| Take a Moment |
 Better Relationships. Who doesn't want better relationships with their family, friends and co-workers? A big part of having better relationships is clear and meaningful communication. If you're interested in improving how you communicate and listen to others, this exercise can provide you with a fresh perspective on the way you communicate and how it shapes your instinctual way of being, seeing, and doing in the world.
The name of this exercise is “Discovering Your Native Perspective.” This technique was developed by Joanne Hunt and Laura Divine of Integral Coaching Canada, and was adapted for this exercise by Huy Lam and Robb Smith. It is based on the premise that there are four primary ways of relating to the world—inner experience, action, systems, and relationships—and one of the four perspectives is more or less “native” to you when you communicate with others.... |
| Featured Perspectives |
 Poverty: Loss of Freedom!
Mary Linda Landauer
"The last few days my mind has been filled with thoughts around this talk with Ken and Martin. My emotions go from compassion, to anger, frustration, and deep sadness. The mind, like a specter, acts like a phantom with all its haunting possibilities. But, those possibilites never satisfy. To live with belly hunger every moment, pain from a diseased body, or the belief there is no where to find resolution is what governs most choices for people in many regions on this planet. They're freedom to make better choices is not available for them. They live in a prison within themselves with no hope or faith that their life can change. Those few at the top, with the most, govern the choices of the many at the bottom, having little or nothing." |
 Google Wave Art Collaboration
Corey W. deVos
"I kicked off a cool little project over on Google Wave, and thought I'd invite you to come and play. The general idea is simple: scour the web for videos and movie scenes that clearly demonstrate various altitudes of development. The goal is to create a fun archive of clips that can be used to more easily introduce integral ideas to newcomers, drawing upon familiar moments in pop culture to communicate these ideas....." |
New to Integral? Start Here!
We have the intuition that everyone is at least partially right, that no human being is capable of being 100% wrong. But how do you tell just how right everyone is? Some are more right than others—how do you tell the difference?
Integral theory is an attempt to answer that question.
Here we offer some basic overviews of Integral theory and its application in the world, in many different media formats. If you are new to the Integral vision, any of these would be a wonderful place to begin your journey toward a freer and much more enriching life....
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