Notes from the Field / January 2013
Raquel Torrent
My name is Raquel Torrent, a Spanish woman that has been introducing and developing Integral Consciousness in Spain since 2003, thanks to my work as a psychologist, Integral counselor and teacher. On top of that I am a clear example of a dream come true.
To explain such a statement, I have already shared part of my story with the readers of the Integral Leadership Review in previous issues, but for those who have not read it, I …
Notes from the Field / January 2013
Roberto Bonilla Núñez and Catia Bernaldo de Quirós
Last October 2012, Dr. Don Beck was invited by a chapter of the Spanish Integral Association to deliver a Spiral Dynamics Integral workshop (certification level 1). This invitation was issued thanks to the diligent efforts of Catia Bernaldo de Quirós who several months before started exchanging emails with Dr. Beck and at the same time looking for funds to make this event a reality
It was at the end of August when …
Notes from the Field / January 2013
The Italian Leader Initiative Towards Sustainable, Safe, Participatory, Inclusive Person-Centered Medicine
Paolo Roberti di Sarsina
The Charity Association for Person Centred Medicine has been founded in Bologna, Italy, on 1st December 2007. It is registered at the Unified Charity Register Office of the Republic of Italy, in the Section for Social and Social-Health Assistance. The Mission of the Charity Association for Person Centred Medicine:
…• Promoting and protecting health through the humanisation and personalisation of medicine.
• Placing the person,
Notes from the Field / October 2012
Sergej van Middendorp, Kazuma Matoba and Barton Buechner
From 27 to 29 September 2012, a community of scholars and practitioners gathered in Berlin for the SIETAR 2012+38 forum. What drew them together was their strong desire to help bring about Global Integral Competence and Cosmopolitan Communication.
To invite the leading edge of practice and thought to become present, we imagined a world, in 2050, where integral consciousness had become the average level of development of individuals throughout all cultures, and …
Notes from the Field / October 2012
Jon Freeman
I don’t want to offend anybody – really I don’t – but from the depths of my being I have to say this. There’s a lot of unconsciousness about conscious evolution. Conscious Evolution is not the same as personal development, enlightenment or raising personal consciousness. It’s a step beyond.
Evolution happens at the level of a species. So Conscious Evolution is only partly about me and only partly about …
Notes from the Field / October 2012
Russ Volckmann
It had been ten years since I attended SDi 1 and SDi 2 certifications in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Marilyn Hamilton was working with Don Beck to facilitate the sessions. If memory serves, there were about 50 people in attendance, almost all unknown to me. But these sessions were all Don. He served up his stories, accompanied by music that helped us connect to the vmemetic aspects of ourselves.
Perhaps the most valuable takeaways from this experience were …
Notes from the Field / October 2012
Michael Stern & Michael Pergola
The deeper field invites me into a more embodied experience of life, where I more fully feel ‘the whole’ – the interdependent systems of which I’m a part, and where I may choose to navigate intuitively and creatively using an inner compass. The subtle skills and sensitivities intrinsic to Whole Field work – through tools such as systemic constellations for example – are applicable at work or at home, in leadership or project management, or …
Notes from the Field / October 2012
Marilyn Hamilton
“Make no small plans for they do not have the power to move human’s souls.”
In integral circles, when we talk about designing leadership development capacities, some of us have been known to talk about “creating habitats for leadership learning”. What on earth (or heaven?) does a habitat for learning leadership look like? Is it a bootcamp? Is it an Executive MBA with …
Notes from the Field / October 2012
Giorgio Piacenza Cabrera
I’m a “bird” of several worlds. I was born in Perú and studied many years in the U.S. Now, I’m spending some time again in Perú and recently found that the outstanding and publicly involved French philosopher of complexity Edgar Morin recently came here twice and inspired some local intellectuals to create a sui generis socio-political-cultural movement. This was well received because something had already been gestating locally and regionally.
In Perú Edgar Morin explicitly recognized the …
Notes from the Field / October 2012
Jeff Klein
The sold out Summit received rave reviews from the 160 participating CEOs and other business leaders. The presenters, presentations and practicums were exceptional and the overall program structure was extremely effective. And while all of this was wonderful, ultimately, the most satisfying and encouraging aspect of the Summit was the energy, enthusiasm and engagement of the participants, the warmth and depth of community and the indications of the accelerating emergence of the Conscious Capitalism movement.
I was fortunate …