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How Might Reinventing Organizations Reinvent the City?

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

The West and Russia: A Divergence of Values?

This is a re-publication of an article by Keith Rice, published in Eros and Kosmos, August, 2014. It offers an explanation of the Contexting and Strategic Intelligences that lie behind the article I wrote on City Trigger Points, Country Tipping Points  also published in Eros and Kosmos. Eugene Pustoshkin, Editor of Eros and Kosmos (the only […]

Perhaps the Earth Can Teach Us … to Be Alive

“KEEPING QUIET” BY PABLO NERUDA Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still. For once on the face of the earth, let’s not speak in any language; let’s stop for one second, and not move our arms so much. It would be an exotic moment without rush, without engines; we would […]

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

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

How to Optimize Integral City Impact as Spiritual Practice

What can I do to optimize Integral City Impact? We ask the question again – as an honoured contemplative practice to repeat the question as a doorway to yet deeper knowing.   Our spiritual guide in this series of Optimizing Impact has been Dr. Roger Walsh. He pointed out (at IEC) that we can seek […]

How to Optimize Integral City Impact as Integral Practitioners

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

How to Optimize Integral City Impact with Community of Practice

Mom always used to say, “be careful of the company you keep”. Transpersonal psychologist, Integral pioneer and wise elder, Dr. Roger Walsh, at IEC, emphasized the importance of the company you keep, to support your Integral spiritual practice. By gathering with, for and as the people who embrace the paradigms of evolutionary consciousness and culture, […]

How to Optimize Integral City Impact Through Transconventional Religion

As I write this, cities in many countries are being torn apart because the followers of conventional religious practice are at war with one another. Islam versus Judaism in Palestine. Sunni versus Shia in Iraq. Hinduism versus Christianity in India. Atheism versus Buddhism in China. These stories grab the headlines, because in most cities of […]

How Adult Development Creates Conditions to Optimize Integral City Impact

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

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

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