Toscana I.
 
May 29, Thursday
15:30 – 18:00
Budapest (CEST)
LIVE STREAM

What’s problematic with Grand Integral Theories? Q&A

IEC Conference: 2025

Can grand Western theories of human, social and cultural development such as AQAL and SD become ossified (frozen)? A view from the observation deck:
Much is powerful and illuminating in these theories. Yet they are no longer open to new data and alternative perspectives. They have become so widely distributed, they are now set in stone, inflexible like fossils. I shall show that this issue may have much to do with the early equating of stages of cultural, social and organizational development with stages of individual development. This assumption resulted in a conflation of personal and cultural-social development and a set of strange, unscientific use of colors.

Susanne has been keynote speaker at the first IEC in 2014, as well as 2018, and offered section presentations as well, at most in person and online conferences. This year she is not well enough to travel but will contribute her wisdom via zoom.

Lily Truong and Duncan Cryle will create a dialogue space for her in a hybrid format so that participants can reflect on her challenging ideas.

To help Dr. Cook-Greuter address your questions during the Q&A session (scheduled on May 29 from 15:30 to 18:00 CEST), and to help facilitators enhance your experience during that event, we invite you to share your questions ahead of time (please click here to access the form)Facilitators will stop collecting questions via this form before lunch time at 13:30 CEST on May 29, 2025. And of course, we welcome your questions during the live event.

Switzerland / United States

Dr Susanne Cook-Greuter is internationally known as the leading expert in mature ego development and self-actualization. She does ongoing research and development on the Sentence Completion Test. She leads training in the Leadership Development Framework and introductions and certification training for SCT-scorers. She collaborates with other consultant in bringing the developmental perspective into corporations and executive teams. Her clients appreciate her for her dedication, creativity and joyful, subtle inquiry as well as for her profound knowledge of the adult development field.

Canada

Duncan Cryle is co-executive director of Clear Sky Retreat Center in Canada, student of founding teachers Qapel and Catherine Pawsarat Sensei, and founder of consciousorganizations.com

He blends years of co-creating Clear Sky’s integral and awakening community with an international career as an executive with major technology companies. He was a co-creator of IBM’s mindfulness community, and led a successful global mindfulness program at SS&C Technologies.

His mindfulness and organizational development work is based on 30+ years of personal practice, and 20 years co-developing Clear Sk as a “living lab” for integral and awareness-based approaches to team learning, communication, organization development, and personal transformation.

He holds a Ph.D in philosophy and publishes in the academic field of workplace spirituality.

He is passionate about the potential of heart-based leadership and practices to transform work cultures to a healthier way of working together for positive impact.

Netherlands / United States

A nerd and a dreamer, Lily is a creative force behind LeadershipMaturity.ai’s innovative platform. Passionate about humane technology & the intersection of inner & outer worlds, Lily combines a relentless curiosity in exploring what was considered impossible with a practical approach to user needs & organisational capabilities.

Holding an MA in Integral Psychology, & a Business Administration degree from JFKU, CA, Lily’s been trained under the guidance of some of the world’s leading experts in each field. With more than a decade of experience in business operation & process design, UI/UX & platform development, & integral psychology, Lily has been instrumental in facilitating and growing the work of the world’s leading adult and leadership development theorists and practitioners, incl. Dr. Susanne Cook-Greuter, Beena Sharma, and Dr Paddy Pampallis. Lily has held various leadership roles at the Center for Leadership Maturity, Vertical Development Academy, and now LeadershipMaturity.ai