INTEGRAL REVIEW
A Transdisciplinary and
Transcultural Journal
for New Thought,
Research, and Praxis
A Refereed Journal Published by ARINA, Inc.
IR’s
Occasional Newsletter
#4 – January 2008
Upcoming Issues of IR
Issue #6
§
February is
“submissions month” (i.e., before
March 1) for articles intended for peer-reviewed publication in our June 2008
issue.
§
March is “submissions month” (i.e., before
April 1) for that mid-year issue for other, non peer-reviewed submissions such
as essays, creative and artistic works, book reviews, and critical reviews of journal
articles.
Special Issue on “Integral Politics”
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IR welcomes
submissions on political subjects year-round. We hope to see some in June’s
issue #6, perhaps in a special section. It would be great to have some essays
on presidential and prime minister elections around the world… 2007 was a year
of noteworthy changes in many countries’ leadership.
§ IR intends to publish a full special issue on integrally-approached political subjects in 2009. See the Invitation for Additional Co-Editors of the Special Issue below. The co-editors will plan the issue and put out a formal call for papers in March.
IR’s Quality Earns a Place
on “The List” in Norway!
The Norwegian Association of
Higher Education Institutions maintains a list of journals that it determines
have met appropriate scientific and academic quality criteria. A review
committee oversees the addition of journals to this list. The majority (90%) of
journals on this list are on level 1; 10% are allowed to be nominated to be
advanced to level 2, which is a more prestigious placement. Journals that do
not meet criteria of these two lists are categorized simply as “other.” In
spring 2007, Integral Review was submitted to the review committee for
consideration. We recently received the good news that IR was awarded a place
on the level 1 list of journals. We are pleased to have the quality of our
publication validated by this external review process. In Norway, the academic departments of the authors
whose articles are published in such approved journals are rewarded with
financial remuneration from the state. This structure is designed to
provide incentive and support for research.
Online Dialogue Forums: Upcoming...
New
invited and open author forums begin in the first half of 2008. For information
on forums and to request and prepare to participate, visit http://integral-review.org/forums/index.asp.
§
In late February an open
forum begins on the IR Editors' article Developing Integral
Review: IR Editors Reflect on Meta-theory, the Concept of
"Integral," Submission Acceptance Criteria, our Mission, and more.
§
In the spring, two invited author forums will be announced on:
- Jennifer Gidley’s The Evolution of Consciousness as a Planetary
Imperative: An Integration of Integral Views
- Martin Beck Matuštík’s Towards an Integral Critical Theory of the
Present Age
Invitation for Additional Co-Editors of IR’s Special Issue
Integral Review’s first special issue, with a focus on political subject matter or
“integral politics,” is intended for publication in mid-2009. IR invites applications
for guest co-editors to join IR editors Thomas Jordan and Sara Ross in
preparing this special issue. Interested persons should submit a brief cover
letter and curriculum vitae that indicate how they meet the following criteria.
This information should be emailed to ireditors@integral-review.org
by February 5, 2008. Potential guest co-editors are:
1.
Authors of previously
published work on political subject matter in referred journals or edited books
and their work reflects at least some of IR's criteria.
2.
Willing and able
to plan and prepare the special issue collaboratively with a small team of
co-editors, including IR editors Thomas Jordan and Sara Ross.
3.
Interested to
apply IR's criteria to submissions for the special issue.
4.
Able to begin
this collaboration in time to generally plan the issue and prepare the call for
papers to be issued in March 2008.
IR Readership Continues to Grow
Since Issue #2 in June 2006, when statistics on our semi-annual (June,
December) publishing schedule became available, reports of monthly unique
visitors look like this.
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European Commission Funds
Research on “Integral
Leadership and Communication in Non-Profit Organization"
Wendelin Kupers reports that his research proposal Integral Leadership and Communication in
Non-Profit Organization has been favorably approved by the European
Commission, a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship for Career Development. The
two-year project will investigate the relationship between leadership and communication in non-profit organizations in Germany
and Switzerland. It will assess and compare leadership and communication
processes on subjective, inter-subjective and objective levels. The goal is to address
the multiple communication processes involved, and identify impacts in individual and collective
dimensions involved. Key variables of leadership and communication practices
will be identified with a specific focus on new media, while emotion-related
problem-areas and barriers of leadership and communication also will be
investigated. Based on the findings, implications
for a European-oriented integral
leadership and communication development especially in
non-profit organisations will be derived. Wendelin
concludes “The granted research manifests that the European Commission supports
integral research!”
A
Bibliography of the Philosophy of Mind and the Science of Consciousness
David Chalmers and David
Bourget, Australian National University, recently announced the launch of
MindPapers (http://consc.net/mindpapers/),
a new website with a bibliography covering around 18000 published papers and
online papers in the philosophy of mind and the science of consciousness. This
site grew out of a combination of David Chalmers' bibliography in philosophy of
mind and his page of online papers on consciousness, but it is much larger and
has many new capacities, programmed by David Bourget. There is a separate
front end for "Online Papers on Consciousness" (http://consc.net/online/).
Where MindPapers now combines both offline published papers and online papers
from free and commercial sites, Online Papers on Consciousness is devoted to
free online papers (currently around 4700). It is based on the same
database as MindPapers, but is organized in a way to emphasize issues concerning
consciousness and cognitive science rather than the philosophy of mind.
Book Announcements
Integrative Oncology:
Principles and Practice, by Matthew P. Mumber, MD (Ed.) of the Harbin Clinic Radiation
Oncology Center in Rome, Georgia, US. Published in 2006 by Taylor &
Francis, the 517-page book is dedicated “to all whose lives are touched by
cancer – that you may have the courage, knowledge and resources to heal.” IR’s
June issue will include a review of this book that includes an application of
IR’s Integral Evaluation Process.
Conference and Call for Abstracts Announcements
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The 23rd Annual Adult Development Symposium
of the Society for Research in Adult
Development is March 22-23, 2008, in New York City (http://adultdevelopment.org).
The event includes a free workshop to learn about scoring hierarchical
complexity of tasks and measuring developmental changes in any domain of life.
§
The second global Integral
International Development Meeting
April 22-26, 2008 in Istanbul (www.drishti.ca/istanbul) is hosted by Integral International Development Center and
Drishti-Centre for Integral Action. The deadline for presentation
abstracts is Feb. 15, 2008.
§
The 18th Annual International Conference of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology
& Life Sciences will be in Richmond, VA, August 8-10, 2008, co-sponsored
by Virginia Commonwealth University’s Center for the Study of Biological
Complexity. The deadline for submissions is April 29, 2008 (www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf/2008/cfp.html).
IR Editorial Advisory
Board Members' Happenings
Mike Basseches shares that he and his colleague,
Michael F. Mascolo “are working on a
book entitled Psychotherapy as a
Developmental Process, scheduled to be published in the Routledge Mental
Health Series. The book describes an approach (Developmental Analysis of
Psychotherapy Process) that can be used by both psychotherapy researchers and
practitioners to reflect on what is and isn't working and why within any
psychotherapy process. The approach is also likely extendable to other
relational/developmental contexts. Ph.D students under my
supervision are currently working on case analyses using DAPP to
understand how development occurs in cases of Dialectical Behavior Therapy,
Emotion-Focused Therapy, and Mindfulness training. Other students are
working on assessing/increasing the intersubjectivity/reliability of the method
of analysis involved.”
Nancy Roof and her
publication Kosmos
are soliciting short 450-word articles by February 21 for its next issue’s
theme of Changing the World Together.
The theme is ”a timely and exciting inquiry into
collective intelligence and the power of connection...a new field of research
is emerging: co-intelligence, collaborative leadership, collective wisdom, peer
to peer, group mind are some of the names we are calling it.”
Peter Russell has a dolphin
swim program offering! He invites our reflections, saying “dolphins are free spirits who
display considerable care and intelligence in their interactions. They are
models of how we could be in our own lives. How can we free ourselves from the
various factors that limit our consciousness, so that we can bring more of the
dolphin's wisdom into our own lives?” In this workshop (http://www.peterrussell.com/Dolphin/april.php), March 9-14, Peter
teams up with Joan Ocean and her 20 years’ experience swimming with dolphins in
the wild. “In the mornings we go out on the ocean in our boat to swim with the
dolphins. We usually encounter spinner dolphins in pods of between 30 and 200.
Swimming with the dolphins, we can observe their life-style, and interact in various
ways according to their mood. The water is crystal clear, aqua blue over white
sand, with 100 feet visibility. The dolphins are accustomed to Joan's groups
and very open to human contact. We may also encounter spotted dolphins,
bottlenose dolphins, pilot whales, and manta rays.”
Bill Torbert will be
retiring from Boston College in June of 2008 and will be presenting at the
Organization Behavior Teaching Conference, the Academy of Management and the
Integral Theory in Action Conference during the summer of 2008. He will
continue his research, consulting, and workshops through his partnership with
Harthill Consulting Ltd. UK, through his board membership with Trillium
Asset Management, and as a
visiting scholar with the Center for Creative Leadership. In particular,
he will be offering seasonal, by-invitation Alchemist Workshops in the UK,
Boston, California, and
Singapore.
IR Editors’
Voices... What we're doing when we aren’t doing IR
Andrew
Campbell
During 2007-2008,
Dr. Robin Wood and I have been co-creating a highly innovative five day
residential leadership and personal development programme, Galatea (www.galateaweb.com). It is unique in its fusion of the integral paradigm,
presence disciplines, the fine arts, learning journeys, strategy as design,
sustainability, bodywork and future-focus. Inspired by world-class faculty we
have created links to programme guests and facilitators-speakers, including
friends Napier Collyns co-founder of GBN, Otto Scharmer of MIT and a more
recent friend, David Peat of the Pari Center in Tuscany.
Residential five-day introductory programmes run each May and October starting
in 2008, followed by intermediate and advanced programmes in October 2008 and
May 2009. Exact dates will be announced in early spring. Faculty is led by Dr.
Robin Wood, well known in the Integral community for his work around the world
and as the author of several books including the award-winning Managing Complexity. His upcoming book
is Thriving in the 4th Wave: Creating the
Second Renaissance. An essayist journey Collapsing Boundaries: A
Personal Leadership Journey at www.co-create.com/papers takes you through the landscapes and mindscapes of this
programme in a poetical blend of the surreal, the quantum, and the dada.
Galatea is based
in the elegant Chateau La Tour Apollinaire, built by the poet Apollinaire’s
uncle. This oasis in the heart of Perpignan—Robin’s home, and my base when
acting as Artist in Residence—is set between the mountains and the sea in the
Pyrenees-Orientales, a magical world of 1,000 year-old monasteries, snow-capped
mountains and dramatic coastlines. Perpignan
is the beating heart of French Catalonia, one hour from Paris by plane, 90
minutes from Barcelona by car and 90 minutes from several major UK cities by
low cost airline.
Thomas
Jordan
I have spent some time the
last year to track down and read doctoral dissertations on adult development issues.
I have found a number of interesting dissertations well worth reading, for
example the dissertations by Susanne Cook-Greuter, Christine Harris, Sara Ross,
Harry Lasker, Lisa Lahey, Pamela Steiner, Glenn Mehltretter, Angela
Pfaffenberger, Jenny Stitz, Paul Marko and Dane Hewlett (see references below:
most can be bought as downloadable pdf files at reasonable prices from
proquest.com, although you may need to use a university connection to get
access). Among the dissertations using frameworks derived from adult
development theory are two that focus on conflict management issues, which is
one of my own areas of competence. One is Lynn Holaday's (now Lynn Royster)
dissertation Integral discourse. A commodious,
growthful and cooperative approach to conflict integrative practices in
rhetoric, developmental psychology and conflict management. Her
study is an explorative essay drawing on theoretical studies and various forms
of professional and personal praxis on the emergence of an integrally informed
approach to conflict management. the other dissertation is Richard McGuigan's How do evolving deep structures of consciousness impact
the disputant's creation of meaning in a conflict? McGuigan's
dissertation draws on Wilber and Kegan and analyses a major land-use conflict
in terms of consciousness structures.
A third ambitious exploration
of what an integral approach to conflict management can look like is Reinhard
Fuhr's and Martina Gremmler-Fuhr's book
Kommunikationsentwicklung und Konfliktklärung. Ein integraler Gestalt-Ansatz.
My own and Titti Lundin's empirical research study of individual differences in
awareness and meaningmaking in workplace conflicts is certainly relevant as
well. Further contributions that specifically deal with adult development/integral
theory and conflict management can be found in a number of articles, e.g. by
Richard McGuigan and colleagues, Lynn Holaday and Chris Stewart (see references
below).
Very productive and useful
contributions to the development of an integrally informed conflict practice
can also be found in Sara Ross's dissertation and in the recent book
Leadership Agility by Bill Joiner and Stephen Josephs.
Most of these studies are
theoretical essays rather than empirically grounded investigations, but it
seems that we may be witnessing the emergence of a field that might mature into
something very useful in the coming years. From time to time I get tempted to
set aside some of my scarce time to cross-read all this stuff and filter it
through my own understanding of what "integral" is, to see what comes
out of the process. However, if someone else steals the idea and runs somewhere
with it, at least I would be an eager listener to whatever story there is to
tell.
References
COOK-GREUTER, S.
R. (1999) Postautonomous ego development: A study of its nature and
measurement. Thesis presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of
Education of Harvard University.
FUHR, R. & M.
GREMMLER-FUHR (2004). Kommunikationsentwicklung und Konfliktklärung. Ein
integraler Gestalt-Ansatz. Göttingen: Hogrefe.
HARRIS, C. K.
(2002) The experience of support for transformative learning, Doctoral
dissertation, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University.
HEWLETT, D. C. (2004) A qualitative study of postautonomous ego development:
The bridge between postconventional and transcendent ways of being.
Doctoral dissertation, Fielding Graduate Institute.
HOLADAY, L. C. (1999) Integral discourse. A commodious, growthful and
cooperative approach to conflict integrative practices in rhetoric, developmental
psychology and conflict management. Ph diss, Union Institute.
HOLADAY, L. C.
(2002) 'Stage Development Theory: A Natural Framework for Understanding the
Mediation Process,' Negotiation Journal, July, pp- 191-210.
JOINER, B. and
JOSEPHS, S. (2007) Leadership agility. Five leves of mastery for
anticipating and initiating change, Jossey-Bass. LAHEY, L. (1986) Males'
and females' construction of conflict in work and love, Thesis presented to
the faculty of the Graduate School of Education of Harvard University.
JORDAN, T. &
T. LUNDIN (2002) Perceiving,
interpreting and handling workplace conflicts
Identifying the potential
for development, Research Report
2002:1, Department of Work Science, Göteborg university, http://www.perspectus.se/tjordan/perceivingconflict.pdf
MARKO, P. W.
(2006) Exploring facilitative agents that allow ego development to occur,
Doctoral dissertation, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center.
McGUIGAN, R. J.
(2006) How do evolving deep structures of consciousness impact the disputant's
creation of meaning in a conflict?, Doctoral dissertation, Union Institute
and University.
McGUIGAN, R.
J. & S. McMECHAN (2005) 'Integral Conflict Analysis:A Comprehensive
Quadrant Analysis of an
Organizational Conflict.' Conflict
Resolution Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 3, Spring, pp. 349-362.
McGUIGAN, R.
J. & N. POPP (2007) 'The Self
in Conflict:The Evolution of Mediation,'
Conflict Resolution Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 2, Winter. pp. 221-238.
MEHLTRETTER, G.
W. (1995) The contribution of complexity of mental processing and stage of
ego development to transforming leadership, doctoral dissertation, North
Carolina State University.
NEWMAN, D. L. (1994) The structure of ego development in adult twins reared
apart, Doctoral dissertation, University of Minnesota.
PFAFFENBERGER, A. (2007) Exploring the pathways to postconventional
personality development, Doctoral dissertation, Saybrook Graduate School
and Research Center.
ROSS, S. N. (2007). Effects of a structured public issues discourse method
on the complexity of citizens' reasoning and local political development.
Dissertation Abstracts International B, 68 (02). (UMI No. 3251492).
STEINER, P. P.
(1996) Conforming and non-conforming concurrence: Aspects of
"group¬think" and orders of consciousness in democratic decision
making, Thesis presented to the faculty of the Graduate School of Education
of Harvard University.
STEWART, C. C.
(2003) The Need for Conflict - Towards an
Integral Approach to Understanding Conflict, Integralworld.net, http://members.upc.nl/fvisser/pdf/stewart1.pdf, Retrieved
16.1.2008.
STITZ, J.
(2004). Intimacy and differentiation in couples at postconventional
levels of ego development. Dissertation Abstracts International, 65/02B.
(Pub. No. AAT 3153925 ).
Jonathan
Reams
As I begin to emerge from the
reflective hibernation that the very long nights here up north have induced in
me, I look forward to the upcoming semester and returning to the classroom.
There, I will be able to test out many of the pedagogical ideas and practices
that I have been developing over the last while. This fits very well with two
related projects, one co-editing a book on integral education, and the other
co-writing a chapter for another book on the same topic.
In conjunction with this
focus on education and as part of my preparations for teaching, I just finished
reading Christine Harris’ dissertation on The Experience of Support for
Transformative Learning. (Harvard, 2002) This work addresses central issues
for my educational intentions, specifically, how to structure potentially
transformative pedagogical experiences for students at a variety of
developmental stages. The challenge of integrating as much of the theory as
possible into how to design and run the class is a daunting one, but I expect
to learn a great deal from it.
Another recent reading was
Sharon Begley’s Train Your Mind Change Your Brain (Ballantine Books,
2007) which reports on recent research in neuroplasticity. This fascinating
book tells the story of how the commonly accepted view in neuroscience of the
brain being hardwired and unchanging after childhood is being overturned. The
focus is on the 2004 Mind and Life Institute dialogues between neuroscientists
and the Dalai Lama. One of many findings is that one of the best ways to reduce
the impact of aging on cognitive functioning is to continue learning. However
it is important to not just continue learning within domains already familiar.
It is much more valuable to learn things that are new and outside of one’s
normal habits of mind.
I have been experiencing this
in two areas of my life. One is in learning Norwegian, which is proving to be a
very stimulating and challenging endeavor. The other is taking up the oriental
game of Go, or Baduk. After playing chess for over thirty years, learning how
to think in this game that is considered to be even more complex is another new
challenge. The kinds of perceptual filters necessary for seeing the tensions
and patterns at the heart of this game are very different than in chess, and
certainly are stretching my brain!
Sara
Ross
My more-than-a-year-long
project of co-editing and also writing for a triple special journal issue with
Michael Commons came to a close in December. Now in press at World Futures: The Journal of General
Evolution, the issue’s focus is on postformal thought and hierarchical
complexity. The issue was invited to highlight the Model of Hierarchical
Complexity, a universal theory of task-measurement developed by Commons and
colleagues over 30 years. As a general theory, it applies to the developmental
analyses of human behavior, including thought and action. In addition to the
Model’s theoretical foundations, the issue includes a non-exhaustive range of
applications and implications. A few of those included are: hierarchical complexity
dynamics of evolution; evolution of intelligence; hierarchical complexity requirements
for scientific innovation; moral, religious, and political development; the
hierarchical complexity of public interactions; challenges in communications;
and a hierarchical complexity analysis of resistance to concepts of
hierarchical complexity J. One of the articles is the first publication of my analysis of the
measurable fractal nature of developmental transition dynamics, which I began
presenting at conferences in 2007. If I could express in writing how excited I
am about the contributions I see that this “stuff” makes to understanding human
and social dynamics, I would!
A new way to extend the reach
of ARINA’s developmental approach to comprehensive social change emerged this
fall. As one of the in-house instructors of the new PublicDecisions.com
online training platform, beginning in 2008 I am teaching short
“chunked-down” sessions online, some of which are drawn from The Integral Process for Working on Complex
Issues, published by ARINA (IR’s
publisher). PublicDecisions.com serves audiences of elected and appointed
officials, public participation practitioners, and non-profit organizations.
Bonnitta
Roy
I live in the New England
region of the United States. I live in a rural area with rolling hills that is
known for its dramatic seasonal characteristics. There is a saying “if you
don’t like the weather, just wait.” Like migratory birds, a lot of people
around here go south for the winter, instead of waiting it out for the weather
to change. At a particularly frigid time this winter, I overheard someone say
“don’t think of it as global warming… think of it as moving south, slowly.”
Since I run a landscape
design-build firm, and also work with horses, the nine “good” months out of the
year keep me active outdoors. But in the “dead” of winter, I take to books. I
am what people call an “eclectic” reader. Here are some of the titles that I
have enjoyed so far this winter. All are dated 2007 except those noted
otherwise.
Economy, Sociology, Geo-politics
Blessed Unrest, Paul Hawken
Deep Economy, Bill
McKibben
Real Wealth of Nations, Riane Eisler
Corporate Governance for Sustainability, Raimund Bleischwitz
Brain-Mind Relationship
Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain, Sharon
Begley
A quartet of B. Alan
Wallace’s writings, including 2 earlier works: Contemplative Science, Hidden Dimensions, Taboo of Subjectivity (2000),
and Choosing Reality (2003)
Mind and Quantum Mechanics
Mind Matter & Quantum Mechanics, Hentry Stapp
Mind, Matter & the Implicate Order, Paavo
Pylkkanen
Psycho-cognitive Theory of Mind
Irreducible Mind, Kelly, Kelly, et al., from the Center for Theory and Research at Esalen
Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
Proust was a Neuroscientist, Jonah Lehrer
Proust and the Squid, Maryanne Wolf
Buddhist Studies
The Two Truths Debate, Soman Thakchoe
Fiction
The Maytrees, Annie
Dillard
They say “you are what you
eat.” I like to add “and become what you read.”
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to
have access to dialogue with these authors after spending so much intimate time
with their works! Integral Review offers just this kind of experience with its
on-line discussion author forums. I had the pleasure of participating with an
exceptional group of people in Gary Hampson’s forum concerning his article Integral Reviews Postmodernism: The Way Out
is Through.” By examining our individual distinctions as well as naming our
common ground, I felt that together we nuanced the “line” between the
postmodern view and the integral view -- without making too sharp a cut that
would otherwise reify a kind of boundary across an otherwise seamless continuum
of consciousness. Getting from there to
here was heavy going – the dialogue was steeped in dense theoretical thinking
and therefore linguistically tricky – but others posted timely poetry and
streams of consciousness that seemed to carry forward what otherwise might have
died in the flames of its own hyper-intellectual illusions of “reality”. In the
end, all of us were grateful for the generous contribution of selves. Recently,
given a little bit of space since engaging him intensely in the forum on the
issue of Derrida, Gregory Desilet commented:
It may help in future forums and discussions
of "integral" to think through the issues not only in the
philosophical language of metaphysics and dialectics but at the same time
branching over to think in terms of how that approach may be played out
dramatically. What would its dialectics suggest for the structuring of dramatic
conflict? Is a sufficient "difference" realized such that it can be
portrayed clearly in the lives, actions, and conflicts of dramatized
characters? To see it dramatized in a compelling way would bring it to life for
everyone, not just the metaphysically informed. This is the challenge I believe
currently confronts the "integral" if it is to take shape in a way
that can move people in a culturally broad way. The integral needs its
Aeschylus and perhaps a new genre of drama. Without that it will be hard for
people to adequately see what difference the integral approach makes in their
lives.
… and I thought he’d
sprinkled star dust in my eyes.
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