Tag Archives: adult development

Oliver Robinson, Development through Adulthood

Book Reviews / January 2013

Integrative, Vedantin, or Neither

Adult Development cover Oliver Robinson. Development through Adulthood: An Integrative Sourcebook. Hampshire, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Gerard Bruitzman

Have you seen any one of the many productions now available featuring Stephen Hawking as he describes on the grounds of mathematical physics the grand design of the universe? As Hawking tells his awesome story with indubitable authority and wonderful eloquence, do you feel uneasy, as I do?

Being one of the most admired scientists alive, …

Alethic Integral Retreat, 18th – 20th May at Overmoigne, Dorset.

Notes from the Field / August 2012

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Tessa Martin

I’m almost reluctant to attempt to write a review of the weekend that 14 “integral” lovers (8 Men, 6 Women) experienced with Gary at a beautiful venue in the Dorset countryside, from 2:00 PM Friday to 4:00 PM Sunday, I’m reluctant, as I don’t think my mind awareness can recall enough or my heart awareness express enough or my physical awareness put in place enough – of what happened!

The Friday afternoon session was …

Living Through Four Eras of Cognitive Development

Feature Articles / August 2012

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Otto Laske

Abstract

In this paper, I outline the graspable existential meaning of human cognitive development. By “existential” I refer not simply to the epistemological positioning of a person to the world as a knower, but the conceptual forces of the social world itself in which this positioning occurs. This world is suffused in language and is the context in which concepts are constantly being created and modified. As a result of this social process, individuals …

Carter Phipps, Steve McIntosh and Andrew Cohen on Evolution

Leadership Emerging / August 2012

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Here are three books written by three people who are linked in their work and/or their writing, all related to the subject of evolution. Phipps was editor of What is Enlightenment, later EnlightenmentNext, publications sposored by Andrew Cohen and in which Cohen’s work and dialogues with Ken Wilber were featured. Phipps and McIntosh reference each other’s work, as well as the work of Andrew Cohen 9among others). The Foreword to Cohen’s book is by …

Integral Alignment Series, New York City: Patten, Ucik and Hübl

Notes from the Field / June 2012

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Julia Fischer

Terry Patten

On the weekend of March 3rd and 4th, 2012, I attended the first in the series of workshops, Encountering the Beloved, with Terry Patten (and Deborah Boyar). When I arrived, Michael Pergola – whose Integral Alignment organization put on the workshop series – was speaking in a visionary tone. He said that only when we’re open to the emergent, receptive feminine are we ready to open to action. He spoke about …

Integral Leadership and Diversity—Definitions, Distinctions and Implications

Feature Articles / June 2012

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Russ Volckmann

Abstract

The terms integral, leadership and diversity are explored with the purpose of showing how it is useful to consider them in relation to each other. Such consideration is significantly impacted by how we understand these and other terms that will be introduced. It is essential for us to appreciate how our approaches to meaning and sense making influence how we make choices about what is relevant, how we engage with these choices to …

Sustainability and Conscious Leadership

Fresh Perspective / June 2012

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An Interview of Barrett Brown by Ken Wilber

Topic: Barrett’s Ph.D. research on how leaders with post-conventional consciousness design and engage in complex change initiatives, specifically in the field of sustainability.

Interview Date: August, 2011; Available to public: March-April, 2012; Transcribed: May, 2012

An audio version of the interview can be found on the Integral Life website, which requires subscription access. http://integrallife.com/node/126950

Ken: Hello, Barrett.

Barrett: Hello Ken.

Ken: How are you, buddy?

Barrett: I’m great. …

Book Review: Gary Stamper, Awakening the New Masculine: The Path of the Integral Warrior

Book Reviews / March 2012

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Is the Mythopoetic Men’s Movement Ready for the Leap to Integral? A Review of Awakening the New Masculine: The Path of the Integral Warrior, by Gary Stamper, Ph.D. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2012.

William Harryman

When I see a new book coming out from someone involved with the integral movement (Stamper co-founded and led the Seattle Integral salon), and especially the Ken Wilber version of integral theory, I steel myself for the seemingly …

The Human Art of Leading—Part 2

Feature Articles / March 2012

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[Part 1 of this article is: McCaslin, M. & Snow, R. (October, 2010). The human art of leading: A foreshadow to the potentiating movement of leadership studies. Integral Leadership Review, X (5). http://www.archive-ilr.com/archives-2010/2010-10/2010-10-toc.php – Editor]

Practicing the Potentiating Art of Deep Understanding

Mark McCaslin and Renee Snow

Opening Interlude

It is difficult to fully speak about the gifts of human potential lying dormant in the eco – the sacred habitat where individually held potentials …

Featured Article: Leading in Uncertain Times: Leadership Characteristics of the Self-Transforming Mind

Feature Articles / March 2011

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Camden C. Danielson

Do you know your people? And do you love them?

Mother Teresa
Address to Indian HR Executives

The global environment is increasing the degree of complexity for organizations operating anywhere in the world. With it arises the need for a different kind of inquiry operating within our lives and organizations. The requirement for greater openness to uncertainty will challenge our sense of purpose, identity, and self-efficacy. The founder of analytical psychology, Carl Jung, …