Notes from the Field / January 2011
Vanita Ramirez
One of Ken Wilber’s visions is of a world federation led by individuals at later stages of consciousness, individuals who can see with greater complexity and make decisions that will bring greater beauty, truth and goodness to all of us, individuals who support the evolution of consciousness in service to a better future for all. This kind of world federation is not yet a reality, however, there are individuals whose innovative forms of leadership have the potential to …
Notes from the Field / January 2011
Richard McGuigan
The Master of Arts program in Conflict Analysis and Engagement (CAE) at Antioch University Midwest (AUM) is a hybrid distributed learning program designed to engage the whole person and to facilitate the growth of consciousness and complexity of meaning-making among its students. In support of the Master of Arts program, several research studies are underway at the Feind Institute of Integral Research, located within the Institute of Conflict Analysis and Engagement (ICAE) at AUM. The purpose of our …
Notes from the Field / January 2011
Anouk Brack & Rik Hoevers
Bioneers is an emerging culture of social and scientific innovators who are mimicking nature’s operating instructions to serve human ends while healing nature. For more than twenty years Bioneers have promoted practical environmental solutions and innovative social strategies for restoring Earth’s imperiled ecosystems and healing our human communities.
In their journey Bioneers have become a more and more integral movement with a huge emphasis on actual workable existing solutions for our global and local challenges …
Uncategorized / Notes from the Field / June 2010
by Russ Volckmann
Consultant McGonagill and Doerffer of the Bertelsmann Foundation presented their report of a study they did of leadership development in the United States. Their presentation was one of the best hours I have spent online for some time. I probably am greatly influenced by the fact that included in the presentation are many of the themes we have been exploring in Integral Leadership …
Notes from the Field / June 2010
On March 27th, 2010, a group of 25 people (all but 2 being men) gathered in South London to discuss the state of men in the UK, and what could be done to bring more purpose, power and meaning to their lives.
Man Collective was started last November when Alex Linsley, an economics student at Oxford University, wanted to start a men’s group to gather a close-knit community of men to challenge and inspire him …
Notes from the Field / June 2010
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 …
Notes from the Field / June 2010
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 …
Notes from the Field / June 2010
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 / June 2010
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 / June 2010
“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 …