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The
Adizes Institute and Adizes
Graduate School (Dr. Ichak Adizes)
Organisational development guru best known for the 'corporate
lifecyle' model, which some have cross-correlated with Spiral
Dynamics and Myers-Briggs personality
types.
See: 'Adizes Corporate
Lifecycle Assessment' and 'Adizes
Management Styles'.
AQAL
Journal
The Integral Institute’s official journal was launched
in 2007, with Editor-in-chief Ken Wilber and Sean Esbjorn-Hargens
as Executive Editor (requires Integral Institute subscription
for access, I think).
Asociacion
Integral
Spanish group founded by Raquel Torrent.
Association
for Moral Education
Interdisciplinary
forum for professionals interested in the moral dimensions
of educational theory and practice.
Axialent
Integral Evolution (Fred Kofman)
Consultancy with Integral Institute founder member Fred Kofman,
author of Conscious
Business - How to Build Value Through Values, Includes
integral
leadership etc papers.
Richard
Barrett/The Values Centre
Organsational development guru who uses a model similar to
Maslow and Spiral Dynamics, and wrote Liberating
the Corporate Soul – Building a Visionary Organisatison
and Building
a Values-Driven Organization - A Whole System Approach to
Cultural Transformation.
See: 'Maslow's Hierarchy
of Needs (+Values Modes)'.
Big
Mind
Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Roshi's site about
his powerful method for tasting higher states. Includes articles
and audio 'Big Mind' demonstration, including one with Ken
Wilber and friends.(NB I think the audio ‘Big Mind’
demos have now been removed...?)
Center
for Human Emergence - Copenhagen
New Spiral Dynamics Integral-inspired centre.
See: 'Spiral
Dynamics Value Memes'.
Center
for Human Emergence - Netherlands
New Spiral Dynamics Integral-inspired centre.
See: 'Spiral
Dynamics Value Memes'.
Center
for Human Emergence - USA
New Spiral Dynamics Integral-inspired centre.
See: 'Spiral
Dynamics Value Memes'.
Centering
Prayer/Contemplative Outreach
"Contemplative Outreach is a spiritual network of individuals
and small faith communities committed to living the contemplative
dimension of the Gospel in everyday life through the practice
of Centering Prayer. The contemplative dimension of the Gospel
manifests itself in an ever-deepening union with the living
Christ and the practical caring for others that flows from
that relationship."
Its
leader, Father Thomas Keating, author of Open
Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel,
is a member of Ken Wilber's 20-strong Integral
Spiritual Center team of spiritual/religious
teachers.
Clare
Graves
Theory, research, articles etc about developmental
psychologist Clare Graves, whose work is the foundation of
Spiral Dynamics. See:
'Spiral Dynamics Value Memes'.
Allan
Combs
Consciousness research pioneer and founder member of the Integral
Institute. Combs also wrote The
Radiance of Being – Understanding the Grand Integral
Vision; Living the Integral Life (with foreword by
Ken Wilber).
Michael
Commons (Dare Association inc)
Leading developmental psychologist, moving beyond Piaget into
the post-formal stages of adult growth. Papers include ‘Hierarchical
Complexity Scoring System: How to Score Anything’ and
other topics including terrorism, creative innovation, animal
behavioural stages and spirituality.
Compassionate
Coaching
“Expanding your effectiveness and fulfilment in life
and work through Integral Coaching.”
Integral Institute
member Steve McIntosh’s site.
Conciencia
Integral
Spanish Integral campus founded by Ezequiel Newberry.
Cook-Greuter
& Associates
Dr Susanne Cook-Greuter is a leading figure involved in the
Integral Institute – best known for her pioneering work
in extending Dr Jane Loevinger’s model of ego development
(based on the results of sentence completion tests) into higher,
even transpersonal, stages of adult development. Website
includes some very valuable papers
on higher adult development etc.
Cultural
Dynamics
Pat Dade uses Maslow-inspired ‘Value Modes’ assessment
a wide range of organisations, campaigns and businesses.
See: 'Maslow's
Hierarchy of Needs (+Values Modes)'.
David
Deida
Spiritual sex/relationship guru's website. Includes Deida’s
essay ‘Ken Wilber is a fraud’. Deida is the author
of Intimate
Communion – Awakening Your Sexual Essence and
a member of Ken Wilber's 20-strong Integral
Spiritual Center team of spiritual/religious
teachers.
Del.icio.us:
Ken Wilber
Results page for a search on “Ken Wilber” on this
bookmark-sharing site.
Del.icio.us:
integral
The page for the most popular sites people have tagged with
‘integral’ from (Web 2.0) social bookmarking site
Del.icio.us.
Diamond
Approach/A. H. Almaas/Hameed Ali
East/West synthesis of spirituality and depth psychology,
recommended by Wilber. See also Ridhwan
School.
See A.H.
Almaas books.
Drishti
- Centre for Integral Action
Integrating self, culture, society and nature. Lots of materials
by Gail Hochachka et al on sustainability, international development,
nursing etc.
Engage
Interact!
Training organisation influenced by the integral
approach, complexity theory, and Spiral Dynamics. Includes
integral-related papers by Peter Merry.
Enneagram
Institute
Enneagram
personality type approach, favoured by Ken Wilber. See The
Wisdom of the Enneagram - The Complete Guide to Psychological
and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types,
recommended by Ken Wilber.
Executive
Integral Leadership Programme
Leo Burke’s pioneering integral leadership course at
Notre Dame University, USA.
Formless
Mountain
Some great audios from a weekend with Ken Wilber at JFK University
in 2003 (donations requested).
Global
Integral Research (www.gircorp.org website is down
- may have folded?)
Michael Ostrolenk’s Global Integral Research Corporation
offers leadership and management training programs, coaching,
seminars, research, and public policy consulting based on
the principles of integral thinking. All programs are designed
to enhance individual, organizational, institutional and community
development.
Global
Values Network
South Africa-based Alan Tonkin applies Spiral
Dynamics to business and social development. Includes
articles on topics such as sustainable development, democracy,
technology – plus ‘Values in Action’ case
study on Middleburg Steel & Alloy.
A
Guide to the Transpersonal Internet
Produced by David Lukoff and the Association for Transpersonal
Psychology.
Harthill
Consultants (USA)
Set up by Integral Institute founder members Prof
Bill Torbert, Susanne Cook-Greuter and others (though Susanne
Cook-Greuter has now gone her own way). Some valuable resources.
(In fact Harthill USA seems to have been replaced now by www.cook-greuter.com).
See: 'Level of Ego
Development/Action Logics'.
Harthill
Consulting Ltd (UK)
Set up by Integral Institute founder members Prof
Bill Torbert, David Rooke, Susanne Cook-Greuter and others
(though Susanne Cook-Greuter has now gone her own way). Some
valuable resources.
See: 'Level of Ego
Development/Action Logics'.
iKosmos
“The Portal for Cultural Creativity”. Site currently
‘dormant’ in suspended animation, but says: “We
will return again”. Leave your e-mail to be notified
of relaunch.
Inspiral
World
A Spiral Dynamics/integral-orientated organisation launched
by Dr Robin Wood (formerly of the London Business School),
Chris Cooke and Dave Yaffey. Its launch event was a conference
on Integral Leadership in London – with speakers including
Don Beck, Ichak Adizes and Bob Garrett.
No
longer active though a replacement organisation may emerge.
Site now decommissioned “as part of a review of our
web strategy”.
Integral
Age (folded?)
Provides introductions to the latest theories, practices,
and cultural intimations of Integral consciousness - including
articles, reviews, and interviews from leading exponents of
this emerging worldview.
Integral
City
‘Meshworking global intelligences in the global village.’
Spiral Dynamics Integral-inspired site founded by Marilyn
Hamilton.
Integral
Development Associates
Integral consultancy website from the Integral Institute’s
John Forman and colleagues. Includes articles applying integral
model to knowledge management (a Henley Management College
project I participated in), nursing, and complexity. An 'Integral
Friend' of the Integral Institute.
Integral
Education Centre at Integral University/Next Step Education
Forum
Bringing an integral approach to education.
Integrales
Forum
The focus of much integral work in the German-speaking
world (Austria, Germany and Switzerland) - including regional
newsletters and conventions.
It was previously known as the Ken Wilber Work Circle (Arbeit
Kreis Ken Wilber).
German and English versions.
Integral
Healthcare Solutions
Tom Goddard's healthcare consulting and policy research firm.
Integral
Institute
Ken Wilber's Integral Institute aims to bring together all
of the leading edge Integral thinkers in the world today.
Integral
Institute’s Encyclopedia
of Human Development
‘Final report’ (says Allan Combs, project leader)
of “the first fully funded project of the Integral Institute”
– an encylopaedia of “all research on human psychological
and spiritual growth”. Involved Kegan, Cook-Greuter
and others. (NB The report itself is marked ‘interim
report’, and the promised Encyclopedia of Human
Development was sadly seemingly never completed. Some
interesting charts/lists of transformational practices, developmental
stages, narrative reports etc remain however).
Integral
Israel
New Spiral Dynamics and integral site.
Integral
Leadership Review
Integral coach Russ Volckmann’s great free e-newsletter,
and site. Includes interviews (eg Susanne Cook-Greuter, Chris
Cowan – a Gravesian purist and critic of Wilber's approach.)
I currently write the ‘Kalman’s Kosmos’
book reviews column for it.
Integral
Leadership
Trainer and Integral Institute founder member Peter McNab
draws together the Integral model, NLP, Spiral Dynamics, the
Enneagram etc to focus on leadership development and communication.
Author of the book Towards
An Integral Vision: Using NLP & Ken Wilber’s AQAL
Model to Enhance Communication.
Integral
Leadership - The 100 Book project
Thierry Pauchant's challenging project aims to produce 100
integral biographies – "leadographies" –
of respected leaders (eg Mandela, King, Gandhi) within 10
years (May still be recruiting further authors/researchers?).
Integral
Life Practice
Official Integral Institute site promoting a balanced, All
Quadrants, all Levels, 'Integral Life Practice' (a more modular
version of Leonard and Murphy's original Integral Transformative
Practice, described in The
Life We Are Given - A Long-Term Program for Realizing the
Potential of Body, Mind, Heart, and Soul).
Integral
Multiplex
This is now the umbrella site including all the Integral Institute-related
sites.(Though it will be superceded by a new Integral Institute
portal soon – called ‘Integral Life’).
Integral
Naked
Showpiece Integral Institute site which features video and
audio interviews between Ken Wilber and other thought-leaders
(including Beck, Senge, Chopra, Robbins, Wachowski, Ury, Steindl-Rast,
Dossey, Kegan, Schachter-Shalomi, Bennis, Gafni). Includes
a discussion
forum, which is now merged with the Integral Institute’s
Integral
Multiplex site. Site requires subscription (except for
reading Forum mails and occasional free interviews).
Integral
Recovery
An integral approach to the treatment of alcoholism and addiction.
Integral
Review
A transdisciplinary and transcultural online journal for new
thought, research and praxis, founded by Integral Institute
founder member Sara Ross. Contributors include leading developmental
psychologists such as Integral Institute founder member Prof
Bill Torbert and Michael Basseches. Topics include integral
leadership theory. (Editors include Michael Bauwens, Thomas
Jordan, Jonathan Reams and Russ Volckmann).
Integral
Spiritual Center
Ken Wilber's 20-strong team of spiritual/religious teachers
– including David Deida, Genpo Roshi, Father Thomas
Keating, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Roger Walsh, Frances
Vaughn etc.
Read
Wilber's launch article 'What
is Integral Spirituality?'.
Integral
Strategies (this site!)
'The
shortcut to solutions and communities for an integral age'.
Also includes information on tests and
assessments in all Quadrants, integral
and related books, discussion sites,
integral salons worldwide etc.
Produced by Matthew
Kalman, London Integral Circle
founder, and founder member of the Integral Institute.
Integral
Transformative Practice
A balanced approach to personal development, devised by Human
Potential movement pioneers, and Integral Institute founder
members, George Leonard and Michael Murphy and described in
their book The
Life We Are Given - A Long-Term Program for Realizing the
Potential of Body, Mind, Heart, and Soul.
Integral
University
“The world’s first integral learning community”;
"One of the central visions of Integral University is
to provide a network of accredited degrees and programs through
partnerships with various colleges, universities, and graduate
schools. We are very excited at IU to be working with both
Fielding, a long time leader in distributed learning, and
JFKU, the only university in the world that has an Integral
Studies Department explicitly based on AQAL."
Integral
Visioning
Collaborative site for 'integrally aligned people'. Looks
a good source for Wilber critics too: eg de Quincey, Heron,
Bauwens and Edwards.
Integral
Wiki
Think wikipedia... but integral.
Integral
World – Exploring theories of everything
"An independent public forum for critical reflection
on Ken Wilber's integral philosophy".
Valuable
site produced by Frank Visser, author of Ken
Wilber - Thought As Passion. Articles, reviews, core
concepts, Integral Initiatives around the world etc. Used
to be called 'World of Ken Wilber'. Includes sections in Croatian,
Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian,
Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish etc.
Hundreds
of articles etc by authors – many of them Integral Institute
founder members – including Michael Bauwens, Don Beck,
Barrett Brown, Allan Combs, Susanne Cook-Greuter, Sean Hargens,
Frank Visser, Ken Wilber, Greg Wilpert, Michael Zimmerman.
Wilber says his views are often misrepresented by some of
the critical pieces that are included on this site. (I think
Frank Visser also initiated the launch of the 2,500 Ken Wilber
Meet-Ups worldwide.)
Integratedsociopsychology
'Change Engineer' Keith Rice synthesises Spiral Dynamics,
NLP, integral, Adizes etc. Author of Knowing
Me, Knowing You: an Integrated SocioPsychology Guide to Personal
Fulfilment & Better Relationships.
Journal
of Adult Development
Key journal for the field – special issues have included
William Perry and epistemological development (April 2004),
Charles Alexander and higher states of consciousness (memorial
issue). Contributors include Susanne Cook-Greuter. Produced
by the Society
for Research in Adult Development.
Byron
Katie/The Work (Inquiry)
Former depressive who saw the light offers a simple approach
called ‘The Work’, which helps people stop fighting
against reality and their projections. Ken Wilber calls it:
“A wonderful new set of techniques for spiritual intelligence
and glimpsing causal emptiness.”
See also her book Loving
What Is - Four Questions that Can Change Your Life.
Kosmos
Journal
Dr. Nancy Roof's journal, strongly influenced by integral
ideas and Spiral Dynamics.
Levels/waves/stages
of development
Formless Mountain’s nifty interactive graphic of the
Spiral Dynamics levels.
London
Integral Circle
Integral salon launched in 2000 by
Matthew Kalman.
See: 'London
Integral Circle: crucible of a consciousness struggling to
be born'
Matrix
Integral
Swedish integral education organisation.
Minds
at work - Learning for a Change
Training and consultancy from Integral Institute founder member
Prof Robert Kegan (author of In
Over Our Heads: the mental demands of modern life)
and Lisa Laskow Lahey (co-author with Kegan of How
the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work: Seven Langurges
for Transformation.)
Myers-Briggs
personality type
A good free Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) test (aka 'Jung
Typology Test').
See:
'Myers-Briggs Personality
Types'.
New
Integrity
Integral-orientated consultants Indra Adnan and Pat Kane (of
Hue and Cry fame – new album in the works!). Projects
include revisioning
social work across Scotland. London
Integral Circle members.
Nordic
Integral
Spiral Dynamics and integral site from Sweden.
Nick
Owen
Communications and related training from Spiral Dynamics,
integral and NLP-influenced perspective. London
Integral Circle member.
Personality
Development
Great new resource on Jane Loevinger and ego level assessment.
See:
'Levels of Ego Development/Action
Logics'.
Jean
Piaget Society
Society for the Study of Knowledge and Development. Publish
the journal Cognitive Development. Site includes
previously unpublished essays by Piaget.
Polilogues
Integrally informed interviews. Exploring multitudes of worldviews
with leading European thinkers and practitioners. By Helen
Titchen Beeth and Geert Drieghe.
Radical
Middle
Beyond the usual Left and Right mudslinging, Mark Satin pioneers
a new approach to politics. Includes report on Don Beck’s
Spiral
Dynamics 2005 Confab.
Requisite
Organization
Elliot
Jaques' iconoclastic and controversial 'Requisite Organization'
approach – recommended as an example of a Second Tier/Yellow
approach in the book Spiral
Dynamics: mastering values, leadership and change.
See: Elliot Jaques’
Levels of Complexity/time horizons (Stratified Systems Theory).
Keith
Rice
'Change Engineer' Keith Rice synthesises Spiral Dynamics,
NLP, integral, Adizes etc. Author of Knowing
Me, Knowing You: an Integrated SocioPsychology Guide to Personal
Fulfilment & Better Relationships.
Caleb
Rosado
Leading figure in applying Spiral Dynamics approach to education,
faith, leadership and diversity issues.
John
Rowan
Leading transpersonal/integral therapist and counsellor.
London Integral Circle member and
author of The
Transpersonal: Spirituality in Psychotherapy and Counselling.
Society
for Research in Adult Development
International cross-disciplinary organisation for
people interested in positive adult development – from
late adolescence and continuing through life. The focus is
on expanded capabilities and changes that improve the quality
of life. Includes symposiums, e-mail list and book list info.
Spiral
Dynamics
Original Spiral Dynamics site (Chris Cowan).
See:
'Spiral Dynamics Value Memes'.
Spiral
Dynamics
More recent site – produced by Chris Cowan and Natasha
Todorovic. Newsletter, FAQs, mini-course, provocative –
but but centrally flawed IMHO – paper The
Mean Green Hypothesis: Fact or Fiction? etc.
See: 'Spiral
Dynamics Value Memes'.
Spiral
Dynamics Integral
The Don Beck approach to Spiral Dynamics – allied to
Wilber's integral approach (in contrast to Cowan's approach)
– though seemingly no longer to Wilber personally.
See: 'Spiral
Dynamics Value Memes'.
Spiral
Dynamics Group
Chris Cooke, Don Beck and others.
Stagen
Leadership Institute
Integral-orientated leadership training – an official
‘Integral Friend’ of the Integral Institute.
Transpersonal
Psychology
John Davis PhD’s useful site.
UK
iNext
‘Integral Next: the next generation.’
A group ‘for the younger and fresher faced members of
the UK Kosmos to discuss and embody the work of Ken Wilber
and other integral approaches... Rock on in kids!’
‘This
group is a baby-step; a raft riding the growing tidal wave
of Integral. It is a meeting place for the young and the young
at heart to meet, inspire and grow. Lets gather around the
table, drink to each other's futures and sooth our integral
loneliness.’
So hip that they wouldn’t let me join their
Google group ;-)
VALS
survey
‘Values and Lifestyles’, a very well known
developmental assessment approach, originally based on Maslow
(and influenced by Clare Graves, precursor to Spiral Dynamics).
See: 'Maslow's
Hierarchy of Needs (+Values Modes)'.
Values
Technology, Inc.
Brian
and Martin Hall’s somewhat Spiral Dynamics-like values-based
developmental framework finds eight stages of development
over which 125 values are spread.
See: 'Maslow's
Hierarchy of Needs (+Values Modes)'.
Brian
Van der Horst
Integral and NLP-related resources, from a one-time European
co-ordinator of the Integral Institute.
Wade
MindSets
Transpersonal researcher Jenny Wade’s model of developing
MindSets (Worth bearing in mind: "Trying to talk someone
out of their characteristic MindSet is a losing proposition").
Waking
Down in Mutuality
Spiritual teacher Saniel Bonder, a member of Ken Wilber’s
Integral
Spiritual Center.
What
Is Enlightenment? magazine
Glossy and impressive magazine produced by controversial guru
Andrew Cohen’s spiritual organisation – topics
have included Spiral Dynamics, interview with Prof Robert
Kegan, 'The Guru and the Pandit' dialogues between Wilber
and Cohen etc.
Wikipedia:
Ken
Wilber and Integral
theory
Two integral-related entries from the online collaborative
encylopaedia. (Though transpersonal psychologists might quibble
with the accuracy of the statement “he is considered
the father of the transpersonal school of psychology”
– NB since removed).
Ken
Wilber Online
His publisher's website – a fantastic source
of in-depth articles, interviews, draft sections from forthcoming
books etc. Not to be missed (though somewhat superceded now
by ‘Ken
Wilber: official website’).
Ken Wilber:
Official Website
'The first and only official Ken Wilber website'.
Includes unmissable Ken
Wilber blog, with lots of original writings.
Ken
Wilber - interview (link broken – anyone have
a new one?)
With Enlightenment.com founder Jordan Gruber.
Ken
Wilber: ‘An
Integral Theory of Consciousness’
Article for Journal of Consciousness Studies (Feb
1997)
Your
Path to Transition
Spirituality and Ken Wilber site produced by Piers Clement.
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© 2007 Matthew Kalman
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