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Scooped by Anne Caspari onto Futurable Planet: Answers from a Shifted Paradigm. |
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'What Do YouThink?' - is a series of brief papers presenting a number of ideas on Integral/AQAL theoria/praxis and asks you as a development practitioner your option! Treat them lightly and react! - All these papers are only one page long.
The be part of the discussion go to www.facebook.com/integralmentors and add comments under the approprate graphic.
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Rescooped by Anne Caspari from Transcalar Imaginary |
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Rescooped by Anne Caspari from cChange: Transformational Responses to Climate Change |
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At a March 1st Garrison Institute luncheon in New York City, Environmentalist, entrepreneur and author Paul Hawken discusses the compounding effects of exces...
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For the second yellow stage and the first turquoise stage it is meaningful to advance to the next stage on the developmental ladder, but turquoise 2 has stepped off the ladder, it is in free fall and thus meaning-free. This is a huge paradox, yellow 2 and turquoise 1 will sacrifice anything to get to the next stage, but turquoise 2 realize that it’s not always worth it. It is after all pretty nice to have structures to which you can attach your ego and get direction in your life. Nevertheless, there are benefits of this increased sensitivity in the silence and the shadows, and the cognitive abilities such as perspective taking remains of course. From this stage it is obvious what Cook-Greuter says: ”higher is not better, not happier”.
This is a colleague's blog, worth while reading. The whole discussion is going into post-dialectics and touching on coming to grips with the developmental bias in integral theory and praxis. It also shows the difficulties of creating a common language around phenomena that are not well mapped out yet, let alone basing it on scientifc foundations.
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Rescooped by Anne Caspari from Black swans, risks and crisis |
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'Antifragile' is a celebration of risk and randomness and a call to arms to recognize and embrace antifragility.
Many readers misunderstand Taleb’s core message. They assume that because Taleb writes about unseen and improperly calculated risks, his objective must be to reduce or eliminate risk. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Antifragile is a celebration of risk and randomness and a call to arms to recognize and embrace antifragility.
Rather than reduce risk, organize your life, your business or your society in such a way that it benefits from randomness and the occasional Black Swan event.
Taleb’s own life is a case in point. He had the free time to write Fooled, The Black Swan and Antifragile because—in his own words—he made “F___ you money” during the greatest Black Swan event of our lifetimes, the 1987 stock market crash.
...Taleb’s trading style is antifragile, had the 1987 crash never happened, Taleb would not have been materially hurt. His trading style puts little at risk but allows for outsized returns.
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Alliance for Wild Ethics is a consortium of individuals and organizations working to ease the spreading devastation of the animate earth through a rapid transformation of culture.
"Wildness is the earthy, untamed, undomesticated state of things -- open-ended, improvisational, moving according to its own boisterous logic. That which is wild is not really out of control; it is simply out of our control. Wildness is not a state of disorder, but a condition whose order is not imposed from outside. Wild land follows its own order, its own Tao, its own inherent way in the world. "
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Join Patricia Albere and Otto Sharmer as we discuss how we live in a time of massive institutional failure, collectively creating results that nobody wants. Climate change. AIDS. Hunger. Poverty. Terrorism.
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An animated short describing the experience of taking Otto Scharmer's course on Leadership at MIT's Sloan school of management: Leading Profound Innovation f...
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MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Otto Scharmer discusses going beyond GDP and new ways of measuring and implementing well-being and progress.
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http://t.co/j5pAI7X5Cs this is amazing #sustainability
this is a cool thing - younger generations raising to the challenge of what we leave them to work with. Go!
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The struggle to prevent violence, to stop destructive environmental practices and bring healing needs your support. Every positive action makes a difference.
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Feelings of disconnection from the planet and its problems are preventing people from investing in change
right questions, not quite getting the answers together yet. What if the solution was not only in evolving world views, but at the same time in involutionary processes to solve deep rooted (different "direction"; all the way down) issues in our relationship to nature...?
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.......Why does it matter? For one, I believe that the current situation we are in with respect to our planet and environment cannot be addressed (much less solved) from dialectic mind, because dialectic mind cannot breach the dialectical separation of nature and people – there is only the everyday bardo framework of “either we are part of nature or nature is a construct of people). There is a lengthy, sophisticated critique in this, based on the need for the dialectical mind to find a “trump card” – to conveniently situate something as a part within a greater whole. To use our previous example, “nature” and “people” are fully separated from some “prior ground” – it is this “prior ground” that the dialectical mind never accesses, because it is the *view* which is not a perspective.
Beautifully written and very precious. Worthwhile re.reading.
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Between the endless Euro drama and the Bitcoin brouhaha, currency has been much in the news of late. Most people would probably name the US Dollar as the dominant currency in this day and age.
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This is where I want to return to the idea that what we face is a design problem, where answers exist not at an unattainable theoretical level but on the floors of our factories, in the streets of our towns and cities, the classes of our schools, the waiting rooms of our hospitals. These answers will manifest themselves as true acts of creation, originating new ways of getting stuff done, informed by the decisions we collectively take. So in re-designing the world, we need human creativity in the sense of the capacity to ‘make’, we need visionary leadership in the sense of making a difference. And we seek the craftsman’s critical eye, steady hand and creative mind. It is this process of seeing – realising new pathways to success, by bringing two ‘unlikes’ (new information, tools, processes etc.) together in close adjacency – that we create, and make new things. Then we can meaningfully apply that capability.
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In a world of growing uncertainty and mounting performance pressure, it’s understandable that resilience has become a very hot topic. Everyone is talking about it and writing about it. We all seem to want to develop more resilience.
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Don Tapscott, one of the world's leading authorities on innovation and the economic and social impact of technology, shows how new global non-state networks ...
this is important.
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Caitlin graduated in Linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies and did four years post graduate research in Strategies for Lexical access inc...
especially valuable when working in and with other cultures. Thanks Bonnie for posting.
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Overview of the 400-page report World in Transition: A Social Contract for Sustainability from the German Advisory Council on Climate Change (WGBU), the heavyweight scientific body that advises the German Federal Government on ‘Earth System...
let's hope government is actually following their advisors.
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Thirty participants explore issues like HIV/AIDS, climate change, rainforest conservation, governance, widow's rights and youth empowerment in the context of leadership development. The three-year program, involving 30 participants and a dozen facilitators from several different countries, was designed with an integral approach in terms of curriculum, pedagogy, coaching, and program design. The program resulted in seven Breakthrough Initiatives and the formation of the African Integral Development Network. The video may be of particular interest to development practitioners interested in integral theory and psycho-social models of leadership development, however it does not require prior knowledge of the integral model. Includes scenes of village life in Nigeria, including ceremonies with chiefs and traditional songs with women, and also gives the viewer a felt-sense of how the Nigerian leaders in One Sky's program are making sustainable changes throughout the South-East corner of this country. Note to educators: this would be an excellent resource for university, college or even high school students"
great! with integral colleague Gail Hochachka: deleloping the self, developing community inside out.
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What is a revolution? We used to think we knew. Revolutions were seizures of power by popular forces aiming to transform the very nature of the political, social, and economic system in the country in which the revolution took place, usually according to some visionary dream of a just society. Nowadays, we live in an age when, if rebel armies do come sweeping into a city, or mass uprisings overthrow a dictator, it’s unlikely to have any such implications; when profound social transformation does occur—as with, say, the rise of feminism—it’s likely to take an entirely different form. It’s not that revolutionary dreams aren’t out there. But contemporary revolutionaries rarely think they can bring them into being by some modern-day equivalent of storming the Bastille.
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So I studied biology, in search of the pattern of thriving living systems. And at the same, I studied all the theories about what makes organizations thrive, or succeed. Now, for some reason, every biologist tells a different and very complicated story about how life works. And the same is true in organizational theory. But when you step back and look at them all together, you see that they're all telling the same basic story. At every level of human activity, it’s the same simple pattern.
And this pattern suggests a very different guiding story.
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.....The point I want to emphasize here is that a new paradigm, a new scientific understanding—or even a new philosophical or religious paradigm—that informs an entire civilization can only take place when it fits the larger archetypal dynamic of the culture at that time, otherwise it will not take hold and spread. It won’t become viral, to use a very twenty-first century term.
Tarnas explores time quality and the emergence in collective consciousness as a context for paradigm shifts in history, starting from Plato to Copernicus, to Jung, Groff, and even astrology. Interesting.
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The Overview Effect, first described by author Frank White in 1987, is an experience that transforms astronauts’ perspective of the planet and mankind’s place upon it.
Common features of the experience are a feeling of awe for the planet, a profound understanding of the interconnection of all life, and a renewed sense of responsibility for taking care of the environment.
‘Overview’ is a short film that explores this phenomenon through interviews with five astronauts who have experienced the Overview Effect. The film also features insights from commentators and thinkers on the wider implications and importance of this understanding for society, and our relationship to the environment.
Must watch. All of it.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.” Buckminster Fuller
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...seems easy: "So, if you’re seeking to be a Trimtab and make the most difference that you can with the least amount of effort, consider using “emergence by emergency” to further your efforts. All you need to do is find a solution to a problem you know will arise and wait until people come to you. You do, however, need to make your solution visible, as hiding in a cave with it will probably not result in success."
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.....meaning exists in the way that we use words; the patterns of word use create the system of meaning. There's no getting away from language in getting to complex meanings.
Think about it this way. We have 7,000 languages. Each of these languages encompasses a world-view, encompasses the ideas and predispositions and cognitive tools developed by thousands of years of people in that culture. Each one of those languages offers a whole encapsulated universe. So we have 7,000 parallel universes, some of them are quite similar to one another, and others are a lot more different. The fact that there's this great diversity is a real testament to the flexibility and the ingenuity of the human mind. The fact that we're able to take so many different perspectives and create such an incredibly diverse set of ways of looking at the world, that is something first to be celebrated, but also something to learn from: flexibility and diversity are at the very heart of what makes us human and what makes us so smart. I think the more we understand how people are able to take all these different perspectives, and able to change the way they think, the better we'll understand the nature of being human.
This is an excellent article on language and complexity with regard to the construction of meaning, time, direction, gender and reality. I like it very much. Worth while reading the whole thing.
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