Category Archives: August-November 2015

8/19 – 2015-16 State of the Future – The Millennium Project

Notes from the Field / August-November 2015

2015-16 State of the Future
Jerome C. Glenn, Elizabeth Florescu and The Millennium Project Team

http://millennium-project.org/millennium/201516SOF.html

Concerned for “the” and “our” future? Highly recommended report by the UN sponsored Millennium Project. The report contains much more useful information than can be offered in this space. The link above provides access to the full report and the executive summary from which the following has been excerpted. –rv

Through a series of international Delphi surveys beginning in 1997 and global
scanning systems, …

8/19 – Talent Strategies Development in HR by Stages: Developmental Theory Research Through Coaching

Feature Articles / August-November 2015

Daniel Álvarez Lamas                                                                                     María Ortega Luna

 

Abstract

This article is one of the conclusions of our research called Coaching 4 Evolutions, namely:

THE STAGE OF MOTIVATION DETERMINES THE LEVEL OF THINKING

We will get to the deep meaning and consequences of this statement step by step.

Our mind doesn’t stop growing during our whole life. This growth is manifested in terms of:

  • Motivation: what is important for you is growing through your life. In every stage, the person
…

8/19 – Rethinking Postgraduate Higher Education from Transdisciplinary Perspectives

Notes from the Field / August-November 2015

Paul Gibbs

In late July, Middlesex University hosted a symposium of invited academics, thinkers and practitioners to discuss the nature of transdisciplinarity in the context of UK postgraduate higher education. Participants included Professor Nicolescu and academics from universities in the UK including Middlesex, Kings, University College London Institute of Education (UCL IOE) and Manchester, and from Australia. Topic ranged from conceptual dialogue in transdisciplinarity (Nicolescu), curriculum design (Scott), pedagogies (Nixon), anthropologic investigation (Maguire), and transversal takes from Heidegger and the …

8/19 – Integral Flow Experience with Bence Ganti

Notes from the Field / August-November 2015

Elizabeth Kennedy

The altar stood tall, and stood out in the room.  Simply walking into Bence Ganti’s Integral Flow Experience you sense something special is going to happen here.  

Bence uses an altar and ceremony to affect the lower left aspect of the class – and it works beautifully.  Integral Flow experience is truly a four quadrant expression of his 20 years in the field of integral spirituality and personal transformation.

Setting up in the morning before the daylong class, …

8/19 – Contemplative Dialogue Practices: An inquiry into deep interiority, shadow work, and insight

Feature Articles / August-November 2015

Tom Murray

PART I

Introduction: Dialogue and the Pulse of Freedom

Dialogue invokes ideals of equality, participation, freedom, collaboration, responsibility, diversity, creativity, and adaptation. A central theme in the advancement of human society is the movement from rigid and authoritarian to more responsive, democratic, and thus dialogic social practices. Open, free, authentic, rich, and reciprocal communication is seen as essential to generating acceptable life conditions in our world of dizzying complexity, rapid change, global interconnectedness (Habermas, 1999; Latour, 2014; Gastil, …

8/19 – Trans-generational Leadership and the Creation of True Eldership

Leadership Coaching Tips / August-November 2015

Michael Brabant

Adults are not born, they are not products of 18+ years of living in a human body, they are made. The prerequisite for this creation into adulthood? The death of their identity and habits as a child. I’m not referring to the inner magical child, the enlightened innocence, the sense of wonderment that most of us could use more of. I’m referring to the insecure, ego-positioning, self-gratifying, not taking responsibility, me-firstness of a child.

I propose a serious …

8/19 – When Flow Doesn’t Happen

Feature Articles / August-November 2015

Judith L. Glick-Smith

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I’m all about flow. Being in a flow state brings me a sense of joy and the feeling of being authentic in the moment. This is a topic I have been studying for eight years and with which I feel intimately connected. Since beginning my study of flow—what it is, what triggers it (for me and for others), how to influence the environment to facilitate it—I have learned how to consciously create flow experiences for myself. Everyone …

8/19 – Enlivening Edge: News from Next-Stage Organizations, online newsletter/website

Notes from the Field / August-November 2015

Alia Aurami

 A nexus for integral, next-stage organizations is born

Since Frederic Laloux published his Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next-Stage of Human Consciousness, with foreword by Ken Wilber, the impact of Integral on businesses and other organizations will never be the same. The author seems to have hit a nerve in the Zeitgeist; the number of readers of the book and of websites referencing it is rapidly growing, as are the number of …

8/19 – Reflections on Anthropocene Governance: ISSS2015 BERLIN (59th Meeting of the ISSS)

Notes from the Field / August-November 2015

Bill Toth

As I stood on the balcony of the Herrenhausen Palace, overlooking the magnificent gardens I felt very fortunate to be invited, along with 26 other PhD students to this gathering of systems thinkers from around the world to consider the interesting problem of Anthropocene governance.  It was not initially clear what the objective of the conference would be, when my research advisor made me aware of this event several months earlier.  The term “Anthropocene” is certainly not in …

8/19 – Patterns for Navigating the Transition to a World in Energy Descent

Feature Articles / August-November 2015

David MacLeod

Abstract

This paper considers current concerns about resource depletion (“energy descent”) and the unsustainability of current economic structures, which may indicate we are entering a new era signaled by the end of growth. Using the systems thinking tool of PatternDynamics™, developed by Tim Winton, this paper seeks to integrate multiple natural patterns in order to effectively impact these pressing challenges. Some of the Patterns considered include Energy, Transformity, Power, Pulse, Growth, and the polarities of Expansion/Contraction and Order/Chaos.…