Urban Hub 5 : Visions & WorldViews 1 - Thriveable Cities

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Urban Hub
Integral UrbanHub
Visions & WorldViews 1
Thriveable Cities
Paul van Schaik
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© integralMENTORS
Urban Hub
Visions & WorldViews 1
Thriveable Cities
integralMENTORS
Paul van Schaik
Curator
Integral UrbanHub
5

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Copyright ©© integralMENTORS– May 2017
ISBN-13: 978-1545588215
ISBN-10: 154558821X
A series of graphics from integralMENTORS integral UrbanHub work on Thriveable Cities presentations.

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“This is how they survive. You must know this. You’re too smart
not to know this. They paint the world full of shadows and then
tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light, their
reason, their judgements, because in the darkness there be
dragons. But it isn’t true. We can prove that it isn’t true. In the
dark there is discovery, there is possibility, there is freedom in
the dark when someone has illuminated it. And who has been
so close as we are right now?” black sails

My Intention My Behaviour
Urban Culture Urban Activity
When Did You Feel Most Alive in an Urban Habitat?
What made this
experience
come alive for
you and made
it memorable?
What made this
activity come
alive for you
and made it
memorable?
My context
Me

Preface
© integralMENTORS
This book is one in a series of presentations for the use of
Integral theory or an Integral meta-framework in
understanding cities and urban design.
Although each can stand alone, taken together they give a
more rounded appreciation of how this broader
framework can help in the analysis and design of
thriveable urban environments.
Key to an Integral approach to urban design is the notion
that although other aspects of urban life are important,
people, as individuals and communities, are the primary
‘purpose’ for making cities thriveable. All other aspects
(technology, transport & infrastructure, health, education,
sustainability, economic development, etc.) although
playing a major part, are secondary.
This work shows the graphics from a dynamic deck that
accompany a presentation on Thriveable Cities. The
history of the co-evolution of cities, worldviews and
technology is presented in an integral framework.
Urban Hub 5 volume 1 is a live document and the pdf and
hardcopy versions will be up dated periodically. Volume 2
of Visions & WorldViews will be Urban Hub 6
www.integralmentors.org
Hardcopies and Kindle versions of Urban HUBs 1 to 5 are
available from Amazon in many countries

Forward
‘The city remains the best, but not only, place to become fully developed
as a human by today’s understanding of what that means, and where
tomorrow’s understandings of what that will be are being forged’
"Perhaps of even greater relevance is that the long-term sustainability of the planet is inextricably linked
to the fate of our cities. We are urbanizing at an exponential rate, with more than half of the world’s
population now living in urban centers. The biggest global challenges we are facing from climate
change, the environment, availability of energy and resources, social unrest, and financial markets are
generated in cities, but cities are also the hubs of innovation, wealth creation, and power. Put slightly
differently, cities may well be the problem, but they are also the solution. This strongly suggests that
there is a great urgency to develop a more quantitative, predictive, computational framework that can
complement the traditional, more qualitative, narrative approaches to understanding cities – a
framework that can help inform today’s and tomorrow’s practitioners and policy makers.”
Geoffrey West - Santa Fe Institute
‘A city is both a cultural artefact, consciously and wilfully shaped by humankind, yet
also a living organism unconsciously shaped by its own internal metabolic forces’
Peter Buchanan – Architect
“Like everything in our material culture, every act of architecture has its poetics, that is to say a
‘reading’ specific to its conception and realisation. To understand this poetics is to understand
individual and communal histories in space and the values these have imbued in each architect.
It is also to understand the political position of every act of architecture because, unlike more
autonomous arts, architecture acts upon those who build it and on those who occupy it.”
Leon van Schaik – Professor RMIT

Content
Forward
Introduction
Context
Visions
Broader
View
WorldViews
Evolving Cities
Mindsets
Way Forward
Urban Hub
Annex
Jewels
Integral Theory
Integral Evaluation
Organisations
Foundations
Books
Bio
Acknowledgements

Introduction
Urban Hub
Setting

Introduction
How to use this book
A taste of many visions in our world.
Visions both positive - utopian, and negative - dystopian.
Each claiming to be true and enfolding all the others
But in reality they are ‘true’ but partial – and some more ‘true’
than others. Each ‘shallower’ truth transcended but the best
included in the next ‘deeper’ or broader truth
It’s how we use them together and in collaboration that will
define how successful we are. It is the morphogenetic pull of
caring that will determine how we succeed as a human race.
It is the ability to generate an equitable, fair, resilient and
regenerative ‘system’ that must drive us forward. The means
will be a combination of many of the ideas showcased here
but many more still to be discovered on our exciting journey
into the future.
Too little courage and we will fail – too much certainty and we
will fail. But with care and collaboration we have a chance of
success. Bringing forth emergent impact through innovation,
syngeneic enfoldment & collaborative effort.
And a deeper understanding of an broader framework will
be required – that is, a more integral vision.
Explore and enjoy – use as many of the ideas as possible,
enfolding each into an emergent whole that grows
generatively.
At each step testing – reformulating – regrouping –
recreating.
Moving beyond, participant to stakeholder to shareholder to
thriveholder.
What is this book
Integral theory is genuinely post-postmodern
or trans-modern, vastly inclusive yet
disciplined, so combining richness with rigour,
breadth with depth, and giving equal value to
the subjective and objective while also
grounded in empirical evidence. It guides
studies in various fields, providing a
conceptual framework that stimulates new
insights by highlighting neglected areas of
investigation and unexplored relationships.
Integral Theory provides a framework for
understanding the evolving complexification
of values, worldviews, behaviour, culture and
systems. That is; subjective and objective
worlds as well as intersubjective and
interobjective worlds.
Simplistically put:
Consciousness and Cultures of interior
subjective worlds and Capacities and
Creations of exterior objective worlds. All
based on ‘scientific’ studies appropriate to
each domain.

Introduction
Walking in the world not talking of the world
No one vision is sufficient in and of itself – visions can
guide but only by collaborative action in a creative
generative process can visions grow and become
part of an ongoing positive sociocultural reality.
Without taking into account the many worldviews
that currently co-exist and crafting ways of including
them in a positive and healthy form we will continue
to alienate vast sections of all communities and
humankind.
It is through the growing healthy versions of all the
different worldviews that we can attempt to move
towards an equitable, regenerative and caring world.
Through action we will move forward – through only
ongoing talk we will stagnate and fail.
Walking the walk not only talking the talk
These curation are to be dipped into – explored and
used to generate ideas and discussion
A catalyst for collaboration and action
And most importantly grown, modified in a
generative form.
This is a living document - any suggestions for
inclusion send to:
info@integralmentors.org
Broader Framework – Contextualised
It’s time for action – the talk and theorising must now
be tested in praxis. Injunctions must be enacted and
tested or evaluated.
That is through:
Living in action - active living
Caring in action - active caring
Learning in action - active learning
Thinking in action - active thinking
Purpose in action - active purpose
Synergy in action - active synergy
Teaching in action - active teaching
Listening in action - active listening
Intention in action - active intention
Evolution in action - active evolution
Evaluation in action - active evaluation
Innovation in action - active innovation
Integral in action - active worldviews
Cooperation in action - active cooperation
Thriveable in action - active thriveability
Mindfulness in action - active mindfulness
Engagement in action - active engagement
Empowerment in action - active empowering
Consciousness in action - active consciousness
……. - ……
Emergent Impacts
Passive Dynamic Receptive Active
Reciprocal Interactive Engage Empower

Introduction
Any time data feeds a predictive model, the human
biases and structural discrimination embedded in that
data can be perpetuated, creating a vicious cycle given
credence by technology and statistics.
We are in danger of creating a world of coaches and
consultants rather than experimenters, collaborators
working for a real future for all in praxis.
To quote from an earlier commentary from Tibet 9th century:
‘ For every hundred students there are a thousand teachers
And nobody listens to the divine dharma
For every village there are ten masters
And the number of tantric assistances in uncountable’
from Tibet, a history - Sam van Schaik PhD - Yale University Press 2011
THE ART OF CLEANING
Bamboo shadows sweep the stairs,
But no dust is stirred.
Moonlight penetrates the depths of the pool,
But no trace is left in the water.
—Nyogen Senzaki
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all
the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Rumi
Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?
Rumi
Working with Consciousness/Values, Cultures,
Creations/Systems & Capacities/Behaviour
Currently in most societies these are broken and
don’t these tetra-mesh to have a positive impact.
But within all this despair there are jewels to be
found - the positive experiences of individuals,
communities, subcultures & subsystems.
www.facebook.com/integralMENTORS
www.facebook.com/IntegralUrbanHub/

Introduction
This document is not about
clicking our links and following
our path of discovery but about
engaging and searching your
own path in collaboration with
us and others and developing a
pathway for our combined
action.

Perspectives
….. this means that a subject might be at a
particular wave of consciousness, in a
particular stream of consciousness, in a
particular state of consciousness, in one
quadrant or another.
That means that the phenomena brought forth
by various types of human inquiry will be
different depending on the quadrants, levels,
lines, states, and types of the subjects bringing
forth the phenomena.
A subject at one wave of consciousness will
not enact and bring forth the same worldspace
as a subject at another wave; and similarly with
quadrants, streams, states, and types (as we
will see in more detail).
Subjects do not perceive worlds but
enact them. Different states of subjects
bring forth different worlds.
Subjects do not perceive worlds but enact them. Different states of subjects bring forth different worlds.

WorldViews
A comprehensive world
view or worldview is the
fundamental cognitive
orientation of an individual or
society encompassing the
entirety of the individual or
society's knowledge and point
of view. A world view can
include natural philosophy;
fundamental, existential, and
normative postulates; or
themes, values, emotions, and
ethics. From Wikipedia
WorldView - a particular philosophy of life or conception of the world.

WorldView - a particular philosophy of life or conception of the world.
Additionally, it refers to the framework of
ideas and beliefs forming a global
description through which an individual,
group or culture watches and interprets
the world and interacts with it.
Worldview remains a confused and
confusing concept in English, used very
differently by linguists and sociologists. It is
for this reason that Underhill suggests five
subcategories: world-perceiving, world-
conceiving, cultural mindset, personal
world, and perspective.
Worldviews are often taken to operate at a
conscious level, directly accessible to
articulation and discussion, as opposed to
existing at a deeper, pre-conscious level,
such as the idea of "ground" in Gestalt
psychology and media analysis.
However, core worldview beliefs are often
deeply rooted, and so are only rarely
reflected on by individuals, and are brought
to the surface only in moments of crises of
faith. From Wikipedia

Visions
“So much of what is created in the built environment is hostile to the people, and yet, people make do.”

Visions
Urban Hub
Past & Present
“So much of what is created in the built environment is hostile to the people, and yet, people make do.”

Visions
A utopia is an imagined community or
society that possesses highly desirable or
nearly perfect qualities for its citizens. The
opposite of a utopia is a dystopia. You could
also say that utopia is a perfect 'place' that
has been made so there are no problems.
Utopian ideals often place emphasis on
egalitarian principles of equality in
economics, government and justice, though
by no means exclusively, with the method and
structure of proposed implementation
varying based on ideology. According to
Lyman Tower Sargent "[t]here are socialist,
capitalist, monarchical, democratic, anarchist,
ecological, feminist, patriarchal, egalitarian,
hierarchical, racist, left-wing, right-wing,
reformist, free love, nuclear family, extended
family, gay, lesbian, and many more utopias.”
Visions of Utopia
From Wikipedia

Utopia – Garden Cities - Greening
Visions

Visions
Visions of Utopia/Designopia

Visions
© integralMENTORSSubjects do not perceive worlds but enact them. Different states of subjects bring forth different worlds.
The Walking City was an idea proposed by British architect
Ron Herron in 1964. In an article in avant-garde
architecture journal Archigram, Ron Herron proposed
building massive mobile robotic structures, with their own
intelligence, that could freely roam the world, moving to
wherever their resources or manufacturing abilities were
needed. Various walking cities could interconnect with
each other to form larger 'walking metropolises' when
needed, and then disperse when their concentrated power
was no longer necessary. Individual buildings or structures
could also be mobile, moving wherever their owner
wanted or needs dictated.
http://cyberneticzoo.com/walking-machines/1964-walking-city-ron-herron-british/

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Archigram
Although most of Archigram's projects remained
unbuilt, its conceptual contribution was considerable.
Questioning the Vitruvian notion that buildings need
to be static entities, it offered mobile, miniaturised and
technologically-rich alternatives. It encouraged us to
think about what we really needed from architecture,
and about whether the conventional approach was
providing us with optimum solutions. Archigram's
influence can be seen in the work of world-class
architects: from Renzo Piano's and Richard Rogers'
Centre Pompidou to the designs of Toyo Ito.
www.archdaily.com/399329/ad-classics-the-plug-in-city-peter-cook-archigram

Visions
Dystopian societies appear in many artistic works,
particularly in stories set in the future. Some of the
most famous examples are George Orwell's 1984
and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Dystopias
are often characterized by dehumanization
totalitarian governments, environmental disaster, or
other characteristics associated with a cataclysmic
decline in society. Dystopian societies appear in
many sub-genres of fiction and are often used to
draw attention to real-world issues regarding
society, environment, politics, economics, religion,
psychology, ethics, science, or technology. However,
some authors also use the term to refer to actually-
existing societies, many of which are or have been
totalitarian states, or societies in an advanced state
of collapse and disintegration.
Visions of Dystopia
From Wikipedia

Visions
Visions of Dystopia

Visions
Visions of Technotopia

Visions
The garden city movement is a method of urban
planning that was initiated in 1898 by Sir Ebenezer
Howard in the United Kingdom. Garden cities were
intended to be planned, self-contained communities
surrounded by "greenbelts", containing
proportionate areas of residences, industry, and
agriculture. Inspired by the utopian novel Looking
Backward and Henry George's work Progress and
Poverty, Howard published his book To-morrow: a
Peaceful Path to Real Reform in 1898 (which was
reissued in 1902 as Garden Cities of To-morrow).
His idealised garden city would house 32,000
people on a site of 6,000 acres (2,400 ha), planned
on a concentric pattern with open spaces, public
parks and six radial boulevards, 120ft (37 m) wide,
extending from the centre.
The garden city would be self-sufficient and when it
reached full population, another garden city would
be developed nearby. Howard envisaged a cluster
of several garden cities as satellites of a central city
of 58,000 people, linked by road and rail
Visions of Utopia - Garden Cities & Towns
https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Garden%20City%20Movement&item_type=topic

Visions
The concept of garden cities is to produce relatively
economically independent cities with short commute
times and the preservation of the countryside.
Garden suburbs arguably do the opposite. Garden
suburbs are built on the outskirts of large cities with
no sections of industry. They are therefore dependent
on reliable transport allowing workers to commute
into the city. Lewis Mumford, one of Howard's
disciples explained the difference as "The Garden
City, as Howard defined it, is not a suburb but the
antithesis of a suburb: not a rural retreat, but a more
integrated foundation for an effective urban life.”

Visions
The Garden City principles
A Garden City is a holistically planned new settlement which
enhances the natural environment and offers high-quality
affordable housing and locally accessible work in beautiful,
healthy and sociable communities. The Garden City principles
are an indivisible and interlocking framework for their
delivery, and include:
• Land value capture for the benefit of the community.
• Strong vision, leadership and community engagement.
• Community ownership of land and long-term stewardship of
assets.
• Mixed-tenure homes and housing types that are genuinely
affordable.
• A wide range of local jobs in the Garden City within easy
commuting distance of homes.
• Beautifully and imaginatively designed homes with gardens,
combining the best of town and country to create healthy
communities, and including opportunities to grow food.
• Development that enhances the natural environment,
providing a comprehensive green infrastructure network
and net biodiversity gains, and that uses zero-carbon and
energy-positive technology to ensure climate resilience.
• Strong cultural, recreational and shopping facilities in
walkable, vibrant, sociable neighborhoods.
• Integrated and accessible transport systems, with walking,
cycling and public transport designed to be the most
attractive forms of local transport.
www.tcpa.org.uk/garden-city-principles

Visions
© integralMENTORS
Also they defined the city as a museum like Rome
and the city of Composite Presence, which was
mentioned in Collage City. It is formed by either sole
objects or events pilling up in an eclectic way. It is a
choice, which has to be considered against
altogether designs and the disaster cities resulting
from social engineering. A city of fragments, which
originated from a monumental effect of objects from
the farthest places and times, objects that met
through the most improbable ways. The idea of
collage against altogether design also brings the
idea of “bricoleur/fox” architecture who makes a
whole out of thrown away objects and creates new
uses instead of the “engineer/hedgehog”
architecture who dismantles everything and creates
again.
This book is a critical
reappraisal of contemporary
theories of urban planning
and design and of the role of
the architect-planner in an
urban context. The authors,
rejecting the grand utopian
visions of "total planning" and
"total design," propose
instead a "collage city" which
can accommodate a whole
range of utopias in miniature.
Intimate knowledge of resources
Careful observation and listening
Trusting one's ideas
Self-correcting structures, with feedback
The Collage City & ‘Bricolage’
monoskop.org/images/2/23/Rowe_Colin_Koetter_Fred_Collage_City_1978.pdf

Visions
Christopher Alexander: 15 Principles
of Wholeness from Christopher
Alexander, Introduction of "A New
Theory of Urban Design”
When we look at the most beautiful
towns and cities of the past, we are
always impressed by a feeling that
they are somehow organic.
This feeling of "organicness" is not a
vague feeling of relationship with
biological forms. It is not analogy.
It is instead, an accurate vision of a
specific structural quality which these
old towns had… and have. Namely:
each of these towns grew as a whole,
under its own laws of wholeness…
and we can feel this wholeness, not
only at the largest scale, but in every
detail: in the restaurants, in the
sidewalks, in the houses, shops,
markets, roads, parks, gardens and
walls.
The Nature of Order
Christopher Alexander PHD Architect www.natureoforder.com/overview.htm

Visions
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The Nature of Order
Alexander breaks away completely from the one-sided mechanical model
of buildings or neighbourhoods as mere assemblages of technically
generated, interchangeable parts. He shows us conclusively that a spiritual,
emotional, and personal basis must underlie every act of building or
making.
And then, in the middle of the book, comes the linchpin of the work - a
one-hundred-page chapter on colour, which dramatically conveys the way
that consciousness and spirit are manifested in the world.
This is a new cosmology: consciousness inextricably joined to the substrate
of matter, present in all matter.
This view, though radical, conforms to our most ordinary, daily intuitions. It
may provide a path for those contemporary scientists who are beginning
to see consciousness as the underpinning of all matter, and thus as a
proper object of scientific study. And it will change, forever, our conception
of what buildings are.
Urban design must not be an act of tabula rasa imposition of a form
designed remotely, based upon an abstract program. It must understand,
respect, and seek to improve the existing conditions.
Urban design must incorporate the decisions and needs of the local
stakeholders, as a matter not only of fairness, but also of the intrinsic
quality of the result.
Above all,
Urban design must be a generative process, from which a form will emerge
– one that cannot be pre-planned or standardized, but will of necessity be,
at least in some key respects, local and unique.

Visions
www.doxiadis.org/Downloads/ecistics_the_science_of_human_settlements.pdf

Visions
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Definition of ekistics: a science dealing with human
settlements and drawing on the research and
experience of professionals in various fields (as
architecture, engineering, city planning, and
sociology).
Ekistics concerns the science of human settlements,
including regional, city, community planning and
dwelling design. The study involves every kind of
human settlement, with particular attention to
geography, ecology, human psychology,
anthropology, culture, politics, and occasionally
aesthetics. As a scientific mode of study, ekistics
currently relies on statistics and description,
organized in five ekistic elements or principles:
nature, anthropos, society, shells, and networks. It is
generally a more scientific field than urban planning,
and has considerable overlap with some of the less
restrained fields of architectural theory. In application,
conclusions are drawn aimed at achieving harmony
between the inhabitants of a settlement and their
physical and socio-cultural environments
Constantinos A. Doxiadis - Architect & Urban Planner
Ekistics

Visions
Design with Nature
medium.com/@designforsustainability/visionaries-of-regenerative-design-iv-ian-l-mcharg-1920-2001-ea6da90b1958

Visions
Design with Nature
Ian Mcharg – Landscape Architect

Visions
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Biomimicry is an approach to innovation that seeks
sustainable solutions to human challenges by emulating
nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies.
The goal is to create products, processes, and policies—new
ways of living—that are well-adapted to life on earth over the
long haul.
The core idea is that nature has already solved many of the
problems we are grappling with. Animals, plants, and
microbes are the consummate engineers. After billions of
years of research and development, failures are fossils, and
what surrounds us is the secret to survival.
Biomimicry
biomimicry.org/what-is-biomimicry/

Visions
“We envision biomimicry to be a societal and
economic game changer, turning what is
unexplored today into an ecosystem of vibrant,
sustainable innovation.”
“Only such a function-oriented mindset will lead us
to entirely novel solutions as opposed to trying to
pimp mediocre existing ones.”
Driven by the prospects of disruptive
innovation, biomimicry remains a magnet
for solving design challenges in novel ways.
By forging a positive instead of an
adversarial relationship between
technology, business, and the environment,
we envision biomimicry to be a societal and
economic game changer, turning what is
unexplored today into an ecosystem of
vibrant, sustainable innovation.
“The relation of mobility to urban space and
resources in the modern city has failed in all
aspects of sustainability.”
Biomimicry: Designing Cities According to
Nature
Biomimicry
biomimicry.org/what-is-biomimicry/

Visions
resilience.io/
Enabling Transformational Change - A global support network of integrated tools and
collaboration for financing and decision making for resilience

Visions
To create the investment for resilient city-region development there
needs to be better understanding of the linkages between the
environmental, societal and (critically) economic aspects of
sustainable development. We believe bringing together existing
knowledge of the links between these domains and systems tools
that link them with metrics are key missing ingredients. We are
aiming to address this need and to explore how these can foster
effective cross-sector and multidisciplinary collaboration by local
stakeholders to support practical initiatives that improve city-region
wellbeing and quality of life.
The Ecological Sequestration Trust was formed in 2011
to demonstrate at city-region scale how to create a step
change in improving energy, water, food security in the face of
the combined challenges of changes of climate, demography
and increasing resource-scarcity.
Our approach is founded on two key perspectives.
Viewing ‘the city’ in a regional context is essential. Every city is
supported by a regional hinterland that sustains it. Moving towards
resilient city development requires a combined focus on the built
environment and city-region infrastructure (grey) and how it
interacts with the region’s agricultural, forestry and ecology
(green) and river, estuary or marine water (blue) resources.
Integrated Regional ProgramApproach
ecosequestrust.org/

Visions
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Cradle to Cradle
Cradle-to-cradle design (also referred to as Cradle
to Cradle, C2C, cradle 2 cradle, or regenerative
design) is a biomimetic approach to the design of
products and systems. It models human industry on
nature's processes viewing materials as nutrients
circulating in healthy, safe metabolisms.
It suggests that industry must protect and
enrich ecosystems and nature's biological
metabolism while also maintaining a safe,
productive technical metabolism for the high-quality
use and circulation of organic and technical
nutrients.
Put simply, it is a holistic economic, industrial and
social framework that seeks to create systems that
are not only efficient but also essentially waste
free. The model in its broadest sense is not limited
to industrial design and manufacturing; it can be
applied to many aspects of human civilization such
as urban environments, buildings, economics
and social systems.
epea.com/en/content/cradle-cradle%C2%AE

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The concept of a circular economy
A circular economy is restorative and regenerative by design,
and aims to keep products, components, and materials at
their highest utility and value at all times. The concept
distinguishes between technical and biological cycles.
As envisioned by the originators, a circular economy is a
continuous positive development cycle that preserves and
enhances natural capital, optimises resource yields, and
minimises system risks by managing finite stocks and
renewable flows. It works effectively at every scale
Cradle to Cradle

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The Big Rethink
Redefining purpose
Behind all these essays, as already
explicitly stated and argued in them,
are key assumptions. Central to
these is that in this pivotal moment
in history several epochs of differing
duration are drawing to a more or
less simultaneous close,
In common with some other currents in 21st-century
thinking, the Integral approach is developmental in
nature: beyond integrating diverse disciplines, it is
concerned with how organisms, consciousness,
cultures and so on evolve and develop through distinct
stages. Few have problems with the notion of
development in the non-human world (through insect
life stages, for instance, or the branching tree of
biological evolution) or even that of childhood
development from infancy upwards to adolescence.
But that cultures and consciousness develop through
clearly demarcated phases offends many in the
humanities as it transgresses postmodern taboos on
ranking and hierarchy. This is despite such ideas having
ancient lineage, now backed by increasing empirical
evidence, as well as Integral theory’s insistence that
none of these phases is better or less healthy than any
other. This too has caused resistance to Integral theory.
But any worthwhile rethink must rattle intellectual
cages, and perhaps even offend a few.
‘An assumption informing, and insight arising from, the
AQAL diagram is that increases in level in one
quadrant are matched by rises in the others’
www.architectural-review.com/rethink/campaigns/the-big-rethink/the-big-rethink-part-11-urban-design/8643367.article
in particular 4500 years of modernity along with its
terminal, meltdown phase of postmodernity. The
emergence of the Conceptual Age and TIR are part of this
larger transition. Thus the times demand that much be
radically rethought, right down to such basics as the
fundamental purposes of things. This is especially true of
architecture and urbanism because the Modernist
conceptions of their purposes, along with the associated
vision of what constitutes the good life they are to frame,
are so desperately impoverished. In contrast to their too
exclusive emphasis on the objective, the Right Hand
Quadrants of the AQAL diagram, it is time to re emphasise
the many dimensions of human subjectivity, the Left Hand
Quadrants, and to reground architecture and urbanism in
these too. Their fundamental purposes need redefining in
terms of their deepest, originating human impulses to be as
inspiring, ennobling and encompassing as possible so as to
inspire urgently needed change.
Peter Buchanan

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‘Certainly the city is a place of trade
and manufacture, residence and
recreation, education and welfare.
But the quintessential and most
elevated purpose of the city is as
the crucible in which culture,
creativity and consciousness
continually evolve’
The fundamental purpose of urban design is to provide a framework to guide the
development of the citizen. As this AR campaign reaches its conclusion, the
penultimate essay attacks the City of Doing found in modernity
Modernism
‘Modern architecture and urbanism
created the city of doing as
opposed to the city of being,
where different roles are played
out in different places’
Post-modernism
postmodern thinking is now a
serious liability. Rejecting
hierarchies, it cannot prioritise;
rejecting grand narratives and big
picture thinking, it lacks much-
needed perspective, so blocking
consideration of and action on
critically urgent issues.
‘A city is both a cultural artefact,
consciously and wilfully shaped by
humankind, yet also a living
organism unconsciously shaped by
its own internal metabolic forces’
The Big Rethink

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Peri-Urban Regeneration
Kristian van Schaik
Architect

Eco Cities – Garden Cities - Greening
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This 10,000 room eco hotel was designed for a
brief from the Dehan Group in Xiayin town, Ji
County, one hours drive east of Beijing airport.
The proposal takes the form of a seven hundred metre
diameter circle nestled into a scenic valley. Within are
enclosed winter gardens, rivers and a public transport
network. An eccentric futuristic lookout tower provide
a view of the complex, and the great wall beyond.
Ji County is an idyllic valley ripe for ECO development.
The challenge proposed by the client was to come up
with a design which allowed the commercial ambitions
of the client and the ecological constraints of the local
government to co-exist.
http://www.mvsarchitects.com.au/Jan van Schaik PhD

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This inquiry builds on the 12 Intelligences for the Human Hive, by
unpacking the application of these intelligences to designing an
Integral City.
How do you inquire about, act in and impact the city as citizen, civic
manager or placemaker? It leads readers as Action Researchers
through a series of process, project and program designs that integrate
the consciousness and culture of Placecaring, with the actions and
systems of Placemaking.
This approach explores Integral City’s design cycles using: The Knowing
Field, the Master Code, 12 City Intelligences, City Values & Vital Signs
Monitors, 4 Voices, Prototyping Rapid Innovation, Meshworking People,
Place and Planet, and Evaluating Outcomes. Readers and researchers
may discover a linear or a non-linear path to optimize impact or chart a
grand tour. In any case, they will find an inquiry-action-impact system
that is replicable, frequently iterative and provides a framework for
enacting deep change in the human hive.
“People often ask me what is an Integral City or which cities are Integral
Cities? My answer often seems to disappoint them, in that I say
“Integral” is not an ideal for a city, but rather a framework for
understanding the city as a human system in service to the wellbeing of
the planet – for the purposes of evolving the city as the most complex
human system yet created on our planet.”
To validate the Integral City framework, we have sought opportunities
for field testing. Two very different (and even unlikely) locations have
emerged, who have demonstrated the intention necessary to prototype
an Integral City: Durant, Oklahoma and Findhorn Foundation, Scotland.
http://integralcity.com/
Integral City Meshworks

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Integral City Meshworks
Integral City Inquiry & Action: Designing Impact for Place Caring & Place Making in the Human Hive
Marilyn Hamilton PhD - Integral City Meshworks Inc. http://integralcity.com/

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To imagine that Leon van Schaik’s ideographs represent a thinking
process would be to miss the point. They are not representational but
rather they are the thinking. Thinking in action if you will, concretised
in a drawing. To make this claim in our post-Socratic world is radical in
that it suggests that the movement of the arm and hand are integral, it
is to claim that the body thinks.
Spatial Intelligence – Thinking in Action
But in the case of the design of a city,
van Schaik contends that distilling the
best forms from a global encyclopedia
is a formula for disaster. In a
complicated argument, van Schaik
traces the processes by which earlier
civilizations created cities, arguing that
essentially each generation was laying
down a stratum that recorded its
culture, and arguing further that the
disunifying impulses of modernity
effectively ended this complex
process, bringing about the
“separation of architecture from the
matrix of the city. van Schaik describes
how an increasing self-consciousness
and professionalization slowly ended
the tradition of the usually anonymous
master builders who both designed
and constructed cities and their
buildings, and replaced it with the
architects as designers and arbiters of
taste.
eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-047072322X.html
Leon van Schaik PhD
Professor of Architecture
(Innovation Chair) at RMIT
architecture.rmit.edu.au/leonvanschaik/

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Spatial Intelligence – Thinking in Action
Architecture is a practice that arises from spatial thinking. It
addresses the world and our presence in it spatially, organising
material in pursuit of physical and virtual ideas. Like everything in
our material culture, every act of architecture has its poetics, that is
to say a ‘reading’ specific to its conception and realisation. To
understand this poetics is to understand individual and communal
histories in space and the values these have imbued in each
architect. It is also to understand the political position of every act of
architecture because, unlike more autonomous arts, architecture
acts upon those who build it and on those who occupy it. Practical
poetics, like practical criticism, is an approach to the poetic in
architecture that seeks to separate authentic architectural poetics
from clichéd and sentimental design tropes that evoke immediate
and shallow stock responses in observers and users. Without this
understanding architecture struggles to register its power to help
society in its pursuit of wellbeing, and is relegated to being a
symbolic backdrop to transitory acts of consumption.
Integrate poetics into real-world spaces
by bringing theory down to earth
Practical Poetics in Architecture takes
poetics out of the theory class and into
the design studio, showing architects how
the atmospheric and experiential qualities
of built structures can be intentionally
considered and planned. With an
emphasis on analysing and explaining the
sensibility of poetics at work in designing
and constructing architecture, this book
features projects from architects around
the world that demonstrate the principles
of poetics come to life.

Interior habitats
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ANTARABHAVA
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/
B06XSYGBM9
Adriaan van Schaik
Artist & mystic

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Interior habitats
IS ANYONE THERE
The discovery and investigation of the bridges between
heaven and Earth

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A regenerative systemic
societal transformational
accelerator
eco-systemic
synergies between
people,
perspectives &
projects
unleashing human,
ecological
organisational &
societal potentials
www.g4-ll.net

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G4 is about evolving Mindsets
and 21st century Education, to
become regenerative for:
● people, planet, profits –
knowledge economy,
● renewed prosperity, peace,
partnership - wise society by
city/regions
via:
● Living Labs
● Digital Equity
● Human Digital Rights &
Responsibility
focused on local & international
Greater Geneva, for the world,
with all lighthouses, Labs of Labs,
UN SDG Labs, within 2030 Global
Goals (SDGs) meta framework.
www.g4-ll.net

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Motivating tomorrow's adults today by developing the talent within
We believe that education should be about
equipping young people with the skills they
need for life beyond the walls of school,
college and university.
Burning2Learn runs education programmes
at business, education and entertainment
events that are geared towards raising self-
esteem and confidence.
Our programmes are for students of all
ages/academic levels, and are tailored to the
needs of the individual. By identifying talents
and developing life skills our programmes
also build resilience and motivate young
people to take a more active role in
determining their own futures.
We encourage our students to think deeper,
to ask more questions and to put forward
their own responses to key issues in the 21st
century. In doing so, we aim to better prepare
young people for life in modern Britain
Burning2Learn aims to transform young people's skills, attitudes and life
chances by offering enterprising and self-empowering learning
experiences within education. To achieve this, we work with schools,
businesses and community partners to develop programmes
that enhance engagement in learning and enable young people to
learn about the business world that they will one day need to transfer
their skills into.
We approach learning with a holistic human-centric ethos which
embeds developing confidence, self-esteem and motivation within
young people at the heart of all our programmes.
Burning2Learn
www.burning2learn.co.uk

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Burning2Learn
Motivating tomorrow's adults today by developing the talent within
For a city to truly thrive, it needs to
build stronger connections with all
generations
Burning2Learn has always believed schools are
the heart of the community and this is the starting
point. All parents want their children to reach their
full potential.
Motivate tomorrow's adults today! We believe it
starts with children, parents and teachers working
together, using technology and 21st century
sciences to support human development and
creativity. Listen to the children and the teachers.
The UN SDGs are the key to this puzzle and could
aid and support the curriculum throughout,
assisting schools to drive future essential
aspirations within tomorrow's adults today.
www.burning2learn.co.uk

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ThriveAbility
ThriveAbility Foundation www.thriveability.zone
Why ThriveAbility?
The ThriveAbility Initiative is designed to help leaders and organizations
address these profoundly important and urgent issues, through an integrative
governance framework and a scientifically advanced approach to change and
transformation. In addition to ThriveAbility Masterclasses, we are engaging with
selected organizations and change agents in pilot projects that demonstrate the
advantages of the ThriveAbility Approach, as well as co- designing and
delivering new action learning projects with universities and business schools.
The benefits of this approach include:
•IMPACT - Measuring and being accountable for real impacts, as good
community members
•INNOVATION - Leading to thriving communities and engaging employees and
customers with compelling innovation pathways to thriveable futures
•ENERGIZING - Based on integrated approaches to change and transformation
that engage and energize the whole team to look at bigger picture
opportunities and challenges for the organization
•MULTI-STAKEHOLDER - A pragmatic approach that engages all stakeholders
through a whole systems approach that drives change at every level in the
organization/system

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ThriveAbility
Thriveable Surrey Partnership
The Thriveable Surrey Partnership’s mission is to accelerate the progress being made in the County of Surrey
toward becoming one of the world’s most sustainable, thriveable regions by 2050.
Surrey is the second largest contributor to the UK economy, with an annual output of nearly £40bn, and the
most wooded county in Great Britain with 22% of woodland, compared to a national average of 12%. At
present, 30% of ecosystem services in Surrey are in decline.
“Thriveable” describes the state of human and natural flourishing that results from investing in and synergizing
human, relationship, social, intellectual, natural, infrastructure and manufactured capitals in and around Surrey.
With 40% of global GDP dependent on natural capital, the goal of ThriveAbility is to catalyse synergistic
innovation, both technological and social, by enhancing our human and social creativity for regenerative,
inclusive flourishing.

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Integrating Spirituality in a Post-Secular Approach to Development
This paper takes up the issue of how spirituality has become
practically absent in urban development practise/ theory, as well
as in international development practise and its theoretical
discourse, by examining the idea of a post-secular approach to
spirituality and by looking at a case study in the developing
world. The urban context has historically been the driver of
ideas in international development, particularly on matters of
faith and diversity in terms of public as well as civic space. It is in
this sense that I explore the urban trends in the discourse on
spirituality and secularity that are then brought into practise
elsewhere in the field of international development.
As spirituality and secularity are transcended and included,
we come closer to a viable way to bridge traditional faiths with
modern lives and postmodern ideas. If the objectives of
development are to support society to develop from
traditional, to modern, to postmodern realities, then assisting
people's ultimate concern to navigate this path will surely
help the rest of their actions, culture and systems to do the
same.
Since the word "faith" has been linked to religion, it tends to
carry a certain weight in social discourse; it is often
interpreted with (slight or overt) disdain, and is often put aside
as being an earlier expression of care in development. One
might hear, for example, statements like, "Oh, he works for a
faith-based organisation," which almost discard or discredit
the work immediately in a secularised discourse. In this article,
I critically look at the word faith and expand its meaning by
drawing on the research (1981) of the Harvard psychologist
James Fowler, which reframes "faith" as "ultimate concern".
Fowler's research looked at how what humans are ultimately
concerned about develops over one's life.
This article proposes to critically question this blanket
application of secularity in development practise. First,
although religious interpretations and dogma are prone to
complications and divisions, the core essence of spirituality
intends to provide insight and meaning and to evoke
compassion and love. These are very things we need more of
in international development, not less.
Gail Hochachka – Integral Without Borders www.trialog-journal.de

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The purpose of ProjectSynergise! is to design & develop thriveable
futures through action learning projects and build transmedia services
that support the co-creation of regenerative inclusive business models.
www.facebook.com/
projectsynergise/
ProjectSynergise!
www.projectsynergise.net/

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ProjectSynergise! - Eco-Hub
In the case of truly synergistic innovations, there are
beneficial social shifts as well as technical advances. Most
advances in communications technologies are known to
have beneficial social effects- for example, the spread of
mobile phones in developing countries has been shown to
accelerate economic growth by half a percentage point at
least. The apps on smartphones also provide educational
and entrepreneurial opportunities, although there can be
downsides in the form of social isolation caused by
excessive use of social media and gaming apps.
For example, the combination of advanced modular
lightweight design, solar panels, Wi-Fi, satellite
communications, lighting, refrigeration, television and
water purification systems in the Ekocentre “downtown in a
box”, are also combined with micro-entrepreneur and
micro-finance innovations to enable women and their
families to operate and benefit from their hosting of an
Ekocentre in their village.
In turn, the “downtown in a box” effect means that social and community capital can be built up
through the use of the Ekocentre to broadcast sports and news, act as a community centre, or as a
clinic, as well as augmenting the education and learning of the whole village. The Ekocentre illustrates
the benefits of working to regenerate all eight capitals in synergistic ways:
www.coca-colacompany.com/ekocenter

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ProjectSynergise! – Eco-Hub
• Natural capital – clean drinking water and source of food and
beverages, with less reliance on dirty and expensive fossil
fuel based sources of energy
• Human capital – enhanced wellbeing of the individuals in the
community through healthcare services
• Relationship capital – connecting members of the
community together
• Social capital - enhancing the sense of community spirit and
belonging through social events and gatherings
• Intellectual capital – offering a source of news, entertainment
and educational material, as well as a communications hub
• Infrastructure capital – providing services that would
normally need a large scale infrastructure to be in place-
clean water, energy and communications, for example
• Manufactured capital – supplies of essential products
including medical and personal hygiene products
• Financial capital – the micro-finance model provides a
source of capital to the micro-entrepreneurs and their
families, and the communications hub also enables them to
utilise phone-banking services, thus building up a supply of
savings..
If we were to have all the relevant data to hand, we could assign a True Future Value to the Ekocentre both in
concept, and in actual use in specific locales. We could measure exactly what the benefits to the local
communities were over time, and then be able to predict to some degree, the overall True Future Value
delivered to that community.
www.projectsynergise.net/

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Collaborative juxtapositions
Active
engagement
Regenerative Designs
Active
engagement

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Collaborative juxtapositions
Engagement In Action
proposed
Community Hub
Community Hub – Romney Marshes
Engagement In Action
proposed
Community Hub
A2L

Village Corps Development
Visions
We are advancing a comprehensive approach
to community development. Instead of
focusing on implementing one solution in a
village, like mosquito nets or clean water, we
seek to comprehensively address the needs of
an entire village.
We do so by directing a share of project
revenue to the communities. We directly pay
service providers like NGOs and businesses to
implement their own specialized solution in a
manner that is selected and prioritized by the
community members themselves.
We maintain that our approach to delivering
socio-economic and ecological impact
solutions, an approach we call Living
DevelopmentTM, is inherently more efficient,
fundamentally faster to deploy and an order of
magnitude larger in scale than other
approaches to development work all while
delivering market rate returns to investors at
reduced implementation and operational risk.
www.villagecorps.com/

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Each SOLARKIOSK E-HUBB
becomes the centerpiece
for the sustainable provision
of energy services in BoP
communities, including:
• Charging (mobile
phones, batteries, lights)
• Internet connectivity
• Cooling of products and
medication
• Water purification
• Copy/Print/Scan
• News & Entertainment
solarkiosk.eu/

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Sustainable Cities and Communities
Making cities safe and sustainable means
ensuring access to safe and affordable housing,
and upgrading slum settlements. It also involves
investment in public transport, creating green
public spaces, and improving urban planning
and management in a way that is both
participatory and inclusive.
More than half of the world’s population now live in
urban areas. By 2050, that figure will have risen to
6.5 billion people – two-thirds of all humanity.
Sustainable development cannot be achieved
without significantly transforming the way we build
and manage our urban spaces.
The rapid growth of cities in the developing
world, coupled with increasing rural to urban
migration, has led to a boom in mega-cities. In 1990,
there were ten mega-cities with 10 million
inhabitants or more. In 2014, there are 28 mega-
cities, home to a total 453 million people.
Extreme poverty is often concentrated in urban
spaces, and national and city governments struggle
to accommodate the rising population in these
areas. Making cities safe and sustainable means
ensuring access to safe and affordable housing, and
upgrading slum settlements. It also involves
investment in public transport, creating green public
spaces, and improving urban planning and
management in a way that is both participatory and
inclusive.
sdg.iisd.org/sdgs/goal-11-sustainable-cities-communities/

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Sustainable Cities and Communities
11.1 By 2030, ensure access for all to adequate, safe and
affordable housing and basic services and upgrade slums
11.2 By 2030, provide access to safe, affordable, accessible
and sustainable transport systems for all, improving road
safety, notably by expanding public transport, with special
attention to the needs of those in vulnerable situations,
women, children, persons with disabilities and older persons
11.3 By 2030, enhance inclusive and sustainable
urbanization and capacity for participatory, integrated and
sustainable human settlement planning and management in
all countries
11.7 By 2030, provide universal access to safe, inclusive
and accessible, green and public spaces, in particular for
women and children, older persons and persons with
disabilities
11.a Support positive economic, social and environmental
links between urban, peri-urban and rural areas by
strengthening national and regional development planning
11.b By 2020, substantially increase the number of cities
and human settlements adopting and implementing
integrated policies and plans towards inclusion, resource
efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change,
resilience to disasters, and develop and implement, in line
with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
2015-2030, holistic disaster risk management at all levels

NC Natural Capital
MC
Manufactured
Capital
Financial
Capital
HC Human Capital
RC
Relationship
Capital
SC Social Capital
IC
Intellectual
Capital
Anthrocapitals
IfC
Infrastructure
Capital
Spiritual
Ground
KC
Knowledge
Capital
Nine Capitals
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What Is the Integral Approach?
During the last 30 years, we have witnessed a historical first: all of the world’s cultures are now available to us.
In the past, if you were born, say, a Chinese, you likely spent your entire life in one culture, often in one
province, sometimes in one house, living and loving and dying on one small plot of land. But today, not only
are people geographically mobile, we can study, and have studied, virtually every known culture on the planet.
In the global village, all cultures are exposed to each other.
Knowledge itself is now global. This means that, also for the first time, the sum total of human knowledge is
available to us—the knowledge, experience, wisdom and reflection of all major human civilizations—premodern,
modern, and postmodern—are open to study by anyone.
What if we took literally everything that all the various cultures have to tell us about human potential—about
spiritual growth, psychological growth, social growth—and put it all on the table? What if we attempted to find
the critically essential keys to human growth, based on the sum total of human knowledge now open to us?
What if we attempted, based on extensive cross-cultural study, to use all of the world’s great traditions to
create a composite map, a comprehensive map, an all-inclusive or integral map that included the best
elements from all of them?
Sound complicated, complex, daunting? In a sense, it is. But in another sense, the results turn out to be
surprisingly simple and elegant. Over the last several decades, there has indeed been an extensive search for a
comprehensive map of human potentials. This map uses all the known systems and models of human growth—
from the ancient shamans and sages to today’s breakthroughs in cognitive science—and distils their major
components into 5 simple factors, factors that are the essential elements or keys to unlocking and facilitating
human evolution.
Welcome to the Integral Model.

A Broader Framework
In short, the Integral Approach helps you see both yourself and the world around you in more comprehensive
and effective ways. But one thing is important to realize from the start. The Integral Map is just a map. It is not
the territory. We certainly don’t want to confuse the map with the territory, but neither do we want to be
working with an inaccurate or faulty map. The Integral Map is just a map, but it is the most complete and
accurate map we have at this time.
We find that an infant at birth has not yet been socialized into the culture’s ethics and conventions; this is called
the pre-conventional stage. It is also called egocentric, in that the infant’s awareness is largely self-absorbed.
But as the young child begins to learn its culture’s rules and norms, it grows into the conventional stage of
morals. This stage is also called ethnocentric, in that it centres on the child’s particular group, tribe, clan, or
nation, and it therefore tends to exclude care for those not of one’s group. But at the next major stage of moral
development, the post-conventional stage, the individual’s identity expands once again, this time to include a
care and concern for all peoples, regardless of race, colour, sex, or creed, which is why this stage is also called
world-centric.
Thus, moral development tends to move from “me” (egocentric) to “us” (ethnocentric) to “all of us” (world-
centric) — a good example of the unfolding stages of consciousness.
What is the point of using this Integral Map or Model?
First, whether you are working in business, medicine, psychotherapy, law, ecology, or simply everyday living
and learning, the Integral Map helps make sure that you are “touching all the bases.” If you are trying to fly over
the Rocky Mountains, the more accurate a map you have, the less likely you will crash. An Integral Approach
insures that you are utilizing the full range of resources for any situation, with the greater likelihood of success.
Second, if you learn to spot these 5 elements in your own awareness—and because they are there in any event—
then you can more easily appreciate them, exercise them, use them… and thereby vastly accelerate your own
growth and development to higher, wider, deeper ways of being. A simple familiarity with the 5 elements in the
Integral Model will help you orient yourself more easily and fully in this exciting journey of discovery and
awakening.

A Broader Framework
The word integral means
comprehensive, inclusive, non-
marginalizing, embracing. Integral
approaches to any field attempt to
be exactly that: to include as many
perspectives, styles, and
methodologies as possible within a
coherent view of the topic. In a
certain sense, integral approaches
are “meta-paradigms,” or ways to
draw together an already existing
number of separate paradigms into
an interrelated network of
approaches that are mutually
enriching. – Ken Wilber
Integral

A Broader Framework
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"We move from part to
whole and back again, and
in that dance of
comprehension, in that
amazing circle of
understanding, we come
alive to meaning, to value,
and to vision: the very circle
of understanding guides our
way, weaving together the
pieces, healing the fractures,
mending the torn and
tortured fragments, lighting
the way ahead -- this
extraordinary movement
from part to whole and back
again, with healing the
hallmark of each and every
step, and grace the tender
reward." Ken Wilber.

An Integral View
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What can be said about a more integral model of
human possibilities? Before talking about the
application of an integral vision — in education,
politics, business, health care, and so on — there
needs to be some general notion of what it is that is
to be applied in the first place. Moving from
pluralistic relativism to universal integralism, what
kind of map might be found?
A more integral cartography might include:
• multiple waves of existence, spanning the entire
spectrum of consciousness, subconscious to self-
conscious to super-conscious.
• numerous different streams, modules, or lines of
development, including cognitive, moral,
spiritual, aesthetic, somatic, imaginative,
interpersonal, etc.
• multiple states of consciousness, including
waking, dreaming, sleeping, altered, non-
ordinary, and meditative.
• numerous different types of consciousness,
including gender types, personality types
(enneagram, Myers-Briggs, Jungian), and so on.
• multiple brain states and organic factors.

An Integral View
• the extraordinarily important impact of
numerous cultural factors, including the rich
textures of diverse cultural realities,
background contexts, pluralistic perceptions,
linguistic semantics, and so on, none of
which should be unwarrantedly
marginalized, all of which should be
included and integrated in a broad web of
integral-aperspectival tapestries (and, just as
important, a truly "integral transformative
practice" would give considerable weight to
the importance of relationships, community,
culture, and intersubjective factors in
general, not as merely a realm of application
of spiritual insight, but as a mode of spiritual
transformation).
• the massively influential forces of the social
system, at all levels (from nature to human
structures, including the all-important impact
of nonhuman social systems, from Gaia to
ecosystems).
A more integral cartography might also include:

An Integral View
• the importance of the self as the navigator
of the great River of Life should not be
overlooked. It appears that the self is not a
monolithic entity but rather a society of
selves with a centre of gravity, which acts
to bind the multiple waves, states,
streams, and realms into something of a
unified organization; the disruption of this
organization, at any of its general stages,
can result in pathology.
www.kenwilber.com
A more integral cartography might also include:
Such are a few of the multiple factors that a
richly holistic view of the Kosmos might wish
to include. At the very least, any model that
does not coherently include all of those items
is not a very integral model. Ken Wilber

WorldViews - Individual

WorldViews
Urban Hub
Stage Changes

Magenta Thinking is animistic; magical spirits, good and bad, swarm the earth leaving blessings,
curses, and spells which determine events. Forms into ethnic tribes. The spirits exist in
ancestors and bond the tribe. Kinship and lineage establish political links. Sounds “holistic”
but is actually atomistic: “there is a name for each bend in the river but no name for the river.”
Amber Life has meaning, direction, and purpose, with outcomes determined by an allpowerful Other
or Order. This righteous Order enforces a code of conduct based on absolutist and unvarying
principles of “right” and “wrong.” Violating the code or rules has severe, perhaps everlasting
repercussions. Following the code yields rewards for the faithful. Basis of ancient nations.
Rigid social hierarchies; paternalistic; one right way and only one right way to think about
everything. Law and order; impulsivity controlled through guilt; concrete-literal and
fundamentalist belief; obedience to the rule of Order.
Red First emergence of a self distinct from the tribe; powerful, impulsive, egocentric, heroic.
Mythic spirits, dragons, beasts, and powerful people. Feudal lords protect underlings in
exchange for obedience and labor. The basis of feudal empires—power and glory The world is
a jungle full of threats and predators. Conquers, outfoxes, and dominates; enjoys self to the
fullest without regret or remorse.
Orange At this wave, the self “escapes” from the “herd mentality” of blue, and seeks truth and
meaning in individualistic terms—hypothetico-deductive, experimental, objective,
mechanistic, operational—“scientific” in the typical sense. The world is a rational and well-oiled
machine with natural laws that can be learned, mastered, and manipulated for one’s own
purposes. Highly achievement oriented, especially (in America) toward materialistic gains.
The laws of science rule politics, the economy, and human events. The world is a chess-board
on which games are played as winners gain pre-eminence and perks over losers. Marketplace
alliances; manipulate earth’s resources for one’s strategic gains. Basis of corporate states.
Integral Altitude [AQAL]
Modern
Pre Modern
Pre Modern
Modern

Green Communitarian, human bonding, ecological sensitivity, networking. The human spirit must be freed
from greed, dogma, and divisiveness; feelings and caring supersede cold rationality; cherishing of the
earth, Gaia, life. Against hierarchy; establishes lateral bonding and linking. Permeable self, relational
self, group intermeshing. Emphasis on dialogue, relationships. Basis of values communes (i.e., freely
chosen affiliations based on shared sentiments). Reaches decisions through reconciliation and
consensus (downside: interminable “processing” and incapacity to reach decisions). Refresh
spirituality, bring harmony, enrich human potential. Strongly egalitarian, anti-hierarchy, pluralistic
values, social construction of reality, diversity, multiculturalism, relativistic value systems; this worldview
is often called pluralistic relativism. Subjective, nonlinear thinking; shows a greater degree of affective
warmth, sensitivity, and caring, for earth and all its inhabitants.
Teal Life is a kaleidoscope of natural hierarchies [holarchies], systems, and forms. Flexibility, spontaneity,
and functionality have the highest priority. Differences and pluralities can be integrated into
interdependent, natural flows. Egalitarianism is complemented with natural degrees of excellence
where appropriate. Knowledge and competency should supersede rank,
power, status, or group. The prevailing world order is the result of the existence of different levels of
reality (memes) and the inevitable patterns of movement up and down the dynamic spiral. Good
governance facilitates the emergence of entities through the levels of increasing complexity (nested
hierarchy).
Turquoise Universal holistic system, holons/waves of integrative energies; unites feeling with knowledge
[centaur]; multiple levels interwoven into one conscious system. Universal order, but in a living,
conscious fashion, not based on external rules (blue) or group bonds (green). A “grand unification” is
possible, in theory and in actuality. Sometimes involves the emergence of a new spirituality as a
meshwork of all existence. Turquoise thinking uses the entire spiral; sees multiple levels of interaction;
detects harmonics, the mystical forces, and the pervasive flow-states that permeate any organization.
Integral Altitude [AQAL]
Indigo
Post Modern
Post Post Modern
Post Post Modern

WorldViews – vMemes SD

Stratified levels of development
Source - Rooke and Torbert’s 2006 Harvard Business Review article : Seven Transformations of Leadership. From a sample of 1000 leaders in N America & Europe
WorldViews - Action Logic

WorldViews - Values
Stages - Meanings of Space & Boundaries
Magenta
Meanings Of Space & Boundaries:
Urban Manifestations:
Sacred and special ground defined by the events
and happenings of the past important to the group.
Marked by symbols, defined by traditions, limited by
visual and walking distances, natural physical
features are revered as are the old country and
home ways and seasonal activities.
Deeply spiritual places with strong historical, custom
and traditional links to the past and rites of passage
as individuals, families, tribes, communities,
nationalities – hills, rivers, sites and areas of special
events, cemeteries – visited, respected, tended with
high regard, mysticism, and spirituality.

WorldViews - Values
Red
Areas of conquest over which the victor reigns,
controls and leaves a personal mark. Strongly
defined and defended boundaries outside which
danger and enemies exist and threaten the gained
spoils.
Defined and protected personal areas – private
homes, factories, sports grounds, gang turf,
individual and group property which is defined,
used, defended and protected by powerful physical
and visible means and signs – illegal land invasions,
primary industries.

WorldViews - Values
Amber
Land and space is precisely and carefully surveyed,
documented, assigned and allocated, boundaries
are marked permanently obeyed and protected for
the stability and future of the group through treaties
and compacts for all to enjoy. The use of land is
determined and justified by a future purpose and
goal.
Well established and carefully maintained areas and
spaces for all aspects of living carefully identified,
controlled and marked (land use zoning & cadastral
maps) to ensure the uses are established for the
benefit of the group – homes, schools, churches,
police stations, social institutions, hi-tech, research,
scientific, technological uses.

WorldViews - Values
Orange
Areas of property which can be used to realise the
benefits of calculated risk taking – from which
individual wealth, material gain and status can be
extracted to be displayed and shown for all to see
and made aware of economic influence and
achievement.
High status areas of living and working which have
resulted from successful wealth creation, prosperous
displays of affluence and image – buildings and
property developments which are designed and
built to make financially successful statements with
appearance more important than substance.

WorldViews - Values
Green
Communally shared open areas used for mutual
social development, sharing and growth,
boundaries and divisions are scorned as artificial
and keeping people apart as the whole community
must share and have equal access to land and space
for the common good of the everyone in the group.
No one person nor group can be dominant.
Open areas, rural and natural land and space with
no limits to access, ownership and use as everyone
must be able to live in harmony with each other and
the environment without restraints and restrictions,
strong focus on the redistribution and sharing of any
material gains and spoils for the sustainable benefit
of all.

WorldViews - Values
Different needs for space and land must be
provided for, integrated and legitimised to minimise
and prevent boundary conflicts, spatial disputes and
land abuse which will be harmful to the overall
balance of the systems; conflict over space between
the different systems is recognised as inherent and
inevitable, striving for constructive diversity to blend
all aspects of the community and its spatial needs –
especially the best parts into a synergistic whole.
The balanced systemic integration of the different
spatial needs and requirements to provide a
dynamic chaordic, diverse spatial environment of
nodes an networks which grows, adapts and
develops to meet all needs without threatening its
own sustainability and ability to change and adapt –
changing urban areas of growth and regrowth as
individual and group needs and requirements flex
and flow with a freedom to be – balanced, flexible
and appropriate mixed uses.
Teal

WorldViews
Evolving Cities & Habitats
Urban Hub
Stage Changes

Evolving WorldViews - Evolving Cities
Crimson The level of basic survival; food, water, warmth, sex, and safety have priority. Uses habits and instincts just to
survive. Distinct self is barely awakened or sustained. Forms into survival bands to perpetuate life.

Magenta Thinking is animistic; magical spirits, good and bad, swarm the earth leaving blessings, curses, and spells
which determine events. Forms into ethnic tribes. The spirits exist in ancestors and bond the tribe. Kinship
and lineage establish political links. Sounds “holistic” but is actually atomistic: “there is a name for each bend
in the river but no name for the river.”

Red First emergence of a self distinct from the tribe; powerful, impulsive, egocentric, heroic. Mythic spirits,
dragons, beasts, and powerful people. Feudal lords protect underlings in exchange for obedience and labor.
The basis of feudal empires—power and glory The world is a jungle full of threats and predators. Conquers,
outfoxes, and dominates; enjoys self to the fullest without regret or remorse.

WorldViews – Action Logic
Torbert’s Action Logics – leadership Worldview/style at each stage of development
Conventional Action Logics - Styles 1
People adopting these styles tend to appreciate similarity and stability.
1. Opportunist

Mapping Interventions - Ego Centric
Culture
- worldviews
Creations
- systems
- infrastructure
Capacities
- Competences
- Behaviour
Consciousness
- intention
- mindsets
Individual
Interior-Subjective
Collective
Interior-Intersubjective
Individual
Exterior-Objective
Collective
Exterior-Interobjective

Mapping Interventions – Medieval Cities
Ancient
Medieval City
Mythic/Power
Rational/Drive
Pluralistic/Equality
SDi/3D Holistic
Mythic/One Truth
Integral/ThriveAble
Power-Centric

Subjects do not perceive worlds but enact them. Different states of subjects bring forth different worlds. © integralMENTORS
Amber Life has meaning, direction, and purpose, with outcomes determined by an allpowerful Other or Order. This
righteous Order enforces a code of conduct based on absolutist and unvarying principles of “right” and “wrong.”
Violating the code or rules has severe, perhaps everlasting repercussions. Following the code yields rewards for
the faithful. Basis of ancient nations. Rigid social hierarchies; paternalistic; one right way and only one right way to
think about everything. Law and order; impulsivity controlled through guilt; concrete-literal and fundamentalist
belief; obedience to the rule of Order.

Mapping Interventions – Evolving Cities
Magical/Tribal
Mythic/Power
Survival
Mythic/One Truth

Action Logics
Torbert’s Action Logics – leadership Worldview/style at each stage of development
2. The Diplomat

Mapping Interventions – Modern Cities
19/20th Century
Bureaucratic
Planned
Utopian City
Mythic/Power
Rational/Drive
SDi/3D Holistic
Mythic/One Truth
Integral/ThriveAble
Rational-Centric

Mapping Interventions – Ethno Centric
Culture
- worldviews
Creations
- systems
- infrastructure
Capacities
- Competences
- Behaviour
Consciousness
- intention
- mindsets
Individual
Interior-Subjective
Collective
Individual
Exterior-Objective
Collective

Mapping Interventions – Modern Cities
Early to Late
Modern City
Mythic/Power
Rational/Drive
SDi/3D Holistic
Mythic/One Truth
Integral/ThriveAble
‘unplanned’
Econo-Centric

Orange At this wave, the self “escapes” from the “herd mentality” of blue, and seeks truth and meaning in individualistic terms—
hypothetico-deductive, experimental, objective, mechanistic, operational—“scientific” in the typical sense. The world is a
rational and well-oiled machine with natural laws that can be learned, mastered, and manipulated for one’s own
purposes. Highly achievement oriented, especially (in America) toward materialistic gains. The laws of science rule
politics, the economy, and human events. The world is a chess-board on which games are played as winners gain pre-
eminence and perks over losers. Marketplace alliances; manipulate earth’s resources for one’s strategic gains. Basis of
corporate states.

Magical/Tribal
Mythic/Power
Rational/Drive
Survival
Mythic/One Truth

Action Logics
Torbert’s Action Logics – leadership worldview/style at each stage of development
3. The Expert

Action Logics
IntegralMENTORS Guides – [basic]
making incremental, single-loop changes in behaviour to eventually reach the planned results. Timely action occurs
when “I” successfully juggle the need for occasional immediate wins, observance of agreed-on deadlines, efficient
work, and effective outcomes as judged by the market or other constituency.
Managerial Style
• Long-term goals
• Future is vivid, inspiring
• Welcomes behavioural feedback
• Timely action is juggling time
demands to attain effective results
• Feels like initiator, not pawn
• Seeks generalisable reasons for
action
• Seeks mutuality, not hierarchy, in
relationships
• Appreciates complexity
• Feels guilt if does not meet own
standards
• Blind to own shadow, to the
subjectivity behind objectivity
• Positive ethic is practical day-to-
day improvements based on self-
chosen (but not self-created)
ethical system
Post-Conventional Action Logics
5. The Individualist
This is viewed as a transitional action logic between the conventional and post-conventional. The dawning
awareness of post-conventional understanding may be a confusing time. The Individualist’s dark side includes
troubled feelings of something unravelling or needing resolving, along with a sense of paralysis about how to move,
because, at this stage we have not yet developed new principles to those of earlier stages. It is also likely to be a
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• Seeks causes
• Critical of self/others based on
own craft logic
• Wants to stand out, be unique
• Perfectionist
effectiveness
• Dogmatic
• Accepts feedback only from
objective, acknowledged craft
masters
• Values decisions based on
technical merit
jokes
• Sees contingencies, exceptions
• Positive ethic is a sense of
obligation to internally consistent
moral order
• Timely action is fast, efficient
4. The Achiever
Works within a one to three-year time horizon, juggling the shorter time horizons creatively, treating the interplay
among planning, performing and assessing the outcomes as what is really real. The achiever concentrates on
Torbert’s Action Logics –leadership worldview/style at each stage of development
4. The Achiever

Mapping Interventions – Smart Cities
Modern
Smart City
Mythic/Power
Rational/Drive
SDi/3D Holistic
Mythic/One Truth
Integral/ThriveAble
Techno-Centric

Mapping Interventions – Smart Cities
Techno-Centric Dashboards

Mapping Interventions – World Centric
Culture
- worldviews
Creations
- systems
- infrastructure
Capacities
- Competences
- Behaviour
Consciousness
- intention
- mindsets
Individual
Interior-Subjective
Collective
Individual
Exterior-Objective
Collective

Green Communitarian, human bonding, ecological sensitivity, networking. The human spirit must be freed from greed, dogma,
and divisiveness; feelings and caring supersede cold rationality; cherishing of the earth, Gaia, life. Against hierarchy;
establishes lateral bonding and linking. Permeable self, relational self, group intermeshing. Emphasis on dialogue,
relationships. Basis of values communes (i.e., freely chosen affiliations based on shared sentiments). Reaches decisions
through reconciliation and consensus (downside: interminable “processing” and incapacity to reach decisions). Refresh
spirituality, bring harmony, enrich human potential. Strongly egalitarian, anti-hierarchy, pluralistic values, social construction
of reality, diversity, multiculturalism, relativistic value systems; this worldview is often called pluralistic relativism. Subjective,
nonlinear thinking; shows a greater degree of affective warmth, sensitivity, and caring, for earth and all its inhabitants.

Magical/Tribal
Mythic/Power
Rational/Drive
Survival
Mythic/One Truth

standards
Post-Conventional Action Logics
This is viewed as a transitional action logic between the conventional and post-conventional. The dawning
awareness of post-conventional understanding may be a confusing time. The Individualist’s dark side includes
troubled feelings of something unravelling or needing resolving, along with a sense of paralysis about how to move,
because, at this stage we have not yet developed new principles to those of earlier stages. It is also likely to be a
time of renewed freshness of each fully tasted new experience, of dramatic new insight into the uniqueness of
ourself and others, of forging relationships that reach new levels of intimacy, and of perusing new interests in the
world. Excitement alternates with doubt in unfamiliar ways. The individualist is engaged in a journey that re-
evaluates all prior life experience and action logics.
The Individualist is a bridge between two worlds. One is the pre-constituted, relatively stable and hierarchical
understandings we grow into as children, as we learn how to function as members of a pre-constituted culture. The
other is the emergent, relatively fluid and mutual understandings that highlight the power of responsible adults to
lead their children, their subordinates and their peers in transforming change. From the point of view of
conventional stage employees, Individualist managers tend to provide less certainty and firm leadership. This is in
part because the individualist is aware of the layers upon layers of assumptions and interpretations at work in any
situation.
Managerial Style
• Takes a relativistic perspective
• Focuses more on both present and historical context
• Often aware of conflicting emotions
• Experiences time itself as a fluid, changeable medium
with piercing, unique moments
• Interested in own and others’ unique self-expression
• Seeks independent, creative work
• Attracted by difference and change more than by
similarity and stability
• Less inclined to judge or evaluate
• Influences by listening and finding patterns more than
by advocacy
• May become something of a maverick
• Starts to notice own shadow (and own negative
impact)
• Possible decision paralysis
Action Logics Post-Conventional Action Logics

Mapping Interventions – Sustainable Cities
Green Utopian
Ecopolis
Sustainable
City
Garden Towns
Mythic/Power
Rational/Drive
SDi/3D Holistic
Mythic/One Truth
Integral/ThriveAble
Ecological &
Environmental-
Centric

Mapping Interventions – Planet Centric
Culture
- worldviews
Creations
- systems
- infrastructure
Capacities
- Competences
- Behaviour
Consciousness
- intention
- mindsets
Individual
Interior-Subjective
Collective
Individual
Exterior-Objective
Collective

Teal Life is a kaleidoscope of natural hierarchies [holarchies], systems, and forms. Flexibility, spontaneity, and
functionality have the highest priority. Differences and pluralities can be integrated into interdependent, natural
flows. Egalitarianism is complemented with natural degrees of excellence where appropriate. Knowledge and
competency should supersede rank, power, status, or group. The prevailing world order is the result of the
existence of different levels of reality (memes) and the inevitable patterns of movement up and down the dynamic
spiral. Good governance facilitates the emergence of entities through the levels of increasing complexity (nested
hierarchy).

Magical/Tribal
Mythic/Power
Rational/Drive
Integral/3D Holistic
Survival
Mythic/One Truth

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impact)
• Possible decision paralysis
6. The Strategist
A principle feature of the Strategist action logic is self-awareness in action. It not only intuitively recognises other
action logics and itself as action logics, it also intuitively recognises all action as either facilitating or inhibiting on
going transformational change of personal, familial, corporate, or national action logics. If we are aware of ourselves
in action in the present and among others who may be framing the situation based on entirely different action logics,
participating in both incremental and transformational change, then the central question becomes: What action is
timely now to whom?
Persons operating from the Strategist action logic truly lead, whatever their organisation rank or role. They focus
their own and colleagues’ attention on whether mission, strategy, operations, and outcome are in conflict with one
another and might be aligned more coherently. The Strategist will develop ways to detect disparities between
mission and strategy, strategy and operations, and operations and outcome so that ineffective and unethical
processes can be corrected.
A Broader Framework
The Strategist’s sensitivity to systemic disparities includes a keen awareness of inequities in race, ethnicity, class,
gender, and development among colleagues and subordinates. This perspective is consonant with a global rather
than ethnocentric vision and demands that the Strategist make every effort to redress social inequities in ways that
promote personal and institutional development, rather than generating Diplomat-like dependence on government
aid.
Characteristics of the Strategist Action Logic
• The Strategist recognises the importance of principle,
contract, theory, and judgment (not just rules),
customs, and expectations – for making and
maintaining good decisions
• High value on timely action inquiry, mutuality, and
autonomy
• Attentive to unique market niches, particular historical
moments
• Interweaves short-term goal-orientedness with longer-
term developmental process-orientedness
• Aware of paradox that what one sees depends on
one’s action logic
• Creative at conflict resolution
• Enjoys playing a variety of roles
• Witty, existential humour
• Aware of and tempted by the dark side of power
6. The Strategist

Mapping Interventions – Holistic Cities
SDI Integral
Holistic City
Mythic/Power
Rational/Drive
SDi/3D Holistic
Mythic/One Truth
Integral/ThriveAble
Systems-Centric
[Master Code]

Mapping Interventions – Kosmic centric
Culture
- worldviews
Creations
- systems
- infrastructure
Capacities
- Competences
- Behaviour
Consciousness
- intention
- mindsets
Individual
Interior-Subjective
Collective
Individual
Exterior-Objective
Collective

Turquoise Universal holistic system, holons/waves of integrative energies; unites feeling with knowledge [centaur];
multiple levels interwoven into one conscious system. Universal order, but in a living, conscious fashion, not
based on external rules (blue) or group bonds (green). A “grand unification” is possible, in theory and in
actuality. Sometimes involves the emergence of a new spirituality as a meshwork of all existence. Turquoise
thinking uses the entire spiral; sees multiple levels of interaction; detects harmonics, the mystical forces, and
the pervasive flowstates that permeate any organization.

Magical/Tribal
Mythic/Power
Rational/Drive
Integral/3D Holistic
Survival
Mythic/One Truth
Integral/ThriveAble

The Alchemist
The ‘final’ leadership action logic for which we have data and experience is the Alchemist. Our studies of the few leaders we
have identified as Alchemists suggest that what sets them apart from Strategists is their ability to renew or even reinvent
themselves and their organizations in historically significant ways. Whereas the Strategist will move from one engagement to
another, the Alchemist has an extraordinary capacity to deal simultaneously with many situations at multiple levels. The
Alchemist can talk with both kings and commoners. He can deal with immediate priorities yet never lose sight of long-term
goals.
What sets Alchemists apart from Strategists is their ability to renew or even reinvent themselves and
their organizations in historically significant ways.
Alchemists constitute 1% of our sample, which indicates how rare it is to find them in business or anywhere else. Through an
extensive search process, we found six Alchemists who were willing to participate in an up-close study of their daily actions.
Though this is obviously a very small number that cannot statistically justify generalization, it’s worth noting that all six Alchemists
shared certain characteristics. On a daily basis, all were engaged in multiple organizations and found time to deal with issues
raised by each. However, they were not in a constant rush—nor did they devote hours on end to a single activity. Alchemists are
typically charismatic and extremely aware individuals who live by high moral standards. They focus intensely on the truth.
Perhaps most important, they’re able to catch unique moments in the history of their organizations, creating symbols and
metaphors that speak to people’s hearts and minds

Mapping Interventions – Thriveable Cities
People-Centric
Mythic/Power
Rational/Drive
SDi/3D Holistic
Mythic/One Truth
Integral/ThriveAble
IMP Integral
Morphogenic
Generative
Snippable
ThriveAble City

Power Mythic/Power
Rational/Drive
Pluralistic/Sustainable
Holistic
Mythic/One Truth
Integral/ThriveAble
each more complex stage:
- enfolds
- transcends the worst
- includes the best
of the previous stages
The content of the previous
becomes the context of the next
Meaning & Purpose
transcended & included
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