Supplement / January 2012
Oliver Ngodo
November 2011 will go down as very significant in the history of Integral Movement globally. 16 – 18 of the month marked the graduation of the trainees of what may be one of the first formal and publicly acknowledged Integral Leadership Education Program in the world; certainly this is the first of its kind in Africa. This very significant event was packaged for great impact and it did generate great ululation not only all around the City of …
Notes from the Field / January 2012
David Holzmer
In A Theory of Everything Ken Wilber (2001) makes the point that “catalytic factors from several dimensions need to be present in order for transformation to occur”(p. 33). As Wilber goes on, he makes the point that conditions and/or circumstances from multiple quadrants of the AQAL model need to simultaneously be aligned in order to support movement into a new phase or stage of development. Considering the dynamics of creative tension—such as that described by Csikszentmihalyi (1997)–it could …
Notes from the Field / January 2012
Dmitry Baranov
Image acquired from the Wikipedia article on 2011 Russian protests
Dmitry Baranov
Russia witnesses a complex sociopolitical situation today. It is well-known that in 1917 the country experienced a revolution, the result of which was the overthrowing of the Czar’s power and the beginning of 70 years of the greatest experiment on creating a Utopian and ideal human society in the world’s history. It was supposed to be a society of liberated communists, developed, striving towards scientific …
Coda / January 2012
…Do you think you can just take over the universe and improve it?
I do not believe it can be done
The Universe is sacred
You cannot improve it
If you try to change it, you will ruin it.
If you try to hold it, you will lose it.
So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes things are behind;
Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily;
Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness;
Sometimes one is up and
Retrospective / January 2012
Keith E. Rice
[Editors’s Note: This is a retrospective that seems appropriate to include in this special issue. Born in 2009, this Spiral Dynamics integral initiative with the formation of the Center For Human Emergence UK, has since lost some of its steam. Three of the key organizers, Keith Rice, Rosemary Wilkie and Lynne Sedgmore are no longer actively involved, although Keith commented, “I still champion the original aim of CHE-UK and would love to see CHE-UK re-energise itself …
Leadership Emerging / January 2012
[These brief explorations of books, articles and other content are intended to provide a flavor for their contents and an opportunity for me to seek out elements that are tributaries to the integral, developmental, transdisciplinary ocean of thought that I have being critical to our futures. I ask forgiveness if any of my comments seem to convey a lack of respect. To move toward that ocean of thought I hope we can draw on the insights and learning offered …
Book Reviews / January 2012
John Rowan
Mark D Forman. A Guide to Integral Psychotherapy:
Complexity, Integration and Spirituality in Practice.
Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2010.
R. Elliott Ingersoll & David M Zeitler.
Integral Psychotherapy: Inside Out. Outside In.
Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2010.
Two books on the same subject, from the same publisher, in the same year. They both say – A volume in the SUNY series in Integral Theory – and have the same series editor. How …