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Monthly Archives: January 2016
1/18 – Russian Enigma: Guest Editor’s Reflections
Leading Comments / January-February 2016
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Eugene Pustoshkin
Russia cannot be understood with the mind alone . . .
— Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873), a poet
Russia is enigmatic mystery. It is full of paradoxes, contrasts, and opposites, a kind of simultaneous divergence of the opposites and coincidentia oppositorum, the country of both dissociation-fragmentation and the thirst for wholeness, healing, and transcendence.
Here, very rich coincide with very poor, scarcity of spirit coincides with spiritual abundance, damnation of souls with revival of …
1/18 – Cultural Landscape: An Integral Perspective
Book Reviews / January-February 2016
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Milana Vladimirovna Ragulina. Cultural Landscape: An Integral Perspective. (In Russian: Kul’turniy landshaft: integral’niy vzglyad). Ulyanovsk: Zebra, 2015. The book is available for free in Russian at elibary.ru.
Eugene Pustoshkin and Alexander Malakhov
Milana Vladimirovna Ragulina, PhD in Geographical Sciences, Doktor Geographicheskikh Nauk; leading research scientist at the Laboratory of Resource Management and Political Geography of the V. B. Sochava Institute of Geography SB of Russian Academy of Sciences (Irkutsk, Russia).
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This book …
1/18 – Psychonetics: A Russian Corpus of Psychotechnologies
Feature Articles / January-February 2016
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Oleg Bakhtiyarov (Translated from Russian by Eugene Pustoshkin)
Today the entire corpus of psychotechniques is so vast that one could find practices aimed at both resolving psychological, social or medical problems and developing supranormative skills necessary for performing extreme tasks in operational or intellectual activities. There are also, however, non-pragmatic motivations such as the drive towards understanding oneself, the World and Being. A significant portion of non-pragmatic practices is aimed at attaining interior freedom and …
1/18 – Who benefits from vertical development in Russia today?
Feature Articles / January-February 2016
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Anastasia Nekrasova and Irina Smirnova
An expanded individual: an end or a means?
Coaching in Russia is a relatively new field. Although in its cradle, developmental coaching awakes curiosity – it seems to have powers to transform people and systems. How do those coaches use this power? Who benefits from the transformations they induce?
This article arose from observing a pattern within the coaching practice in Russia: we coaches seem to be more comfortable working with …
1/18 – A Russian Immigrant’s Experience at One of America’s Liberal Arts Programs and His Attempt at Making It More Integral
Feature Articles / January-February 2016
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George Koupatadze
Background & the Context
My story is that of a typical immigrant. My family and I decided to immigrate to the United States from Russia during the time of great turmoil in our home country – after the Soviet Union collapsed and together with it – our familiar way of life. As the country was looking for new ways of existence and governance, its people were desperately trying to adapt to the new socio-economic …
1/18 – Integral Russian Experience: Developing a Training & Development System Through the Lens of the Integral “All-Quadrant” Approach
Feature Articles / January-February 2016
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Elena Ryuse
In this short essay I want to discuss some actual examples and aspects of creating and developing a training system in Russian and international companies as seen through the perspective of the Integral approach. I will briefly review some methods and tools which have proven to be successful and been applied in business organizations.
Ken Wilber in his Integral AQAL code uses the I-WE-IT-ITS system of quadrants, or basic perspectives on or dimensions of …
1/18 – Gaining Maturity on the Path (Notes from the Russian Fields)
Notes from the Field / January-February 2016
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Lev Gordon
Last two months I was going through an interesting period, which was over yesterday… On November 12 I turned 42 (an age often referred to as “middle age crisis”) and so it seems that a month before and a month after were some sort of cutting ties with the past and searching for new clarity, crystallizing new vision of the future and my role in it.
I would not say that it was easy …
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1/18 – A Few Tips for Changing the World (Connect to a Greater Purpose, Facilitate Breakthroughs, Inspire Others to Think Big)
Leadership Coaching Tips / January-February 2016
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Lev Gordon
I will say nothing new here, yet it is useful to sometimes repeat something that works, is it not?
On occasions in business or non-for-profit activities we aim to achieve goals that are new and beyond ordinary.
If you grow and evolve, you innovate, right?
And if you innovate, you always look for new ways to do things, right?
And if you want large-scale innovations you work with others. Best, you inspire and lead …