Supersonic whip, and Sacred weapons of cultures
The physical and mental general benefits of martial arts are known. When examined from the perspective of the left quadrants and the SD model, new potentials emerge. My initiations to the transpersonal levels are the supersonic whip – as a sacred weapon, and my soaring horse as a companion. The “holy struggles” of religions, cultures, […]
Co-creating Org Transformation with Diagnosis Tool
Marc Mathys will discuss his experience of using ValueMatch, a diagnostic tool based on Integral and Spiral Dynamics, to analyze the current and desired organizational culture and structure. The goal is to enable participants to connect with their own desire for organizational development and co-create their transformation path, rather than following a management-initiated vision or […]
From Sucess to Significance – Integral Leadership
The world is at a tipping point. It is burning in so many ways – ecologically, economically, societally, spiritually etc. – and is becoming more and more polarized. Thus being able to tip in any direction at any point. We are in need of a new style of leadership which can tackle the challenges we […]
Foundational work of Clare Graves and Integral
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 […]
The colour Purple – global soul, spirituality
The Purple-archetype in Spiral Dynamics integral represents tribalistic values of safety and the relative status of one’s place in the community. But what happens when a child is raised with the logic in an ecology that holds these values dearly; but morphs through different stages and outside the tribe? BO or Purple value systems accounts […]
The Never-ending and Ever-changing Dance of Being
The key note address: Spiral Dynamics Integral – the never-ending and ever-changing dance of being human – will focus on the ontological and epistemological underpinnings of Gravesian theory. Graves postulated that “the psychology of the mature human being is an unfolding, emergent, oscillating, spiralling process marked by progressive subordination of older, lower-order behavior systems to […]
Integral: Change, Communication and Human Niches
‘Change’, when often used in light conversation, is perceived to be a simple process within an organisation. However, change within any organisation is a concept that is complex and multidimensional. In the new world of work, change is so prevalent, organisations facing challenges of communicating transformation awareness to employees, and confirming management skills are at […]
The contribution of integral theory
HOW CAN THE INTEGRAL WORLDVIEW HELP TO DEAL WITH THE ENORMOUS PROBLEMS ON THIS PLANET? I. To understand what is going on in terms of the colors Understanding helps to not going under, not becoming over whelmed One can stand under problems, stay grounded on the earth, that is what understanding is about II. To […]
AI meets personal development
The Human Organisation
We present our research and work experience that is just about to be published in the book: “The Human Organisation” in spring 2023. To the audience of IEC, we will speak about following themes: – Introduction into our work – Overview of the four industralisations in order to understand where we come frome, where we […]