The Future, AI and Consciousness
Only the future will show how humanity will make the transformation to sustainable global civilizations possible, rooted in a mindset of later stages of consciousness, which is the premise for the great transition. In this presentation, I show why current AIs are operating mostly from ego-centric or ethnocentric levels of consciousness and argue why AI […]
Integral Regeneration
Since the awakening of the 1960s, people and projects around the world have been continuing to practice holistic forms of personal and collective development and new norms of the Interior and Exterior “We”. Currently, we are in a “next level” era of Integral awakening: in the synergy of Web3 leaders living and working with somatic, […]
The Shadow Side of Planetary Awakening:
We love individual awakening for the planet. We love planetary awakening for the individual. And we love collective awakening in general. But what is the shadow side of all this “awakening”? In this dynamic workshop, Terri O’Fallon and Kim Barta team up once again to explore the science and mysticism of evolutionary awakening. But, of […]
Good Companies. The economy of humanity’s purpose.
Let’s pause, take a step back, and reflect on cardinal questions about the meaning of our business activities: Why does working in companies feel so disconnected from our lives? Why are we not proud of the observed outcomes of our work, even if we spend our whole adult lives working? What will happen to us, […]
The Perfect Storm in Business/Industry 4.0
Why today’s leadership is not enough to solve tomorrow’s problems. Perfect storms are a rare combination of circumstances that combine to drastically aggravate an event. Recent crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic and Russian invasion of Ukraine, have resulted in a mixture of political, economic, and societal shifts in every sector globally. Industrial scale changes have […]
Theory U and Presencing for an Integral World
Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer in the MIT Management Sloan School and co-founder of the Presencing Institute. He chairs the MIT IDEAS program for cross-sector innovation and introduced the concept of “presencing”—learning from the emerging future—in his bestselling books Theory U and Presence (the latter co-authored with P. Senge et al). He is co-author […]
Integral Futurology: What Will Happen to the World
The world is at a bifurcation point now, this is already universally recognized. But what is this point? What scenarios are foreseen after the fork? To understand this, we shall look at the whole history of mankind from the point of view of integral theory and see that similar forks had happened before repeatedly. And […]
Economic Crisis: Catalyst for Planetary Awakening?
We are living through a period of enormous economic, geopolitical and technological changes: inflation and a cost-of-living crisis; financial instability, volatile crypto-currencies and emerging Central Bank Digital Currencies; China and the BRICS nations’ historic challenge to the American-led economic and geopolitical order; an epochal shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy; an explosion of Artificial […]