Last updated: 11 Nov 07
Talk: online discussion lists and forums

• Many blogs also have 'comment' facilities – the best have vibrant discussions. Some salons or communities/groups have thriving forums too.
Why not perk up any flagging groups by sending in a topical or controversial post! ; -)

Adult Development
Promoting the field of lifespan and adult developmental psychology. Contributors include Integral Institute founder member Susanne Cook-Greuter, Michael Commons, Herb Koplowitz and Michael Basseches (ie leading researchers who have pioneered the study of later and more complex stages of adult maturation).

Adult Development and Terrorism
Moderated by Michael Commons.

Alex Grey
'Art and Spirit' discussion forums on site of this integral-orientated US artist, recommended by Wilber.

Habermas
"...as text, influence, adversary, exemplar." Leading philosopher and sociologist Jürgen Habermas is a major influence on Ken Wilber’s integral model ("I consider Habermas the world's greatest living philosopher," says Ken). Especially Habermas’ book Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action.

HeartMind Community Forum
A forum for Integral Visioning and 'post-Wilberian' discussion. Which I guess sounds more cutting-edge than non-Wilberian ;-)

Integral Institute pod (at Zaadz)
“Our aim is to provide a space for broad discussion of second tier living, loving and learning”.
This has emerged as a major venue for integral discussion. Requires (free) membership to post.

Integral Leadership and Org. Development (integral-lod)
'A community of people practicing leadership and organizational development informed by integral theory.'

Integral Multiplex – Community
Integral University Forums, AQAL Journal Forums, regional/local spaces, Holons newsletter discussion, Integral Naked Forums, Integral Spiritual Center Forums. Subscription needed to post, though not just to read. (Moderation problems prompted some to move over to Zaadz’s Integral forums instead).

Integral Naked Forum
Discussion forum of Ken Wilber's Integral Naked interviews etc site. Subscription needed to post, though not just to read. (Now hosted alongside various Integral Multiplex forums).

Integral-people
An email list of participants in the integral studies (Wilber) discussion group that meets at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.

Integral Transformative Practice
An e-group for ITP.

Integral Women
A new e-group formed by some of the women members of the London Integral Circle: ‘a woman only meeting and connecting space’... ‘not intended to be instead of or to be in competition with but to complement our cherished mixed spaces’.

Ken Wilber Evolucion
Spanish group.

London Integral Circle (was Politics + Spirit)
Set up to support the real-world group/salon based in London – though open to all who are interested in integral discussion. Moderated (326 members - so we must be doing something right).

One Taste
"A discussion forum for exploration of ideas and practices that supports the working theory of evolution of human consciousness and acknowledges conscious awareness as a culminating endowment of enlightenment."

Perry Network
On the pioneering adult development model of Bill Perry, author of Forms of Intellectual and Ethical Development in the College Years: A Scheme, and a key influence on Integral Institute founder member Prof. Robert Kegan, author of In Over Our Heads: the mental demands of modern life.

Post-conventional Politics
Discussion and development of integral approaches to politics. Now perhaps more aligned with critical 'post-Wilberians'? Posters including Don Beck (even Ken Wilber), plus the founding moderators Michael Ostrolenk and Greg Wilpert seem to have pretty much moved away... [Ask the Moderators to be invited].

Politics and Spirit Network
Influenced by Integral Institute member Rabbi Michael Lerner – whose progressive political approach is not yet fully Integral, according to Wilber, but nonetheless moves the spotlight partly back to issues of meaning, values, morals and spirituality that have long been downplayed by the Left and progressives in general. (More of a progressive/Left list than integral.)

Proyecto Integral
Spanish Integral e-group.

Spiral Dynamics Unaligned
A group that formed to try to get beyond the Beck vs Cowan antipathy that split the original Spiral Dynamics e-list. Now largely silent.
Beck and Cowan are co-authors of Spiral Dynamics: mastering values, leadership and change.

Spiral Dynamics
The original Spiral Dynamics discussion list. Lots of SD insights from Don Beck and others (read the archives). Went through a more integral (Wilber-influenced) phase, but now returned to a more Clare Graves-focused mode, with Chris Cowan back at the the helm (and Beck driven out) – so perhaps best nowadays to downplay your interest in Wilber, integral approaches or 'Second Tier', which may well be viewed as... arrogant, elitist, or mere fantasy. ; -)

Spiral Dynamics Integral
The formation of this moderated, integral-orientated e-group by Dr. Don Beck became inevitable after the original Spiral Dynamics e-list became highly 'toxic' due to lack of any activity, by then-absent moderator Chris Cowan, to stop the unremitting personal attacks on Don Beck and other posters by one or two of the Cowan-orientated regulars. Interested in applying the SD developmental model across society. Moderated.

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 ;-)

Ken Wilber - Theory of Everything (now gone?)
Read the transcript of The Theory of Everything Conference, the online discussion with Ken Wilber that ran from September 15, 2000 through September 17, 2000. The conference transcripts are "Read-Only". They are open for all to read, but no new messages can be posted here.

Ken Wilber Forum
A once veryactive and unmoderated Yahoo e-group.

Ken Wilber: Open Discussion (closed down?)
"Share your experiences and comments about the works of Ken Wilber in the open discussion. This forum allows anonymous posting (no login required), however we do recommend you create an account so you can take advantage of all the features in this board." Hosted by Wilber's publisher, Shambhala.

World of Ken Wilber Forum
Discussion site connected to Frank Visser's "Integral World" site (which was originally called ‘World of Ken Wilber’) – now hosted by Lightmind Forums.

Transpersonal Psychology
"Discussion of Transpersonal Psychology and Archetypal Psychology by teachers and laymen alike".

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