Gaia: Spiral Dynamics

Different Stages of Feminine Evolution

http://voyager.gaia.com — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:57:39 GMT

A new platform for starting global conversations. Based on memetic understanding of stratified global reailties:

http://www.globalfeminine.org/

Different Stages of Femine Evolution

Re: Rory Stewart about Life Conditions in Afghanistan

http://voyager.gaia.com — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:35:36 GMT

One more example from Ben. It shows what it takes to get real about and in Afghanistan:

"A friend of mine recently travelled to Afghanistan with a group of womento learn first-hand about what people were thinking there. You can find her blog here: http://www.saradavidson.com/archive-af.html

Her recent blog spoke about meeting with a Canadian woman who’d been working in the south of Afghanistan for years with the farmers there,and one thing she spoke about reinforced what Don’s been saying foryears about the “Red bulge”, but when you toss in Muslim religion intoit, you get ideal conditions for terrorism recruiting. One obvious solution for Afghanistan and everywhere Red is out of control is to spend $ to find these young men a job of any kind, and a wife. Here’swhat this woman said:

[We]meet with Norine MacDonald, a Canadian who's worked in the south [ofAfghanistan] for years. Norine is 39, blonde and gutsy. She carries a gun and looks like a model in Kabul, but in the south she dresses likean Afghan boy because women aren't seen on the street.

Norine directs theMercator Fund, which works with farmers in the south who, she says,"are all in business with the Taliban." Mercator is encouraging them to grow poppies for medicine. "You can't get morphine in this country or in Africa. The World Health Organization calls it a global pain crisis," Norine says. "It's a simple process to convert raw opium tomorphine. The farmers could start with the harvest next spring. Itwill make them legitimate and solve a world problem."

Her group wants to intervene with young men before they're recruited by the Taliban. She says there's a bulge in the population of males between 15 and 25. "They're not sexually active because Islam forbids sex beforemarriage, and they don't have money for a wedding. They have no sex,no job, and they're angry."

Imagine, she says, if in the U.S., all the males between 15 and 25 hadno sex and no job. "What kind of violence and chaos might erupt?" Her organization wants to give the young men cash to get married, an allowance to build their own place -- "a love shack" -- and job training. "It's harder to recruit a married man as a suicide bomber when he has a decent job and a home."

Ms. MacDonald goes on in the blog to talk about how the military could be used to bring food to starving Afghans in refuge camps, and othercommon sense ideas. This is the kind of strategy which the World Bankand military aren’t thinking about, yet it’s obvious when you look.Nation-building must include this kind of thing or it’s likely to fail

Center for Integral Studies .University Cologne

http://voyager.gaia.com — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:50:47 GMT

Center for Integral Studies -University Cologne

The studies at our center are related to practice in an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary way.

Based on the integral approach highly qualified practical experts and scholars coming from a wide field of disciplines - like psychology, pedagogics, social studies, medical and business studies – cooperate by exchanging about diverse issues of practical research, teaching and implementation.

The integral approach represents a broad heuristic which tries to develop an encompassing view of the human being and the universe by integrating and implementing the most different kinds of knowledge and concepts of research.

Thus the integral approach basically provides a systematic model to explain complex systems in a holonistic way. Our concept presumes that the human being possesses not only personal but also transpersonal abilities and forms of perception which are already at work in the developing of increasingly complex social systems. These transpersonal capabilities should be used more effectively in the future.

So the integral studies do not longer aim to examine the existing theoretical concepts in order to choose the "right one". Our challenge is rather to find out in which specific context all these concepts in their totality could be seen as "right" and to discover the correlations which may exist between these diverse theoretical approaches and points of view.

With the help of new concepts like the methodological triangulation we come to deeper insights in the nature of self-developing systems and are able to represent them in a systematic form. For that purpose a methodical approach, the model of the four quadrants, levels, lines, states and types, has been created which enables an integral practice of research and application.

All the activities at the ZIS aim to make these insights useful for individuals as well as for groups, organizations and the society in general. We try to reach this goal by communicating the results of our integral researches in form of theoretical seminars as well as practice related workshops, coaching and consulting. Therefore the institute cooperates with selected partners and organizations.

We invite researchers and practical experts to take part in our exchange and would gladly provide you with detailed information.

Believing in Britain -Crisis of Brtish Identity

http://voyager.gaia.com — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:50:30 GMT

An excellent blog entry from Rachel Castagne. At the newly launched "Right to be" blog which is asscociated with British Centre for Human Emergence.

Believing in Britain -Crisis of Brtish Identity

Re: New CHE-UK Blog

http://voyager.gaia.com — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:24:32 GMT

Thanks Om!:):)

After looong struggles in Germany we will start-viy inviation- a German speaking NIng group about SDi in the future. I will co-moderate it.

In contrast to Anglo American language sphere its a daily challenge for us Germans to communicate and translate nealry simultaneously in two directions. Even those of us who have lived and worked in English speaking countries confess something -roundabout 30 percent of lingual distinctions are lost in this process.

However I decided in 2006 to start here at Gaia. I am not blogging at this moment in German. And I decided to do it within a community dedicated to change the world.

Nearly no continuous participation from more than 5 people of Germany. can be detected here. Europeans in toto are a fraction with small numbers only.

The understanding of integrated f2f comunication and online collaboration is here, in Germany in its infancy.

On the other side the world of CEO`s. consultants, cultural leaders and media leaders. They have not grasped the growing power of community and we-forms of communication. There is still a certain form of arrogance regarding these nexus. These guys will have to learn and upgrade their knowledge of the world(s) considerably next years.

Integral poltics and large scale systems change will be my focus next years. However connected with personal growth and highly individual ways of unleashing ones potential. AS CHE UK is intending too. We had this summer excellent discussions at London Integral Circle about emerging developments.

This virtual (and for Londoners real) yahoo group with roundabout 450 members from Europe, USA, Australia New zealand, is a very relevant platform for me. As it is really concerned for spreading deep and broad change globall. While making fully use of regional and local specifics.

The time has come to go into leadership in most various roles. Not only as pundits, gurus and thinkers. But as entreprenurs, individuals with courage and boldness, as women at the edge in dynamic polarity with men at the edge. As people who can act within the mainstream and within the subcultures. As grassroots, individualists and on the stages as much as behind the scenes...

And it can be dangerous too. Brutally demanding. Want to remember what a former teacher (for a short time) of me said. It was Kalrfried Graf Dürkheim. Its true for me for men as much as for women:

The Way of Transformation:

The man who, being really on the Way, falls upon hard times in the world will not, as a consequence, turn to that friend who offers him refuge and comfort and encourages his old self to survive.
Rather, he will seek out someone who will faithfully and inexorably help him to risk himself, so that he may endure the suffering and pass courageously through it, thus making of it a "raft that leads to the far shore."
Only to the extent that man exposes himself over and over again to annihilation, can that which is indestructible arise within him. In this lies the dignity of daring. Thus, the aim of (spiritual) practice is not to develop an attitude which allows a man to acquire a state of harmony and peace wherein nothing can ever trouble him. On the contrary, practice should teach him to let himself be assaulted, perturbed, moved, insulted, broken and battered - that is to say, it should enable him to dare to let go his futile hankering after harmony, surcease from pain, and a comfortable life in order that he may discover, in doing battle with the forces that oppose him, that which awaits him beyond the world of opposites.
The first necessity is that we should have the courage to face life, and to encounter all that is most perilous in the world. When this is possible, meditation itself becomes the means by which we accept and welcome the demons which arise from the unconscious, a process very different from the practice of concentration on some object as a protection against such forces.
Only if we venture repeatedly through zones of annihilation can our contact with Divine Being, which is beyond annihilation, become firm and stable. The more a man learns whole-heartedly to confront the world that threatens him with isolation, the more are the depths of the Ground of Being revealed and the possibilities of New Life and Becoming opened."

Re: New CHE-UK Blog

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:35:54 GMT

I popped right on down the rabbit hole, and it was such an exciting bunch of discoveries!!!! Thank you a million times, Albert. I like the nice things that were said about you, too. Most people here in Gaia don't realize who you are!!

I am thrilled about all these SD and Integral initiatives to help improve the world. I am in total support!!

Hugs,
OM Bastet

New CHE-UK Blog

http://voyager.gaia.com — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 06:45:59 GMT

Right To Be

Re: Invitation to Euroconfab 2009 in UK

http://voyager.gaia.com — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:14:40 GMT

Dear Om,

mobilizing the fourth instinct:) (Arianna Huffington) in Europe is a multi facetted challenge. This year the CHE-UK was launched, while the German one is still under the radar screen. I am in contact with its very small core group and we will notice what happens there while focusing on a sustainable working process -which includes right now as much smart work as hard work! -for Germany.

We in Germany have consensus right now that its less about congresses, big meetings and seminars and meetings but very, very focused, commited and pragmatic work in small groups. With highly specialized functions and responsible contributions to supraordinate goals. Taking care of each other and embody the biggest boldness from within such core groups which cares for individual growth and wealth/health as much as for collective purposes.

A communication space will be created in near future.

For me personally the times before big meeetings and after them is often neglected. The first 48 hours after every congress shows a radical decline regularly. Start Up entrepreneurs of all kind know what momentum means in the first 90 days of a company or project.

To develop such momentum in this specific context it takes much. In an article about Meshworks foundations this quote from Don Beck is important:

"In the Seventh emerging category of Foundations, Dr. Beck talks about the "Third Win Purpose" ... "a foundation that possesses an uncanny ability to morph itself to find rapport, identify with, and shape itself to connect with a number of different organizations, interest groups, political groupings,and professional .societies..."

Before the third Win Purpose can be manifested the simply win-win attitude needs to come to life within all members of the core groups. In a country with lots of tribal gaps, hidden ideology still and pre orange blocks this needs to be acclomplished right now:):)even in integral...
Best,
Albert

Re: Invitation to Euroconfab 2009 in UK

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:49:12 GMT

Wow, I hope this gets some folks to go. I am drooling, of course.....

Blessings, OM Bastet

Rory Stewart about Life Conditions in Afghanistan

http://voyager.gaia.com — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:14:00 GMT

Forewarded from Ben Levi, founder of SDi Yahoo list:

Interview with Rory Stewart about Afghanistan

Albert

Invitation to Euroconfab 2009 in UK

http://voyager.gaia.com — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:51:14 GMT

EUROCONFAB 23-25 OCTOBER 2009

We have an exciting line up of international speakers including Dr Don Beck; Michael Strong of 'Be the Solution' who will describe the future of Conscious Capitalism; Marilyn Hamilton talking on the future of our urban habitats; Mike Jay with his radical perspectives on the future of Europe; Peter Merry of 'Evolutionary Leadership'; Morel Fourman showing us how to create transformative systems that facilitate effective collaboration; Jon Freeman who will be mapping out the Science of Conscious Evolution. Last but not least we have just secured the presence of

Nick Drummond,the founder of Nordic Integral who works as a Leadership trainer in education, from preschools to universities. He is co-author of 'Order and Discipline in the School: One step on the Path to Dynamic Harmony in the Classroom'.

Nick will present his experience in developing tools for creating positive change and meaningful development in teaching and learning. Nick will show how we can help teachers, pupils and parents transcend a care for horizontal egalitarianism and narcissism to include a care for vertical development and higher purpose along the Spiral. The tools are now being used in schools in Sweden, USA, England and Denmark, with extraordinary results. He will co-present with Joan Berland, an experienced teacher in America, who has been using the models and demonstrating the transformative power and potential behind them.

Are you surrounded by cynicism and pessimistic thinking? Or do you believe that we can create the future we want for our children (and ourselves)?

Come and join us for a weekend with an exceptional group of individuals who dare to think and believe that what we think matters, that how we see the problems and challenges of our current economic and global crises actually affects the answers and solutions that we have access to...

This will be an exciting weekend in a beautiful location near Gatwick - generating conversations that matter and accessing the resources of our collective wisdom for the journey ahead
What's more, if you register and pay before 6th October there's still time to take advantage of the 'late' earlybird ticket

This weekend is hosted by Center for Human Emergence- UK and is open to everyone, though the official 'language' will be Spiral Dynamics Integral. If this is totally new to you, we suggest you seriously consider coming to the level 1 training in London 19th-21st October, which may well be the last level 1 training taught by Dr Don Beck in the UK.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Rachel Castagne

http://www.humanemergence.org.uk/html/events.htm

Re: SEMINAR Integral Leadership for Sustainable Evolution, 4-9 Au

http://AnoukA.gaia.com — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:32:30 GMT

Thanks a lot, that is great!
Anouk

Sdi in London: From Rule Britannia to Cool Britannia to Integral

http://voyager.gaia.com — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:00:14 GMT

Sdi in London: From Rule Britannia to Cool Britannia to Integral Britannia

The June 2-day workshop is a significant build on the March workshop - more relevant, with more time for participation and interactions on the core themes.

Schedule

Day One: Large-Scale Psychology: The Design, Change and Transformation of Whole Societies

While the conceptual model and process are derived in large part from the most advanced version of Spiral Dynamics currently available, it will also include insights

from a number of different disciplines and experiences.

This includes a useful presentation by Don Beck on the nature of change, shifts, transitions and transformation. The dynamics of change FROM what and TO what

will be explored, and we will analyse the process and principles of how cultures adapt, change, conflict, and even collapse.

You will learn about:-

the massive South African transformation strategy out of Apartheid
the Dutch method of dealing with threats from radical fundamentalism
the current Iceland strategy to recover from financial disaster
innovative programs to defuse conflict in Israel-Palestine through a Hong Kong of the Middle East vision
new approaches to “Transpartisanship” through the use of innovative MeshWORKS technology
the design of a Vital Signs Monitor for Singapore (the Risk Analysis Horizontal Scanning project).

Closer to home, you will see how this process was used to deal with the regeneration issues in a Yorkshire former coal mining village and school - the HemsMESH project.

Don Beck was the first to bring the work of Clare W Graves to the UK in the late 1970s. He played a major role in the South African transformation, and was named

“philosopher-activist for the 21st Century” by EnlightenNext magazine. He currently leads transformational efforts in a number of countries and societies around the

world. (See also www.spiraldynamics.net)

Day Two: A Quest for the Unique Cultural ‘DNA’ of British Society: What should be Preserved for the 21st Century?

This will be a highly participatory day, led by UK citizens.

Lynne Sedgmore will give a “State of the Kingdom” address; Christopher ‘Cookie’ Cooke and others will take the lead in generating conversations on selective topics, ranging from education, to transition towns and sustainability, to youth behaviours, to organisational effectiveness, to cultural assimilation, to health care issues, to law

enforcement actions, and to threats from radical extremism. Jon Freeman, Rosemary Wilkie, Rachel Castagne, and myself, all certified in Spiral Dynamics, will assume active leadership roles.

This is not a one-off event but, we believe, will result in a series of summits around the country on critical issues of the day. The intent at the Regent’s Summit is to

identify the key issues and begin to develop resources.

Re: SEMINAR Integral Leadership for Sustainable Evolution, 4-9 Au

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:05:39 GMT

Thanks for the info. I copied this to the Seattle (WA, USA) Integral online forum.

Blessings, OM Bastet

SEMINAR Integral Leadership for Sustainable Evolution, 4-9 Aug NL

http://AnoukA.gaia.com — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:16:26 GMT

Dear colleaues,
Please consider spreading the word about or attending this amazing seminar for emerging leaders and change makers. You're welcome!

Are you awake? 
Are you on a mission? 
Do you have a big ego and an even bigger heart?

This seminar serves the evolution of emerging leaders all over the globe. Everyone, entrepreneurs, artists, managers, teachers, trainers, technicians and consultants, are welcome to join us from August 4th to 9th, 2009 in the Netherlands!

Keywords: integral leadership, integral, Ken Wilber, sustainability, evolution, innovation, triple-p, cradle to cradle, C2C, green technology, integral theory, Ervin Laszlo, Herman Wijffels

Your trainers will be Clint Fuhs, Irini Rockwell, Barrett Brown, …

http://www.experienceintegral.org
http://events.linkedin.com/Integral-Leadership-Sustainable/pub/77440

Our PURPOSE for this event is to assist emerging leaders and change agents worldwide (consultants, politicians, artists, bankers, students, entrepreneurs, etc) with taking the next step in their contribution to a sustainable evolution on our planet.

We do this by:
- facilitating the emergence of personal purpose and reflection on talents,
- by offering the tools and the latest applications of theory in the fields of leadership and sustainability and
- by creating a welcoming space that invites you to to let go and grow together.

We are really excited about the seminar and how it is coming together. It is going to be an amazing experience for all of us.

Re: good spiral dynamics test?

http://wabisabi.gaia.com — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:53:02 GMT

Turil,

Your site is beautiful. lots of content and nice design and layout. Thanks!

Richard

Re: A Spiral/Integral Dating test for you all!

http://turil.gaia.com — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:55:12 GMT

So what would you suggest for making my test better, in your eyes?

My goal is mostly fun, but also to offer people an opportunity to think a bit more about who they are, and to introduce people to my own Spiral Growth Theory (whichis solidly based on Integral/Spiral Dynamics/Maslow's hierarchy and some others.

Peace, love, and bicycles,
Turil

Re: A Spiral/Integral Dating test for you all!

http://neri-bar-on.gaia.com — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:46:03 GMT

Hi turtle

I only recognized that it is not simple to have useful tests, the simpe 1 out of 4 questions make a lot of the practical wisdom of SDi not to be accessed.

for exposing our multi level cultural/world view "DNA" we can think of some simple tests.

Do you wish to educate about SDi or to help people find their match?

Re: A Spiral/Integral Dating test for you all!

http://turil.gaia.com — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:25:24 GMT

I'm a little confused, Neri. What are you suggesting? Is there something that you'd like to see different about the test?

I was hoping to offer three different stage results (one for the physical development line, one for emotional development, and one for intellectual development) but the quiz software didn't allow that, unfortunately, so I just stuck with the intellectual, with the other two lines being factored in a bit, for the final result. And. I wanted people to be able to select as many of the possible answers as they wanted, but that wasn't an option for this form of test. Which is why I gave the slightly unusual direction to pick the highest numbered answer that was appropriate. If I ever have more time to spend redesigning the test, I'd like to make it so that you can choose as many options as you want, since we've included the previous levels into our current one.

Of course, this test is no more accurate than any other self administered psychology test (including the one I took from SDI). :-)

This mostly just gives you something to think about and play with. Though I would like to make the wording as clear as possible, so that they questions really do represent the levels as well as our messy human language is capable of! :-)

So yeah, if you have specific suggestions, I'd love to hear them.

Re: A Spiral/Integral Dating test for you all!

http://neri-bar-on.gaia.com — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:12:50 GMT

Dear wise Turtle

One of the issues of SDi is that the VMemes are not monolithic, and the questions has complexity, so people can be attracted to several messages (as I did when I looked in your questioneer).

The original tests I see developed by Dr. Beck and others use a "vector" of wheights to measure the different attractions we have to the different VMeme by this methode we get more accurare image of our inner structure.

As all this tests are dealing with subjective reference (the attraction judgment happens inside us) this tests always need some behaviour evaluation.

It is possible I think to have questneers to be more focus on specific "foot print" that will make the match, but you will need more information on the content of the VMeme and not just of the dominant Vmemes.