Community Call June 23
Follow the Energy, Find the 4 Voices: Discover the Power of Collective Intelligence in Your City
The next Integral Without Borders Community Call will be 9:30am-11:00am PDT Friday June 23, 2017 on how to follow the energy, and discover the power, of collective intelligence within a city. This is lead by Dr. Marilyn Hamilton, Founder and President of Integral City, who is a new Board Member of IWB.
Our intention with these IWB community calls is to co-create the kind of 'integral community' we want, one that is edgy and wise in its content, supportive in its interpersonal connections, and kosmos-centric in it's moral embrace. Each call will focus on an aspect of integral practice in development with certain practitioners leading on these topics and with participants contributing examples from their integral projects. It is an honour to host Marilyn, with her extensive experience catalyzing sustainable, thriving and integral cities all over the world.
9:30am-11:00am PDT Friday June 23, 2017 (Find your time zone here).
Register Here: Once you register, you will be sent a Zoom invite as well as the intro four-page paper which frames the topic.
Price: $20 USD Suggested Donation. We appreciate that you value this community service. To donate please visit this page and click on the Donate button. Thank you! 
Title: Follow the Energy, Find the 4 Voices: Discover the Power of Collective Intelligence in Your City
Description:
This webinar-style community call explores how the Integral City approach, pioneered by Dr. Marilyn Hamilton, is energized by engaging the 4 voices of the city and finding the energy in the Master Code. It asks four key questions and shows how the answers allow you to start using Integral City processes and strategies with any city. The core questions are:
- What is an Integral City?
- Why follow the energy to a Vision for your City?
- How do 4 Voices create Resilience for the Human Hive?
- What is the Secret of the Master Code?
For more information.
Register here.
See you there,
The IWB team.
IWB event in Antigua, Guatemala
July 14-17
(español aqui)
This July, IWB is hosting a gathering in Antigua, Guatemala! We are only a few weeks away, and space is filling up, so register now.
This will be our third Integral Without Borders gathering in Latin America, and the second that will be held in Spanish. This will be held at a retreat center in the stunning colonial town of Antigua, and will also include a field trip to some of the surrounding communities. We are currently creating partnerships with local groups and co-designing the themes and agenda for this gathering.
Dates: July 14-17, 2017
Price: $250-$500, sliding scale. Please contribute at the highest level you are able to, to help make this event as inclusive as possible. Ask us for scholarship or other options if the lowest rate is prohibitive for you.
Price includes accommodation, in-country travel once you are with the group, and some meals. Flights to Guatemala City, and transport to and from airport are not included ($10-$25 each way), although we will help you make arrangements. The retreat center is Posada Belen.
Activities will begin the evening of the 14th and end the evening of the 17th. Please plan your flights to arrive by the 14th and leave on the 18th or after..
Register Here!
For more information and to pay via Credit Card in advance to hold your space
Articles on Current Events
Making Sense of Trump's Exit From the Paris Accord
by Gail Hochachka
In early June, Trump stated his decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement regarding climate change. The Paris agreement commits 194 countries to keeping rising global temperatures “well below” 2C above pre-industrial levels and “endeavour to limit” them even more, to 1.5C. Trump announced that the USA will withdraw based on the sense that it will negatively affect US jobs.
To explore this, IWB Co-Founder and board member Gail Hochachka turns to Integral Theory, specifically to the intriguing dynamics of change in social systems, examined in the context of Trump's Paris-exit. About this article, she says:
"I've not known what to say about the Trump administration to date...the whole thing seems so out-of-this-world. And, as I've been watching, I realized it actually is. Trump, and his base, formulate a social discourse that is discordant with the rest of the world. And how the rest of the world has in turn reacted to him is very very interesting. In this, I kept seeing a perspective on this situation that may have been noticed by others but hadn't been explained (or if so, I hadn't seen the explanation). I believe there is something important to learn in this: not only about how we can better understand the discord that's occurred, but also about the way social dynamics are unfolding, especially for social change agents - people who wonder about, and enact, how change happens across a society - and so, if that's you, this might be interesting to read.
(What's not expanded on here is how to ameliorate the discord through a more concordant, genuine connection with the social holon which is the Trump base, and/or more healthy ways that it's discourse could be maintained - ways that don't simultaneously undermine the planet. That, with any luck and with some help from a few of you, will be part two. Stay tuned...)"
Read here
From Domination to Prosperity: How Do We Get There?
by Jordan Luftig
The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society (HIFIS) at UC Berkeley is doing terrific work across boundaries (of academic disciplines, social issues and identities, etc.) and is a shining example of both bringing the resources of higher education to bear on politics and life outside of the academy and pushing the envelope of what constitutes progressive-minded thought in the 21st century (e.g., challenging old ways of thinking and being on the political left and seeking new ways).
IWB Board member, Jordan Luftig, was invited to publish the following commentary on the HIFIS blog in response to a panel discussion titled "From Domination to Prosperity: Building an Economy Where We All Belong." This builds on work he has done on galvanizing a Movement of Movements towards the very vision of transpartisan politics that he describes here.
He says in this article:
“Can we build an organized progressive movement that truly is inclusive?,” I know the answer to be unequivocally, yes! While I don’t know that I can make an epoch-making revolution comprehensible and irresistible in one essay, I’ll aim instead for your curiosity and desire to engage these ideas, which need to be unpacked. Here goes—remember, we’re trying to achieve something that’s never been done before.
A movement that is truly inclusive cannot get off the ground unless one of its first principles is non-exclusion. This means the movement cannot be politically or intellectually partisan. It must be transpartisan. If politics entails choosing sides, then, paradoxically, the movement’s stand is against one-sidedness and for inclusiveness. Its mindset and identity must—through metacognition and meta-frameworks—honor and promote the constructive interrelating of all other political mindsets and identities, all other philosophies and ideologies, all other values-based worldviews."
Read here
Working Definition of Transpartisan: valuing inclusive solutions that transcend and include all political party positions and promote cross-spectrum collaboration for the benefit of all.
Urban Hub 5 : Visions & WorldViews – Thriveable Cities
Please check out the latest
resource by Paul van Schaik on applications of an Integral Approach to thriveable cities.
This book is one in a series of presentations for the use of Integral theory or an Integral meta-framework in understanding cities and urban design.
Although each can stand alone, taken together they give a more rounded appreciation of how this broader framework can help in the analysis and design of thriveable urban environments.
Key to an Integral approach to urban design is the notion that although other aspects of urban life are important, people, as individuals and communities, are the primary ‘purpose’ for making cities thriveable. All other aspects (technology, transport & infrastructure, health, education, sustainability, economic development, etc.) although playing a major part, are secondary.
This work shows the graphics from a dynamic deck that accompany a presentation on Thriveable Cities. The history of the co-evolution of cities, worldviews and technology is presented in an integral framework.
Urban Hub 5 volume 1 is a live document and the pdf and hardcopy versions will be up dated periodically. Volume 2 of Visions & WorldViews will be Urban Hub 6
Hardcopies and Kindle versions of Urban HUBs 1 to 5 are available from Amazon in many countries.
