Author Archives: Eric Reynolds

Bureau Chief—Canada

Bureau Chief

Joan Arnott

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Joan Arnott “thinks like a planet”. She facilitates deep reflective processes for leaders that expand world views, consciousness and community. She draws on 30 years of wisdom gathered as an executive, management consultant and leader, combining global, evolutionary, spiritual and practical perspectives with her wholehearted willingness, integrity, and frontier experiences. Joan has collaborated on practical and visionary projects with IONS, UNESCO, UN-Habitat, health care, government, crown corporations, community agencies, the forest industry, non-profits and …

09/17 – The 2013 Integral Theory Conference: Connecting The Integral Kosmopolitan

Notes from the Field / August-November 2013

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Eric Reynolds

Introduction

Integral Theory, as I understand it, is a developmental framework for integrating all kinds of knowledge. It is a transdisciplinary space, a sort of memetic scaffolding where the complex, emergent reality that IS can be mapped, navigated, and ultimately consciously co-created by interested parties coming from a multitude of different perspectives. In other words, Integral Theory as proposed by Ken Wilber is not just a theory, but also an integration of living perspectives, …

Occupy The System: An Integral Perspective on Leading Through Social Change

Learner Papers / January 2013

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Eric Reynolds

[This is a revised version of a paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a PhD seminar, Integral Leadership, offered at Saybrook University by Russ Volckmann in the Fall 2012. The assignment was to bring an integral lens to three articles on leadership that were not required reading for the course. – Ed.]

Abstract

Leadership and the theoretical body of knowledge around it, like all things, is evolving. The days of …

An Integral Look at a Conference in Transformative Learning

Notes from the Field / January 2013

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Eric Reynolds

The 10^th International Conference on Transformative Learning entitled A Future for Earth: Re-imagining Learning for a Transforming World was held on November 1^st thru 4^th in San Francisco, California. There were over 150 presenters teaching a smorgasbord of daily transformative offerings. The majority of the presenters were also participants in the conference, making for a diverse and committed learning community of scholars and practitioners from around the globe.

The Conference Program …

Leadership Coaching Tip

Leadership Coaching Tips / June 2012

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Be Open to Outcomes

Eric Reynolds

Most of my clients are individuals and small organizations that come to me because they are at a major transition in their lives. They come to me with life goals they want to reach, a professional change they are trying to make, or because they are at a major transition in their lives. Something needs to change, but they don’t know what. They require guidance into a new existence, which …