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Integral City Map 5 – Century of Awakening: City/Regions Redeem Anthropocene

Integral City Maps Restory Human Systems & Climate Change

How do the 5 Maps used by Integral City make visible the wholeness of the human hive, when we consider Climate Change?

Each of the maps gives us different perspectives to view the patterns of wholeness – through stories. (Moreover, the Integral City maps reveal the consciousness and culture changes that Doughnut Economics depends on to realize the change that brings back human systems back into balance with all living systems.)

This is the story of Map 5. (Note its story dateline is in the imaginary future).

Dateline: January 1, 2100

The Year 2000 might have commenced the Century named for the City – but the era itself belonged to a much less benign category: the Anthropocene – the time when Earth systems became dominated by human behaviours and their consequences.

At the century’s start, the Rockefeller Foundation announced its commitment to funding 100 cities with Chief Resilience Officers. Parallel to this initiative IBM continued to build out the technology of the Smart City.

Enormous initiatives. Global resources. International organizations. Called forth because as an immature species, humans were occupying so much territory we were triggering tipping points endangering global wellbeing. We left a trail of pollution of all natural systems on land, sea and air; decimation of other species to the tune of 90% of biodiversity loss ; climate change; sea level rise; congestion of cities with up to 70% of human population living there; and social injustices arising from the massive and incoherent interconnection of all these events and systems. These were signals from the Evolutionary Impulse to awaken humans to their global impacts and call forth nascent intelligences for regeneration.

But city folk hardly noticed the implications of the Anthropocene because they had become addicted to technologies used to manipulate individuals and tribes around the world for the benefit of capitalism’s makers, users, movers, energizers and heaters/coolers.

So, in the 21st century the Evolutionary Impulse intensified the wake-up call of human systems in the city. Rapidly, unresolved disasters of era-change gathered momentum, initiating conflict, disease and dissonance at a global scale. By 2020, the Anthropocene Century of the City resounded with cries for Peace and Unity across the planet. Then the pandemic hit – shattering many assumptions of species’ entitlement into shards of disconnection.

Pressures for remedies, rescues, responses and resolutions demanded new relationships, integrated understandings, whole world views and new cosmologies. Caring people longed not for a new technology, but for a common language to share compassion, love and kindness.

Away from the feeding frenzy of raging headlines, the Evolutionary Impulse transcended the nightmare with a deep well of integral calm. Beyond the poisoned fields of technology and infrastructure, it regenerated nourishment for spirit, consciousness and culture. Around kitchen tables, on community benches, inside places of worship and from shared gardens, emerged discoveries that revealed a path to caring.

In mid-century, awakening emerged spontaneously across the world, through a myriad of voices, places and actions.  At first it was difficult to notice that these insights and discoveries grew from the same roots – the Evolutionary Impulse itself. But soon people could see the gifts of aliveness in Beauty, Goodness and Truth were qualities experienced both uniquely and by all as universal patterns and archetypes.

Some dared to suggest that Gaia – the living Earth — was evolving humans to be her Reflective Organ System, made up of Cities as Organs; Organizations as Organelles; and individuals as Cells. She needed this living system to evolve and align with all her other planetary systems.

Thus, a kind of new sacred and scientific myth of Life emerged. Suddenly we could see that the variations of human gifts and life conditions all evolved from Gaia. Like Gaia, we flowed from Love as the Ground of Being, through Involution of Whole Species to Multiple Variations and Generative Dualities. Through Evolution we returned to the Whole in a never-ending flow of continuous awakening, like a diamond being polished to ever-greater brilliance with every cycle of care.

We came to learn the peril of forgetting that we always belonged to the Whole. When we disconnected from the Whole, we caused fragmentation, incoherence, conflict and disease. We occluded the brilliance of the diamond and fragmented from Grace. (See Figure 1.)

Figure 1: Dubashia Diamond Model

The pandemic recalibrated the relationship of humans to all life on Earth. As humans locked down and quieted, new Voices could be heard.  In response to the pandemic, cities and nations stopped 80% of air travel; limited local transportation; restricted gatherings; and simplified options for daily living. People learned that human behaviour could change in shorter time than the scientists predicted was needed to avoid climate disaster (in 2020 it was calculated as 10 years).

It turns out that we awakened not simply to a Century of the City – but awakened the City and its Region to a Century of crystal clarity about the holographic, fractal elegance of Evolutionary Care. The Century of clarity revealed that humans have a common language of Care – care that manifests at fractal scales (just like a diamond refracts light) in service to Gaia – care for Self, Others, Places, Planet.

With a power like the mystery of sacred crystals, we discovered the Master Code of Care revealed how Care for Self manifests Beauty; Care for Others manifests Goodness; Care for Place manifests Truth; and Care for Planet manifests Gaia’s Reflective Organ system (see Figure 2).

Figure 2: Master Code of Care

Even more significantly, we were able to clarify how fragmentation blinded us and blocked the release of trauma at every scale. As we followed the path of care to re-membering the Whole,  we found the path to healing was marked by reconnecting cities to the land, air, water, nature and other species from which we had separated. We learned that we are not on Earth, but we are Earth. With great effort, we recalibrated disconnected fragments into regenerative living multiplicities and back to the Whole. Along the way, we learned to heal the deep traumas and regenerate human systems to serve Gaia through the Master Code of Care as her Reflective Organ System.

When we look back over this century, we see that the sacred caring for wholeness revealed the mysterious coherence of multiple city systems, beliefs and compassion that opened wide the doors for Peace and Unity in the world.

As we celebrate this new Century 2100, we know it must be the Century of Gaia-Care. And we must honour the pioneers of the century just past, who have redeemed the destructive nature of cities and redefined the meaning of Anthropocene to signify the era when the human species matured city-regions as Gaia’s Caring System in service to all Life.

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 With deep gratitude we honour some of our spiritual and scientist care finders.

Nishad Dubashia, creator of Diamond Model, author: Unity of EverythingEdgar Mitchell, Founder of IONS, astronaut of the Overview EffectKen Wilber, Founder Integral Movement, Author of A Theory of EverythingClare Graves, Don Beck, Christopher Cohen, Co-Founders/Authors of Spiral DynamicsAl Gore, Author of The Inconvenient TruthPaul Hawken, Author of DrawdownDavid Attenborough, Author/Producer of the Blue Planet and related seriesRupert Sheldrake, Author, Researcher of Morphic FieldElisabet Sahtouris, Evolution BiologistJames Lovelock, Author of Gaia HypothesisDavid Bohm, Author of Implicate/Explicate OrderJim Garrison, Peter Merry, Co-Founders, Ubiquity University, Humanity RisingJude Currivan, Author, The Cosmic HologramWendy Hastrich, Researcher of Deep Earth ArchitectureThomas Huebl, Co-Creator of Trauma Recovery SummitsJean Houston, Author, The Possible Human

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This series of five blogs explores how Integral City Maps help us understand Climate Change through the stories of evolutionary human systems embedded in the maps. They include: Integral City Map 1 is a Set of Climate Change Mirrors Integral City Map 2 is a Telescope of Climate Stories Integral City Map 3 Shows Gaia is an Ecological Holographer Integral City Map 4 Organically Patterns Human Systems as Climate Changers Integral City Map 5 – Century of Awakening: City/Regions Redeem Anthropocene

Integral City Map 4 Organically Patterns Human Systems as Climate Changers

Integral City Maps Restory Human Systems & Climate Change

How do the 5 Maps used by Integral City make visible the wholeness of the human hive, when we consider Climate Change?

Each of the maps gives us different perspectives to view the patterns of wholeness – through stories. (Moreover, the Integral City maps reveal the consciousness and culture changes that Doughnut Economics depends on to realize the change that brings back human systems back into balance with all living systems.)

This is the story of Map 4.

Integral City Map 4 draws back from the patterns of individual agency and embraces the systems of human complexity – the organizations that humans have created.

Born into a world in balance with itself, the organizational forms of family hearth, clan gathering and dominator hierarchies co-existed with the life conditions of their eco-regions. Humans were able to supply their needs from the bounty of the land.

The very success of these organizational forms, evolved development paths that lead to agricultural exploitation and bureaucratic oversight. Humans began the slippery slide into times when human demands started to exceed the capacity for natural resources in proximate eco-regions to supply human wants. At the same time, the life conditions of plenty enabled the emergence of innovation, invention and industry that not only exploited the availability of natural resources, but produced wastes, air,soil and water pollution and damaged the fabric of the earth.

As industrial production was applied not only to the manufacture of goods and infrastructures, it was also applied to the mining, deforestation, fishing and extrapolation of the planet’s essential elements.

With the technology to exploit earth resources, came the technology to measure and view the damage on all the scales we explored in Maps 1, 2 and 3. Both from the microscope looking at biological insights and the telescope trained back on earth from space, we could see the impact humans were having on every natural system. And we could see the influence of the organizational systems impacting the very climate that embraced the planet.

Map 4 is potentially a joyous map of Nature’s capacity to evolve ever more elegant and complex systems – but it also reveals the journey that humans must now take to transcend, include and recalibrate human complexity in order to re-balance human organization with Nature’s living organs.

If we want to replace the story of climate disasters embedded in Map 4, we must retell the story of human dignities represented in Map 4. We must be able to proudly show how Map 4 is the story of Planetary Organizations that serve as complex adaptive systems.

To start our journey of recalibration, we must ask the difficult questions that arise from Map 4 as we contemplate how disasters can be converted and/or regenerated as dignities:

How do our External Structures correlate with Internal Structures? How do we need one to hold the other?Within each structure how do we recalibrate the 4 Voices to match relevant life conditions? What does each Voice have to say about Climate? What role do organizational worldviews and their resulting actions have on climate?How does use of fuels/energy impact the climate and the planet? How have we transmuted with our fuel systems from biological to animal to fossil fuel to rewable energy as the ways we power our human organizations?How do cities act as Complex Adaptive Systems with all organizational types embedded in them?How can organizations contribute to the regeneration of human systems?What would happen if we found the “right size” of cities? (Is it the Sweet Spot of Mark McCaffrey in the Power of 10,; namely 50k to 100k)?This series of five blogs explores how Integral City Maps help us understand Climate Change through the stories of evolutionary human systems embedded in the maps. They include: Integral City Map 1 is a Set of Climate Change Mirrors Integral City Map 2 is a Telescope of Climate Stories Integral City Map 3 Shows Gaia is an Ecological Holographer Integral City Map 4 Organically Patterns Human Systems as Climate Changers Integral City Map 5 – Century of Awakening: City/Regions Redeem Anthropocene

Integral City Map 3 Shows Gaia is an Ecological Holographer

Integral City Maps Restory Human Systems & Climate Change

How do the 5 Maps used by Integral City make visible the wholeness of the human hive, when we consider Climate Change?

Each of the maps gives us different perspectives to view the patterns of wholeness – through stories. (Moreover, the Integral City maps reveal the consciousness and culture changes that Doughnut Economics depends on to realize the change that brings back human systems back into balance with all living systems.)

This is the story of Map 3 .

From the Mirrors of Map 1 and the Telescope of Map 2, we discover in Map 3 a view of the Fractal Patterns that climate influences at all scales of human systems.

Map 3 reveals the ecology of the human system. Map 3 is like putting on a Virtual Reality apparatus, that enables us to watch how an individual develops from conception to fully realized adult human.

We see through our micro-meso-macro scope how such individuals find one another when they set out on a journey of learning to perform at the highest potential. In high performance teams they generate intentions, goals, practices and strategies to change the ecologies in which they are naturally embedded.

When fully developed individuals and high performance teams interact with their workplaces, they influence many other people, relationships, associations, results and impacts. These highly developed performers can become the climate-aware consciences of every group they belong to – and thus the agents of positively empowered climate changers.

Map 3 shows how humans who are awake to their responsibility to change  can impact ecologies at the scale of the whole city. Their behaviours of acting in accord with thriving systems (as Doughnut Economics proposes) influences climate change and thus changes whole systems at the scale of systems.

In fact, when we look back at Map 2, we can see that Map 3 adds into the telescope of human systems, the developmental levels that enable more and more complex responses, that can zoom in and out from the micro to the meso to the macro scale of city life.

And thus we appreciate the magic of Holographic design that Gaia embeds in her creations – including humans.

This series of five blogs explores how Integral City Maps help us understand Climate Change through the stories of evolutionary human systems embedded in the maps. They include: Integral City Map 1 is a Set of Climate Change Mirrors Integral City Map 2 is a Telescope of Climate Stories Integral City Map 3 Shows Gaia is an Ecological Holographer Integral City Map 4 Organically Patterns Human Systems as Climate Changers Integral City Map 5 – Century of Awakening: City/Regions Redeem Anthropocene

Integral City Map 2 is a Telescope of Climate Stories

Integral City Maps Restory Human Systems & Climate Change

How do the 5 Maps used by Integral City make visible the wholeness of the human hive, when we consider Climate Change?

Each of the maps gives us different perspectives to view the patterns of wholeness – through stories. (Moreover, the Integral City maps reveal the consciousness and culture changes that Doughnut Economics depends on to realize the change that brings back human systems back into balance with all living systems.)

This is the story of Map 2 .

When we discovered Integral City Map 2, it seemed to be a cluster of maps nested into each other in a telescopic pattern where we can see the largest scales holding all the smaller scales.

We can see the largest scale is the planet itself – and as we peer into its depths, we can see the weather systems swirling around the earth.

As we look closer we can see the marks of mighty ecoregions – like the Sahara desert stretching across Africa, the Andes marching down the west coast of South America, the rich lands of Cascadia along the Pacific shore of North America, the continent of Australia, and the mighty tundra of Siberia. Each ecoregion resonates a different story of how the cities in their area impact their wellbeing and flow of resources (in the circular and non-circular economies that Doughnut Economics tracks) as climate changes and they change the climate.

When we peer into one of the cities, we can see a whole ecology designed just for people. We notice how human evolution has produced the infrastructures, cultures, behaviours and emotions that we glimpsed through the mirrors of Map 1. But we also see in the cities the evolution of community parks, work places, neighbourhoods, families and individuals.

Through the telescopic view of Map 2 we can see in action, the climate as an interactive, interconnective, living phenomenon of life on earth. It is the map where we can see the impact of climate from the smallest part of our human selves to the largest impact of our human endeavours.

We can appreciate that climate has been and remains a major trigger in human life and history. And now that we can gain the overview from our telescope – it is clear that the number of humans alive on the earth now triggers climate change. This Map 2 reminds us of the gift of life and our responsibility to the living planet which has evolved us.

This series of five blogs explores how Integral City Maps help us understand Climate Change through the stories of evolutionary human systems embedded in the maps. They include: Integral City Map 1 is a Set of Climate Change Mirrors Integral City Map 2 is a Telescope of Climate Stories Integral City Map 3 Shows Gaia is an Ecological Holographer Integral City Map 4 Organically Patterns Human Systems as Climate Changers Integral City Map 5 – Century of Awakening: City/Regions Redeem Anthropocene

Integral City Map 1 is a Set of Climate Change Mirrors

Integral City Maps Restory Human Systems & Climate Change

How do the 5 Maps used by Integral City make visible the wholeness of the human hive, when we consider Climate Change?

Each of the maps gives us different perspectives to view the patterns of wholeness – through stories. (Moreover, the Integral City maps reveal the consciousness and culture changes that Doughnut Economics depends on to realize the change that brings back human systems back into balance with all living systems.)

This is the story of Map 1 .

Once upon a time we discovered Map 1 . It seemed to have multiple mirrors that showed us different perspectives of ourselves in relation to climate.

Map 1 told us the story of climate through the lenses of Self, Others, Places and Planet. We can see mirrored back to us stories about each Quadrant. (This is the map used by Doughnout Economist, Kate Raworth to explain how local and global, social and ecological perspectives contribute to the economy.)

In the Upper Left mirror we sensed our personal inner climate. We noticed we needed to grow inner resources to help us counter fears, worries even guilt as an individual willing to learn about climate change but not knowing where to start.

In the Upper Right mirror we saw our personal outer climate. We realized that we needed bio-physical resilience in the face of changing life conditions that threaten our traditional and modern ways of life. We could see the dried earth, smell fires burning, taste thirst from water loss, hear winds from fierce tornados, feel sand across our faces and choke from air pollution.

In the Lower Left mirror we viewed our collective inner climate. We connected to our visions, values, rituals, cultures, songs and ways of expression. We longed to comfort our family and friends as we face unexpected changes from wars, famine, drought and strangers in our midst.

In the Lower Right mirror we recognized ourselves responding to our collective outer climate. We called together workers, supervisors, examined our infrastructure and counted the resources that would enable our cities to operate under life conditions changing faster than we felt able to keep up.

The story of Map 1 is of multiperspectival wholeness in the human hive. Each quadrant mirrors a vital but partial view of our city. Only when grasped from an overview do they reflect a “climactic” whole.

This series of five blogs explores how Integral City Maps help us understand Climate Change through the stories of evolutionary human systems embedded in the maps. They include: Integral City Map 1 is a Set of Climate Change Mirrors Integral City Map 2 is a Telescope of Climate Stories Integral City Map 3 Shows Gaia is an Ecological Holographer Integral City Map 4 Organically Patterns Human Systems as Climate Changers Integral City Map 5 – Century of Awakening: City/Regions Redeem Anthropocene

Moments of Mass Mindfulness -MOMM- for Mother Earth & All Mothers

This is the meditation in honour of Mother Earth and Mothers everywere.  We created it for the Moments of Mass Mindfulness, MOMMentum event on the UK Mothering Sunday, March 14, 2021, hosted and curated by Sue Cooper.

It was shared as a guided meditation by Marilyn Hamilton, Founder Integral City Meshworks. It is now released into the world in advance of Mother’s Day in May, 2021, elsewhere in the world.

Chime

Get comfortable in your chair – with feet planted on earth, sense sky/source above you, feel the connection of centre of Universe down thru your spine, grounding into the Centre of Mother Earth.

Close your eyes or soften your gaze.

Let’s start by bringing our awareness and presence here, into ourselves and this/our place(s) – and wherever we are located, let us also bring other places and other people  who want to be with us but for whatever reason are remote from this session today (and would benefit from creating Islands of Calm … let us acknowledge and bless ourselves, one another, the spaces that hold us, and the service we are gathered to do here together.

Now feel and experience in and around you the Light and Love of your unique beingness, the light of your individual sacredness, however you envision and experience that. Let that light arise and hold each of us in its grace and loving embrace…. Sense that light filling all aspects of yourself, your cells, the activities that unite them, your feelings, mind, subtle body, soul and spirit, your whole presence from the most particular part of yourself to the most expanded. Rest in the light and love and grace of this presence of your Self, and in the light and love and grace of the sacred that lies at the heart of all things.

Feel and experience yourself also embedded in the life and being of Mother Earth… a generative part of her biosphere, a generative part of her subtle dimensions, a generative part of her spiritual dimensions, a generative part of a vast planetary exchange of life and love and light.

Now begin to focus on the qualities and energies of subtle activism you would like to bring today to this service to women, mothers, sisters, daughters, granddaughters, aunts, grandmothers and any other women in our lives…   Maybe a presence of kindness, generosity and compassion …. Love, calm and caring… maybe balance, resilience, humour… maybe wisdom, forgiveness, or hope…

Maybe a combination of qualities. Maybe a sense of all is well…

Whatever qualities or energies are calling you, step into them now, as much as you are able. Bring the felt sense of them into your heart and mind and body. Let yourself become a living presence of these qualities.

Now imagine the felt sense of these expanding outwards to form a sphere of energy around you, around us around our places. This is an Alliance Space, a collaborative space.

Into this space, invite Allies in today’s work of subtle activism, beings who are working with different elements of our experience of/with/as mothers.  Gaia’s Local Representatives. Angels of communities, towns, rural areas, ecoregions. The Angels of our families, clans, tribes, regions. All the ancestors through our mother line. Women as mothers of our associations, callings, projects, organizations, neighbourhoods. The Angels of our Seasons and celebrations. Beings from the 4 Directions. Beings of Earth, Air, Sun, Water.  Beings from the Unseen Worlds. In particular, open to the presence of the Soul of Mothering, the Soul of Humanity and the Soul of Mother Earth, those presences that hold an unfolding promise and potential of what and who we honour as mothers in the world’s embrace.…

Sense these Allies with you, with us… let our energies blend in a collaborative field, and sense that field deepening and broadening as we do this.

From this space, hold our world at this time, allowing the energy and presence of this field to hold and bless what is happening and unfolding… in your heart and in your imagination touch or hold whatever situations or loved ones or relationships or elements call your attention on this special Mothering Sunday…

And for the next while, just hold the presence and energy of this collaborative field clearly and steadily in yourself, allowing it to be a resource and blessing wherever it is needed….

And we will pause here so we can do this together in silence [about 10 minutes] ……

Now begin to bring this work to a close….   Give thanks and appreciation to all involved… then bless and release all who have helped and been part of the field…

Then consciously step out of the Alliance space and return your attention to your own energy field and presence… bring your awareness back to your body, to the light that fills it, that supports your boundaries and your unique presence and identity. Experience yourself grounded and balanced, and when you are ready, open your eyes and return your awareness to your room.

Thank you.

Chime

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With guidance and inspiration from Mary Inglis, Findhorn The Park, Forres, Scotland, and David Spangler, Found of Lorian Association.

Islands of Calm Meditation in the Spring at Findhorn

This blog describes how the Islands of Calm Meditation is serving the spiritual ecovillage Findhorn.

A group of us continue meditating together on a weekly basis, via Zoom, with the intention of creating “Islands of Calm” amidst the turbulence we encounter anywhere in our daily lives. We aim to facilitate a more coherent energy field within ourselves and thereby our communities, working together with our Subtle Allies.

We originally started this meditation in summer 2020, after the first pandemic lockdown – in response to a request from the Covid Action Group (CAG).  But as we are now coming out of our 4th lockdown in Spring 2021, we still notice the highs anticipating the “emergence of new freedoms” and the lows that we suffer when restrictions recur (or even threaten to recur).

Nevertheless, we also know the intended effect of finding the calm in ourselves has rippled out beyond Findhorn. We have participation not only from the wider Findhorn area of Forres and Marcassie but as far afield as Northumberland and Nottingham.

We have shared our Islands of Calm with friends and relatives in Russia, and on this last Mothering Sunday we co-created a special version for the Moments of Mass Mindfulness MOMMentum event in honour of Mother Earth and Mothers everywhere (see https://twitter.com/mommworld).

We are very grateful for the feedback we receive from the leaders and members in our community who notice the calming effect of our practice. It seems safe to say that our Islands of Calm practice evens out both the highs and lows of reactions to unexpected events throughout our communities.

Qualities and guidance, we shared as the essence of calm we were taking away included these:

Unity, Community, Love, Connection to Nature, Anticipating the Good, Oneness, Support, New Beginnings, Gratitude, Comfort for Grief.

We have discovered that whatever turbulence we experience we benefit by naming it, witnessing others and calling forth in the meditation the qualities and Allies who strengthen our field.

We meet online at 9:30 am Saturday mornings. You are invited to finish your week and/or start a new one on your very own Island of Calm. You can join this meditation by emailing Marilyn Hamilton

This blog describes how the Islands of Calm Meditation is...

This blog describes how the Islands of Calm Meditation is serving the spiritual ecovillage Findhorn.

A group of us continue meditating together on a weekly basis, via Zoom, with the intention of creating “Islands of Calm” amidst the turbulence we encounter anywhere in our daily lives. We aim to facilitate a more coherent energy field within ourselves and thereby our communities, working together with our Subtle Allies.

We originally started this meditation in summer 2020, after the first pandemic lockdown – in response to a request from the Covid Action Group (CAG).  But as we are now coming out of our 4th lockdown in Spring 2021, we still notice the highs anticipating the “emergence of new freedoms” and the lows that we suffer when restrictions recur (or even threaten to recur).

Nevertheless, we also know the intended effect of finding the calm in ourselves has rippled out beyond Findhorn. We have participation not only from the wider Findhorn area of Forres and Marcassie but as far afield as Northumberland and Nottingham.

We have shared our Islands of Calm with friends and relatives in Russia, and on this last Mothering Sunday we co-created a special version for the Moments of Mass Mindfulness MOMMentum event in honour of Mother Earth and Mothers everywhere (see https://twitter.com/mommworld).

We are very grateful for the feedback we receive from the leaders and members in our community who notice the calming effect of our practice. It seems safe to say that our Islands of Calm practice evens out both the highs and lows of reactions to unexpected events throughout our communities.

Qualities and guidance, we shared as the essence of calm we were taking away included these:

Unity, Community, Love, Connection to Nature, Anticipating the Good, Oneness, Support, New Beginnings, Gratitude, Comfort for Grief.

We have discovered that whatever turbulence we experience we benefit by naming it, witnessing others and calling forth in the meditation the qualities and Allies who strengthen our field.

We meet online at 9:30 am Saturday mornings. You are invited to finish your week and/or start a new one on your very own Island of Calm. You can join this meditation by emailing Marilyn Hamilton

Cities Rising for a Regenerative World: Integrating Coherence for Regenerativity

Notice how you and we are mobilizing with regenerative action in ways that enable relationships of reciprocity with, within and from cities/communities, ecoregions and Gaia.Reframing the role of cities as Gaia’s Reflective Organs

This was a weeklong program January 11 – 15 convened by Integral City, Nest City, Ubiquity University and Humanity Rising ChatAction Group

Overview

Inspired by HR’s week of Bouncing Beyond to a Regenerative World convened in October 2020 by Ubiquity U and U International Cooperation and partners, this Cities Rising Week focuses on human systems at the scale of the city. We view “city” as the human habitat (or human hive) at scales from village to megalopolis and our definition of city embraces the ecoregion where it is located and that constrains it. We intend our inquiry to complement the exploration of Bouncing Beyond to a Regenerative World, by providing the context and contribution cities can make to a Regenerative World.

Prior to the 2020 year of the pandemic, cities had become the habitats where more than 50% of humanity live – in the developed world more than 90%. This week will reframe cities from the bricks and mortar infrastructures of the visible city into a human system with consciousness, culture, behaviors and structures. This is the Integral City – a fractal that lies on the trajectory of living human systems, stretching from the individual, to the collective, to the city, to the planet Gaia (person, people, place, planet). This way of looking at the city assumes that it is a complex adaptive living system, evolutionary in its nature and integrative in its potential to serve the wellbeing of Gaia.

If we have learned anything in 2020, it is at the scale of the city where humans make life and death decisions and where people have the opportunities to thrive or waste. The overriding purpose of this week is to inquire how people serve the wellbeing of the city and how the city serves the wellbeing of people, while together we serve the wellbeing of Gaia.

Theme for the Week

The overarching theme of the Cities week is to help you experience your city/community as a dynamic living system. This week-long exploration will offer a variety of lenses, tools and practices—and opportunities for you to reflect—that will enable you to best serve your city/community so that it can best serve you and together we can all serve the wellbeing of our planet, Gaia.

About this session:Notice how you and we are mobilizing with regenerative action in ways that enable relationships of reciprocity with, within and from cities/communities, ecoregions and Gaia.

Click here is the link for Humanity Rising Day 163.

Humanity Rising convened Cities Rising for Regenerative World, co-hosted by Marilyn Hamilton & Beth Sanders Jan 11-15, 2021.

Here are the Ubiverse links for all 5 days with recordings:

AQtivating Cities at Scale https://ubiverse.org/events/humanity-rising-day-159 Cities as Complex Living Adaptive Systems https://ubiverse.org/events/humanity-rising-day-160 Governance as Life Cycle Patterns https://ubiverse.org/events/humanity-rising-day-161 Practising Mutual Agency https://ubiverse.org/events/humanity-rising-day-162 Integrating Coherence for Regenerativity https://ubiverse.org/events/humanity-rising-day-163 The Reflective Practitioners who Participated included: Jim Garrison,  Ubiquity University Marilyn Hamilton , Founder Integral City Meshworks, Findhorn Ecovillage ScotlandBeth Sanders, Founder Nest City, Edmonton, CanadaHani Quan, Life Coach, Social Entrepreneur, CanadaJorge Garza, Future Cities, McConnell Foundation Hugo Araujo,  Founder 7Vortex, Mexico, BelgiumTaina Ketola, Public Sector Specialist, FinlandAndres Malave, Cultural Consultant, Nantes, FranceMark McCaffrey, Founder Co-Focal ECOS, Author Climate Smart & Energy Wise, Initiator Powers of 10 Framework , ItalyStanley Nyoni, The Natural Step Consultant Africa, Sweden Paddy Pampallis,  Integral Africa: The Coaching CentreRaji Jayasinghe, Ubiquity U Youth Initiatives, Sri Lanka Luis Camargo,  Biomimicry Expert, Colombia Katerina Zalamova,  Smart Cities ExpertLev Gordon, Co-Founder of Living Cities Russia Association Mira Michelle Jones,  Founder The Sacred Female Rising Institute, ShamanSoni Dasmohapatra, Consultant, CanadaKeren Tang, Public Health Professional, Participatory City, McConnell FoundationTaisa Mattos, Global Ecovillage Network, BrazilIndra Adnan, Journalist, Founder Alternative UKShweta Srisastav, Design Researcher, Architect, Sustainability Consultant, India & Netherlands Julian Baller,  ED Co-Creating EuropeYene Assegid, International Coach, Ghana, Africa Vandana Shiva,  Author Earth Democracy, IndiaRanjani Balasubramanian, Faculty Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology ( LeNS Labs for Sustainability; UNESCO Chair for Culture, Habitat and Sustainable Development), Bangalore, IndiaLin Zhang, Systemic Innovation Coach at Thrive Together Ltd (T2L) and Co-founder & CEO at The Natural Step China, Shanghai ChinaYou can find extended bios for each speaker at this link.You can find additional resources at this link.

Cities Rising for a Regenerative World: Practicing Mutual Agency

Generate ideas for your “civic practice” that will enable you to use the tensions in your city /community to shape your service to your city/community so that it can best serve you.Reframing the role of cities as Gaia’s Reflective Organs

This was a weeklong program January 11 – 15 convened by Integral City, Nest City, Ubiquity University and Humanity Rising ChatAction Group

Overview

Inspired by HR’s week of Bouncing Beyond to a Regenerative World convened in October 2020 by Ubiquity U and U International Cooperation and partners, this Cities Rising Week focuses on human systems at the scale of the city. We view “city” as the human habitat (or human hive) at scales from village to megalopolis and our definition of city embraces the ecoregion where it is located and that constrains it. We intend our inquiry to complement the exploration of Bouncing Beyond to a Regenerative World, by providing the context and contribution cities can make to a Regenerative World.

Prior to the 2020 year of the pandemic, cities had become the habitats where more than 50% of humanity live – in the developed world more than 90%. This week will reframe cities from the bricks and mortar infrastructures of the visible city into a human system with consciousness, culture, behaviors and structures. This is the Integral City – a fractal that lies on the trajectory of living human systems, stretching from the individual, to the collective, to the city, to the planet Gaia (person, people, place, planet). This way of looking at the city assumes that it is a complex adaptive living system, evolutionary in its nature and integrative in its potential to serve the wellbeing of Gaia.

If we have learned anything in 2020, it is at the scale of the city where humans make life and death decisions and where people have the opportunities to thrive or waste. The overriding purpose of this week is to inquire how people serve the wellbeing of the city and how the city serves the wellbeing of people, while together we serve the wellbeing of Gaia.

Theme for the Week

The overarching theme of the Cities week is to help you experience your city/community as a dynamic living system. This week-long exploration will offer a variety of lenses, tools and practices—and opportunities for you to reflect—that will enable you to best serve your city/community so that it can best serve you and together we can all serve the wellbeing of our planet, Gaia.

About this session:Generate ideas for your “civic practice” that will enable you to use the tensions in your city /community to shape your service to your city/community so that it can best serve you.

Click here is the link for Humanity Rising Day 162.

Humanity Rising convened Cities Rising for Regenerative World, co-hosted by Marilyn Hamilton & Beth Sanders Jan 11-15, 2021.

Here are the Ubiverse links for all 5 days with recordings:

AQtivating Cities at Scale https://ubiverse.org/events/humanity-rising-day-159 Cities as Complex Living Adaptive Systems https://ubiverse.org/events/humanity-rising-day-160 Governance as Life Cycle Patterns https://ubiverse.org/events/humanity-rising-day-161 Practising Mutual Agency https://ubiverse.org/events/humanity-rising-day-162 Integrating Coherence for Regenerativity https://ubiverse.org/events/humanity-rising-day-163 The Reflective Practitioners who Participated included: Jim Garrison,  Ubiquity University Marilyn Hamilton , Founder Integral City Meshworks, Findhorn Ecovillage ScotlandBeth Sanders, Founder Nest City, Edmonton, CanadaHani Quan, Life Coach, Social Entrepreneur, CanadaJorge Garza, Future Cities, McConnell Foundation Hugo Araujo,  Founder 7Vortex, Mexico, BelgiumTaina Ketola, Public Sector Specialist, FinlandAndres Malave, Cultural Consultant, Nantes, FranceMark McCaffrey, Founder Co-Focal ECOS, Author Climate Smart & Energy Wise, Initiator Powers of 10 Framework , ItalyStanley Nyoni, The Natural Step Consultant Africa, Sweden Paddy Pampallis,  Integral Africa: The Coaching CentreRaji Jayasinghe, Ubiquity U Youth Initiatives, Sri Lanka Luis Camargo,  Biomimicry Expert, Colombia Katerina Zalamova,  Smart Cities ExpertLev Gordon, Co-Founder of Living Cities Russia Association Mira Michelle Jones,  Founder The Sacred Female Rising Institute, ShamanSoni Dasmohapatra, Consultant, CanadaKeren Tang, Public Health Professional, Participatory City, McConnell FoundationTaisa Mattos, Global Ecovillage Network, BrazilIndra Adnan, Journalist, Founder Alternative UKShweta Srisastav, Design Researcher, Architect, Sustainability Consultant, India & Netherlands Julian Baller,  ED Co-Creating EuropeYene Assegid, International Coach, Ghana, Africa Vandana Shiva,  Author Earth Democracy, IndiaRanjani Balasubramanian, Faculty Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology ( LeNS Labs for Sustainability; UNESCO Chair for Culture, Habitat and Sustainable Development), Bangalore, IndiaLin Zhang, Systemic Innovation Coach at Thrive Together Ltd (T2L) and Co-founder & CEO at The Natural Step China, Shanghai ChinaYou can find extended bios for each speaker at this link.You can find additional resources at this link.