| Sense in the City NEWSLETTER May 28, 2007 |
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Greetings, Integral
City-zens and
Friends of Integral City
Today's Integral City Sparkie for
the City Mesh:
We are all tomorrow’s food. Thus, not only does a developmental or evolutionary view generously give to each period its own important truths, it gives to the present its own appropriate humility.
Wilber,
K., Marriage of Sense and Soul, New
York, Random House, 1998,
p. 207
The theme for this newsletter is the
cycle of breaking down and breaking
through.
1. Two
years ago, I keyed the article
Leadership to the Power of 8 (read
it at
http://integralcity.com/Ezine%20Files/Ezine%20jul%200805%20iss4.html ) . This
was in response to seeing the demands
for modern leadership through the eyes
of Jared Diamond, Thomas Friedman and
Thomas Barnett. A third Thomas has come
into my life in the last year:
Thomas Homer-Dixon. I heard
Thomas Homer-Dixon speak at the World
Future Society in Toronto in July 2006.
Director of the Trudeau Centre for Peace
and Conflict Studies and Professor of
Political Science at University of
Toronto, he spoke about his book
The Ingenuity Gap.
Last week I heard Thomas Homer-Dixon
speak to his most recent book,
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe,
Creativity and the Renewal of
Civilization . Thomas
Homer-Dixon is the first person I have
observed weave together as an
explanation for our
modern civilization's intractable
dilemmas, the living system resilience
model of Hollings and the complexity
model of civilizations (proposed by
Joseph Trainer amongst others).
The Upside of Down is
an edgy review of five tectonic plates
that are grinding against one another at
a global level, causing social and
cultural eruptions and earthquakes:
population imbalances, energy shortages,
environmental damage, global warming and
rich/poor gaps. The effects of
this quintet of massive disturbances are
multiplied even further by the
densification of global connectivity and
the disproportional capacity of small
groups to destroy physical and human
capital. Thomas H-D points with concern
at four particularly vulnerable
flashpoints in the world: Saudi Arabia,
Pakistan, China and Europe. He proposes
that the natural cycle of human (and
living) systems makes it inevitable that
the world as we know it will experience
breakdowns before it breaks through into
new ways of organizing individual lives,
cities and global governance. To
mitigate the breakdowns and shift from
unrecoverable disaster to possible new
futures he proposes that we need four
key leadership qualities. We must bring
good strategic management to the five
tectonic pressures. We need to cultivate
a " prospective mind" willing and able
to grapple with difficult,
threatening scenarios while seeking
opportunistic outcomes. We need to
design resilience into key survival
systems like energy and food networks.
We need to be ready to shift breakdown
into breakthrough when it happens. For a
fascinating illustration of his points
via a personal tour of the ancient
structures of Rome, check out the book
at here http://www.integralcity.com/DiscoveryZone/Books/bookshelf%20intelligent.html .
2. The
Creative Skills Training
Council might be an
excellent resource for finding and
learning breakthrough skills. Check it
out at
http://www.cstc-apa.com/
3. If
we are to develop prospective mind and
integral skills to address the
challenges Thomas Homer-Dixon outlines,
we need to be able to comprehend and
translate messages from people who have
differing worldviews and speak different
languages. A full description of the SDi
Level 2 workshop Messaging
for Change; Changing Messages
is available at
http://www.integralcity.com/DiscoveryZone/Training/SDiL2%20messaging%20Wpg%202007.html .
Find out 10 reasons you should attend to
learn how to speak and translate eight
different worldview languages. Spiral
Dynamics integral Level 2 Certification
Training 2007, with Dr. Don Beck. Winnipeg
Sept. 11-13, 2007 .
4. The Upside of Down
highlights the continuous need we
have to manage five tectonic plates.
Integral assessments, scorecards and
vital signs monitors give users
whole system views for
assessing life conditions, criteria
for identifying the change states
of living systems and perspectives
for connecting the relationships
between individuals, teams,
organizations and communities within
human systems. A full description of
the SDi Level 2 workshop Vital
Signs of Change: Beyond Strategic
Planning to Systemic Wellbeing
is available at http://www.integralcity.com/DiscoveryZone/Training/SDiL2%20vital%20signs%20Toronto%202007.html
Find out who should attend and the
benefits of the course curriculum
for leaders who want to effectively
make a difference. Spiral
Dynamics integral Level 2
Certification Training 2007, with
Christopher Cooke. Toronto
Oct. 16-18, 2007.
5.
Integral Education: FROM
CRADLE TO KOSMOS --
Exploring the leading edge of
educational theory and practice,
this seminar, the first of its kind,
will bring educators of all age
groups together from around the
globe, educators who are seeking the
necessary vision, skills, and
processes to fully serve students
and the world that we inhabit.
August 12-17, 2007, Whidbey
Institute on Whidbey Island, WA. For
more information about the seminar,
costs and registration, go to
www.i-edu.org.
6. SDi
and Integral City Workshop Events.
Kamloops BC August 21 ,
2007. From
Eco-Activist to Evo-Artist: Creating
the Conditions for Change the World
Needs Done .
Spiral Dynamics integral Level 1
Certification Training 2007
Abbotsford July
27-30 , 2007
Winnipeg Sept. 7-10, 2007
Toronto Oct. 12-15, 2007
All
Registration Forms are
now online at
http://www.integralcity.com/reg-forms/Current%20Trainings/current%20trainings.html#sdi%20trainings
... in the Integral City,
Integral Nation and Integral World,
integral lenses bring focus and insight
to the upsides of down, the downsides of
up and the right and left sides of the
never ending quest for human emergence.
...integral cheers and blessings ...
Marilyn
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Foundation
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University, Adizes
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