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Last updated: 11 Nov 07
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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.

 

Copyright © 2007 Matthew Kalman