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Integral City Reflective Organ – June Solstice 2015 – Pope, Planet of Integral Cities, People, Playgrounds

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 People. International developer Gail Hochachka proposes that people’s feelings, beliefs and worldviews affect how they are ready and willing to participate in sustainable behaviors (2005, p. 1). Moreover, she […]

Pope Francis Offers Blueprint for a Planet of Integral Cities

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

Pope Francis Calls for Integral Ecology

Pope Francis is calling for an ecological reframing for the faithful in his sweeping new encyclical on the environment. In “Laudato Si,” or “Be Praised” (or “Praised Be,”). He addresses issues that individuals must take responsibility for, as well as larger collectives – including cities. Pope Francis warns of harming nature, the costs of industrial pollution, resource […]

ITC2015: Top 10 Reasons to Play at our Pop-Up Lunch

Integral City meets Integral Theory Conferencers on our Pop-up Playground Lunch July 17, 18, 19, 2015. Why join the fun?? Enjoy “Pop-Up” HARVEST Lunchbox that is supplied. Attract spontaneous, unexpected, unplanned diverse people to discover in the moment what you can do together. Co-create time, space and spirit to gather, mull, CONSTELLATE and digest energies […]

Householder Dharma: Fifty Shades of Green Make Walking Delightful

Make walking delightful! That was the advice of the city planners who visited Abbotsford, BC in February as part of the Abbotsforward City Planning Strategy. Their argument was that walking benefitted both individual health and city wellbeing. (Studies show that walking is the single most health producing activity we can practise.) I was thinking about […]

Householder Dharma: Connecting People, Improving Health

Several months ago, Centre for Human Emergence – Canada colleagues visited Abbotsford, BC and we held a small retreat in the Solarium of Garden Park Tower (GPT). We took our breakfasts and lunches in the Rose Room Café. My friends really enjoyed the energy of GPT and were delighted and amazed with how people in […]

Householder Dharma: Optimizing Home Base with Values

Last year I moved with my husband Peter Dobson, to Garden Park Tower (GPT), We moved from Cedar Springs Country Estate (town homes) on the east side of Abbotsford BC, where we lived for 21 years. We had travelled only 15 minutes distance across town, but it seemed like a new city and a new world […]

Constellate With Integral City at our ITC 2015 Pop-Up Playground Lunch

Integral City is sponsoring three Pop-Up Playground lunches at Integral Theory Conference 2015. Our high impact constellation process will be supplied!! Joining MetaIntegral’s Integral Theory Conference for its fourth international event (and sponsoring the conference for the third time) Integral City has designed Pop-Up Playgrounds for three lunch times on July 17, 18, 19.  In Ballroom […]

Imagine Durant Harvests Thought Leader Insights

On April 17-19, 2015, Imagine Durant along with the Integral City team convened a dialogue where community thought leaders met to exchange and brainstorm possibilities for the future of Durant, Oklahoma. Their special focus was on the Economy and Community of Durant. Those present pulled inspiration from their surroundings at the historical Three Valley Museum, […]

Integral City Invites You to ITC2015

INTEGRAL CITY INVITATION TO 1TC2015 In Ballroom D at ITC there is a public square that invites you – heart and soul.  Join Integral City for a nourishing lunch once, twice or three times – as we prototype a unique unconference with integral impact. Feed Self.  Spark Others.  Serve Community. What to expect – with ITC/IC […]