Category Archives: January 2013

An Integral Look at a Conference in Transformative Learning

Notes from the Field / January 2013

Eric Reynolds

The 10th International Conference on Transformative Learning entitled A Future for Earth: Re-imagining Learning for a Transforming World was held on November 1st thru 4th in San Francisco, California. There were over 150 presenters teaching a smorgasbord of daily transformative offerings. The majority of the presenters were also participants in the conference, making for a diverse and committed learning community of scholars and practitioners from around the globe.

The Conference Program begins with the following …

Transdisciplinary Reflections: The Sound of Surprise

Column / January 2013

On Order, Disorder, Creativity, and Trust

Alfonso Montuori

History is not something ‘back there,’ something we browse through occasionally for purposes of erudition and arcane knowledge of bygone eras: history is in our flesh and bones–and in our minds. Darwin’s great revolution was to show us that we are our history (Bocchi & Ceruti, 2002). The great revolution of complexity and chaos shows us that history is not determined, that it is the contingent co-creation of individuals and their environments. …

Women and Wisdom in Italy: A Conversation with Vicki Noble

Fresh Perspective / January 2013

Mark McCaslin

Vicki Noble is a radical feminist healer, author, independent scholar and wisdom teacher. Born in 1947 and raised in Iowa, she awakened to the Goddess and Women’s Spirituality on her arrival in Berkeley, California in 1976. Through a ‘shamanic healing crisis’, she opened psychically to the healing, art, yoga, and divination processes that led to the creation of the Motherpeace tarot. Since then she has written several books, including Shakti Woman (a handbook for healers) and The Double …

Leadership Cartoon – Italy

Leadership Cartoon / January 2013

This cartoon was given to Integral Leadership Review by the cartoonist for this special issue on Italy. We are grateful for his generosity.

Italian Democratic Party (PD) Primary 2012 – Pierluigi Bersani, PD leader is “snatching” the role as Party candidate for the incoming National Political Elections from Matteo Renzi, emerging PD leader and Mayor of Florence. “Scipp” (reads “ship”) in Italian means indeed “snatching”, which is a very traditional sport among Italian politicians since Machiavelli.

Nico Pillinini is one …

A Theory of Everything ­– Ervin Laszlo and Antonio Marturano

Fresh Perspective / January 2013

I am pleased to have interviewed Prof. Ervin Laszlo who is a systems philosopher, integral theorist, and classical pianist. Twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, he has authored more than 70 books that have been translated into nineteen languages, and has published in excess of four hundred articles and research papers, including six volumes of piano recordings. Dr. Laszlo is generally recognized as the founder of systems philosophy and general evolution theory and serves as the founder-director of the …

I Wish Someone Would Listen to Me!

Leadership Coaching Tips / January 2013

Di Rosalia Grande

“I wish someone would listen to me!”

From this statement begins the search by those who wish to undertake a coaching process. In Italy and in the world there are many styles, approaches and structuring, the reason being that there are a wide range of approaches to offering of this “service”, Coaching is useful to  the individual and for the society, too, as bearer of values of openness, the need for truth, authenticity and human understanding. Approaches …

The Value of Experience or the Leadership of the Heart (Colin Bigelow in Spain)

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 …

Madrid: A New Opportunity to Improve a Social Reality

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 …

The Charity Association for Person Centred Medicine

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,

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Integral Design Leadership: “Francesco Morace’s Hummingbird Strategy”

Column / January 2013

Lisa Norton

Act as energy collector and catalyst of proposals, projects and people… in order to give Italy, Europe and the entire world new development perspectives and fresh growth energy. (Renaissance Link)

When the context is Italy and the theme is design leadership, singling out any one individual is no easy task. Despite the glittering achievements of his fellows, I especially admire Francesco Morace for his deft inter-organizational collaborations that synthesize the sociology of culture, design, and futuring. I interviewed …