Integral Communities: Where is our evolution taking us?

San Diego Integral (SDI) is honored to announce that Susanne Cook-Greuter will be joining our regularly scheduled meeting to participate in an exploration of Integral Communities: Where is our evolution taking us?

Cook-Greuter has written…
“…at the center of my thinking is our reliance on language. How neologisms such as meta-anything, tends to perpetuate the illusion that more complexity and transcendence means growth and are better than simplicity and immanence. While further differentiation can lead to more cognitive clarity, it rarely leads to greater wisdom and less attachment. “

Consistent with her writings, we will find those moments to feel into what wants to emerge… perhaps a prehension on the edge of awareness. To achieve this, we will break into our smaller working groups of approximately 4 people followed by coming back together to share our findings.

Administrative note….the maximum number of attendees is 22. Regular San Diego Integral attendees to will be prioritized. We’ve started an alternate list of potential attendee/ space permitting.

Each month we will bring an Integrally related topic, subject matter or methodology to explore. Meetings will be interactive with an invitation for all to participate.

In February, 2017 San Diego Integral began the Focused Integral Group Discussion (FIGD) which is a meta-structuring format where we briefly switch into an agreed upon process to optimally utilize the We-Space. The objective of FIGD is to collectively feel deeper into any topic and promote a causal state experience where we briefly switch from a collective I to a collective we. A Focused Integral Group process is "running in the background" until a salient moment rises that we want to explore. This may be derived from a presentation, a poignant comment by a member, a poem...whatever has resonance and can be horizontally expanded by the collective. This moment is identified by the "moderator" who helps maintain focus.

SDI is committed to the creative advance into novelty.

If you have a topic suggestion please let us know and we'll bring it to the conversation.