INTEGRAL REVIEW
A Transdisciplinary and
Transcultural Journal
for New Thought,
Research, and Praxis
Welcome to IR’s second newsletter!
One objective for these periodicals is to keep the growing IR community abreast
of what we are doing and thinking. In addition to IR news, this installment
features more IR Editors’ Voices, some news from our Editorial Advisory
Board, and items to call your attention to interesting things happening in the
world of integral theory/practice and transdisciplinary thought, research, and
practice. Submit your news item
suggestions to us at ireditors@integral-review.org.
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Upcoming
Issues of IR
#4
In June, Issue #4 will include
our usual wide range of articles, both short and long, which aim to trigger
reflection, inform analyses, and extend dialogs on facets of integral thought,
both as subject matter and in application.
#5
We are currently accepting
submissions for the December issue. The deadline is July 1 for publication in
that issue.
#5
or #6 IR is considering a special
section on integral politics in Issue 5 or 6. We invite submissions on that
topic.
Letters to the Editor? Yes – IR welcomes them!
Welcome
AQAL (and write
about it!) Join us in welcoming the recent publication of AQAL Journal
of Integral Theory and Practice. The release of this journal from the
Integral Institute has been long awaited, and is a labor of love for those
involved. Congratulations to Sean Hargens and his
crew for a job well done. Conversations behind the scenes between IR Editor
Jonathan and AQAL Editor Sean have aimed to create an atmosphere of
collaboration between our two journals. We share the desire to increase the
scope and quality of conversation, inquiry and application of integral theory
and practice in the world. To that end, IR is inviting reviews of, and
responses to, articles published in AQAL. These can be brief pieces of a page
or two, or longer critiques with more depth on a topic. We would love to
publish some of these in issue #4, and would accept such submissions up until
May 25th.
Online Dialogue Forums: In progress...
Invited forum on Roy’s
article, A Process
Model of Integral Theory, which is
viewable by guests. Open forums on other subjects still welcome your
participation. For information, please visit http://integral-review.org/forums/index.asp. We welcome your suggestions for future integral online dialogs.
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Calls for Papers with Upcoming
Deadlines
Cognitive
Development Society 5th Biennial Meeting. Santa Fe, NM. October 26-27, 2007. Deadline for
submissions is June 1, 2007. http://cds2007.spc.uchicago.edu
Developmental Psychology
Journal, Special Section on New Perspectives on the Effects of Action on
Perceptual and Cognitive Development. Deadline for papers submissions is July
30, 2007. http://www.apa.org/journals/dev/papercall-act.html
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IR Editorial Advisory
Board Members' Happenings
Ervin Laszlo recently
lectured at the
*Science
& the Akashic Field * Memory/ Cosmos/ Consciousness
Here is the blurb from the event.
Western scientists are beginning to discover what
Eastern sages and mystics have known for thousands of years--that at the roots
of reality there is an interconnecting,
information--conserving and conveying memory field known as the Akashic field. This evening, renowned philosopher of
science, Ervin Laszlo, will explore what this new emerging worldview might tell
us about such questions as: Where did the universe come from? Where is it
going? and much more.
Nancy Roof on Happenings at Kosmos Associates
The spring issue of Kosmos Journal will be on the
newsstands in May. The chosen theme is The Call for Visionary Leadership. C.
Otto Scharmer has contributed an introduction to his new book “Leading from the
Emerging Future,” and John Schmidt has written about integral leadership under
the evocative title, “Living Leadership.”
We are becoming known also by our stunning visuals that compliment our
text with the evocation of the heart.
First on my reading list is “The Science of Oneness:
A Worldview for the Twenty-First Century,” by Malcolm Hollick,
who seems to be familiar with many of the sources that Kosmos Journal uses in
creating an integral approach to global awakening.
The
most stimulating forum in which I was a panelist recently was The New World
Political Architecture. Gorbachev and the World Political Forum (compliment to
the World Economic Forum) invited 46 world leaders to begin brainstorming about
the new world political order, and I was fortunate to be among those
invited. Politics is the last frontier
in introducing integral ideas and the new consciousness and Gorbachev is
pioneering the effort in this field. I
hope to bring some integral principles into the meetings in the future as
political leaders currently have the most power to make the final critical
decisions that affect the welfare of humanity.
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IR Editors’
Voices... What we're doing when we aren’t doing IR
Jonathan
Reams
Jonathan is enjoying making
new connections in Europe, settling in to his new position at the Norwegian
University of Science and Technology, and invites any IR readers in Europe to
contact him and say hi. He will spend the summer back in North America, tying
up loose ends there and presenting at two conferences. In August, he will be
part of the “Integral Education – From Cradle to
Kosmos” conference, presenting a case study based on some research done in the
classroom. The beginning of summer arrives with a co-presentation with Bonnitta
Roy at the Metanexus Center’s “Transdisciplinarity and the Unity
of Knowledge: Beyond the Science and Religion Dialogue.”
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Bonnitta Roy
Bonnitta’s summer begins with Jonathan in June at the Metanexus
conference, where her Process Model will be introduced as a way of
addressing fundamental challenges facing the attempts to create a unity of
knowledge. Their presentation of “Wholeness Lost/Wholeness Regained: A Process
Model View” challenges the core assumptions limiting such attempts at
transdisciplinarity. Bonnie will present her paper on Aurobindo and Wilber at
the International Society of
Theoretical Psychology conference in Toronto.
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Tom
Murray
Tom Murray continues to develop his work in
online environments that support integral dialogs,
epistemic sophistication, mutual recognition, perspective taking, and integrity
in collaboration (see www.perspegrity.org). A
paper titled "Toward collaborative technologies supporting cognitive
skills for mutual regard" and a pre-conference workshop titled
"Technology supporting cognitive skills for ethics in collaboration and
communication" were accepted for the 2007
international ISLS conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
to be held at Rutgers University in July. Also, a session titled
"From Quantity to Quality in Online Communication and Collaboration:
Lessons Learned in Translating Group Process Theories and Practices" was
accepted for the June 2007 Grassroots Use of
Technology conference. He also had an article titled
"Integral Leadership as Supporting Epistemic Sophistication in
Knowledge-Building Communities" published in Integral Leadership Review.
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Sara
Ross
Sara Ross was recently appointed Managing Editor for a new online
refereed journal, Terrorism Research, to
be published by the International
Society for Terrorism Research, and Editor of the Newsletter of the Society for Chaos Theory in
Psychology & Life Sciences. She was excited recently when selected by
the American Psychological Association to participate in its Advanced Training
Institute in Non-Linear Methods for Psychological Science. In March, she
presented her significant research findings on fostering adult and political
development at the Annual Adult Development Symposium of the Society for Research in Adult Development.
In May, she will present an invited paper, A
Developmental Behavioral Analysis of Dual Motives' Role in Political Economies
of Corruption, at the Society
for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics conference. She is currently
co-editing an invited special issue on postformal
thought and hierarchical complexity for IR Advisory Board Member Ervin Laszlo's
journal, World Futures: The
Journal of General Evolution.
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Russ
Volckmann
The June issue of the Integral Leadership Review (ILR) will include material from three interviews. First, I am doing interviews with the CEO and COO who have gone through integral leadership training and are bringing some of this training to all employees in their company. This is an example of a growing emphasis in the Integral Leadership Review on application of integral theory, concepts and practices in communities and organizations.
The report on an additional conversation with Robb Smith,
new CEO of the Integral Institute,
should provide insights to where this organization is headed. It has been a
rough period for
In addition to articles, book reviews, and a leadership
coaching tip ILR will also have its first leadership cartoon by Bill Bates, who
did cartoons for the San Francisco Examiner, moved to Carmel, California (a
community well known for its art) and has contributed many caricatures and
political cartoons to the Carmel Pine Cone and the Monterey County Herald. Here
is a sample, relevant the world over:
“But what do you do for a living?”
Bates is a world traveler and has done drawings of people and places in 133 countries so far. Here is his 1999 caricature of me!
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