The Great Obsolescence: A Gravesian View on Geopolitics, War, and Ecology.
We are honored to welcome Said E. Dawlabani as a keynote speaker at the Integral European Conference 2025. A leading authority on stage development and large-scale societal change, Said has dedicated his life’s work to exploring how human values evolve and how we can apply this knowledge to address our planet’s most urgent crises.
His latest book, Second Sapiens: The Rise of the Planetary Mind and the Future of Humanity (2025), is a groundbreaking exploration of the shift from anthropocentric intelligence to Gaian intelligence—a fundamental transformation needed to confront climate change and planetary collapse. Drawing on the Gravesian and Spiral Dynamics models, Said argues that our current existential crisis stems from the deficient behavioral systems that shaped our civilization and that the next stage of human development must integrate the intelligence of nature itself.
At IEC 2025, Said will present an entirely new perspective on how the Lower Right Quadrant (Existential Reality) drives human evolution, offering insights into the collective trauma of planetary collapse and how we can develop the intelligence needed to navigate it. As a thought leader named one of the boldest minds of our time, his keynote is set to be a paradigm-shifting experience that challenges us to rethink our role in the world.
Join us at IEC 2025 to hear Said E. Dawlabani’s visionary message—an urgent call to embrace a new level of intelligence and responsibility for the future of our species and the planet.
