Feature Articles / August-November 2016
Mark Davenport
Are you old enough to have heard this from someone perhaps your own age, but probably younger than you, but certainly not older than you? If so. How did you feel upon hearing it?
For me it was a bit like being called “Sir” in a shop for the first time. I thought at the moment that I was not yet a “Sir” and was offended by someone presuming I was. A female friend recalls feeling deeply angry …
Learner Papers / August-November 2016
Todd J. Barry
Abstract: Leadership is, at times, the calling out and identification of lack of leadership. This paper uses a case study to propose an original idea, that of policy by tautologies in the George W. Bush administration and the international community. A tautology is a type of circular group reasoning. While President Bush emphasized the policy of “regime change” to his advisors, the advisors came to repeat the phrase back to him and the public. True …
Integral European Conference #IEC2016 / August-November 2016
Marco Antonio Robledo
Abstract
3D-Management is an integral meta-theory of management that integrates organizational knowledge in an integral, balanced and non-marginalizing framework. It stands for Three-Dimensional Management, in reference to the three fundamental and irreducible dimensions (the Big Three) that integral management should address: science, arts and ethics, which refer respectively to the techno-economical, the aesthetic- emotional and the moral aspects of organizational reality. Those three dimensions combine in a fourth one, the spiritual dimension, which integrates the other three …
Book Reviews / August-November 2016
Ádám Olgyay
Harald Harung and Frederick Travis (2016). Excellence through Mind-Brain Development: The Secrets of World Class Performers. London, UK. Routledge.
We all want excellence and happiness. Thousands of books have been written on the topic of high performance and the secrets of success. There are two basic challenges. First, there are many competing ideas of what underlies high performance. Second, it has proven difficult to implement the theories in practice. From the huge complexity of this field, the following …
Cover / August-November 2016
Eric Reynolds
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Cover / August-November 2016
Gaia Orion
I have to admit that it took me a long time to grasp the full scope of Integral theory (and I am still working on it!). It is primarily a comprehensive map of a complex whole while being beautifully simple and elegant. Many of my themes already explored the stages of one’s life in a spiral motion so when I came across the integral world it felt only natural to tackle …
Feature Articles / August-November 2016
Zach Schlosser
Abstract
In this paper I outline a trans-lineage spirituality rooted in our intrinsic and discovered desires. I begin with a critique of Buddhism and then draw on insights from Saniel Bonder’s work developing the contemporary awakening school Waking Down in Mutuality, Bonnitta Roy’s Process Model of Integral Theory and her notion of View, Bruce Alderman’s and A.H. Almaas’s recent trans-lineage reconsiderations of ontology and soteriology respectively, process philosophers such as Charles Hartshorne and Eugene Gendlin to respond to …
Leadership Quote / August-November 2016
“The Integral Self is both fierce and compassionate. Fierce compassion heals. David Whyte says: ‘The blade is so sharp it cuts things together, not apart’ (Whyte, 1997). The inner work of the Integral transformation is shadow work – work that integrates shadow elements into a larger, more inclusion construction of the self. This ‘cutting things together, not apart’ can only happen with searing honesty, self-compassion, and forgiveness. It is just this honest compassion for the inner conflict and unresolvedness within …
Notes from the Field / August-November 2016
Mary Ann Thompson-Frenk
Note to reader: Traditional humanitarianism seeks to alleviate a symptom. Integral humanitarianism views an individual project as a Systemic remedy. Identifying where within the ecological, social, cultural and economic systems one can have the greatest positive impact and what methods should be used is Social Acupuncture. The people’s transformation into conscious cultural creators (people who have become consciously aware of how their choices are creating their current culture, economically, spiritually, environmentally, etc.) and can respond strategically with …
Integral European Conference #IEC2016 / August-November 2016
Detlev Bohle
Service excellence, knowledge intensive service development and wisdom based services are discussed. The review of the present of wisdom based services is based on integral theory.
From the complex landscape of needs of companies and individuals alike a new type of services is emerging for which the terminus wisdom based services is proposed. In this paper we look at what makes wisdom based services different from knowledge intensive services, and first principles for developing wisdom based …