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Guiding Step Two: Identifying Assumptions for a Planet of Cities

Assumptions in the city arise not only from the four voices of the city – but from the worldviews being expressed in those voices. Worldviews emerge from the beliefs of what is important around here and how those values are translated by the city’s voices. In the most basic ego-centric way, assumptions are implicit – [...]

Guiding Step One: Attuning Observation for Deep Integral Analysis

Using Integral City approaches to analyse your city demands attunement of your faculties of observation. Cindy Wigglesworth recommends that in 2013 we use “Humble Curiosity” to see the world in new ways. She outlines a path that aligns multiple intelligences that build on one another like a pyramid of increasing complexity. Cindy is founder of [...]

5 Practical Steps for Applying Integral City Theory

How can we apply Integral City theory or frameworks to my city? This is a question I am often asked. At the What Next Integral Conference, Roger Walsh offered some helpful suggestions for applying Integral Theory in general.  These are also a useful approach to engaging Integral City practices. 1. Step 1 is to offer an [...]

Radically Optimistic Solstice Exec Summary from Integral City 2.0 Online Conference

The Integral City 2.0 Online Conference gathered 60 visionary thought leaders, designers and practitioners, with 600 participants from 6 continents, to inquire into how to design a new operating system for the city. The 12-day Conference allowed exploration of each of the 12 intelligences from the book, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive, [...]

Are We Falling Apart or Waking Apart?

Dr. Ichak Adizes asks if we are falling apart faster? He charts the dissonance that exists in our individual physical, emotional, spiritual and intellectual sub-systems. Dr. Adizes observes that our physical maturity is way ahead of our emotional and spiritual maturity. And while we can learn all the way into old age, that choice is [...]

Evolutionary Intelligence in One Sentence

Civic Meshworker and Populus Founder, Beth Sanders explores Integral City’s 12 Intelligences in one sentence. Beth says: Seeing the whole city as alive, evolving wholes that need nourishment allows us to navigate toward cities that serve citizens well, and citizens that serve cities well. Read how she unpacks this sentence at her Populus Blog here [...]

Integral City Systems of Survival: Why Not Just Privatize the Government?

Why Not Just Privatize the Government? Abstract Why not privatize city government? Jane Jacobs described two moral syndromes necessary for a human social system to survive – one called Guardian and the other called Commercial. She argued that mixing their ethics created “monstrous hybrids” that were immoral and subversive to life. Reframing these syndromes from [...]

Compassionate Somatic Path for Healing Cities in Trauma

Terry Patten dialogues with Dr. Peter Levine about the 3rd and 4th wave of psychotherapy. (Read Terry’s blog and listen to the dialog here.)  They talk about “Creating Health In a Traumatized Society” in a way that links the insights of human brain development and compassion. This has fascinating implications for the Integral City. Dr. Levine [...]

Cities Who Develop Caring are Cities Who Develop Carrying Capacity

Y2K … 911 … Hurricane Sandy … What do they have in common? How did each of these events trigger evolutionary intelligences?  From the perspective of Integral City each of these events posed a global pain point that was/is matched by a glocal care response. Y2K was the computer software bug that threatened infrastructure communication [...]

Power of WE3 on our Planet of Cities: an MR-WE Scan

Blog Action Day! The Power of WE! What and how did we discover the Power of WE in the recent Integral City 2.0 Online Conference? Without the many WE’s in our conference, we could never have emerged the insights to create a new operating system for the Human Hive. But with the power of WE [...]