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

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

How to Optimize the Impact of Integral City Work

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

Russia Behind the Double Veil: Using Integral Eyes to See Russia’s Cities

In May I visited Russia and was surprised to have my stereotypes of the country and the people overturned. Using Integral City eyes, helped me penetrate behind two polarizing veils – one defensive and self-justifying (aggrandizing?) filter  created by Russia herself through state-influenced (controlled?) media and the other an accusatory finger-pointing filter fabricated by the […]

Canada Day: Dance With the Maple Leaf Memelights

  May we dance with the Maple Leaf Meme-lights as they vibrate with the resilient commit-ments of Life. May the Northern Lights from our flashing energy field radiate: beige to protect our individual needs for physical and spiritual safety and survival; and prevent harm to all individuals. purple to honour the traditions and heritage of […]

Integral City June 2014: 4 Voices as Gateways to Goodness in the Human Hive

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.  … the second person Intersubjective WE appreciates the Goodness of Life … revealing the moral qualities of the life choices that are necessary on every level of […]

Voices of Business Open 3 Gateways to Planet of Cities

This blog continues to share the Findings from the research conducted in three Learning Lhabitats exploring the 4 Voices of the City in the United States, Canada and Europe in the last year. Today we compare the results that open wider understanding of the role of the Business Voice in the city,  from Learning Lhabitats at […]

Voices of Civic Managers Bridge 3 Gateways to Planet of Cities

This blog continues to share the Findings from the research conducted in three Learning Lhabitats exploring the 4 Voices of the City in the United States, Canada and Europe in the last year. Today we compare the results that open wider understanding of the role of the Civic Manager Voice in the city,  from Learning Lhabitats […]

Voices of Civil Society Align in 3 Gateways to Planet of Cities

This blog continues to share the Findings from the research conducted in three Learning Lhabitats exploring the 4 Voices of the City in the United States, Canada and Europe in the last year. Today we compare the results that open wider understanding of the role of the Civil Society Voice in the city,  from Learning Lhabitats […]

Voices of the Citizen Resound from 3 Gateways to Planet of Cities

Three Learning Lhabitats have explored the 4 Voices of the City in the United States, Canada and Europe in the last year. This blog considers how comparing the results from Learning Lhabitats at the Integral Theory Conference 2013, Federation of Canadian Municipalities Sustainability Conference 2014 and Integral Europe Conference  2014 serves as Gateways to our […]

Voices of the Citizen from 3 Gateways to Planet of Cities

Three Learning Lhabitats have explored the 4 Voices of the City in the United States, Canada and Europe in the last year. This blog considers how comparing the results from Learning Lhabitats at the Integral Theory Conference 2013, Federation of Canadian Municipalities Sustainability Conference 2014 and Integral Europe Conference  2014 serves as Gateways to our […]