revive old learning and gain new opportunities to build on the discoveries – or anomalies that emerged during PEAR’s contentious operation at the heart of Princeton’s Engineering Department. So dedicated were Bob and Brenda to researching the evidence of “spooky effects at a distance” that they quietly defied the disdain of both the Department and the University. They worked (creatively) around the constraints that prevented them (within the confines of an Engineering Department and a university dedicated to strictly empirical research) from naming participants as “subjects, co-researchers or students” or their work as “research”. Luckily they had funders who supported their pursuits into the curious worlds of consciousness and quantum mechanics.

Like good engineers they invented equipment to measure their data. They kept meticulous records and dutifully reported to unappreciative conference audiences.

And despite the negative vibrations that surrounded them the PEAR lab produced results that attracted the interest of investigative journalist, Lynne McTaggart. Lynne wrote about the discoveries of PEAR in her best-selling book “The Field” and has gone on to inquire into related arenas, with the publication of “The Intention Experiment” and “The Power of Eight”.

Lynne McTaggart was the penultimate speaker at the 2021 Science and Consciousness Conference, where she reminisced about her first encounters with the equipment now housed in the Broughton WYRD Lab (click here to read Lynne’s blog on this). She was one of the first authors to write about the REG – the Random Event Generator – equipment that could track the emergence of coherence in the field of consciousness where it is situated. One of the original REGs was sitting in the WYRD lab – about the size of a bread box – still capable of emitting a stream of random numbers as events unfold it its location and tracking any patterns that emerge from changes to consciousness in the field.

The theory is that humans (as do all living beings) emit energy waves that can be measured. Most of us are now familiar with the capacity of fMRI machines to measure the energy consciousness as brain wave frequencies that track our states of waking, sleeping, dreaming, deep dreaming – alpha, beta, delta, theta waves. Much brain entrainment equipment can replicate these frequencies and assist users to improve performance of everything from meditation to competitive sports.

But the PEAR REGs were not set to a specific frequency, rather they were measuring the random frequencies generated by the machine in the midst of groups of people over time. And they discovered an interesting phenomenon; namely, that when groups (especially large groups) of people experienced the same event, the REG would record patterns of coherence that seemed to indicate that people were attuning or aligning into a common frequency. Coherence patterns were registered especially at global scale events – like sports finals, cultural sharings and breaking news like Princess Diana’s death. (To test the pervasiveness of this another PEAR colleague Roger Nelson installed REG’s around the world and received global readings of consciousness frequencies , not unlike tracking seismic waves in the earth’s mantel.)

The WYRD Lab now contains examples of other equipment designed to test consciousness – like the Frog Sphere that can be controlled by individuals or a group around the table top on which it sits, focussing attention to direct its path. Another wall-sized pinball machine – affectionately named Murphy – could use pinballs to register random (bell-curved) patterns vs intentional controls that shape the patterns. Other variations included equipment that used flashing light or flowing water to demonstrate how thought aka consciousness can impact energy flow in material objects and energy fields.

While the conference attendees were mesmerized by the nostalgia of the re-created transplanted PEAR Lab, they were riveted when Peter Merry, the Ubiquity University Conference Convenor, revealed that the REG had been running with our group in the room during the first morning. That was an especially auspicious opening to the conference because Peter as Chief Innovation Officer of Ubiquity University bestowed on Brenda an Honorary Doctorate. We were all unanimous in our appreciation and Brenda was speechless – but delighted. And the REG recorded our mutual enjoyment by showing coherence developing during the ceremony and peaking at the moment of the surprise bestowment of Certificate, Cap and Applause.

Since none of us knew this frequency tracking was happening in the background we were impressed and movitivated to move into the next stage of the conference.

Stage 2: Try REG

In Stage 2, we were all given a chance to try out the REG as software downloaded on laptop computers. Choosing partners we did not know well, we practised coming into coherence by attempting to change the direction of the Random Generator. What seemed to work well, was a relaxed relationship, an agreed goal/direction and good humour in the trials.

Some of us (like me) experimented with the impact of other frequency modulators – like Q Link, Meditation Entrainment Music/Sound, Super-Coherence Frequency Generators – and had enough indications that indeed the frequency environments impacted each other.

[image error]Stage 3: Remote Viewing

Another opportunity we could participate in was remote viewing. We paired up (in my case with my travel buddy, Rachel Olson, Findhorn Foundation Philanthropy Director). One of us was sent off to the forest to immerse ourselves in Nature and select an object that we would relate to through all our senses in a caring and wholistic way. As Sender(s) we “sent or projected” the image to our Receiver(s) back in the Sanctuary. The Receiver drew the pattern of what they sensed they were receiving.

Then we re-united and compared notes. In my case, travel buddy Rachel Olson correctly received the patterns of a tall (maple?) tree, embraced with moss, growing beside a path.

Other Sender/Receiver teams had similar experiences of positive resonance and we were both entertained and delighted with this third way of remotely connecting.

A bonus of this experience was learning from our Forest Bathing Guide (and later Roger Tempest) that Broughton intends to create a Forest School in the near future. (As Integral City Intern, Patrizzia Rocha is learning in that direction, we planted a seed that we hope can sprout into service to such a Forest School.)

[image error]Stage 4: Research: DMT, Virtual Reality, Bees

The next stage of science and consciousness experience came from a lecture by Dr. David Luke, curator of the book DMT Dialogues. I was intrigued to meet David, as I had downloaded the DMT e-book when it had been published 2 years ago.

Many of the authors of the book had direct experience with DMT – an element that is a primary active ingredient in many substances used to alter consciousness (like mushrooms, ayahuasca, lsd, etc.). Intriguingly our own bodies produce DMT so it seems a matter of amplifying it and opening to the journeys that unfold (often guided over millennia by Shamans).

Another completely different technology that we sampled came from the VR experience created by another contributor. We were able to don VR goggles and be guided as we travelled through a world imagined as an Oracle card deck – setting an intention that influenced the choices we were offered to select paths that opened to us in Virtual Reality.

Ironically I set an intention to serve the consciousness of the Human Hive Mind and when I left the VR room, I literally opened the door onto a cluster of researchers working with Bees in Austria. They had been curious about what a REG might reflect if placed in a swarm of bees.

I shared with them some of my many learnings from Bees and how I had developed for Integral City the 4 Voices of the Human Hive. They accepted my suggestion that I join their transdisciplinary, transnational team, to visit Findhorn (where I live) and learn with and about the life in our beehives.

Stage 5: Practices

Throughout the conference, every morning we were guided in a meditation to quiet our (over?) stimulated minds. We were guided by Paris Akrill (co-founder with partner Roger Tempest of the Broughton Transformation Sanctuary) through attunements to her singing bowls.

Nishad Dubashia lead us through a meditation inspired by David Bohm and Krishnamurti (which he also shared as a longer presentation exploring his book “Unity of Everything”.

And Peter Merry guided us through a series of beautiful but practical practices and technologies that opened us to Involution, Evolution and Volution – waking, energizing, cleansing and wholing our beings.

As a counterpoint to the mornings, we experimented in the evenings with Systemic Constellation Work (to explore how triads could connect to consciousness shared and expanding). Another opportunity lead us through a whole exhibition of Spirit inspired artworks.

And on the last evening we experienced the Fire Temple, where we gathered for singing and drumming and hot drinks in the frosty air. It was a magical time of collective rhythm, bright stars and literally a full moon. We all took turns being called into the inner circle of drummers and dancers.

As a final moving meditation on the last morning, Calen Rayne shared the intricate research he has conducted on his own journey as a Shaman (which he shares through courses with Ubiquity University/Wisdom School). He then lead us outdoors to the Broughton Power Point where lies the labyrinth he attuned from and into the land (listening to the stones themselves locate their order in the spiral of the labyrinth).

So What?

I share the details of our amazing 4 day experience so readers can appreciate the fullness and variety of our experience.

And now that I am literally one month into the future beyond that time together, I have paused long enough to glean what this might mean to the understanding of the Human Hive Mind in the Integral City.

Certainly the processes that we experienced at the conference were Integral in their design – tapping into the 4 quadrants of I/We/It/Its. Shifting through the complexities of Ego/Ethno/World/Cosmas. Exploring the roles of Giving and Receiving. Dancing in a meshwork of self-organizing creativity and structuring patterns. Living, working, playing, relating simply and mindfully.

I ask, “If we can control consciousness how can we map it with the Integral City 5 Maps. How do we improve our capacity for leading the 4 Voices of the City?”

As I practise the Islands of Calm Meditation with Subtle Activism every Saturday morning at Findhorn – how could I literally track with the REG the influence each of us might be having on 1000 others?

And for Findhorn who would like to track the change in Consciousness that arises from guests studying in situ or at distance (online) how can we borrow what the REGs teach us and have been adapted by IONs to measure the impact of their programs? Or by Heart Math to invite in the global practice of attuning our frequencies to the Earth’s own frequency?

How will becoming conscious of our frequency show humans how we impact, influence and improve the Earth that we recognize as our Mother? How can attunement become something more than wishful but be recognized (like Mindfulness is now) as a practise of coherence and wellbeing?

I think that organizations like Integral City and Findhorn Foundation could use these metrics generated by REG to provide the evidence of our impact on people, place and planet. All these scales of life are impacted by collective consciousness – that is WYRD and Wonderful.

I also think this opens us up to a whole new taxonomy of epistemologies and invites us to research ino other ways of knowing like Systemic Constellation Work – (and The Hague Centres’ Institute for Field Research into the Knowing Field – represented at the conference by Drs. Anne-Marie Voorhoeve.)

Now What?

So with those What’s and So What’s before us, our next step in Action Learning is to ask Now What?

For Integral City we will keep focused on the questions we have about revealing the Human Hive Mind. We will join THC and further the research into the Knowing Field as the Source of Consciousness.

We will also continue to explore the implications with Nishad Dubashia and Peter Merry about new insights into the Diamond Model, explained in his book “The Theory that Unites Everything”, based on David Bohm’s and Krishnamurti’s insights.

At Findhorn EcoVilllage I will report back on the implications of the conference. I will encourage them to join with Ubiquity University and locate research project here in Findhorn for the research into the design and impact of amplifying conscious awareness, for the individual and collective.

And of course I will follow up on bringing the research on the Bees here to Findhorn.

Together our many investigations into Epistemologies may change the very Ontology that they reveal.

References:

Photos by: Mark Rogers, Adrian Iacobus, Marilyn Hamilton

Gina Lazenby Blog https://feminineleadershiptoday.wordpress.com/2021/11/26/my-wyrd-and-wonderful-week-talking-to-machines/

Lynne McTaggart Blog https://lynnemctaggart.com/bouquets-for-brenda/

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Published on December 17, 2021 10:08

Integral City Region of Year 2021: UrbanA, Urban Arenas for Sustainable and Just Cities

UrbanA culminated in creating the 4 Sets of 17 Keys for unlocking Sustainable and Just Cities.

Integral City of the Year 2021 is a city association spanning a whole region: Urban Arena Europe – affectionately known as UrbanA. In its trans-European work over the last few years, UrbanA has made visible many of the frameworks developed by Integral City including:

4 +1 Voices Maps Master Code of Care GPS of Intelligences

Who Are UrbanA Partners?

UrbanA was a 3-year project funded by the European Commission and led by a consortium of seven partners: ICLEI, DRIFT, CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY, CIENCAS LISBOA, UN FREIBERG, ECOLISE, ICTA.

[image error]Why UrbanA?

Cities play a key role in responding to the great challenges of our time. However, increasing poverty and inequality, exacerbated by the recent financial and housing crises, are putting the social cohesion and resilience of European cities to the test.

Much research has focused on teasing out the causes of urban social inequality and ecological unsustainability, and on understanding the connections, tensions and contradictions between the two. Research and innovation have also contributed to the development of ways to make cities more just and sustainable. Yet the need to consolidate and effectively communicate this knowledge and experience remains.

UrbanA, Urban Arenas for Sustainable and Just Cities, took up this challenge.

How & Where? Purpose, Funding, Arenas

UrbanA was funded by H2020. It brought together hundreds of urban activists, policy makers and researchers in a highly collaborative way. (A group of “Fellows” were also invited to advise and reflect – Dr. Marilyn Hamilton, Founder of Integral City Meshworks was honoured to serve in this capacity – from where she had a front row seat to observe the trans-European events unfolding).

The consortium set out to tackle the challenge of how to make cities both just and sustainable. UrbanA stands for “Urban Arenas for Sustainable and Just Cities.” There were four Arenas, each happened in a different city and focused on a specific theme:

Rotterdam – Mapping approaches to urban sustainability and justice (November 2019)Barcelona – Justice challenges in urban sustainability (June 2020)Berlin – Governance arrangements for sustainable and just cities (March 2020)Brussels – Policy action for sustainable and just cities (October 2021)UrbanA Community of Practice Invited 4+1 Voices of the City

The UrbanA Community of Practice (CoP) has become an open network of individuals committed to taking constructive action on urban social inequality and ecological unsustainability in the ambition to create more just and sustainable cities.

UrbanA created an open-ended online collaborative database, which collects relevant approaches that can be used by city-makers to tackle unsustainability and injustice in cities. (This compendium makes no claims of authoritative completeness but welcomes ongoing suggestions).

UrbanA aimed to:

synthesize and broker knowledge for sustainable and just cities generated by prior research and innovation projects and translate this knowledge into action (IC Map 1)empower participants to apply this knowledge locally (IC Map 2)facilitate interaction among diverse participants (IC Map 3, Map 4)influence policies in favour of sustainable and just cities. (IC Map4, Map5)

(We notice that these aims positioned UrbanA on many of the Integral City Maps noted in parentheses above – as result, participants gained a shapeshifting diversity of perspectives that resulted in thick, rich feedback.)

The project created a Community of Practice based around its knowledge commons (wiki) and produced a host of accessible resources including podcasts, videos, a blog and much discussion on social media using the #SustainableJustCities hashtag on twitter. The penultimate step of UrbanA was the publication of its new sustainablejustcities.eu platform and the launch of the 17 keys in October 2021. (Vid here)

UrbanA 4 Key Sets Unlock 17 Sustainable and Just City Intelligences

Resonating with Integral City’s Master Code of Care and 5 Maps and 12 Intelligences, that disclose the shape-shifting nature of a city as a living complex adaptive whole system, UrbanA discovered sustainable just cities are:

HonestCaringRegenerative (Robust)Informed

The 17 keys to #SustainableJustCities are grouped under these 4 “sets” on the sustainablejustcities.eu platform. The keys are 17 elements (or intelligences) which have the potential to unlock sustainable and just cities.

UrbanA believes that sustainability and justice need to go hand in hand. Their platform collects news and resources on how to create cities that are both sustainable and just. They aim to support and provide tools for decision-makers, administrators, activists, and other city-makers in their work towards an equal, inclusive, and sustainable future. The platform is based on the work done by the EU-funded UrbanA project. UrbanA is a community of individuals and organizations committed to transformative change across Europe.

What is a Sustainable and Just City?

In a sustainable and just city, the economic, political and social choices which created unsustainable and unjust structures are put under the microscope. Sustainable and just city-makers examine the roots of injustice and ecological unsustainability. They actively and openly address the tensions between justice and sustainability. They don’t focus on fixing symptoms. They look at marginalisation and inequality, overconsumption and pollution. They address these challenges through honest and, at times, uncomfortable conversations. They shape their behaviours through the lens of justice and take concrete action, for example on climate adaptation and mitigation. The 17 keys (linked to Integral City Intelligences in brackets) help city-makers in this endeavour:

Research & Innovation : ( Inquiry ) Justice is hardwired into research & innovation projects on urban sustainability Economy : ( Social ) The economy benefits people and the environment Power : ( Culture, Evo ) Power dynamics are identified and dismantled for more equitable structures Responsibility : ( Inner ) City makers take responsibility and are held accountable Technology : ( Social, Navigating ) Digital tools can serve everyone Accessibility : ( Culture, Living, Eco ) Green is for everyone Nature : ( Eco, Emergent ) Nature creates living and breathing cities Diversity : ( Culture, Integral, 4 Voices) ) Inclusion starts by embracing diversity Solidarity : ( Culture, Inner ) Solidarity is fairness in action Adaptation : ( Emergent, Living ) Change is inevitable, and adaptation essential Regional : ( Eco, Living ) Regional integration makes cities stronger Participation : ( Culture, Meshworking ) Meaningful participation is empowering Art : ( Inner, Culture, Navigating ) Art creates a sense of belonging, and has the power to transform places Civil Society : ( 4 Voices, Culture ) Anybody can be a change-maker in their community Knowledge : ( Inquiry, Navigating, Eco ) Knowledge is owned and managed by the community Translocal : ( Map 2, 4+1 Voices ) Sharing local learning brings transformative change Finance : ( Social, Navigating ) We need new ways of funding

The UrbanA videos for the keys are found here and here. Throughout the gatherings of UrbanA, vignettes were created by Barcelona-based graphic artist Carlotta Cataldi (find her on Instagram here).

Exploring 1 Key in Detail: Regional

The keys are grounded in the understanding that an examination of the roots of injustice and ecological unsustainability is an essential element of building cities that are equal, inclusive, and sustainable. Each key is linked to a wealth of relevant further information, including videos, podcasts & publications, as well as links to Wiki pages. Readers can delve into useful approaches and governance arrangements for making each key a reality, and the drivers of injustice that each specific key addresses.

There are 4 keys to make cities regenerative, one of which is:

Regional : Regional integration makes cities stronger

Sustainable and just cities have strong, circular and equitable links with one another in the context of a wider region, supporting both urban and rural areas. They support decentralized and collaborative economic and planning approaches, in which individual responsibility is balanced with the well-being of the region as a whole. These cities are attuned to the interconnected natural and human systems in their region: infrastructure, resource and waste flows, as well as cultural and social behaviours. With growing translocal challenges, cities can reorient goods and services to their nearby surroundings, decreasing environmental impacts and increasing resilience to crises.

Related keys: #Participation #Knowledge #Nature

What approaches can activate this key?

Enhancing the mutually beneficial development of cities and their regions for the broader purposes of sustainability and justice can be activated by three groups of approaches and goals. The first is to enable dialogue and mutual learning between civil society, the scientific community and policy makers, paying close attention to the inclusion of diverse voices and of knowledge coming from experience. This can take place via Co-learning and knowledge brokerage, Multi-stakeholder partnership – policy, Data Collection, Pathways and scenarios. The second is to support and strengthen innovative governance processes that allow for effective and empowered participation by all stakeholders, for instance via Democratic innovation through recognition, Governance and participation processes or Participatory budgeting. Finally, the third is to ensure that the initiatives and policies that are shaping the territory and people’s mindsets and behaviours can engender learning in a systemic and integral way from interventions, namely in terms of their design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and adaptation. Some concrete approaches are Community gardens and food, Social food movements, Sustainable food supply chains, Nature-based solutions, Governance for urban climate mitigation and adaptation, and Regeneration of disused urban land.

What governance arrangements enable this key?

Developing a comprehensive vision of change that can include and integrate aspirations from the regional level down to the local and community level is crucial for achieving greater sustainability and justice. Such a vision needs to go beyond words and actually shape policies, urban planning and small-scale interventions. As such, its implementation needs to come along with capacity- and relationship-building processes to empower it. Building bridges between separate stakeholder groups and Committing to a meaningful participation process are two such governance arrangements. They enable communication and broker information between different stakeholders and within institutions (effectively breaking silos), building up trust, as well as furthering inclusive and decentralised democratic participation.

What drivers of injustice does this key address?

Seeing cities as interdependent and integrated members of a region addresses the lack of coordinated policy and effective decision-making by urban governance institutions at different scales (Unfit institutional structures (#6)). It also addresses the insufficient, ineffective and limited participation in urban development: Lack of effective knowledge brokerage and stewardship opportunities (#8) and Limited citizen participation in urban planning (#7)). Regional thinking can bring a deeper capacity to listening, planning, intervening and learning in a way that breaks the status quo in terms of both sustainability and justice, especially in regard to decision making for investments and the distribution of resource flows (Uneven and exclusionary urban intensification and regeneration (#4)).

The UrbanA Community of Practice

The project consortium nurtured a “Community of Practice” to better connect communities translocally and built a “Knowledge Commons”, offering processes where collaboration happened by online, offline and blended approaches.

A Community of Practice and Knowledge Commons were also developed to assist in the process. The final output of the process resulted in the 4 Key Sets.

Each Arena event was planned to take place in one of four different cities – Rotterdam, Barcelona, Berlin and Brussels – and to focus on a specific theme.

The events were designed from the beginning, as blended gatherings, allowing people to participate either in person or online – which turned out to be prescient with the onset of the pandemic just as UrbanA events got going.

At the Arenas city-makers and city-thinkers (like Integral City’s Placemakers and Placecarers) from across Europe came together to connect with one another, to reflect on the urban knowledge that research projects have already identified, and to generate promising approaches to the creation of sustainable, inclusive and thriving cities.

City Arenas Barcelona

The second Arena event in Barcelona was organized and facilitated by BCNUEJ members of the UrbanA team. The event was attended by 46 participants, including UrbanA fellows from 13 countries, and 25 UrbanA team members from partner institutions across Europe.

The event aimed at fostering a transversal dialogue on what we mean by ‘justice’ in urban sustainability and built on the initial results of an UrbanA study that summarized the manifestations and drivers of urban injustice according to recent EU research. Participants engaged participants in contributing to the production of a clear, powerful and comprehensive statement on the drivers of urban injustice as challenges for sustainability, and to the overall UrbanA objective of consolidating and communicating knowledge and experience on how to make cities more just and sustainable.

The first day discussions focused on the 10 identified drivers of injustice in the context of urban sustainability efforts; a summary of each of which can be found in this series of short videos.

Berlin

The UrbanA, third event in Berlin Arena focused on governance arrangements for sustainable and just cities. It provided an opportunity to learn with and get inspired by practitioners from Berlin and other corners of Europe on how to organize for more sustainable and just cities; and how to best tackle inequality and exclusion.

Local Events

In addition to the larger City Arenas local events were also encouraged. UrbanA ́s Portuguese team sought to ground this process by creating face- to-face “Local Arenas” in Lisbon. The purpose was to identify, connect and co- create with local communities responding to local urban challenges, who have clear insights on urban justice, or who are developing local solutions to climate breakdown. (The story of this Local Action was told by Duncan Crowley and Constanca Belchior, in the graphic book curated by Integral City: Urban Hub 2020: Accelerating City Change in a VUCA World.)

(Further information on UrbanA, a major EU-funded project on urban sustainability and justice, can be found on the project’s public website. Much appreciation to Duncan Crowley, who assisted in compiling this story.)

Integral City 2021 is clearly more than a city. It is a Region of Cities – collaborating as an Association of Cities: UrbanA – Urban Arena Europe. They can be proud to tell a story of collaboration across Placecarers and Placemakers, the 4+1 Voices in a trans-European Community of Practice and in service to regional (and planetary) wellbeing expressed as social justice and sustainability.

It is clear to see that UrbanA through the work of convening, researching, collaborating and curating over the last 3 years culminating with the 4/17 Key Sets is a significant contribution to the Intelligences of a whole region of cities.Congratulations UrbanA, Integral City Region of the Year 2021.

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For prior Integral City of the Year Awards see:

Edmonton – City of the Year 2020

Amsterdam – City of the Year 2019

6AIKA Finland – Cities of the Year 2018

Russia’s 3 City Associations – City of the Year 2017

Fort McMurray – City of the Year 2016.

Paris – City of the Year 2015 .

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Published on December 16, 2021 04:12

Waking, Growing, Cleaning, Wholing to Adapt, Transform and Regenerate

On the day that I write this I have heard from our Integral City Intern and a Colleague in Findhorn that they are both so ill we cannot meet even on line.

I have learned that Auroville is being attacked from within and without by political forces that are actually using JCB’s to destroy forests planted by humans to restore the desertified land.

I have heard from teams working on Education and Transformation that the teams themselves are being undermined by hierarchical structures who demand and control rather than create the life conditions for co-creativity to flourish.

On the other hand, I have been gifted healing technologies that enable me to send healing energies to others.

I have been reminded by wise elders that when political fragmentation seems to be destroying hard-won resources and capacities that the roots of these actions are probably informed by trauma and the solutions are likely to emerge through healing and strengthening relationships.

Another Integral evolutionary admires an article that appreciates two apparently conflicting points of view for their individual merits and searches for the possibility that they may both be able to serve a greater good/context without tearing each other apart.

And I have been asked to contribute integrally informed frameworks, modes and ideas about living the transformative learning in a community that wants to teach others.

All of this leads me to be curious about the need for us to practice deep awareness, meditation, and compassion, to resolve our own shadows and trauma.

Witnessing all this turbulence (both positive and negative) within communities wanting to practise the most intelligent behaviors for global wellbeing, suggests to me that with such a VUCA world we will have to adapt to many life conditions. And those life conditions arising from consciousness and culture will be exacerbated by life conditions arising from floods, fire and climate change. We are on a journey to control ourselves even as we realize that we cannot control the environmental contexts in which we find ourselves.

Is the lesson that in order to adapt with any degree of wisdom we will need to transform our worldviews, perspectives and capacities to meet the levels of complexity that we have created for ourselves? Perhaps, by investing in the transformation processes we know are calling us, we may then be positioned so that we can actually regenerate from the inside out – self/ others/place/planet?

The stages to our path ahead clearly unfold from Waking Up to the impact all levels of reality manifest on the whole. From Waking Up we must Grow Up so that we can Adapt. And I suspect that embedded in the capacity to Adapt will be a commitment to Clean Up our shadows, traumas and conflicts. Through these processes, Adaptation will open us up to Transformation into a more complex Whole. Our worldviews, values, actions, relationships and systems must all Transform into a Whole that embraces Gaia as the home we share with all Life.

As we transform through these stages of Waking, Growing, Cleaning and Wholing, we will be positioned to Regenerate our Selves, each Other, our Places and our Planet.

Listen to the Introduction to Book 3: Integral City 3.7: Reframing Complex Challenges for Gaia’s Human Hives for a fuller discussion of Waking, Growing, Cleaning and Wholing

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Published on December 15, 2021 07:50

Dear Earth – Integral City Treasures Dedicated to You

Dear Earth, Dear Earth, let me tell you how I feel.

You have given me such treasure. I love you so.

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The above refrain is a simple Taizé song that awakens my growing edges. Because it honours my relationship to the Earth that birthed all Life, including me, it opens my heart to Love.

In the last year 2021 I have had some powerful experiences with heart openings that connected me more deeply to the Divine.

We set as a goal for 2021 to create Schooling for a Planet of Integral Cities. We accomplished through the delivery of key teachings:

Cities Rising for a Regenerative World (Humanity Rising) Cities Rising for a Regenerative World – Ubiquity University Micro Course – available any time online. Beyond Resilient: Integral City Inquiry, Action Impact – Ubiquity University Macro Course – delivered Live in 2 semesters – Spring 2021 and Fall 2021 – now available any time online Beyond Smart: Integral City Practices, Maps, Tools – available any time online.

We also heard directly from Gaia through three significant venues:

The lecture offered to the Russian Futures Lab. Her Voice came through as Gaia Mentors Futures for a Planet of Integral Cities (series of 12 blogs)In a similar vein Gaia used Integral City persona to speak at the FemmeQ Conference (Costa Rica). She spoke for the ears of al who wish to Care for the Gaia’s Human Hives Unto the 7th Generation At the end of the year the Voices of Integral City Peer Spirits joined us on Day 8 of COP26 for Cities Rising as Gaia’s Regeneration Hubs – accompanied by the voices of Monica Sharma/UN Leadership, Coleen Vogel/IPCC, Leonora Grvecha/ Donut Economics and Duncan Crowley/Urban Arena Europe.

Following through on the intention to create Schooling for a Planet of Integral Cities, these 2021 contributions have built a significant and hopefully generative base for the Schooling to Continue via City Regeneration Hubs, through the gateways we have opened in conferences, associations and spheres of influence around the globe.

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Published on December 15, 2021 06:58