Category Archives: June 2010

Notes from the Field

Notes from the Field / June 2010

Reflections on Adult Development through the SRAD Symposium

by Ulas Kaplan

The 25th Annual Symposium of the Society for Research in Adult Development (SRAD) took place in Philadelphia on March 9 and 10, as a preconference for the Society for Research in Adolescence Biennial Meeting. Driving from Virginia to Philadelphia, I was listening to an audio recording of Bill Moyers’ program with Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth. In this program, Campbell made a critical statement, which I realized captured …

Review

Book Reviews / June 2010

Review
Michael Horace Barnes, Stages of Thought
Science and Religion through History As Seen through the Lens of Stage

by Lucas Alexander Haley Commons-Miller

barnes coverMichael Horace Barnes. Stages of Thought: The Co-Evolution of Religious Thought and Science. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

In Stages of Thought, Michael Horace Barnes explains how societies have evolved in what he calls “style of thought.” In Piagetian terms he is speaking of stage change. This stage change is not in an …

Notes from the Field

Notes from the Field / June 2010

Breaking the Investment Barriers for “Plan B”
May 12th, 2010 on board the SS Rotterdam

by Emil Möller

“Plan B is a ‘plan of hope’ because the necessary technology, economic instruments and financial resources are all available -for competing global warming, demography, poverty and restoring ecosystems. The encouraging is that if you manage to do something on one of the four domains, you simultaneously have a positive impact on a different domain. By helping women out of poverty to help …

Leadership Quote

Leadership Quote / June 2010

“The message of heroic leadership is about the sterling character of the leader, not the substance of the issues that the public is called to decide. And the temptation of heroic leadership is the extension of power and the escaping of public accountability. Heroic leaders are one of democracy’s leviathans, and the large shadows they cast obscure what democratic citizens lose in their presence.”

~ Bruce Miroff, Icons of Democracy:
American Leaders As Heroes, Aristocrats, Dissenters, and Democrats…

Article

Feature Articles / June 2010

The Story of Jill–
How an Individual Leader Developed into a “Level 5” Leader

by Maureen Metcalf & Dena Paluck

We continue to see Jim Collins book Good to Great at the top of the business best seller list. This book talks about the importance of “Level 5 Leadership” in organizational transformation from good to great. Collins talks about this as a concept but the overall topic of the book is how to move a company forward, not how to …

Announcements

Announcements / June 2010

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Announcing the 2nd International Worldly Leadership Summit

Leading with Responsibility and Conviction

To be held at The Leadership Trust Foundation

Ross-on-Wye, United Kingdom

6-7 September 2010

The theme of this year’s …

Integral for the Masses / June 2010

Integral For The Masses
Moving from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm
An Integral Leader’s Story

Keith Bellamy

bellamythresherThe wires of the Internet have been running extremely hot the past few days as Integralistas from all corners of the globe have been discussing, with extreme passion, the difference between theory and meta-theory and the rights of philosophers to change their mind and effectively disavow their earlier work. From the great centers of Integral Inquiry, we are being bombarded with theorists …

Notes from the Field

Notes from the Field / June 2010

Evolutionary Worldview Rising
by George Pór

Collective Emergence

“I don’t want followers, I want partners” is a rare statement from any spiritual teacher. Yet, those were the exact words I heard Andrew Cohen speaking in his seminar on March 27, in London. The upper floor in the EnlightenNext Centre in Islington was packed with his students and people who have just become curious about his “evolutionary enlightenment” teachings. The seminar had a relaxed atmosphere with lots of laughter and developmental …

Notes from the Field

Notes from the Field / June 2010

Asia Business Forum
Integral Perspective–The State of Awareness in Southeast Asia

by Oliver Ngodo

It was a momentous event. From March 22-25, the Asia Business Forum (ABF) meticulously packaged an International Conference on “Branding and Marketing Asia Higher Education” for countries in the South East Asia sub-region. The brainstorming sessions took place at the cozy JW Marriott Hotel in downtown Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia. The sub-region is made up of Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, …

Notes from the Field

Notes from the Field / June 2010

Review of Wendy Palmer’s Conscious Embodiment Seminar
by Anouk Brack

“It is not that I stay balanced all the time, I just recover so fast, nobody notices the imbalance.”
–paraphrasing O Sensei Morihei Ueshiba,
founder of the martial art Aikido

I highly recommend Wendy Palmer’s teaching of embodied leadership through conscious embodiment practices that she skillfully derived from Aikido. Aikido means something like “the way of harmony with the life-force.” I participated in her conscious embodiment seminars level 1 and …