Book Reviews / January-February 2015
Diana Claire Douglas
Sarah Nicholson and Vanessa Fisher were inspired to start a conversation within the Integral Community about sex, gender and sexuality. Their edited book Integral Voices is the result, and for many of their authors, just the beginning of that conversation.
Invited to review Integral Voices, I was aware that I was dropping into many conversations that already had a history, some of which I knew something about, and some I didn’t. I found myself needing to …
Lead Poem / January-February 2015
Tim Merry
No more prizes for predicting the rain
The pain
New starts
Time to build the arks
Gather now at our community centres
With friends and mentors
And Elders
We all be the welders
Of fragmentation
On the edges of the new creation
The builders of the New Space Station
Right here in the arms of the mother
Where the heroes gather undercover
Sensing the future with sonar sound
The builders of boats abound
Readying for the coming storms…
Leadership Quote / January-February 2015
Canada has no goals or direction, yet shares so much of the American character and experience that the role of dialogue and liaison has become entirely natural to Canadians wherever they are …. In the age of the electronic information environment the big nations of the First World are losing both their identities and goals … In this new world the decentralized and soft-focus image of the flexible Canadian identity appears to great advantage… Today they are even more suited …
Leading Self / January-February 2015
Beth Sanders
At the threshold I feel queasy and sick throughout my whole being. It is soon my turn to step into the choice I have already made. It isn’t too late to turn back. My knees rock forward and back while a voice in my head utters, “I am not ready, I am not ready, I am not ready.” As the dawn sun creeps across the meadow, I step in to the warm embrace of a blanket and the …
Leading Cultures / January-February 2015
Janice Simcoe
“There are many roads to the High Place”[i]
The story, as I received it, is about different kinds of leadership and how each has its place and space. First I will provide some context. The Anishinaabe, also called the Ojibwe, people have a clan system that, among other things, helps to identify relationships between families, connections with those newly met, and the teachings – including some of the roles and responsibilities – of an individual’s ancestors, …
Continuous Learning / January-February 2015
Brigitte Harris and Niels Agger-Gupta
The MA Leadership program was the first offering of the newly created Royal Roads University (RRU) in 1996. The program was designed for mid-career professionals with at least five to ten years of leadership experience. Designed on pioneering, paradigm-changing but rigorously referenced experiential adult learning principles[i], this program has been successful from the beginning, consistently attracting up to 200 students annually from across Canada. The two-year program, …
Leading World / January-February 2015
Gail Hochachka
Abstract: One Sky carried out an Integral Leadership Program with the Brazil nut value chain in Bolivia and Peru, in partnership with Costco the fourth largest retailer in the US, as well as Candor, one of his main buyers, along with the Canadian nonprofit organization Integral Without Borders Institute. As an overall goal, the program sought to foster a personal, collective and systemic transformation of the Brazil nut value chain through an emergent design, based on integral principles. …
Author Locations / January-February 2015
Beth Sanders MCIP RPP enjoys the wilderness of civilization as a writer and professional city planner. She is president of POPULUS Community Planning Inc., where she works across Canada with government, business, community organizations and citizens striving for cities that serve citizens well. She works with cities at every scale – as an individual, in her family, in neighborhoods and organizations, the city-region, her province, nationally and globally. Beth is on the board of the Canadian …