We are built to grow. It is our destiny to grow.
Watch Robert Kegan and many associated with the Inner Development Goals outline why this is so important to meet today’s crises.
Inner development: why?
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Integral
On these index pages you'll find stories, video, images and poetry tagged with specific themes. This page is on: Integral
Comprehensive, inclusive, non-marginalizing, embracing—Integral. A surprisingly simple and profoundly useful theory of everything!
Solstice: narrated walking meditation
Please join us for this virtual walking meditation.
24 hours, in 10 minutes at Calanais. You-I-we will step through time. Physically it is 2021. Virtually, millenia in the past and future.
Initiator: the climate emergency and growing-up
Opportunity and crises—can we support our psychological development and inner transformation to meet present and pressing needs?
Bracing: living in our climate
Planetary scale crises—climate, injustice, inequity, plagues—are creating great instability.
Yet, the very pressures of these issues may help us to grow up, individually and culturally, to be sufficient for the challenges that we’re facing.
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Our world is changing. Our thinking patterns are shifting. To answer our pressing emergencies and, fortuitously, engaging in this brings an aliveness like nothing else.
We’re a worldwide civilisation now and can consciously engage in creating thriving, just, sustainable futures for everyone. Yet, sometimes, this seems like a very lonely path…
We hope this site helps us all accelerate positive shifts. Amplification, re-storying and sharing awe…
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Our future, ourselves, our planet and our stories, it’s all entangled ― Festina LentÍvaldi*
Visions: can and do change the world
Stories from 2030 is about our world, climate crises, disruption, acceleration and transformation.
It is a follow-on from Visions 2100 which was launched at the COP21 conference in Paris in 2015.
How to move: a transformative climate pattern
Greenhouse gas has always been confounding. We’ve had profitable solutions for decades. We didn’t take them as humans are not numbers.
Samhain: A halloween festival of change
We have gotten it all wrong. I-you-us, in our ability to matter and to make a significant difference for ourselves, for the crises around us, are not stuck in our ways.
Climate change: A relationship problem
You are alive at the most important moment in history. In this interview, Karen O’Brien and Terry Patten explore what it takes to overcome collective trauma and usher in climate solutions. How might our hearts break open and not breakdown? What does it look like when we widen the solution space?
Integral theory: surprisingly simple, elegant
The word integral means comprehensive, inclusive, non-marginalizing, embracing. Integral approaches to any field attempt to be exactly that: to include as many perspectives, styles, and methodologies as possible within a coherent view of the topic—Ken Wilber Integral...
Go deeper: the world awakening or me?
Something woke up within me this last year. Others see it too. A harp in a burnt out bus, a huddle in a Hong Kong street, animal rescue in Australia—many voices speaking of tolerance and hope that will not be silenced by the rowdy few.
Our better angels: dancing across beliefs
Hyper-polarized world? No thanks! John Kessler and YOUNIFY are harnessing consciousness development, up-skilling us, for our better angels to emerge.
New levels: stepping-up
Our thinking patterns change markedly. We can make mental leaps, hold and synthesise many more perspectives—adult development. This is also known as vertical development.
It matches how our world consistently changes in markedly different step shifts—human development creating benevoultion.
Elegant attraction: our emerging universe
We can forecast a more beautiful future and catalyze it. We’re, universally, selecting emerging synergy; elegantly attracted order; new beneficial properties.
This is a beautiful talk on emergence, its significance and fundamental importance for humanity. Emergence, its connections and underlying science are laid out clearly.
Read on for a life-giving, fount of energy. Love if you like to think about this in terms of what is being created.
Festina Lente
Make haste – slowly, powerfully, minimally
“Hasten slowly” said Augustus. Oh, this is hard. To imagine what can be created, to hold back, to act; to engage means delving into both despair and hope. That’s where we’re challenged to see the powerful in what we do which is always minimal and micro. Feeling adequate in the face of manifest inadequacy. Weaving together the pieces that hasten, slowly and steadily, benevolution.
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