October Volume 12, Number 5, 2012
The Conscious Organization: Workplaces for the Self-Transcended
“Game is Over. You are Enlightened.”
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SIETAR Forum 2012+38 in Berlin
Sergej van Middendorp, Kazuma Matoba and Barton Buechner From 27 to 29 September 2012, a community of scholars and practitioners gathered in Berlin for the SIETAR 2012+38 forum. What drew…
Cindy Wigglesworth. SQ21: The Twenty-One Skills of Spiritual intelligence. New York: Select Books, 2012. Michael McElhenie Let’s get one thing straight right from the start. If you scour the planet,…
SDi Confab: Are you an app?
Reflections on the 2012 SDi Confab – Dallas, Texas Jon Freeman I don’t want to offend anybody – really I don’t – but from the depths of my being I…
Values Driven Leadership
Kenton Hyatt and Cheryl De Ciantis Introduction This exploration into leadership is not yet another leadership prescription, offering what should be done. It is an approach that offers a multi-prism…
Alfonso Montuori Americans have historically been a very practical people. Delving too much into the realm of theory and ideas, let alone epistemology, has often been viewed askance; a somewhat…
Three Steps to the Democratization of Enlightenment
Marc Gafni Part One: Stepping Beyond “Local Means Global” I was looking with my son at Google Earth the other morning. I wanted to show him my old neighborhood in…
Integral Consulting with Michael McElhenie
Russ Volckmann Russ: Welcome Michael. It’s a great pleasure to have a chance to talk with you. I first learned about your work with the formation of ILiA – the…
Diane Meyer Life is—or has—meaning and meaninglessness. I cherish the anxious hope that meaning will preponderate and win the battle. (Jung, 1998, p. 359). Art reflects the soul of humanity,…
Lisa Norton Face it, Accept it, Deal with it, Let go of it. Venerable Master Sheng-yen Our pervasive designed worlds have powerful impacts on our consciousness, attitudes and lifestyles, and…
Russ Volckmann Russ: I want to welcome Jeff Klein who has been a light that’s been shining around the integral and the consciousness world for some time. I have had the…
Expanding the Boundaries of Our Capacities through Working toward Experiencing Transformative Learning in Service
Oliver Ngodo Introduction Some people would recall that some time they simply become aware that they have gone through a ‘peak’ experience; they have reached an ecstatic moment – no,…
Nancy Southern, Sylvia Gaffney, and Bernice Moore Results of a qualitative study show how leaders experience complexity and how it is changing their understanding of their role and ways of…
Nick Ross No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreaming— its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of…
The New York Times published an article on September 20, 2012, by Sabrina Tavernise: Life Spans Shrink for Least-Educated Whites in the U.S. The life expectancy for black women who…
Why “DESIGN ME A PLANET”
Michel Saloff-Coste After thirty glorious years crashing in the late 70s on the first oil shock, we had 30 years during which we have sunk deeper and deeper into economic,…
Spiral Dynamics in Action: the Momentous Leap: The Confab 13, 9/6-9
Russ Volckmann It had been ten years since I attended SDi 1 and SDi 2 certifications in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Marilyn Hamilton was working with Don Beck to facilitate…
Working with the Deeper Field of Evolutionary Potential – A Week of Events with Stephen Busby
Michael Stern & Michael Pergola The deeper field invites me into a more embodied experience of life, where I more fully feel ‘the whole’ – the interdependent systems of which I’m…
Integral City EXPO & eLaboratory
Grow Leaders ? Grow Habitat; Add Speed Bumps, Surprises and Synchronicities Marilyn Hamilton “Make no small plans for they do not have the power to move human’s souls.” Create a…
Leadership to the Power of 8: Leading Self, Others, Organization, System and Supra-System
Marilyn Hamilton Abstract This article explores the qualities of leadership to the “Power of 8”. It offers a definition of leadership that can be recalibrated across a spectrum of complexity….
Emerging Integral Thinking South of the Border
Giorgio Piacenza Cabrera I’m a “bird” of several worlds. I was born in Perú and studied many years in the U.S. Now, I’m spending some time again in Perú and…