Leading Comments / June 2011
I want to encourage you to take a good look at the Notes from the Field section of Integral Leadership Review. The purpose of this section is to call attention to and report on the value added experienced by individuals pursuing their own and collective learning and development in many different contexts. You may find a report of an integrally informed development program in Nigeria, a report on a conference or workshop, or a report on …
Notes from the Field / June 2011
Michael McElhenie
Integral Leadership in Action is alive and well. We are currently in an exploratory incubation period, which has already generated a number of intriguing ideas that are sure to excite our members and the wider integral community. While we did choose to cancel the Conference Collaborative last year for economic and other reasons, we are fully committed to our mission of “Exploring and Developing the Concepts and Practices …
Notes from the Field / June 2011
Oliver Ngodo
Tuesday May 17, 2011, His Excellency the High Commissioner of Canada to Nigeria, Chris Cooter, was on a working visit to One Sky offices in Calabar. This visit marked the conclusion of the 10th of the 12 rounds of Intensives designed for the Leading From Within Project. This project, which started in 2008, was designed to develop more individual leadership and interior capacity of organizational …
Notes from the Field / June 2011
Robin Reinach and Barbara Larisch
Integral New York started spring 2011 with an exploration of the possible flaws, foibles, and shadowy missteps of individuals at 2nd Tier. One question that arose at the beginning of the meet up was about splits that occurred during the last few years at the highest levels of Integral leadership. How have these splits trickled down to effect the international Integral …
Feature Articles / June 2011
Brian McConnell
The Integral Research Center Roanoke, VA
Abstract: Presenting a background of historical context, “Toward a Sustainable Future” offers an overview in the ascendancy of neoliberal/neoconservative viewpoints constituting the world’s dominant socioeconomic ideology today. An AQAL framework is then introduced and subsequently examined as an aid to envisioning and ultimately adopting Integral approaches capable of better supporting value(s) of human relatedness. In so doing, the article’s content aspires to empower today’s leaders to pioneer …
Feature Articles / June 2011
Sue LT McGregor and Russ Volckmann
Thus far we have looked at transdisciplinary programs at particular institutions of higher education in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Austria and the European Union, and Australia. In this penultimate chapter in this series we take a look, not just at a transdisciplinary PhD program in Romania, but at the remarkable Romanian who has encouraged and fostered so much attention to transdisciplinarity around the world: Basarab Nicolescu.
Nicolescu is a Romanian …
Feature Articles / June 2011
Wayne Carr, Ph.D.
Introduction
My intenIion is to bring forth some different perspectives on second tier (see my definition of second tier under the next heading). I will tap into a fountain and share some water with you. I intend to look around and fine some elephants that might be in the room.
I want to clarify distinctions between first, second and third tier. I will look at the roles of stuckness, pathology, authority, contactfulness, non-local consciousness, non-dual …
Notes from the Field / June 2011
Anouk Brack
…1. Change for Good – introduction to ALiA conference theme
2. Practice & Purpose – possible definitions
3. Experience of Embodied Leadership – getting a somatic sense of Embodied Leadership work
4. The dynamic balance of Power & Love – on the Adam Kahane and Wendy Palmer Module
5. The Art of Execution – The
Announcements / June 2011
Not for profit organizations are encouraged to provide brief announcements about events, conferences, workshops, meetings, publications and the like that are being held anywhere in the world. A logo or graphic many accompany each announcement. Please draft the material to be included. Keep verbiage to a minimum, but convey the important information about your activity. Make sure to include email addresses and websites where people can register or obtain additional information.
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Leadership Coaching Tips / June 2011
Russ Volckmann
If you are interested in developing your capabilities to step into a leader role or you are a consultant/coach who is working with clients to support such development, then here are a couple of tips that may be useful to you.
The first has to do with the distinction between manager and leader. Both are roles. A role is a set of expectations held by stakeholders of that role: your boss, peers, subordinates, clients and board members or …