Notes from the Field / August-November 2013
Dr. Don E. Beck
Julianna D. Padgett, Ph.D., LCSW, Assistant Dean of the School of Social Work at Tulane University led the organization of a presentation and a meetings/trainings between Don Beck, students and faculty with Dr. Laura Horn and Darrell Gooden participating in support. In total, 210 people attended. Additional trainings are scheduled for January with a possible SDi 1 in March after Mardi Gras.
We had a wonderful experience in New Orleans with “cultural beats from Bourbon Street.” …
Notes from the Field / August-November 2013
Eric Reynolds
Introduction
Integral Theory, as I understand it, is a developmental framework for integrating all kinds of knowledge. It is a transdisciplinary space, a sort of memetic scaffolding where the complex, emergent reality that IS can be mapped, navigated, and ultimately consciously co-created by interested parties coming from a multitude of different perspectives. In other words, Integral Theory as proposed by Ken Wilber is not just a theory, but also an integration of living perspectives, which by definition needs …
Notes from the Field / August-November 2013
Chela Davison
I want to be better. Call it an evolutionary impulse or compulsive addiction to seeking adequacy or something else all together. Whatever this is, it has me continually seeking out the very things that bring me to my edge, and propel me into, or through it. It’s this hungry seeker within that has me show up both as a participant and at times, a facilitator of change events, courses and workshops. I’ve been a participant at a handful …
Notes from the Field / August-November 2013
Jonathan Reams
I attended the 2013 Integral Theory Conference with my usual tendency to sit somewhat on the margins and observe the gathering with a mix of appreciative and critical eyes. One part of me is grateful for all the work to enable a gathering of people who have a diverse commonality in that they may have a wide range of ideas, experience, attitudes and perspectives they bring into the mix, but there is some kind of wider frame that …
Notes from the Field / August-November 2013
Bruno Roussel and Brian Van der Horst
At the Unversity of Toulouse in the South of France, a new organization called Rosace (the French word for those huge rose-shaped stained-glass windows in cathedrals) has been founded to consult and orient those earning integral doctorates to actually finding gainful employment in the real world.
http://rosace.univ-tlse3.fr/
In France, they often call integral studies “transdisciplinary” as you may have read in various past ILR articles about Basarab Nicolescu (http://basarab-nicolescu.fr/chart.php#en) , Edgar Morin, and …
Notes from the Field / August-November 2013
Mundy Viar
As a relative newcomer to the world of integral, this was my first ITC. It was with both excitement and reticence that I ventured into the dense integral sea in Burlingame. Sessions led by seasoned thought leaders, as well as some lesser known at this time, provided ample opportunity to further explore theories and practices from various parts of the world, through various lenses, and as part of an apparently diverse participant base.
The practical in me – …
Notes from the Field / August-November 2013
Lisa Norton
I attended the ITC for the first time in glorious San Francisco in July as a volunteer. I learned a great deal and gained real appreciation for the dedicated co-organizing group comprised of Jeff Bellsey, Valerie Beltran and Lisa Celentano and their generous volunteer team. I hope the following first-person impressions of ITC 2013 Connecting the Integral Kosmopolitan may hint at the incredible abundance of choices available during every session.
This Integral Kosmopolitan gathering was a result of …
Notes from the Field / June 2013
Pam Fuhrmann
Our relationship to the divine impacts our worldview and our orientation to self and leading others. Our notions of control and emergence; attitudes towards change; ways of relating, collaborating and creating shared meaning; and our perception of paradox are a few such examples the divine’s influence.
Through one’s orientation to the divine, one may find fundamental differences in how beliefs are understood to be true, such as historical and literally or mythic, figurative, and theoretical. One might ask, …
Notes from the Field / June 2013
Chela Davison
I want to be better. Call it an evolutionary impulse or compulsive addiction to seeking adequacy or something else all together. Whatever this is, it has me continually seeking out the very things that bring me to my edge, and propel me into, or through it. It’s this hungry seeker within that has me show up both as a participant and at times, a facilitator of change events, courses and workshops. I’ve been a participant at a handful …
Notes from the Field / June 2013
Barbara N. Brown
One recurring discussion at the New Year’s What Next Integral conference in Colorado was the emergence of spontaneous integral-like thinking. Many feel the need to begin to draw these voices in from the wilderness by bringing integral ideas into the mainstream.
On March 9-10, Don Beck, Spiral Dynamics, and Phyllis Blees, President of Peace Through Commerce, hosted a Human Emergence Weekend in Austin, TX. Based on the historical observation “If Goods Don’t …