Venwoude, the Netherlands  24th – 28^th August 2011

Nynke Feenstra

At the beautiful retreat Venwoude we came together to explore and embody Integral Sustainability Leadership. Our group was 20 participants with 8 different nationalities from 4 generations. The seminar that was designed and organised by Anouk Brack, Miriam van Groen and Rik Hoevers amongst others, from Experience Integral, invited us into an impressive flow following Otto Scharmer’s U process. Every part in the program had …

Review of Design Me a Planet

Michel Nguyen The

“Design Me a Planet” (“Dessine-moi une planète”) is the name of project founded by Michel Saloff-Coste and which is still in construction. The name comes from the sentence “Dessine-moi un mouton !” (“Draw me a sheep!”) taken from The Little Prince from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The idea is to create a think-and-do-tank on the theme of creating a vision for the future, and not only incrementing …

Review of 12th Integral University Day

Michel Nguyen The

On Tuesday 24^th May 2011 took place the 12^th day of the Parisian Integral University. The theme was “integral societies and politics”. Many speakers were part of the Club of Budapest: Ervin Laszlo himself, Bénédicte Fumey, Carine Dartiguepeyrou and Michel Saloff-Coste. Edgar Morin was on the agenda but was too tired to make it as he was between other conferences. Alain Gauthier made a …

Foreno Van Der Hulst and Willow Dea

Brief Background:

In preparation for the Embodying Integral Sustainability seminar, facilitated by Experience Integral in August, Willow Dea and I prepared a 90 minutes session on Profit and Business Model Generation.

Foreno: The motivation to do this was the following: During my master’s program in Sustainable Development, I was interested in learning more about economics and business, as these fields have such a big impact on the social …