Meeting of Consortium of Integral Scholars
Members of the International Consortium of Integral Scholars will meet to discuss research projects they are currently working on and various general topics of interest.
Quadrant Interactions
This presentation explores an interaction model, integrating multiple methodological approaches within Ken Wilber’s 4 Quadrant framework increasing its compatibility with the postmodern academic world. Drawing from my dissertation in Religious Studies, I argue for a non-reductionist, interdisciplinary approach that considers subjective experience, cultural narratives, somatic embodiment, and social structures and the varoius interactions between them. […]
Democratizing Adult Development: A Use of/ for AI
In the age of AI and application of AI, what are the arguments for and against using AI in adult assessment scoring? Situated within an Integral lens, we will take you on a journey to uncover how human-expert scorers are trained, and score adult development assessments (specifically Dr. Susanne Cook-Greuter’s Maturity Assessment for Professionals– MAP), […]
Evolution of the Brain – Solving the UR Riddle
During the evolution of the human brain, more and more sophisticated neural structures appeared on the lower levels of the UR quadrant of the AQAL matrix. Later, in the course of the history of humankind, the emergence of languages and later literacy has also changed the brain, areas with new functions appearing in the neocortex. […]
AQtivating Soul Power: Wholing City Metacrisis
In our action research design workshop we explore how Soul Power reframes wholeness for cities facing Metacrisis. We first question – “What?” is the challenge? We’ll consider why cities seem to be fragmented, climate threatened, at war, polluted, biodiversity deserts, chaotic, destructive and disrespectful. Then we’ll ask: “So What?” How do these conditions catalyse cultural […]
Finding Wholeness in Education: A Place for Us
This presentation shares our experience of educating from wholeness at our arts and nature-based integral education project for underprivileged children in rural India. A Place for Us integrates physical, emotional, cognitive, relational and spiritual dimensions of learning, addressing the whole child within socio-cultural realities. Our programme provides nourishing food, basic literacy and numeracy skills, incorporating […]
Urbanism & the Integral Lens of Patrick Geddes
Urbanization is one of the great trends in the history of homo-sapiens and planet Earth itself, and by the end of this century some three-quarters of all people are expected to be living in cities. This has potentially profound implications for the evolution of humans and the biosphere. As such, urbanization is a rich topic […]
Exploring Integral Coherence
This presentation argues that in order to uplevel the collective capacity of social change agents for transforming a metacrisis into a metamorphosis, we need to practice field intelligence that enhances and generates more coherence within and across networks and systems. It presents questions and insights from an ongoing European action research project which explores the […]
Clare Graves Legacy: Pillars of Integral Thought
The work of psychologist Clare Graves, a professor at Union College in New York, represented an early contribution to developmental psychology. Ken Wilber has acknowledged the value of Graves’ work as informing different aspects of the AQAL metatheory and its applications. This presentation based on work of a team of scholars with the Graves archives […]
Transcending Purpose: Purposeless Meaning in Life
Novel research explored how two essential aspects of human experience relate to each other: (a) one’s stage of psychosocial maturity (operationalized through integral ego development stages), and (b) one’s conception and experience of meaning in their life. The study suggests that adults at postconventional stages of ego development experience and conceive of meaning-in-life in a […]
