Feature Articles / January-February 2016
Elena Ryuse
In this short essay I want to discuss some actual examples and aspects of creating and developing a training system in Russian and international companies as seen through the perspective of the Integral approach. I will briefly review some methods and tools which have proven to be successful and been applied in business organizations.
Ken Wilber in his Integral AQAL code uses the I-WE-IT-ITS system of quadrants, or basic perspectives on or dimensions of human systems; and this …
Notes from the Field / January-February 2016
Lev Gordon
Last two months I was going through an interesting period, which was over yesterday… On November 12 I turned 42 (an age often referred to as “middle age crisis”) and so it seems that a month before and a month after were some sort of cutting ties with the past and searching for new clarity, crystallizing new vision of the future and my role in it.
I would not say that it was easy as life was testing …
Leadership Coaching Tips / January-February 2016
Lev Gordon
I will say nothing new here, yet it is useful to sometimes repeat something that works, is it not?
On occasions in business or non-for-profit activities we aim to achieve goals that are new and beyond ordinary.
If you grow and evolve, you innovate, right?
And if you innovate, you always look for new ways to do things, right?
And if you want large-scale innovations you work with others. Best, you inspire and lead them to the new …
Leadership Quote / January-February 2016
Lev Gordon
“Giving words to one’s own stance, explicitly outlining and defining one’s position always, by default principles of our human universe, brings forth antagonistic counterreaction. Hidden, implicitly performed action, even if it is large-scale, attracts less attention: It softly enters the world and perpetuates itself as water soaking into fields, while ice stays on the surface. Hidden action uses the soft and powerful force of water-like influence, sometimes interchanging it with forceful and adamant activities.”
“Any person who reaches …
Notes from the Field / January-February 2016
Anouk Brack, MSc.
In 2015 I traveled to Moscow twice to teach about Leadership Embodiment in the Embodiment Facilitator Course (EFC) by Mark Walsh and Alexandra Vilvovskaya. I was asked to reflect on my experience teaching in Russia for this special edition of Integral Leadership Review.
This course is aimed at body workers who want to offer their services in business and organisations, and for HR professionals and (executive) coaches who are looking to include …
Fresh Perspective / January-February 2016
Marilyn Hamilton
Marilyn Hamilton: First off … thanks for taking the courage to open a portal in Russia for integrally informed Leadership, where not many people in the west can see the kind of leadership in Russia that is emerging through you and the team that you are gathering around you.
… How do you feel about what has transpired since you returned to Izhevsk from your work in Europe? What has changed since you brought a vision for …
Feature Articles / January-February 2016
Elena Ryuse
How does the coaching market develop in a Russian business context? What companies try to choose this tool for development of employees? This article will help in answering these questions.
Two decades ago Spiral Dynamics emerged in America as a complexly structured system of organizational and cultural transformation (this system was founded by Don Edward Beck and Christopher Cowan based on the work of Clare William Graves). Spiral Dynamics describes multiple turns of the evolutionary Spiral of societal …