Welcome to the Experience Integral Summer II 2010 newsletter
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Executive Summary - Happy Summer Newsletter part II!
We're enjoying the last weeks of holiday and the start up of the works. All in the afterglow of Integral Theory Conference and Integral Education & Ecology seminar in California. New phase for Experience Integral organisation, with more activities, more people involved and more resources freely available.
In this edition we are highlighting, reviewing and announcing events. Present the first Experience Integral BLOG post by Rik Hoevers. And we close this edition with a beautiful quote about human humility. Let us keep up the Summer Glow!
In this newsletter:
4 EVENTS: Highlighted Experience Integral Events:
Embodied Leadership Workshop - Aug 21, Amsterdam, NL
Embodied Leadership workshop with Anouk Brack next Saturday August 21 from 3 - 6 pm in The HUB in Amsterdam. Receive a 10% discount as a friend of Experience Integral and pay €49,50. Register by replying to this newsletter or mentioning it in your registration.
Would you like to be more Confident, Connected and Clear in your communication? To be an effective leader and change maker your presence and agility in the moment is of vital importance. Learn some simple yet very powerful techniques to enhance your effectivity in leadership and communication... You will be oozing confidence, compassion and clarity in any encounter.
Conscious Leadership for Sustainability - Introduction - Aug 21, Amsterdam, NL
Combine this workshop with Barrett Brown's Conscious Leadership for Sustainability - Introduction from 12:30 - 14:30 PM on the same date, also in the HUB Summerschool (Cost: € 25,-).
What does it take to be a highly developed AND effective sustainability change maker? Focussing on your leadership, consciousness and agility development, all with the use of the integral framework. Make the leadership shift from SustainAbility to SustainAgility together with 20 veterans and pioneers working in a sustainability context.
Experience Integral Community Gathering - Sept 11, Amsterdam, NL
Join our Experience Integral Community Gathering on September 11 (NOTE: the date shifted!) in tiful room in the Amsterdam Public Library building from 2 - 8 PM.
Enjoy inspiring talks, wonderful new and old connections, and a tasty dinner, all-in for € 35,-.
We are explicitly inviting all who joined
- Integral Leadership for Sustainability seminar in Venwoude one year ago,
- all participants of the 8 months course of Barrett Brown in the HUB "Conscious Leadership for Sustainability" and
- all subscribers to our facebook page and newsletter.
Your friends and colleagues interested in Embodying Integral Leadership for Sustainability are alo welcome! Prior registration required.
Register by replying to this newsletter or filling in a contact form on the website.
View all our recommended events in our calendar on http://www.experienceintegral.org/events/. If you know about an exciting event that should be in our calendar, let us know by replying to this email or fill in a contact form.
Registration open: Conscious Leadership for Sustainability Course - Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Brussels
Make the Leadership Shift from Sustainability to SustainAgility
Spend eight months with 20 sustainability veterans and pioneers deepening your consciousness and learning to cultivate superior sustainability results.
Starting October 2010, a one night a month commitment. Offered in The HUBs in Amsterdam by Barrett Brown and Anouk Brack and in Rotterdam and Brussels by Caroline Depuydt.
Get a glimpse of the added value of this course: all resources from this years "Conscious Leadership for Sustainability" course are available for FREE DOWNLOAD on our website. Enjoy all the good stuff. Even more coming soon :-)
Read more http://www.experienceintegral.org/events/sustainability-course/ and register http://www.schoolofsynnervation.nl/nl/activiteit.php?id=33
REVIEW: Integral Theory Conference 2010 in California, USA
Experience Integral's Anouk Brack attended the second edition of the biannual Integral Theory Conference in California, USA from July 29 - August 1.
Together with integral scholar and tango teacher Pelle Billing she offered the successful workshop "The Tango of Leadership" about embodying leading and following principles form Argentine Tango and Aikido in moment to moment communication.
She also presented a poster about the development of a Bachelor of Science minor on Integral Leadership for Sustainaibility at Wageningen University of Life Sciences.
The conference was a great success and the community and its work clearly have grown up over the last two years.More about this in the next edition of our newsletter and in Anouk's talk at the Experience Integral Community Day!
REVIEW: Integral Education & Ecology event - Next Step Integral, CA, USA
We were also present at the Seminar for Integral Education and Ecology by our friends and inspiration from Next Step Integral from August 3–8 at Mount Madonna, Watsonville CA, USA. The theme was Deepening our Practice Through Integral Awareness. http://www.i-edu.org/
Anouk Brack offered a morning practice on Embodied Leadership. View the pictures of the encompanying flip chart here on the Experience Integral Facebook page. More of Anouk's pictures can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=201676&id=84464148742&l=8edb221c6b
More pictures from the event taken by artist Thomas Arthur and his Earthanima project can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasart/sets/72157624716546522/
More on the contents and insights from this wonderful event in the next newsletter!
BLOG: Essential Mindshifts for Sustainability - by Rik Hoevers
This months Blog entry is from Rik Hoevers. He is a sustainability philosopher currently working on his first book 7 Essential Mindshifts for Sustainable Leadership. He writes in order to show us how we see our world and how we could change our minds to see more of what's possible. His writings touch our inner and outer realities and often create a palpable mindshift experience at the moment we are getting the point.
`Building Down` is the first essential sustainability mindshift
- "paradigms under construction"
When considering the topic of sustainability, have you experienced a feeling of wondering where you could be most influential, where to direct your efforts so to be most effective? Although we often encounter situations needing our immediate attention there are also a practically endless number of smaller and bigger changes. Do we need to identify each and every one of them, turning them into action points, starting to draw attention to them, changing our collective behavioral patterns ever so slowly? Do we have the luxury of sufficient time to engage in this progress?
When looking at our myriad of unsustainable behaviors, patterns can be glimpsed that inform them, ways in which our thinking and perceiving moves, steering our values and behaviors both individually and culturally. We call these patterns our paradigms, they are as near to us as our skin, and yet often as unfamiliar as the dark side of the moon. By analyzing and assessing our paradigms, building alternatives as we increase our understanding, we can accelerate our growth towards sustainability tremendously.
The first essential mindshift is called "Building Down". It is the opposite of the current subconscious building paradigm “Building is a battle against gravityâ€.
We build by starting at ground level and dig a foundation, from there we work our way upwards. Our buildings conquer their height on the down-pulling force of gravity. This is recognizable in the tradition of raising a flag on the highest point of a building and also in the prestige associated with extremely high buildings.
But alas, what goes up must come down! If disaster strikes, buildings created with this paradigm naturally come down again. Our minds must be shifted to use a different, a "building down" paradigm.
What it is exactly and why it is so useful wil be explained in the next newsletter, along with the introduction of the second essential mindshift for sustainability. Rik will help us experience the implications of the first essential mindshift "Building Down" at the Experience Integral Community Day on September 11 in Amsterdam for which all of you are invited.
...Read more about the program of the Experience Integral Community Gathering day --> here.
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(This is me with Tom Murray, sharing the news...)
We want to share and multiply information and inspiration on integral leadership for sustainability; If you have resources to be added to our website, feel free to send them to anouk at experienceintegral.org.
Quote of the Season
by Wes Jackson, director of The Land Institute
- found in Biomimicry book by Janine M. Benyus
"How do we act on the fact that we are more ignorant than knowledgeable?
Embrace the arrangements that have shaken down in the long evolutionary process and try to mimic them, ever mindful that human cleverness must remain subordinate to nature's wisdom."
Now's your chance to provide us with your favorite wise, loving,strange or funny quotes! Submit your favorite quotes through the contact form. If we use it in the newsletter this year you will receive a 10% discount on the next Experience Integral event you attend.
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