Previous Editors

Ph.D. In addition to my duties as Editor-in Chief of Integral Review I am an associate professor in the Department of Education at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. I teach organizational counseling, coaching and leadership, and am pursuing research in the areas of leadership, dialogue and counseling.

My background began in agriculture, eventually turned to trucking, and has more recently focused on consulting. Between farming and consulting, I returned to university after a twelve year break, while also raising a family, running a trucking business, and building a log house. I’ve also been involved in various volunteer community activities in the fields of education, economic development and civic leadership. A passion for understanding human nature has guided much of my experience, and eventually led to a doctorate in Leadership Studies, with my dissertation on The Consciousness of Transpersonal Leadership.

My current work has focused on developing leadership capacities for a wide range of clients. This has included developing and delivering curriculum, consulting, coaching, facilitation, research, writing, and teaching. In addition to this work, I have presented at a number of international conferences on topics ranging from consciousness and identity to transformative learning, to spirituality on campus.

My work with Integral Review has been a highly rewarding venue for engaging in inquiry about a wide range of perceptions on the human condition and how consciousness shapes it. My hope is that the journal can serve to foster increasingly coherent dialogue in this area.

B.A. (Honors), Fine Art. Being unsure exactly when I became aware of the Integral Paradigm, I do know I became aware of Integral Review a couple years ago. I was immediately struck by the beauty of the openness this connection generated, and am happy to have it extend into my current association in this role on the Editorial Board.

I trained under the visionary artist Leonard McComb, D.Phil., R.A. (Keeper of Pictures) at Oxford and London and studied as a pupil of Mnr. A.M. de Lange, M.Sc., Goldfields, Pretoria, RSA - the discoverer of the Seven Essentialities of Creativity.

In 2001 I became involved in the Learning Organizations online community Learning-org^TM. Its founder, Richard Karash, (also a Founding member of the Society for Organizational Learning), asked to see what a then-unpublished interview between Otto Scharmer and Francisco Varela would generate or inspire in me. The images I then created as well as other artwork that followed became part of the http://www.dialogonleadership.org/ project. I later worked on a project with a global team of scholars in Educational Insights, a journal of the University of British Columbia, guest edited by Warren Linds and Johnna Haskell in 2004.

My hope is to add some of the capacity that an artist’s eye can offer in widening the scope of perspective available on the Editorial Board, as well as bringing some of the occasional thoughts, insights and perspectives of the artistic sensibility. If I have an initial aim for my involvement in this community it is invoked by Fuseli’s observations of his friend Will’m Blake a long time ago that, ‘the whole of his aim is to produce singular shapes & odd combinations.’ Island Dwelling Satyrs, Iron Spring Swords, Indian Dogs, Phaselis Fire, Falconry, Purple Lake, One horned Asses, and Wool bearing Trees.

Associate Editors

Ph.D. and associate professor.  I am a trainer, consultant, researcher and in the fields of conflict resolution, communication, adult development and organizational development. I divide my time between the Department of Work Science at the Göteborg University, Sweden, and consulting and process facilitation in such areas as conflict management, coaching, research design and organizational development. I have carried out a number of research projects based on adult development theory on meaning-making in defense and security policies and workplace conflicts/collaboration cultures. I offer workshops and seminars on conflict management, adult development psychology and visionlogic for organizational consultants, leaders and various types of professionals. I share my writing and research at www.perspectus.se/tjordan.

I am involved with ARINA because it is a platform that makes valuable knowledge and skills available to people who need to develop their competence for working effectively with social change. ARINA strives to introduce wisdom into political and social processes at various scales, by skill development in the fields of systemic complexity, self-awareness, meta-paradigmatical awareness and holocentric values.

Ed.D.  I am currently a consultant and research scientist in the areas of Cognitive Tools, Educational Software, and Knowledge Engineering.  Most of my professional life has been spent doing research that incorporates cognitive science and educational theory into advanced technology educational software. I have degrees in physics, computer science, and educational technology.  Recently I find myself sliding increasingly into applied philosophy, specifically in epistemology and ethics, and am interested in the relationship between how mind/thought works and people's ethical/moral capacities. The projects I am most excited about are my writings on "epistemic indeterminacy" and design ideas for software that supports the reflective and dialectical thinking skills involved in ethical/moral interactions.  I am fascinated by manifestations of collective intelligence in my own life, including experiences with Bohm Dialog and consensus-based decision making.  I occasionally lead workshops in conflict resolution and conscious communication skills.

In these interests I have drawn much inspiration from integral theories, which provide much needed conceptual frameworks for counteracting debilitating forms of dissociation (between people, between aspects of one's self, between fields of knowledge, etc.) that impede the evolution of human potential.  To my role as an Integral Review editor I bring a curiosity to explore how integral theories and methodological pluralism can be applied to the processes of dialog and knowledge building that we use within the integral theory community.  For more about me, including my dabblings in Contact Improvisation, Action Theater, and Ultimate Frisbee, see www.tommurray.us.

Ph.D. My history includes many years as a writer, accountant, spiritual director in retreat and client work, designer and convener of public meetings, forums, and transformative curricula and other processes for diverse settings, and action and theoretical researcher.  I have presented papers on integral public processes for complex policy and systemic issues, developmental approaches to democratization, developmental behavioral analyses of political economies of corruption, and the fractal nature of developmental stage change at various scientific conferences.

I serve on the editorial board of the International Journal of Public Participation, as the editor of the  Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences Newsletter, and on the Management Review Board of the Integral Leadership Review. My professional affiliations include the Society for Research in Adult Development (governing board, program committee), Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and Life Sciences (membership chair), International Society of Political Psychology, American Psychological Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and World Future Society.

I contributed as one of the associate authors in Bill Torbert & Associates Action Inquiry: The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership (2004, Berrett-Koehler), and co-edited a special triple issue of World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution on postformal thought and hierarchical complexity (2008, forthcoming).

As the founder and president of Integral Review's publisher, ARINA, Inc., I am excited at the potentials for IR and the roles it can play in supporting ARINA's mission and fostering integral approaches in transdisciplinary discourse.

After graduating from Colby College with a BA in both Biology and Philosophy, I worked under a National Science Foundation Grant first at Princeton University, and then as a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley in neurophysics; after which I again turned to philosophy as a graduate student at University of San Francisco. My professional career is in Landscape Design and Construction. In the non-profit sector, I have worked as a core group leader for a Community Sponsored Agriculture Biodynamic Farm, and participated as the 2005 President and 2003-2006 Director of the National Qigong Association, for whom I served on several standing committees, and also developed the NQA's member publication "The Journal of Qigong in America." I am a member of EAGALA (Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association) and am Founder/President of EAGLE Foundations, Inc, a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to create environments that foster the horse-human encounter to facilitate adult learning and awareness. I am a Natural Horsemanship trainer, and compete in 100-mile endurance races as a member of the American Endurance Riding Conference.
 

Ph.D. After receiving my PhD at Berkeley in political science, doing my dissertation as a Fulbright Scholar in India, I studied humanistic psychology at Sonoma State University. I practiced as an organization development consultant for 22 years with government agencies, non-profit organizations and various industries, including health care, computer technology, utilities, manufacturing and services. Since 1997 I have focused on executive coaching and have trained executives as well aspiring business coaches in coaching skills. I coach CEOs and CxOs in a variety of industries, as well as business owners and independent professionals.

My major interest these days is in integral leadership development. The work I do with executives and teams, as well as my writing and publishing, is focused on this area where theory and practice merge. I believe that we need to shift our paradigm of leadership and that an integral lens offers a powerful approach for doing this. We can develop individual leaders—and that is important—and we must develop leadership as a dynamic process in all of our institutions if we are to meet the challenges in the world of today and tomorrow.

My involvement with ARINA is an opportunity to work with others in bringing transdisciplinary perspectives to the study and development of integral leadership theory and leadership development in various types of organizations, communities and cultures.