Urban Hub 21 : Coming of Age in a post covid 19 age "Dare to Dream"

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Integral UrbanHub
Coming of Age
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Dare to Dream
Thriveable Cities
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Urban Hub
Dare to Dream
Thriveable Cities
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Paul van Schaik
Creator & Curator
Integral UrbanHub
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Copyright ©©integralMENTORS– August 2020
ISBN-13: 979-866-491-7819
“Dare to Dream”
A series of graphic papers from integral UrbanHub input for Thriveable Cities
Founder and Managing Editor
Paul van Schaik

No longer are cities defined by a single slowly evolving Worldview as they
have tended to be up until the failure of both Modern and Post-modern
Worldviews, to provide thriving, fair, equitable and resilient cities for all.
Current trends in sustainable or smart cities have proven insufficient to
encompass and include the degree of complex thinking needed. A
complexity that defies individual or expert group planning.
A complexity that needs to involve us all in the development of self-
organising evolving cities which allow us to define who we are and what we
want from our co-created urban environment.
A city capable of holding various different cultures and Worldviews that can
be technically resilient, socially relevant and culturally inclusive for all its
citizens.
These volumes are part of the evolving process that defines the actions we all
need to be involved in if our cities are to be places, we love to be a part of.
Paul van Schaik - Founder IntegralMENTORS: Creator and publisher of the Integral UrbanHub series -
Thriveable Cities, and Co Founder Integral Without Borders

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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.
These books 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 way.
This is a living series - any suggestions for inclusion in
the next volumes send to:
info@integralmentors.org
Psychological
“Soft” Systems
Cultural

Before modern man can gain control over the
forces that now threaten his very existence, he
must resume possession of himself. This sets the
chief mission for the city of the future: that of
creating a visible regional and civic structure,
designed to make man at home with his deeper
self and his larger world, attached to images of
human nature and love.
Lewis Mumford, writer

Content
Introduction
Integral Africa - liberating holism Paddy Pampallis PhD
Evolution’s Dream, Humanity’s mission Anne-Marie Voorhoeve, Shweta Srivastav PhD
Meshworking Cities and Eco-Region Kara Stonehouse & Diana Claire Douglas
A Journey into Unity - WholeWorld-view Jude Currivan PhD, et al
Evolving a Meta-Organ of Gaia Marilyn Hamilton PhD
Co-Creating Europe and Caravan of Unity Anne-Marie Voorhoeve DRS, Julian Baller, &
Katie Mottram
Metropa Stefan Frankenberger
A Systemic View of Life Prof. Paul Krause PhD
Sensemaking/Sensemaker Anne Caspari MSc
How Will We Choose to Respond? Cristina Mendonça MSc
Smart Tourism vs Wise Tourism Flavio Fabiani MBA
Your organisation’s weakest link Graham Boyd
Biographies
Books

Ambiguous
You can easily find convincing but totally contradictory information for
any assertion. Because of complexity and unpredictability the
ubiquitous availability of information has created a mist in which it
becomes increasingly difficult to find clarity.
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Volatile
Things change continuously. What is true today isn’t true tomorrow.
Even the nature and dynamics of change change.
Uncertain
More than ever, we live with a lack of predictability and a prospect for
surprise. It is impossible to predict how projects will evolve.
Complex
Simple cause-and-effect chains have been replaced by complex
interconnected forces and events. Interconnectedness makes all things
increasingly complex.

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People do not perceive worlds but enact them. Different mindsets bring forth different worlds.
all actions will have
unintended consequences
Thus

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This is the 21st volume of our Integral Urban Hub series
on Thriveable Cities.
As such we have called it Coming of Age.
The Urban Hub series showcases ideas, theories, tools,
stories and dreams as part of an Integral
Methodological Pluralism. Covering these ideas within
an Integral Framework. Views from perspectives of
culture, systems, consciousness, psychology & value-
systems –and behaviour .
At the start of planning this volume Covid19 followed
by BLM struck and we paused to think how to proceed.
Dare to Dream emerged as an appropriate framing.
We know that utopias are unrealistic dreams although
they may guide us to more constructive stories. Being
aware that the only way to proceed is to ‘Transcend the
failed narrative but to include what is good and needed
in the old narrative. The future must be broader and
more ‘conscious’ than the present. It must also take, as
far as is possible, everyone with it. Covid19 & BLM has
shown, if nothing else, that if we don’t take, by
leadership and co-creation, everyone with us,
improvements will never take hold and become mere
wishful thinking.
Here we share a few dares.
Lets us ‘Dear to Dream’ together
IntegralMENTORS

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Complexity philosopher Nora Bateson writes, “The knowing is only possible
in the aesthetic of uncertainty . . . complexity demands a more engaged
inquiry to explore the patterns that connect.”
“there is something holding all of this together, all of us together. There is an
alive order that we are within and that is within us.”
Olafur Eliasson the Weather Project
Post modern Meta modern
People do not perceive worlds but enact them. Different mindsets bring forth different worlds.

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https://thesideview.co/articles/meta-modern/?fbclid=IwAR1c1OSNmo__FLjiDqDvW9ZG16o_EJFHPAOUNbZ2gDkHa3gu6Gkyzrr50Ac
“The “alive order” seems to be found in-between,
when we make “linkings and meta-linkings.” Maria
Popova affirms this wholeness poetically: “Some
truths, like beauty, are best illuminated by the
sidewise gleam of figuring, of meaning-making . . .
facts crosshatch with other facts to shade in the
nuances of a larger truth—not relativism, no, but the
mightiest realism we have. We slice through the
simultaneity by being everything at once.”
“The compulsion to know this new reality leads us to
certain idolizations (we could also say oscillations),
reaching back to retrieve, or indeed revive, certain
habits of sensemaking modernity provided for us.
“Meditating on the possible forms of a future culture
after modernity in her essay, “A Non-Euclidian View of
California as a Cold Place to Be,” Ursula K. Le Guin
writes that, “side trips and reversals are precisely what
minds stuck in forward gear most need . . . knowledge
is power, and we want to know what comes next, we
want it all mapped out . . . I don’t think we’re ever
going to get to utopia again by going forward, but
only roundabout or sideways.”
“This uncanny world of hyperobjects we have entered
defies categorical and compulsory mapping. There
really are 'no Maps of these Territories.’
Extract from Meta, Modern Understanding the phenomenology of consciousness. Jeremy Johnson
Past and Present: J.E.H. MacDonald and Peter Doig

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“In The Listening Society (2017) Hanzi Freinacht writes
that, “reconstruction must follow deconstruction,” and
so developmental metamodernism’s project, in similar
fashion to Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory, is to “erect a
new grand narrative by combining all known
knowledge and wisdom, well aware that it is a never
ending endeavor and that the only achievable
synthesis is a proto-synthesis.”
“Hanzi’s developmental metamodernism retrieves
grand synthesis and systemization—albeit
with many more caveats, warning labels, and
complexities, taking elements from both modernist
and (post) modernist thinking. Both Integral Theory
and developmental metamodernism attempt to
incorporate process, complexity, and (post) modern
skepticism as a kind of “safety valve” to ward against
modernity’s penchant for totalizing thought—
Dostoyevsky’s “euclidian mind.” Is this a sufficient
response to the task of articulating the emergent
ontology?”
“These schools of thought—dubbed the “emergentsia”
by sociologist Brent Cooper as a constellation of
different sensemaking approaches—present us with
varied attempts to remix and retrieve (post) modernity
and synthesize it, transcend and include, as (meta)
modernity, hybridizing the collapsing ontology while
anticipating a more processual, future one.”
Extract from Meta, Modern Understanding the phenomenology
of consciousness. Jeremy Johnson

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“Integral Theory, developmental metamodernism,
Game B, the “memetic mediators” and other tribes are
noble waymakers finding the latent paths not yet
trodden into tomorrow.”
But what of tomorrow?
”What about the “thought we cannot explicitly think
at present?”
”If we wish to render transparent the true extent of the
meta-crisis, to get a clear sense of how to navigate
through it, then we need to thoroughly identify the
foundations of the world coming undone. In order to
navigate this space “between worlds,” we need
a phenomenology of consciousness that can help us
to trace, as it were, the underlying ontological
“structures” of the old world, the constellations of
sensemaking we have relied on up until now. We
should do this so that we can better recognize what
the new world might be like—to re-constellate
ourselves around that emergent foundation.”
“Although this unfolding occurred in a certain
sequence, it was not a strictly linear or developmental
one but discontinuous, expressing a series of gains
(individuation and self-reflexivity) and losses
(disenchantment and alienation).”
Extract from Meta, Modern Understanding the phenomenology of
consciousness. Jeremy Johnson
Peter Doig (b. 1959) | Swamped

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“The earlier, pre-rational ontologies had their own
foundations in vitalistic (magic) and imagistic (mythic)
emphases. Importantly for [Jean] Gebser these
previous epochs and their respective structures
continued to influence the present culture, although
in latent fashion.”
“How can we listen to tomorrow if we have yet to
clarify what belongs to yesterday? We don’t just need
new maps that order the world in the same old ways.
New vision is required. New ontologies reshape the
map, and reshape us.
So we should listen to the future.
“Whose voices do we hear? Le Guin writes, which is
farther from us, farther out of reach, more silent—the
dead, or the unborn?”
“To listen, we must first be present.”
Extract from Meta, Modern Understanding the phenomenology of
consciousness. Jeremy Johnson

Integral Africa - liberating holism
Intelligence by emerging the
wisdom of an African oral
tradition as a way towards
transforming and integrating
hearts and minds.
Bringing the oral tradition of Africa
into the coaching space. The stories
of humanity.
Paddy Pampallis PhD

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How do we become good Ancestors? TELLING OUR STORIES ON THE JOURNEY TO INTEGRATION AND TRANSFORMATION
Question: what are the conversations that we need to have, now, to enable us to be and do human better? A way towards a greater sense of expansion can lie
in the creation and cultivation of greater connection between each and all of us so that we can more fully comprehend that which constitutes the foundation
of our relationship with all things. Next question: how then do we develop our capacity to hold such conversations? Transformative learning sits at the root
of this work and developmental coaching as a technology for both individual, social and environmental transformation enables the lessening of the illusions of
separation. As an inclusive approach, with the narratives of all voices adds richness to the tapestry of our collective selves. The subject object dilemma can be
dismantled if we can view it as progression to dissembling constructs that constrain us. Ubuntu Botho – an essentially African philosophy of humanness … I am
because we all are ... can be included in the discourse. As a transformative vehicle for social (and individual) change, Ubuntu serves as an integrating principle
for integral theory (Pampallis) and the practice of having meaningful conversations while engaging the infinity dance of the ‘I’ and ‘We’. This is turn serves to
support the embodiment of a ‘whole’ way of being to self, relationship, systems and our environment as we cultivate our fuller ‘range’ of being fully alive in,
and to, all that is.
Having the Conversation!
Know Yourself
Wake-up awareness
Grow-up: Maturity
Clean-up: Shadow
Open-up: Intelligences
Access Motivation
Develop Morality
Show Yourself
Skilled Behaviour
Right Action
Healthy Body
Embodied Practice
Clean Language
Energy & Vitality
Engage Others
Co-operation
Co-creation
Co-trust
Purposeful Cultures
Ethical Commitments
Flourishing Relationships
Grow with Others
Honour Communities
Flourishing Organisations
Systems/Communication
Inclusive Policies
Grounding Frameworks
Regenerative Environments
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What does it take to become fully human?
Sawubona
(Sa-woo-bo-nah)
‘Hello’
“I see YOU. I also see ALL that you are,
And All that you represent…
When I look closely, I can see myself in
you…”
Sikhona
I am here! Through my lens I see you.
Embracing Deep Empathy
The necessary inclusion of approaches beyond the partial and limited view of
the west are essential and critical. Dismantling a colonised, industrial and
traditional education, which has a largely dominant view of consciousness as
a property of the mind that is aware of itself, further limits us as in connection
and as contributing to an evolving earth (Kosmos) and our humanity.
Consciousness is better served when viewed as a living aspect of our
interconnectedness with all parts of the self, our environment and with others
in physical, non-physical, and transpersonal ways. The ruptures in connection
to the earth, to universal mother, to goddess, to spirit leaves us still grappling
with ways to live together as a species given our human condition. Our
dissociated ways have created deep perversions of the good, the beautiful
and the true (Plato). Healing the paradoxical nature of unity- in-diversity with
its grave splits and separations that arise in bio/psycho/socio/politico/eco
streams of expression - individually and collectively -have consequences that
rip into manufactured expressions of life creating the current conditions of
stress and dis-ease. Connection needs to happen for collaboration to take
form. From a stage perspective, excluding the wisdom of each takes us
further away from integration while the more disconnected impulses continue
to surface in a predominantly red (Spiral Dynamics) expression of self-
centricity with a burden on the implicate order of things. The laws and
groupings of blue stage theory, has served a limited frame of the over-
achieving orange strategies. These have collapsed into narcissistic ways of
being and the fall back to cluster in factionalism, first tier tribalism and
concrete materialism where opportunism is lauded for the wrong reasons. In
the earlier stages and concrete states of mind, responsibility is lifted from a
positive agency and the feminine grounding in each stage is subsumed by
power in the halls of stage underbellies. At the same time, the more complex
demands of making sense of our current world envisioning a future, continue
to feed a disconnect fueled by distraction and mindless desensitisation.
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Challenges to the call to’ include and transcend’ has meant that we have not yet become that
which we could be. Our indigenous wisdom has been relegated to the non-rational in a
pejorative way rather than as an essence of being. Dissociation has created massive cracks in
our social fabric and connectivity within this cloth of life. There is a call to grace and gratitude, to
humility and holism with our earth and all beings that go beyond the illusions we have created
and the conversations for truth need to become core to our educational foundations for growing
up. The western male and shadow masculine dominated exclusions need to be engaged more
in a massive journey of cleaning up go and letting go. It needs the philosophical, psychological
and spiritual inclusion of all cultures as an embodied experience and an African wisdom
contribution is necessary without collapsing the distinctions into narrow categories. To
describe things as African it is important to hold that there are many different peoples within the
meta-collective view of this continent, and each of these groupings has its own particular nature.
Currently the world is awash with headlines of the many fractures based on false distinctions of
race, creed, colour and geography. We are currently brought to an edge: one that could be
evolutionary or one that could be that of extinction. Is there a middle way…?
An over-reliance on linearity, cause and effect, and rationalisation has privileged competition,
difference, and polarisation, through colonialising mindsets, as a pervasive enslavement of
holding knowledge in the realms of the current, but failing, enclaves of power. Conversely, the
process and powers of the non-material realm are recognised in most of the non-Western world
where people ‘think, not only with their minds but with their hearts” (Setiloane, 1985). In South
Africa, a ngaka or Inyanga – (diviner) is aware of and uses the life-force radiated by each living
person or thing which affects others it comes in contact with. Through this, one is able to make
contact with one’s ancestors and access a wisdom beyond a physical knowing of the living.
Divining material is from Mother Earth, and includes shaking and blowing on them with the
breath. The breath remains critical in the current narrative of our day, where the ultimate
statement of #I can’t breathe (George Floyd) has torn into our psyche as an agonising
shockwave to that which we are disconnected from. Covid-19 virus may well be restructuring
our DNA but it has been labelled as an enemy there to attack our lungs; the world’s pollution
levels strangle the air from the lungs of all and deforestation attacks the lungs this earth; we are
out of breath from our relentless pursuit of the ‘dream’. The ultimate polarity of the in-breathe
and the out-breathe as a life force for driving attention to the realisation that, as in the East, to be
in flow and union with – not rebellion against – is the fundamental law of the universe (Tao).
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The time is now …
The stories of transformative development, growth and
consciousness have been documented over an 18-year-old
journey with students of Integral U Practiceâ. A deep dive
through a 15 month process allows a deep unfolding.
Experiential learning, research, assessments and application into
a cross-section of industry, including international corporates &
NGO’s, government, higher education, health, and communities
across southern Africa lay testament to a gradual releasing of
narrow worldviews. The essential question of how to be more
fully human-in-the-world, when so much creates massive division
between an ‘us’ and ’them’ within a backdrop of absolutism and
dogmatism, is one of the greatest challenges facing us more
now than ever and that new consciousness needs many
technologies to penetrate (positive masculine) through to the
sacred womb.
An African inclusivity approach to transformative learning and
development has been incorporated in the skillful conversations
of ‘transformative coaching’ that traverse a range of topics and
purpose. The author suggests that coaching per se has taken
traction in the world as a response of the human soul to find
connection in a flat world of dehumanization and objectification
in the service of profit for a few. A large desire to find a different
way in the work and world space by bringing healing and
consciousness to leaders and people. Research in 2003 led to a
re-orientation of the quadrant dynamics of Wilber’s Integral
Theory through what has become the Integral+
U Practice of
Leadership and CoachingÒ (Pampallis 2003-20).
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IntegralU Africa
Process for Transformation
This re-orientation has been grounded by the actual practice in the field
over decades for many. The Integral U process includes the:
1. Work of Otto Scharmer which found its way to a small group of 8 in
South Africa in 2002 and personal meeting. Integral Theory was not yet
part of Scharmer’s discourse, but this author saw the potential. The U
journey was first described in 1968 by Fritz Glasl and Dirk Lemson,
though their work is never acknowledged.
2. The U has been a process used by shamans and healers as part of a
hero’s journey (Campbell) and there was a glaring need for a dynamic
process to accompany the rational and masculine stasis of the AQAL
map through exploration of experience that engages a fluid and
feminine nature to take one through the unique territories of story.
3. The deep wisdom of process that expresses the dynamics and natural
flow of life can take one through descendent and ascendant processes
to integrate. Freud’s Iceberg theory of ego development is included
here as it refers to the unconscious, sub- and pre-conscious functions
of the id, ego and super-ego. The ego development work has
continued through developmental theories and is expanding.
4. Topographically, mother Africa’s positioning on the current maps of
the world needs deconstruction at many levels. By embracing a more
collective way of being, and the wisdom of the feminine aspects of our
consciousness back into the ‘whole’ story and as distinct from a single
story. (Chimamanda Adichie)
5. A possible antidote for the patriarchal discourse is to keep ‘sight’ of the
womb – the U of the uterus – as the base for cradling the necessary
connection to creativity, to source, to generativity, in relationship and
communion as part of co-sensing, co-creating, co-being. In this way –
the individual and collective shifts are interwoven, and we can learn
better to connect. The I and We as enfoldment. The great womb of
humanity as essential to rebirth: Big Womb concept!
6. The image of the calabash with the spear brings in both feminine and
masculine qualities as an inclusive whole. The U mapping of lifelong
journey’s provide the activation of various acupuncture points for
intervention while accessing the many individual parts of that whole.Integral+ U Practice of Leadership & Coaching™
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What have/are ‘we’ giving birth to…
The 1st
Integral African Conference (2019) was held at the Cradle of
Humankind (it used to be called mankind) with a vision of rebirthing a
multi-dimensional and sensory consciousness amongst many that included
the feminine. Mother Africa’s voice has much to offer and it was Jung who
mentioned that ‘if mother Africa and father Europe could birth a divine
child’. One of our great wisdom teaches, Mandaza Kandemwa, and before
him, Credo Mutwa, stated: ‘ as long as the womb of the earth and her
creative offerings are not respected – so will children, and woman, and our
living nature, the earth, continue to be raped’. There is a collective trauma
amongst us and by truly seeing each other in communion with other and
one’s ancestry in the present moment, that our ways of being will shift to a
more awakened state. Deep in a large group constellation, blessed by
sangomo’s, the soul of Africa gave voice to spirit and a process of healing
unfolded during the IAC.
There is a tension regarding an ‘African’ philosophy: is it something
unique; ethnic: spatial; phenomenological; all of which may lead it to be
dismissed under certain definitions. It needs Africans to speak it and it
goes beyond Africa, to all humanity. It lies in the roots of its langauge
‘muntu’ = a human being and Ntu=human and to becoming as an ongoing
inter-relationship with past, present, future, material and spiritual and the
conversation of encounter.
The deeply feminine and relational aspects of creative and regenerative
phenomena in our (inclusive of the physical and non-physical realms)
individual and collective experiences can be captured by Jung (1961): In
consequence of the autonomy of the physical phenomena there cannot be
only one approach to the mystery of being – they must include both the
physical happening and psychic reflection, yet it hardly possible to decide
what is reflecting what. Raising awareness to the contribution of Africa is
necessary.
TCC Student
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John Neave

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Change, as a constant, requires either a shockwave or an intentional and conscious
transformative process for individual and collective growth along both horizontal and
vertical lines of development, for the nature of how things form to trans-form. The use of
skilled conversation as a window into the soul of a human being in relationship with their
storied self, enables subtle realms of being-ness to emerge. Through the dialogic nature
of questioning what it is to be, a sharing of concerns towards deeper and wider meaning
and purpose lie at the feet of deep listening. This goes beyond reason and the barriers of
language to facilitating the drop in constructed boundaries of relating to self, other,
community, the earth and all that is. In this place: connection happens. Oral traditions
pass on wisdom and the shared stories across the landscapes of place, time and people.
The conversational nature of our reality assesses the relationship between oppositions
and the interconnectedness of networks with reality. From the Egyptian concept of 'ma‘at’
– truth, justice – or that which is right – through to the cosmologies and philosophies of the
Akan, Dogan and Sere, to the horn of Africa and to the Khoi San of the Southern Africa,
the deep sense of ‘personhood’ is bound with humanistic ethics aimed at improving
social functioning and human flourishing .
The age of reason and multiple regressions into massive –isms, that have been so
dominant and have not served the idea of a dynamic principle behind the being- ness of
an us. Too much in the we can also collapse the I which has its life. “To be, is the
ontological basis for the ensuing tension between -ness and -ism. This tension arises as
soon as we attempt to construct social reality on the preposition that there is radical
difference between –ness and – ism.” (M. Ramose). Ubuntu is ontologically viewed as ‘–
ness’ and is an essential organising principle for the African people. Imperative to this is
that to be human is to recognise the humanity of another. Up to now, parts of our
wholeness have been privileged over others (reason over heart) and a massive
evolutionary process that can go beyond differentiation to a space of re-differentiation
across multiple intelligences at later stage capacity, is critical. We, as a human race, have
not yet mastered this and our horizons are moving in. The conversation for been truly
seen, supports this.
UMNTU NGUMNTU NGABANYE ABANTU – I am because we are (Xhosa language)

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By cultivating an active network of connections in which to be human, is to
practice humanness. An integral human being would include a constant flow
between the ‘I’ and the ‘We’. We have seen how the stories of people in the
conversation of coaching as a key transformative practice create shifts not
only in the I but in the social mind of those who go through a process. AS a
technology for fulfilling its potential of relationship, this conversation needs
to engage in the multiplicity of the many stories that are enfolded in the
personal version of such a story and in doing so, as it becomes a richer more
inclusive story that enables insight and clear action.
Through multiple acts of intent, from deep listening, suspension of ego,
connection and compassion, to direct action that is clear and clean, a ‘simple’
form of being-ness through the becoming more fully human, appears. Within
the alchemical journey towards integration and transformation, the I/We can
dance into the embrace and embodiment of its potential. While a coaching
conversation can include transactional and transitional goals across the
horizontal domains of learning, the transformative integral conversation that
is layered into finely attuned incremental and developmental layers of
deepening, bring about profound shifts in vertical realization, not only for
individuals but for teams, groups, communities and, when integrated into
whole, organisations. This too, is possible for larger conversation. Where two
or more are recognized in relationship as equal, the ground of consciousness
shifts leading to courageous impact.
The coaching process becomes much more than an individual conversation
because it is part of the collective – the ancestors and all of the community
walks into a room and none of it can be excluded in the conversation.
TCC Student
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Integral+ U Map™ P Pampallis 2006-2020: D. Magadlela 2017-2020
Ubuntu-Integral Conscious Culture and
Collective Values and Beliefs. The source.
• Ubuntu Values emerge from the Collective -
where it all starts.
• Home Ground of Ubuntu Integral Values (UIV).
• We have a common song/sound we all must
dance to in order to live meaningful lives –
TOGETHER.
• We are… (because this is who we are).
Ubuntu-Integral Conscious Personal
Intentions (Motives) & Values & Beliefs
• …Awareness: Its about the sacredness of
self in the Ubuntu context.
• My individual drive and will-power is
already infused with the inherent
interconnectedness of everything around
me. I am the embodiment, and the personal
expression and manifestation, of what is
essentially collective…I am (because we
are…) the dance.
Ubuntu-Integral Systems and Laws
• Deep connection to mother earth/Africa
• Regulations, policies and rules governing
Ubuntu behaviours and shaping Ubuntu
ways of being.
Codes of our dance… know it.
We are being… (because this is what makes us,
us).
Ubuntu-Integral Behaviours
• Deep connection to body/heart
• Skills and Performances that serve
the greater good and demonstrate
grounded-ness in Ubuntu…
Lets dance…
I am being… (because we are…)
I am because We are
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INTEGRAL U-buntu AFRICA
JourneyofWholeness
P. Pampallis 2002-2020Leadership & Coaching for Social Change
artist: nic pampallis
Kosmos
Way of
Being
& Becoming
Ground
Through the journey of
consciousness as an intentional
practice of letting go while also
including and transcending, we
can break down the splits and
schisms of separation to come
closer to oneness.
The individual conversations
cannot be seen in isolation of the
whole and as such are deeply
transformative to the social
constructs of a culture and
collective way of being. In
liberating intelligence, the
necessary availability and
capacities work for positive
change in self, through, and with,
others. From the ground of our
rootedness to differentiation and
opportunity to see beyond the
now, the human story is
transformed and evolves with
greater connection to mind, body,
soul, the planet and Kosmos.

Evolution’s Dream, Humanity’s mission
Meshworking Cities and Eco-Regions
“The stories we tell matter. The larger
the perspective we take, the more
potential we open up. This is the story
we sense emerging …”
Anne-Marie Voorhoeve DRS, Shweta Srivastav, PhD
Kara Stonehouse and Diana Claire Douglas

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Anne-Marie Voorhoeve, Shweta Srivastav, Kara Stonehouse and Diana-Claire Douglas www.thehaguecenter.org
At the Hague Center, we envisage humanity co-
creating and living in thriving societies and cities,
aligned with all domains of life, visible and invisible.
We serve the emergence of a conscious heart-
centered humanity.
The stories we tell matter.
The larger the perspective we
take, the more potential we
open up. This is the story we
sense emerging ….
In the beginning, there was
nothing and the potential for
everything.
Something happened, a desire,
a breath, an explosion, a sound?
The rhythm of form emerged
ever so slowly and formed life,
cell division, lizards, birds,
mammals, humans….

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Humans... with a new frontal lobe,
developed the capacity for self-
awareness and planning... so that
a relatively fast cultural evolution
was unleashed. Innovations and
disruptions propelled us from
basic survival to tribes, empires,
nations, and recently globalized
networks of modern cities.
We, as humanity, saw ourselves as
the pinnacle of life, treating the
Earth and all beings as objects at
our disposal. The consequences
of this mindset include severe
environmental degradation, social
unrest and economic inequality.
It is time for us to embody the
next level of awareness.

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Now it’s time for a new story
where humans return to being in
rightful relationship as part of the
Earth, with Spirit.
There is no Hero, but a conscious
collective rising to meet the needs
of the day on a global scale in
regional networks. Cities and eco-
regions, understood to be living
systems, are centers of activity
where we put transformation into
practice.

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We are co-creating this new
reality with a process called
Meshworking.
This is the practice of being
aware of wider systems dynamics
and supporting conscious
individuals, groups and
institutions, to become coherent
new systems at this higher level
of awareness.
There are four main stages of this
large-scale collaboration:
Networks, Communities of
Practice, Meshworks, Systems of
Influence.
The Hague Center’s gift is to
nurture relationships to cultivate
higher orders of emergence.

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Emergence
is when something new arises
that wasn’t there before, forming
a greater whole.
We believe a higher order of self-
organization is emerging for
(from) All-Life, which includes the
Cosmos, Gaia, Nature (plants, fish,
animals etc) and humans.
This space needs to be held and
nourished to be aware of life’s
best possibilities emerging.
Listening deeply, we hold space,
ask powerful questions, help
unblock stuck energy, and align
ourselves with Life to be in-
formed as we make our choices
for action.
Where the Evolutionary Impulse
meets the Emerging Future

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Big Questions and Deep Listening
At The Hague Center, we work with big questions and track the progress of the answers as humanity moves
through this time of transition. Like the Presencing Institute, we practice different levels of listening. We
have strong capacites in several ‘generative listening’ tools, such as Systemic Constellation Work, Spiritual
Accessing, Deep Earth Architecture, ECOintention, and Life-Alignment. When these capacities are
implemented consistently in governance, wiser responses are initiated in the global collective.

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“In Complex systems there are neither problems nor solutions. There is only change and adaptation”. Ugo Bardi
THC Processes at Play

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Stages of Collaboration and Co-Creation
Meshworks. As trust and capacity to collaborate
builds, the impulse to co-create arises. When nurtured
and steered through leadership, design and
facilitation, the collective begins to integrate into a
coherent system with a shared purpose. When a
whole system is functioning, it can support livelihoods
in growing numbers. As cracks deepen in the
prevailing system, this new collective will serve as a
bridge to a healthier, more just way of life.
The Hague Center consciously nurtures the stages
of collaboration and co-creation
Networking. There is a rapidly growing conscious
community, who resonates with this great dream of
upgrading the global operating system so that
humanity functions in alignment with Life. Many
groups have formed networks and are playing their
part in manifesting this dream and yet find it a
challenge to see how they fit into the big picture.
World Unity Week (June 20-27, 2020) gave many
networks the opportunity to see each other and for
these co-creators to connect.
Communities of Practice evolve when a network
develops capacities to learn, where people trust
each other, share their dilemmas, and learn from
each other. They start to participate, not only for
themselves, but also to help others. THC’s
involvement in World Unity Week brought
awareness that this community was learning to work
together to create new potentials. We will continue
this work towards Peace Weekend.

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Meshworking Cities and Eco-Regions at World
Unity Week
An opportunity arose at World Unity Week to initiate and host
“Meshworking for Cities and Eco-regions” as a way for
participants to dialogue and experience ways to transform how
we care for the place we live in, to listen to the voices of all of life,
and to create a regenerative way of coming together on planet
earth connected to the larger whole.
We use the GPS of Integral City Meshworks (IC) as a menu and an
evolving map of the human hive, to help navigate and position
the different intelligences and capacities that people bring
working in diverse areas in cities and eco-regions.
The GPS is an inclusive way of visualizing which piece of the
puzzle each holds and how developing relationships leads to
sharing and learning together.

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Cities and Eco-Regions dreams for 2050
In an open collaborative forum,
thought leaders, representatives,
practitioners and citizens shared
their experiences, hopes, dreams
and wishes for Cities and Eco-
regions to evolve together with
us as a living system.
Practicing the core of the
meshwork strategy of ‘linking up
and lifting up’, from the seeds
sown at the World Unity Week,
we continue to grow this
collective meshwork in the next
phase towards the Peace
Weekend.
https://trello.com/b/wg2SEZD3/
wuw-meshworking-cities-and-
eco-regions-room
Each day, each of us was living
from the heart intelligence,
listening to the whole and it has
brought us the answers, the
direction and the energy to
implement and act on what needs
to be acted -
Lev Gordon, Living Cities
Network, Russia
If technology and change continues to
accelerate the way it has, we might be close to
being interplanetary .. when we expand our
boundaries, learning how to survive off-earth,
we may also learn how to survive as a species
on Earth -
Kara Stonehouse, The Hague Center
Gaia’s reflective heart organ has reconnected
with the mothership and is steering in the
right direction…
David Beatty, World Syntegrity Project
Being able to see the
uniqueness of all the different
expressions of life forms and
seeing how it’s all intertwined
and brought together -
Anne-Marie Voorhoeve,
The Hague Center
I am in the field, looking at the
celebrations going on this whole
wonderful world that is heart
centered… it’s not a meshwork
anymore it’s a mycelium-work that
connects us across all our different
ways of knowing .. we exceeded our
intentions .. - Marilyn Hamilton,
Integral Cities

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Join us for Peace Weekend - Follow the movement
The network is lighting up, the field
is becoming visible to itself and
others...
If you recognise yourself as part of
the rising conscious collective,
come celebrate Peace Weekend on
September 19-21, 2020, with major
events in cities on every continent,
and a 72-hour live internet
broadcast with an anticipated
audience in the millions.
The Meshworking Cities and Eco-
Regions Convergence Room will be
your home for activities leading to
and during Peace Weekend for
exploring the emergence of cities
and eco-regions from a unity
perspective.
https://peaceweekend.com/
https://www.peaceday2020.com/
● UP (Unity + Peace) Convergence
September 11-18 #unitetheworld
● Peace Weekend September 19-20-21
● Youth Assembly: from Youth Island the voices of youth will be
collected from 96 cities around the world on September 19-20
and presented to the UN on 21st

Core team: Jude Currivan PhD, Janice Dolley, Anne-Marie
Voorhoeve, Genevieve Boast, Jane Corbett, Sara Vaughan,
Tim Westwell, Priya Mahtani, Kate Genevieve, Chuck Peters,
Isaac Hassan, Tony Currivan, Alice Haynes, Kara Stonehouse
and Emma Brice
A Journey Into Unity
WELCOME TO A WHOLEWORLD-VIEW

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A WholeWorld-View is an evolutionary
framework that invites global change makers to
explore and communicate unity consciousness.
It is based on the spiral of consciousness that
moves our focus dynamically between ME, WE
and ALL levels of communication and
engagement.
The purpose of this journey is to provide a
structure within which we can understand,
experience and embody unity. The adventure
can be seen as a spiral of consciousness that
moves us dynamically between head, heart and
hands. We call this; Think Cosmic, Feel Global,
Act Local.
Each level of the journey has a story, an
adventure and a path of action. This is your
invitation to embark on a personal and
collective quest into the heart of one of our
times of transformation!
Unity in diversity is the foundational
conversation and invitation of our times,
certainly in the context of thrivable cities and
eco-regions.
Are you ready?
www.wholeworld-view.org

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All your life you have been choosing the worldview that
you individually inhabit and live from. These are the
times when the journey of unity starts to swell up
through everyone and every situation. The challenges
of our times are conspiring to help us personally and
collectively embark on our collective journey and
choose unifying perspectives and actions in everything
we are and do.
Once we allow the journey of unity to inhabit us fully,
we start to notice how we expand and grow with each
experience. We begin to understand the true nature of
evolution in our Universe in new ways and embody the
unifying impulse of life through our diversity.
This embodiment process is a dance. One that is joyful
and full of mystery. Co-creation becomes our quest and
no one of us knows all the answers. These emerge as
we join our heads, hearts and hands together, playing
with potential and stepping into our unique
evolutionary purpose.
Together, as we link up and lift up, we co-create a
‘whole’ new world.
Choosing our
journey of unity
Connecting to the
universal impulse of
evolution
Co-creating a whole
new world
The adventure of our times is unfolding

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This is the quest of our lifetime. An
adventure that we came into this life
ready to embark on.
Our WholeWorld-View team has co-
created an experiential and
participative journey into unity, where
we are invited to act local, feel global
and think cosmic. We welcome you all –
those with us now and those joining us
later - to link up and lift up with us and
share together as we answer the call to
this wonder-full adventure; our journey
into unity.
How do you experience the web of love
in your life right now?
Choosing our journey of unity - celebrating unity in diversity
Day 1 – Gaian Blessing Ceremony

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Today we’ll be seeking and singing our
heart song.
Our Uni-verse was literally sang into being.
The ancient wisdom of the Indian Vedic
sages tell of a primordial AUM as the sound
of creation - and now leading-edge science
is discovering that whilst the early Uni-verse
was too hot and dense to be transparent to
light, waves of sound pulsed through it,
indeed a primordial AUM that rang
throughout space and time for nearly four
hundred thousand years. Its waves rippled
to compose the initial clustered harmonics
of matter that would eventually form into
stars and galaxies – and many billions of
years later to planets, plants and people –
able themselves to sing the song of
creation.
What is the evolving song in the symphony
of your life?
Choosing our journey of unity - experiencing unity
Day 2 – Singing your soul song in the cosmic symphony

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Leading edge science is now converging
with universal wisdom traditions to reveal
that our Universe exists and evolves as a
unified entity. And so exquisitely fine-
tuned that it exists TO evolve. From
simplicity to complexity – its all-pervasive
and in-formed intelligence
holographically expressed individually,
collectively and archetypally.
These are momentous times. We are at a
pivotal threshold of breakdown and
breakthrough. To breakthrough, our
conscious evolution calls us to attune and
align with the evolutionary impulse of our
Universe; accessing and naturalising
communicating with its archetypal and
multidimensional wisdom, itself evolving.
What is your current archetypal pattern?
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Day 3 – Accessing archetypal wisdom

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Day 4 – Thoughtstorm
Thoughtstorm is a proven process that will
radically enhance the ability of your mind to
think creatively. It is a group discovery tool
that can unlock the answer to nearly any
question in the Universe.
The purpose of Thoughtstorm is to widen
possibilities and awareness in everyday life.
Also if you are wanting stimulating out of the
box connection with a purpose, you will love
this event. As long as you are willing to
participate in some verbal chaos and
surrender any right to
feel offended, Thoughtstorm will sweep you
into a most pleasant state of heightened
awareness and creativity. A question/s is
posed and ideas are shared by participants
until an answer is revealed or created...an
answer you may not arrive at as an individual.
Under what conditions do we operate most
effectively as a group?
Connecting to the impulse of evolution – experiencing evolution

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Today we gratefully honour Water as a
Universal wonder and invite all of us to align
with and attune to the universal heartbeat
and pulse of the evolutionary impulse of the
whole world. As we Think Cosmic: we
understand that its hydrogen was created in
the first few moments of our Universe - but its
oxygen was only formed in the interiors of
stars billions of years later . As we Feel
Global: we may experience that more than
half of all the water of Gaia and within us - is
older than our Soular System – with crystals of
ice all-pervasive in the interstellar cosmic
womb from which it was birthed And as we
Act Local: our bodies can go without food for
three weeks but only without water for
around three days. Water, both literally and
symbolically is the essence and the flow of
All Life
What is your current evolutionary impulse and
how is it flowing through you?
Connecting to the impulse of evolution – embodying evolution
Day 5 – Embodying the evolutionary impulse as water

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Nearly fourteen billion years ago, the story
of our Universe began. A evolving story
from simplicity to complexity and ever-
greater self-awareness. Here and now, we
are, literally, at the bow wave of our
Universe’s ongoing and evolving journey.
What we choose here and now and in
these coming few years will determine
whether we can wake up, grow up, clean
up – and vitally link up and lift up together
to heal, restore and regenerate our
relationships with ourselves, each other,
Gaia and all her children – and the whole
world.
May we choose wisely.
What is essential in your journey right now?
Co-creating a whole new world – understanding co-creation
Day 6 – Experiencing complexity - Warm Data Lab

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Co-creating a whole new world – experiencing co-creation
As we align with and attune to the
universal heartbeat and evolutionary
impulse of our entire Universe, today
we continue to invite an exploration of
the marvel and miracle that is the
manifest whole world.
A wholeworld-view of our Universe as a
cosmic hologram - the all in each pixel,
intimately and dynamically inter- and
intra-related. Fundamentally simple yet
expressed through sublime
differentiation and complexity. And to
explore what our innate heritage of
such wholeness invites in us – to act
local, feel global and think cosmic.
How can I fully embrace creativity as a
co-creative force?
Day 7 – Manifesting the mystery

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The eighth day of our adventure
represents the completion of one
octave and our rising to a higher one in
our journey.
It also activates the 8th chakra of the
universal heart within us; as a bridge to
expand the self-awareness of Me, to
include We and the unity awareness of
the All.
Our invitation and opportunity to
attune and align with the evolutionary
impulse of the entire Universe flowing
through us and discover our
evolutionary purpose and unique
adventure.
How can I step into my evolutionary
purpose and co-create a whole new
world?
Co-creating a whole new world – embodying your unique evolutionary
purpose
Day 8 – Co-creating a whole new world

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In June 2020 this programme was offered as part of World
Unity Week as convened by Unity Earth and partner
organisations.
Day 1 Saturday 20th June Gaian unity blessing
wave from St Michael’s Mount, Cornwall to
Avebury, Wiltshire (Dr Jude Currivan and Tim
Westwell)
Day 2 Sunday 21st June Singing your Soul
Song in the Cosmic Symphony (Anne-Marie
Voorhoeve, Kara Stonehouse and Chloe
Goodchild)
Day 3 Monday 22nd June Accessing Archetypal
Wisdom to accelerate the evolution of life
affirming culture (Richard Olivier)
Day 4 Tuesday 23rd June Experiencing
evolution – Thoughtstorm (Sara Vaughan)
Day 5 Wednesday 24th June Embodying and
dancing the evolutionary impulse as water
(Adam Barley and Genevieve Boast)
Day 6 Thursday 25th June Embodying
Complexity - Warm data lab (Kate Genevieve,
Jackie Thoms, Kaa Faensen and Warm Data Lab
hosts)
Day 7 Friday 26th June Co-creating unity in
diversity – Manifesting the mystery (Anne-
Marie Voorhoeve and Adrian Iacobus)
Day 8 Saturday 27th Embodying the co-
creation of a whole new world (WholeWorld-
View team)

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A caterpillar exists to eat. Its aim is to consume as much as
possible.
When there is nothing left to devour, evolution forces its isolation
into becoming a chrysalis; within which it dissolves. In the breaking
down of its old form, a new form begins to evolve into a butterfly.
One morning, it breaks through the wall of its chrysalis. It waits for
its wings to dry in the warmth of the Sun, and then it flies.
A butterfly exists to pollinate. Its aim is to sip the sweetness of
flowers. And as it does so, it fertilizes life.
We have been a caterpillar species; consuming, not only all that
Gaia could spare in her generosity, but much more.
Now cocooned by physical distancing, we can choose to
breakdown who we thought we were.
To surrender; not to the will of man, but to the evolutionary
impulse of the Universe.
To dissolve our separated sense of self and co-create imaginal cells
of potential; linking up and lifting up to form organelles of
emergence.
We can reframe and more deeply understand, the breakdown and
dying of the old and breakthrough and birth of the new; not as a
crisis but as a metamorphosis. Instead of plunderers we can evolve
to become pollinators.
Are you ready for the next stage of the journey?
Metamorphosis 2020

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We are a fast-growing international community of change-makers co-creating together to Link Up and Lift
Up with other like-minded and like-hearted organisations, communities and networks - aiming to
empower the understanding, experiencing and embodying of unity awareness for conscious evolution.
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO CONTINUE EXPLORING A WHOLEWORLD-VIEW:
SEE
www.wholeworld-view.org for
mailing list, science, videos, talks,
articles, news and more.
READ
The Cosmic Hologram, by Dr.
Jude Currivan, available on
Amazon.
EMAIL
unitycommunity@wholeworld-
view.org
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UbiVerse and LinkedIn
HELP
We are looking for technical,
network and financial support
to help us grow in all ways.
MEET
Our strong and growing community
currently meet twice a year, March
and September in London. Join our
mailing list or find us on Facebook to
keep up to date.

Evolving a Meta-Organ of Gaia
Coming of Age Postcards From Europe
Marilyn Hamilton PhD

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Integral City Meshworks www.integralcity.com
A new post-national Europe is
emerging through the inquiries
and Essentials of Co-Creating
Europe.
It can playfully be framed by a
16th Century map, depicting Lady
Europe. Her head touches the
Azores and her hem skirts the Urals,
with river flows and mountain
ranges strategically positioning her
emerging cities (see Figure 1).
https://co-creating-europe.eu/
Figure 1

Lady Europe’s countries seem to presage
two maps developed by the
ECOintention Group that identify the
organism of Europe (Figure 2) and reveals
the energetic strength of her centres (or
organs) in (Figure 3). In Figure 3 the darker
regions indicate greater importance of
balancing the region for the healing of
Europe.
https://www.ecointention.com/
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Figure 2
Figure 3

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We can see that what has been
revealed are the energetic centres of
the eco-regions of Europe’s cities, when
we examine the maps in the 3 Figures
above.
Integral City maps consider cities to be
living systems. These maps suggest that
Europe is an “organism” made up of
city/ecoregion subsystems. This organic
approach to mapping living systems,
brings into play the fractal nature of
Planet, Europe and her Cities – a most
interesting thought experiment. If it
holds “water” the relationship of these 3
scales of living systems must be
respected as integral to the wellbeing of
Planet, Europe, Cities and all life.

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The cities of Europe act like her organs -
situated on her rivers, which enable the flows of
energy, matter and information throughout her
living system.
As a result, cities are playing a major role in the flow
of people and resources throughout Europe and
onto the greater Planet.
Each city of Europe has the potential to integrate
Integral City’s 4 key Voices as a coherent living
system:
• Citizens
• Civic Managers
• Business/Innovators
• Civil Society/3rd Sector
A 5th voice arises from relating to the other
European cities each with their own 4 Voices.
Emerging a new living Europe happens through
the multi-logues of the 4+1 voices.
Citizens Civic
Managers
Business/
Innovators
Civil
Society
4 +1 VOICES OF CITY

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In these VUCA times in Europe, the patterns of
people-flow are bringing pressures on her
ecological river systems and her traditional city
structures and infrastructures.
Previously homogenous cultures and consciousness
(of city language and traditions) are impacted by 4
types of nomads who are flowing at high volume
into, through and out of Europe’s cities:
Digital, Tourists, Immigrants, Viral.
Thus, nomads are evolving the perfect conditions
for re-imagining and co-creating Europe.
Only by embracing the 4+1 Voices can the greatest
Care be manifested for the greatest good of all life
in Europe.
DIGITAL VIRAL
TOURISTSIMMIGRANTS

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Citizens Civic
Managers
Business/
Innovators
Civil
Society
4 +1 VOICES OF CITY
Europe is a vital meta-organ of Gaia. None of us
can be healthy without her. Within each city organ
operates the Master Code of Care.
This fractal principle used by Integral City Voices
offers the heart intelligence for evolving new
governance for Europe.
This Code says simply that every time we make a
decision, take action, relate to others and co-create
we should align:
Care for our Planet.
Care for Place (so altogether we can)
Care for Others (so together we can)
Care for Self (so that we can)

Co-creating Europe
& Caravan of Unity
Anne-Marie Voorhoeve, Julian Baller, Katie Mottram
One point of ongoing inquiry in
our network is about the role of
cities and their crucial role in the
transformation of Europe.

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Anne-Marie Voorhoeve, Julian Baller, Katie Mottram https://co-creating-europe.eu/
Connect | Inspire | Transform
One point of ongoing inquiry in our
network is about the role of cities and
their crucial role in the transformation of
Europe.
There is already a great number of people and
initiatives waking up to a deeper understanding
of who we are as human beings – creation and
creators. Our focus is to bring these people and
their initiatives together to co-operate and to co-
create with even greater coherence. Together
we are forming a collaborative ecosystem in
service of sustainable change.
We need Europe and Europe needs Us
Connect | Inspire | Transform
All of us, who live in Europe, are being called
upon to stand up for the fundamental ideas and
values of a united Europe and to cultivate an
open European society that helps develop
solutions for the world’s challenges, tries out
new ways of living, and maintains solidarity with
the world at large.

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Prior Unity
We can transcend what separates us
and build on the deep foundation we
all share, which is our prior, or already-
existing unity.
Go Deeper
Our Essentials
Over 18 months Co-Creating Europe as been facilitating a process with over 40 social-change
agents from 22 countries to define our Essentials. The 8 Essentials are at the core of our Vision
of a Europe that is true to its highest values and facing the shadows of its past, to become an
experimental hub for post-national forms of society.
Transsecular
European societies have a strong tendency towards
secularism. The secular reasoning of modernity
however only represents the empirical dimension of
existence and leaves out the more existential,
spiritual aspects of life. But not being religious does
not mean not being spiritual. A transsecular attitude
includes and transcends a modernist secular outlook.

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Freedom & Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
drafted by representatives with different
legal and cultural backgrounds from all
regions of the world was proclaimed by the
United Nations General Assembly in Paris
on 10 December 1948 as a common
standard of achievements for all peoples
and all nations. It set out, for the first time,
fundamental human rights to be
universally protected.
Universal Spirituality
True Spirituality is universal. Love is
universal. A new Europe capable of
incorporating the transcendent will
operate through the dynamics of Love.
Love is the highest dynamic force in the
universe. It is the engine of evolution. Its
power of attraction is irresistible.

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Glocal & In Solidarity
We strive to be free from local,
provincial, or national ideas, prejudices,
or attachments and to feel at home all
over the world, while at the same time
respecting and honoring our roots and
the diversity of regions, cultures,
religions and nations in Europe. We feel
the obligation to exercise solidarity.
Deep Ecology
Today’s environmental issues call for a
renewed relationship with the earth.
Seeing the sacred in the creation and
the interdependence in all ecosystems
is the foundation and drive to strive
for sustainable and ecological
solutions.

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Dialogical
The diversity of perspectives, cultures,
and lifestyles is not a weakness but a
strength of Europe. However, we can
only really bring this strength to
fruition if we succeed in developing a
new democratic culture of dialogue
Evolutionary & Integral
Physical evolution and psychological
development can be described, but
there is also spiritual evolution. This
is central to the project’s approach.
We see the need for growth in
consciousness, not only individually
but also collectively

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Connection and Action
In nature everything is connected. Europe can be
considered as one eco-system, which is however
not separate from the rest of the world. As people
who are involved in networks, organizations,
businesses and schools each of us co-operates
with many others who are also involved in
inspiring work across all sectors of society, locally,
regionally, on a European and on global scale.
There are many people and organizations working
already on bringing the essentials into practice in
many ways, with great impact, power and
creativity. We are dedicated to support, connect
and inspire them, foster conversations, support
and make visible what is already happening. After
creating coherence in our community of social
change agents through the development of the
essentials we are now ready to collectively step
into action for the first time through participation
in the Caravan of Unity leading up to Peace
Weekend 2020

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Co-Creating Europe is joining the Initiative of Unity
Earth, The Hague Center for Global Governance and
partners to contribute to what may grow into one of
the largest and most diverse physical and digital
collective movements for peace in human history.
The Caravan of Unity is not a caravan in a classic
sense. Originally used to describe a diverse group of
people travelling together by camel or camper van,
we define the term caravan in a new and
contemporary way.
The Caravan of Unity is not a caravan in a classic
sense. Originally used to describe a diverse group
of people travelling together by camel or camper
van, we define the term caravan in a new and
contemporary way.
What travels in our caravan is the energy of
peace and the spirit of unity, finding expression
through the actions and events of our Europe-
wide and global network of members, friends
and co-creators during the first three weeks of
September 2020 and culminating in the global
celebration of World Peace Day on September
21st.
Held by a strong virtual infrastructure and
dedicated participants in many nations, cities and
regions in Europe and beyond, the Caravan of
Unity aims to connect purposeful people and
projects to create an intention based field of
consciousness that strengthens unity in diversity.
Our vision is based on the realization of the prior
unity of all beings:

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The deep and timeless interconnection that
knits us together as one human family. The
Caravan of Unity will strive to inspire a
shared sense of inner and outer peace, install
kind-heartedness as a guiding motive for
cooperation, and contribute towards
inclusive and just societies at local and
transnational levels. we explore the many
dimensions of peace in the four streams of
spirit, art, dialogue and action. The Caravan
of Unity will provide the foundation for a
second phase of action in 2021, including an
on the road Caravan and other actions and
events created through the synergies and
collaborations of our participants’ work and
visions.

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Join us Everyone is welcome in the Caravan of Unity
regardless of age or experience: all that counts is
your alignment with Co-Creating Europe’s essential
values and a desire to make the caravan a rich and
impactful experience for all.
So whether you’re 8 or 80, in France or in Finland, an
existing change-maker or simply someone wishing to
create a brighter collective future, we invite you to
join us and enrich the Caravan of Unity with the
unique treasures and talents of your own culture and
community.
Unity Earth, The Hague Center for Global
Governance, Co-Creating Europe and many of our
friends and partners aim to make the Caravan an
ongoing journey culminating on Peace Weekend year
by year.
At this time of unprecedented global
challenge and change, we will take collective
action for a regeneration for humanity that is
rooted in the values of peace, unity and
transnational solidarity!
https://co-creating-europe.eu/
https://co-creating-europe.eu/about-caravan-of-unity/
https://www.facebook.com/CoCreatingEurope/
https://peaceweekend.com/

METROPA
METROPA is an art and peace project that shows
Europe as an entity on multiple layers. Its clear and
simple imagery speaks to the people like a current
map of any subway in any possible city in Europe. It
makes people believe that it is already true and thus,
it anticipates the idea of a pan-European metro
network system that interconnects all of its citizens
and visitors.
Stefan Frankenberger, initiator

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Stefan Frankenberger www.metropa.eu
METROPA operates in a future where all ecological, economical, technical and
political questions are answered and transformed into a viable comprehension of
what could be, at times, the Federal Republic of Europe. And the more people see
it, talk and think about it and wear its t-shirts, the more pressure grows on the
people in charge – the decision makers such as the EU, companies and the heads
of governments.
What Europe needs most is a common myth – a narrative that unites all of us and
whose benefits are clear to all. And mind-travelling is the best way to open up the
importance of Europe to people. Thus, METROPA is a contribution to overcome the
current crisis and to make Europe as we all want it: an open, strong continent that
preserves its achievements and does not shy away from innovation. A continent in
fruitful competition with other global metropolitan areas, inspiration and
fascination for its visitors – and pride of its inhabitants.
website and shop: www.metropa.eu

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Stefan Frankenberger www.metropa.eu

A Systemic View of Life
“… a biosphere on Earth is necessary, that it
emerged along the arc of disequilibrium
because it provides an independent
channel from geochemistry to relax redox
stresses, and that the universal core
metabolic pathways we find today were the
favoured and perhaps unique solutions to
the relaxation problem in an abiotic earth”
Prof. Paul Krause PhD

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Figure 1
The First Three Geospheres
The Lithosphere: Mantle convection converts heat energy through long-
range transport into highly energetic redox disequilibria.
The Hydrosphere: Oxides of nitrogen and sulphur may be present in
relatively high concentrations. Concentration of metals depends
sensitively on redox state. Primary chemistry is oxidation/reduction,
acid/base, hydration/dehydration.
The Atmosphere: Small molecules principally non-metals and noble
gases. Primary chemistry of excited gas-phase free radical chemistry.
The interfaces between geospheres can be concentrating centres for
disequilibria and the emergence of complexity.
A Systemic View of Life - Paul Krause www.surrey.ac.uk/people/paul-krause
A Systemic View of Life
A Systemic View of Life - Paul KrauseA Systemic View of Life - Paul Krause

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The Fourth Geosphere - The Biosphere
… a biosphere on Earth is necessary, that it emerged along the arc
of disequilibrium because it provides an independent channel
from geochemistry to relax redox stresses, and that the universal
core metabolic pathways we find today were the favoured and
perhaps unique solutions to the relaxation problem in an abiotic
earth.
Smith E and Morowitz H J (2016) The Origin and Nature of Life on
Earth: The Emergence of the Fourth Geosphere. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press.
It can be argued that the aggregate function of the biosphere is
to open up new channels for high-volume, steady energy flux
through covalent bond chemistry.
The main network of these pathways is metabolism.
Geochemical redox energy remains essential to some
ecosystems.
But now most ecosystems rely on the more complex but higher
yielding harvesting of light.
Self-maintenance of metabolism
The rise of an oligomer world
Emergence of individualities
The progression away from a simple geochemistry based
metabolism began with the emergence of autocatalytic self-
maintenance of metabolic pathways.
Progressing to the rise of the oligomer world - increased size and
componentisation led to combinatorial explosion of possibilities
for maintaining the system.
Compartments or genomes make forms of individuality -
providing nearly identical forms of the same function that can be
replicated or eliminated independently.

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The Fifth Geosphere - The Ethnosphere
The biosphere is a product of and embedded within the three
other geospheres; a change in any one of the latter three
geospheres will impact on the current state of the biosphere.
Processes within the biosphere can also impact on the states
of the other three geospheres with the impact of plant life on
the composition of the atmosphere perhaps being the most
significant.
An understanding of how human society developed is
emerging. With all its complexities, and pathologies, we
believe it stands recognition as a fifth geosphere; the
ethnosphere. Again, it has a complex of processes (legal,
social, economic, industrial, political) and a suite of entities
(more than just humans, but also books, works of art, music,
religions, institutions).
Even harder to isolate, it is a product of and embedded within
the four other geospheres; a change in any one of the latter
four geospheres will impact on the current state of the
ethnosphere. As with the biosphere, processes within the
ethnosphere can and do impact on the stability of the other
four geospheres.
The choice of name has been motivated by the discipline of
ethnobiology, by which is meant engaging in “the scientific
study of dynamic relationships among peoples, biota, and
environments”.
There is a common presumption that any name that begins
with “ethno” refers to a study of “other” peoples, populations,
and societies, but this is incorrect; “ethno” simply refers to
culture/people. Literally the word means ‘nation’. The
etymology of the word refers to nation, not in patriotic sense,
but in the sense of tradition, practices, and overall culture of
the people. So, in a way it refers to people together with their
‘lives’.
The embeddedness of the ethnosphere within the four other
geospheres is a critical feature. The microbiome within our
gastro-intestinal tract is as important to feed and nourish as
that within the soil that grows our food, and both in turn can
sustain our physical and mental health.
Equally, the natural world around us nourishes our physical,
mental and spiritual health, as well as providing inspiration for
our art, music and literature.

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Embededness
The colon, for example, contains the highest microbial density
recorded in any habitat on Earth:
• They benefit us by fermenting dietary fibre into short chain
fatty acids that enhance immune responses and aid in the
synthesis of vitamins B and K
• In contrast, dysregulation of the gut flora has been correlated
with a host of inflammatory and autoimmune conditions
• A diet built around foods sourced from biodiverse
environments helps to build and strengthen the human
microbiome
By working with natural processes, we can put carbon back into the soil (zero
tillage, continuous cover, allowing crop residues to break down naturally)
This stimulates the microbiome in the soil, enhances the structure of the soil
and the recycling of nutrients:
• Reducing (even eliminating, in some cases) the use of carbon intensive
fuel, fertilisers, pesticides and herbicides
• Prevents nitrogen and other pollutants entering water systems
• Sequesters carbon
• Eliminates soil erosion
• Increases resilience against drought
• Reduces flood risk
• Enhances biodiversity (actually, it is the enhancement of biodiversity that
leads to these other benefits)

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Understanding the “Natural” World
Outside of agriculture, the “natural” world provides us with vitally important “ecosystem services”: pollution reduction, water
management, pollination, water quality, carbon sequestration, amenity, health and wellbeing, and many more
• There are few true wilderness areas, most “natural” areas have evolved through interactions between humans and the
landscape over millennia
• One side-effect of the industrial revolution of the 19th Century and the steady move to service-based economies during the
late 20th Century has been our disconnect with nature and a progressive deterioration of these natural spaces - sometimes a
catastrophic deterioration
• Deeper understanding of if, when and how to intervene to maintain the quality of these areas is still needed
Ancient woodlands, for example, have in most cases in England, been managed for extraction of firewood and timber.
But this was done in a sustainable way so that now most woodland plants and insects need some level of light to survive.
This can be provided by reinstating traditional management practices, which also retain the trees in an early growth phase that
is when their carbon sequestration is at a maximum.
Harvested wood products can be used in turn to sequester carbon and recover degraded soils of parks and gardens, sports
fields and around urban trees.

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Every landscape contains a mixture of:
• Fugitive Carbon - carbon in the wrong place (mostly in the atmosphere)
• Living Carbon: Carbon that is embodied in the natural processes of life
• Durable carbon: Carbon that is in a “recalcitrant” form (coal, charcoal, biochar, oil, before we convert them into fugitive
carbon) or in a form that has been converted into a durable good (trees for building, for example)
Pyrolysis plants can convert wood chip and waste material into biochar and generate energy.
Carbon in biochar is in recalcitrant form and will stay in soil for possibly thousands of years. When added to soil, if inoculated
correctly, it can act as a slow release fertiliser and stimulate microbial life. Ecological engineering brought into the City can
stimulate biodiversity and human health - recovering both the biosphere and the ethnosphere.
Carbon is not the enemy

Sensemaking/Sensemaker
collecting micronarratives in cities
Anne Caspari MSc

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anne.caspari@ezc.partners www.ezc.partners
Two of the major crises of our time, Covid-19 and climate change, are
indicators of the general failure of our globalized, co-dependent and
fragile systems. Collectively, we are in a phase of deep uncertainty. At
the moment, it seems that our own interests contradict each other on
many different levels of our work and personal life. We have a hard time
balancing our basic values while it seems that work is pitched against
health, health against freedom, economic interests against survival,
young against old, ethics against pragmatism. We are in an
unprecedented crisis of confusion: we are unable to process what is
happening around us sensibly in real time in order to be able to act.
Nowhere is this multiple Crisis of Sensemaking more evident than in
our cities. Existing pathologies and systemic issues are magnified, like in
the case of an increase in domestic violence, the fact that the elderly in
their homes can’t be visited, or worse, have to die alone. New fault lines
show themselves between privileged and not privileged in being able
to keep distance or in having access to a garden or not.
At the same time, the current crisis offers historical chances to allow new habits, new rituals, new ways of
dealing with each other in our relationships, economies, and ecologies. Some cities, like Amsterdam, are
talking about adopting different approaches to value chain and city management (doughnut
economics). Experts estimate that through the obligatory working in home office and the resulting push
in innovation in telecommunication on the one side and trust on the other side, between 15 and 30% of
office retail space in our city centres will be obsolete in the near future, which would open up other
possibilities for housing etc. New stories are emerging, both utopian and dystopian. Whatever happens,
it will have an impact on the way we live together, on the urban fabric, the city scape, our co-living space.
Any attempt to cocreate a new generative direction consciously, in its best integral sense, must start with
paying attention to the phenomena that are actually happening right now, to the overall felt sense of
confusion on the one hand and collective sensemaking on the other, especially when people are
overwhelmed by the ambiguity inherent in current developments. Fears, worries, contradictions, values,
new ideas, frustrations, shadows, wishes and desires live here, on this level.
Sense and the City The crisis of confusion

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So, what if we listened deeply? What if we could access the high dreams and the low dreams, the fears, concerns, ideas, trends,
signals coming from the system, the early warning signs for changes that are currently taking place or those that are overdue?
What do people tell each other about how they experience and understand the crisis? And of course: how can collective
change take place on this basis? How can a new, meaningful narrative be created here?
art
Artist: Banksy
SenseMaker software provides the ability to capture stories and experiences, and the ability for the respondent to self-interpret
their story. By allowing the originator of the story the power to interpret it, the process seeks to democratise the research. At the
same time it allows us to identify patterns and themes in the stories and to identify collectively held belief and contradictions.
Each capture looks for certain aspects of collective action that are in the foreground, such as: What is going on? What values are
lived? What culture is prevalent? Which attitudes are dominant - in relation to refugees, the environment, recycling, public
transport, climate change, the willingness to do something or not?
The key (“prompting”) question is asked indirectly, more generally, in the direction of: "How is it to live in your neighbourhood?"
"What would you tell a friend who wants to work in your company?" "What is important to talk about?"
It’s the Stories that create the
Future:
The Capture of Micronarratives
"Applying the findings from complexity
research and cognitive science
consistently, as Prof. Dave Snowden
and his team at Cognitive Edge do just
that, they listen attentively to what is
actually happening. Snowden uses a
software("SenseMaker") to collect so-
called micro-narratives, i.e. he asks in
organizations or communities for small
stories about everyday experiences, for
anecdotes, for snippets of narratives from
daily work or private life that make up the
fabric of our meaning making systems”.

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Traditional Survey Methods SenseMaker®
Numbers that lack context. Numbers come with context of stories, the latter. which can
be accessed directly when needed.
Seeks opinions or evaluations of people which are usually not
immediately actionable.
Seeks descriptive narratives (observation or experiences),
which are immediately actionable.
Uses direct questions which people can game (or gift the
expected right answer.
Use of indirect prompting questions force people to think and
elicit answers that tend to be more honest and revealing.
Questions are based on a pre-existing hypothesis therefore
results contain only the insights that we thought to ask for.
Narrative elicitation questions are pre-hypothesis and
therefore allow unexpected insights to emerge.
Reliance on traditional statistical analysis which ‘drowns out’
weak signals until they become significant, at which point it
may be difficult and expensive to intervene.
Visualizations in SenceMaker present alternative and diverse
points of view and make weak signals visible.
Usually once-off or administered periodically, therefore results
may become outdated quickly, or opportunities may be
missed to intervene early when new behaviours emerge.
Continuous capture allows for continuous monitoring.
Data requires analysis before becoming useful, therefore
there is a time lag between capture, analysis and intervention.
Data is available in real-time and visualizations make patterns
accessible.
Through a series of design principles, that make the
SenseMaker Capture different from traditional surveys, the
respondent's micro-stories are embedded more accurately
in their systemic and relational contexts and can keep their
natural ambiguity of the lived experience. In this way, real,
self-determined, context-related real-time data (qualitative
and quantitative) are collected.

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Examples of "triads" from the SenseMaker capture as part of the Integral LIFT (Leadership in Transition) EU project: The
participants are asked to move the white dot to the position that seems to fit best. All 3 key points are equally positive or
negative - one is not better / worse than the other. This briefly stimulates the respondents to think (cognitive activation). If all
three factors are equally relevant, the dot ends up in the middle.
Next page: Examples of Captures from the city of Malmö. The project “My Malmö” is a a collaborative initiative established by
the NGO Forward Malmö, Tjejer I Förening and the Cynefin Centre, funded by Malmö Municipal government. The project is
designed to bring to light the everyday yet important conversations and experiences that happen in the city, to help the city
better understand and address the biggest issues and opportunities facing the future of Malmö.

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The goal was to start meaningful conversations, create useful material that can be used to encourage people to explore and
understand key issues in their city, and to create new ways of addressing these issues together (My Malmö Draft report 2020).
Over a period of 4 weeks the young people from the initiative went on to capture over 1500 micronarratives.
Each dot stands for a story that was entered and contextualised. By clicking on the dot the story itself remains accessible. At the
collective level we can look for insightful patterns, trends, outliers and dispositions of the city system.

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Examples of stories captured in Malmö
“Malmö is a nice city that has changed my life for the better.
I have a daughter who is ill and has a little difficulty
understanding and learning things like other children.
When I moved to Malmö seven years ago, I did not know
the language and had no information at all about how I
could help my daughter who was then 5 years old. After a
while I found out that there is an open preschool in
Rosengård where parents can take their children to play.
When the staff heard my story, they were very helpful and
referred me to a specialist who could help me with my
daughter. After that, my daughter had to start school where
she got the help she needed and since then she has
developed a lot. I love Malmö because the people here are
very helpful and because there are lots of associations that
exist just to help others get into society and thrive.”
“Malmö is a natural city and a lot happens here, I am not directly affected by crime. I feel pretty safe here in Malmö but am a little
worried about my children's future”.
“Great and nice city, problems with rubbish and too many people, happy with neighbours people and culture. The children
enjoy reading. However, I am afraid about my children and myself as a woman when we walk in the evening. It has gotten worse
last year.”
“A young woman says that she thinks Malmö has gotten
worse in recent years and that she does not feel safe at all
or for her children. She says that she hopes it will get better
so that her children do not have to be in contact with crime.
Despite this, she thinks that Malmö is still a nice city with
many activities and occupations. She thinks it is good that
there are leisure activities for children, for example.”
“When I started high school and got to meet my class and then I
found out that Malmö is not that bad. I thought when you meet
people who live in different places you usually get a bad picture,
but when I met them, my picture of the people here changed
more. It made me think that Malmö is still an okay city and we all
feel connected in some way.
Photo: Alex Waltner – Swedish Nomad

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Due to the responses a pattern of challenges appear. Those can in short be summarized as follows:
● Segregation - Malmö is a segregated city which has consequences in a variety of ways. For example it affects schools, where
high-performance schools tend to thrive while schools at the other end of the spectra keeps struggling. Segregation is in a
sense a reinforcing phenomenon to social injustice. To a large extent the responses in My Malmö witness of a city that is
geographically as well as mentally divided.
● Insecurity - a majority of the respondents truly appreciate their hometown, but at the same time they tell stories about how
specific areas in Malmö is struggling with crime, in particular from shootings, and recent years even from bombings. Even
though the city in 2019 is more safe than ever, the feeling is that some areas are not safe.
● Unfairness - this one relates to segregation. The stories witness of unfair opportunities due to where in the city you live.
Frequently topics are about inequality in terms of housing, schools and leisure activities.
Due to the responses patterns of challenges appear.For example:
● Collaboration - at the same time as a lot of stories are about segregation etc., quite many stories are about a sense of
solidarity and compassion among the citizens in Malmö. Many stories portray a city where we help each other out when we
are in need.
● Involvement - quite surprising we found that more than half of the respondents experienced that they are involved in
decisions on important matters in Malmö. (My Malmö Draft Report 2020)

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The stories and the patterns that emerge this way show ways out of the initially
described crisis of confusion, both on a personal and on a collective level.
On a personal level, the mere fact that one's own contribution is “heard” can have a
cathartic effect and give people a voice. Furthermore, the individual contributions can
point to hyper-concrete situations the have immediate action potential. When looked
at collectively, the charts can provide a contextualized picture of “what is actually
going on”, with patterns and clusters providing an insight into collectively held
beliefs, perceptions and experiences. This can allow key stakeholders to identify
emerging themes whilst empowering the community to provide their own
explanations and to identify solutions to existing conflicts (refugees, inclusion, safety)
or to novel challenges (pandemic).
Many of these solutions that come out of the sensemaking process can be dealt with
right away without long-term planning and bureaucracy. The motto is: "What can we
do tomorrow so that we get less of the negative and more of the positive micro
stories"?
This approach is all the more important since larger collectives that only have diffuse
cohesion, many different value streams and little internal coherence lack most of the
basic conditions for intentional change processes, as we know them for individuals
or groups.
The guiding principle in the sensemaking work
follows the approach of fractal intervention: action
potential exists at all levels, from the highest level to
the lowest, with formal and informal influencing
factors and constraints.
In the complex domain (see D. Snowden’s CYNEFIN
Framework), change takes place by changing
framework conditions and attractors, promoting
conditions that are considered advantageous and
dampening negative factors. The type and
amplitude of such measures depends on the
properties of the respective system, e.g. the
respective openness or closeness to changes (or to
the environment, climate change, new policies, etc.)
and is aimed at the next possible step, not a large,
distant ultimate goal.
The change in the whole
collective is always a
result of the total of all
shifts in everyday
behaviour, relationships
and attitudes in a
direction that is
desirable. The small step
is the key unit here. This
can actually be a
different way to do
funding, street lightning,
planting schemes, public
transport fees or
different interventions in
the urban realm and
fabric.
Bret Kavanaugh on Unsplash

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Sense and the City:
Collecting micronarratives and the associated sensemaking process as an approach
and framework for collective participation, real time decision making support and
collective change processes has several implications:
1. Founded on the principles of empowerment, democratisation and collective
intelligence, this approach allows to capture narratives on a relevant topic from
different perspectives, allowing the respondent to discuss what matters to them
without leading questions. This also ensures that the engagement and data
capture framework is flexible enough to be relevant and useful to the diverse
range of people involved.
2. By observing the design principles derived from complexity theory and
cognitive sciences it is possible to collect quantitative and qualitative
contextualized data that are as unbiased as possible by the (unconscious)
hypotheses of the researchers. This captures what really happens.
3. The capture gives the participants in a collective (city, valley, neighbourhood,
organization) of whatever type an active voice and the power to evaluate and
interpret their own experience. This may have cathartic effect for the participants
and give the felt sense of being seen or heard.
4. Everyone in a city or community can contribute to the process of telling their
stories – good and bad - and adding meaning by interpreting their own
experience. Like in a hologram, each story can have the power to cotain or point
to the whole system. Measures and actions can be derived on the basis of entire
“experience landscape”.
5. Everybody in a city or community can contribute without having to reach a
certain level of awareness (developmental bias), having to adopt certain values,
having to understand systemic relationships or having process skills.
6. Since data volumes are no longer a problem nowadays, neither in the acquisition
nor in the processing, this approach can be easily scaled to process large
amounts of data.
7. Sensemaking as a process does not end with the recording of states, attitudes,
and micronarratives, but supports a collective process of interpreting one's own
current landscape and deriving concrete action potential. The creation of new,
meaningful meta-narratives is encouraged.

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References:
• Caspari, A. (2019): Blog: “Driving Development vs Scaling Change”, Blog, www.mindshift-Integral.com,
or at www.ezc.partners/blog/ “Scaling Microchanges”
• Caspari, A. & M. Schilling: A We-Space Process Ecology (2016). In: Cohering the Integral We-Space. In:
Cohering the Integral We Space: Developing Theory and Practice for Engaging Collective Emergence,
Wisdom and Healing in Groups. Olen Gunnlaugson (Ed); Integral Publishing House.
• Eoyang, Glenda (2013): Adaptive Action: Leveraging Uncertainty in Your Organization
• Schmachtenberger, Daniel (2019): The War on Sensemaking, Podcast, Rebel Wisdom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LqaotiGWjQ.
• Smith Bethan & Cynefin Centre (2020): My Malmö Draft Report.
• Snowden, Dave (2015): How leaders change culture through small actions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsLmjoAp_Dg.
• Snowden, Dave (CognitiveEdge 2010), The Cynefin Framework; www.cognitive-edge.com.
• Snowden, David J.; Boone, Mary E. (2007). "A Leader's Framework for Decision Making". Harvard
Business Review. 85: 68–76. PMID 18159787.
• Weick, K. E. (1995). Sensemaking in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Weick, K. E. (2001). Making sense of the organization. Oxford: Blackwell.

How Will We Choose to Respond?
When we inhabit wider, more
compassionate and inclusive
perspectives, diversity and
conflicts are drivers of a constant
creative process that stimulates
the systems, culture and
individuals to continue to evolve
Techni Inclusive Sustainability
Cristina Mendonça MSc

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The emergence of
the third thing, after a
struggle with the
opposites is a form of
creation. It arrives as a
revelation, as something
that was unknown, either
long forgotten, or else
newly shaped; it brings
renewed energy and a
greater courage for
living. (5)
At critical moments in the life
of individuals and in societies,
the basic elements and the
energies of existence do
polarize. And when life
becomes stuck, and we feel
crucified on the cross of
oppositions, what is being
called for is not simple change,
but genuine transformation.(3)
Between stimulus
and response there
is a space. In that
space is our power
to choose our
response. In our
response lies our
growth and our
freedom.(4)
When enough people awaken to
the inherent purpose and
meaning in their own lives, a
collective initiation can occur that
shifts the level of meaning as well
as alters the course of history. (6)
The creative individual is born of
suffering the tension between the
poles(2)
(1)
Cristina Mendonça (techni@techni.com.br ) www.techni.com.br

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The following diagrams illustrate the dimensions
of change and potential expressions of:
Dimensions of Change
Adaptation from the MetaImpact Framework
(https://www.metaintegral.com/)
How can all dimensions of change
be activated?
How can a new way of Being for
Individuals, Culture and Systems be
Unlocked?

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Dimensions of Change Upper quadrants
Health &
Behaviour
Values &
Philosophy

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SystemsCulture &
Relationships
Dimensions of Change Lower quadrants

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