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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................. ivEXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................................... 1INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................... 2INQUIRY PROCESS.................................................................................................................. 3

Discovery: The Research Question ........................................................................................ 3Platform for Participation: Design for Engagement ................................................................. 4Delivery: A Production Platform .............................................................................................. 7Deliverables, Data, Proceedings, Harvests ............................................................................. 9

PROVOCATIVE FINDINGS ......................................................................................................10The Challenges Cities Face ...................................................................................................10Radical Optimism ..................................................................................................................11City Intelligences ...................................................................................................................11Principles of Living Systems ..................................................................................................11

A New Operating System for Cities .......................................................................................12The City is Co-Creating Us ....................................................................................................12The Master Code: Take Care of Self, Others, Place/Planet ...................................................12Strategies for Designing the New Operating System .............................................................14

PRACTICAL RECOMMENDATIONS ........................................................................................16Practices for City-Centric Audiences .....................................................................................16Propositions for Sponsors & Partners ....................................................................................17Protocols for Future Collaborators .........................................................................................18

PROACTIVE CONCLUSIONS ..................................................................................................19REFERENCES .........................................................................................................................20

APPENDICES ...........................................................................................................................21


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APPENDICES ...........................................................................................................................21Appendix A: The Proceedings ...................................................................................................22

Appendix A-1: Ecosphere Intelligence ...................................................................................22Appendix A-2: Emergence Intelligence ..................................................................................23Appendix A-3: Living Intelligence ...........................................................................................24Appendix A-4: Integral Intelligence ........................................................................................25Appendix A-5: Cultural Intelligence ........................................................................................26Appendix A-6: Structural Intelligence .....................................................................................27Appendix A-7: Inquiry Intelligence .........................................................................................28Appendix A-8: Meshworking Intelligence ...............................................................................29Appendix A-9: Navigating Intelligence ...................................................................................30Appendix A-10: Evolutionary Outer Intelligence .....................................................................31Appendix A-11: Evolutionary Inner Intelligence ......................................................................32Appendix A-12: The Master Code ..........................................................................................33Appendix A-13: The Conference Harvest ..............................................................................34

Appendix B: Biographies ...........................................................................................................35Appendix C: Summary of Conference Stages, Actors and Platforms ........................................67Appendix D: Production Teams .................................................................................................71Appendix E: Comparing Sets of Principles to Integral City Intelligences ....................................73Appendix F: Integral City Maps .................................................................................................77Acknowledgements ...................................................................................................................79


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EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThe Integral City 2.0 Online Conference gathered 60 visionary thought leaders, designers andpractitioners, with 600 participants from 6 continents, to inquire into how to design a newoperating system for the city. The 12-day Conference allowed exploration of each of the 12intelligences from the book, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive,and their contributions to city vitality.

The Conference was designed to be co-generative and appreciative, with an action researchfocus, collecting data through guided interviews aligned with each of the 12 intelligences. Over70 hours of recorded interviews and dialogue were generated (audio podcasts and webinars),and subsequently transcribed into over 500 pages of transcripts. 660 thought leaders,

designers, practitioners and participants gathered synchronously and asynchronously in a spiritof radical optimism, an essential evolutionary aspect of life.

The four voices of the Integral City city-zens (UL)1, civil society (LL), government/agency (UR),and business/organization (LR) confirmed that a new operating system for the city is neededbecause cities face global crises related to water, food, energy, finance and climate change.The four Integral City voices see that this operating system resides within each of us andbetween us. Moreover, the new operating system is epitomized by, and optimized with, theMaster Code:take care of self, take care of others, take care of this place/planet.

In exploring the Master Code, we found that principles of living systems resonate with theintelligences and principles of Integral City. This was independently confirmed by 5 visionariesusing different lenses of human systems: groups, cities, sustainable design, investment and

organizations. Our data shows that our ecological transactions, cultural translations, structuraltransformations and planetary evolution are emerging the early stages of a collectiveconsciousness. The city is co-creating us and we are co-creating it. The city is alive.

The new operating system for cities embraces a transdisciplinary design with strategies thatembrace all four Integral quadrants: UL Intentional, LL Cultural, UR Behavioral, and LRStructural. It embraces a desire to act as a planet of cities embedding living system, resilienceand life cycle strategies. The Integral intelligence of the new operating system allows cities to beGaias reflective organs, with human city-zens as the cells in that organ, their wellbeingdependent on their relationships with each other and the planet. The logic processers of thenew operating system connect the dots by aligning purpose, priorities, people and planet withthe natural flow of information, energy and matter. Finally the power source for the new

operating system is an evolutionary manifestation of the Master Code, with care andcompassion as core, renewing energy.

It is not enough to ask what can the city do for us? It is time to ask what can we do for the city?City-centric individuals and organizations with vested city interests (governments/agencies,business, civil society) must play catalytic roles - to co-generate inquiry, innovate learning andstrengthen city relationships as the true currency for evolving city capacity and spirit.

1Integral Quadrant Legend from Appendix F: UL=Upper Left; LL=Lower Left; UR=Upper Right; LR=Lower Right


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INTRODUCTION

Holons, Week 1: Planet of Citiesby Erin Stewart Elliott

I felt inspired to create an event for people worldwide who have, like me,dreamed about how people can live together in more conscious andsustainable ways. Humans have the intelligence(s) to co-create a life-givingrelationship with our planet, Gaia. It is time for our species to wake up,grow up and take responsibility for the future of our shared human hive. Inthis gathering, lets build our dreams and make them real together.

Conference Producer, Dr. Marilyn Hamilton

Conference co-designers hold a radically optimistic vision of our collective future. We gatheredleaders and city-zens from around the world to dream, build and make real the future we wantfor our cities. In creating this online Conference, we made a bold commitment to co-create abright future for the entire human hive.

We know that creating the necessary global solutions to address the challenges we face willrequire the perspectives, expertise and energy of many people. We believe that passionate,informed people can create a massive positive shift. By putting our heads and hearts togetherwith experts in diverse disciplines, we envisioned and captured the most innovative ideas andbest practices to create a sustainable, thriving planetary future.

Over 60 thought leaders, designers and leading-edge practitioners from various industries, citysectors and academic disciplines from 6 of the worlds continents, started a conversation aboutour planet of cities. People from more than 75 cities have entered a co-generative exchangeabout what it will take for us to serve our cities well so they can serve us well.


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INQUIRY PROCESS

Integral Theory, Week 2: Gaias Reflective Organby Erin Stewart Elliott

Discovery: The Research QuestionThe genesis of the Conference was curiosity about a key question: what is the future of thehuman hive? A second question became the platform to explore this first question: how can wedesign a new operating system for the city?

To explore a new operating system for the city, we made assumptions, based on the book,Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive, about the city as an intelligent,natural, complex, human system. We subsequently designed to engage people, priorities andpurpose from a planet-centric perspective around these three principles:

1. Cities as human hives are the most relevant boundaries and crucibles for change inhuman systems at a planetary scale

2. We need a common lens and language from which to communicate and collaborateabout the human hive3. The city lens itself is under construction, and we need to learn how to think differently, as

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Platform for Participation: Design for Engagement

The Conference was delivered on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of each week fromSeptember 4 to 27, 2012. Each week of the Conference focused on a key element for a new

operating system for the city (Figure 1):

Week 1: Planet of Cities @ the Motherboard

Week 2: Gaias Reflective Organ: Integral Intelligence Inside

Week 3: Aligning Strategies to Prosper: Logic Processors Connecting All the Dots

Week 4: Amplifying Intelligence: Evolutionary Power Pak

Figure 1: Weekly design elements of the Conference

Each of the 12 Conference days focused on one of the Integral City intelligences with theguidance of three principles associated with each intelligence (Figure 2). These were exploredby thought leaders, designers and practitioners:

Thought leaders have an area of pracademic expertise that informs a key cityintelligence; yet they are (usually) not thought leaders about the city as currently

imagined Designers are pattern and meaning makers experimenting with manifesting contexts,

capacities, strategies and energies that contributes to city operational wellbeing

Practitioners are praxis leaders, continuously learning as they implement processes forsustainable practices, resilient strategies, community engagement, decision making,navigating intentions and evaluating outcomes


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Figure 2: Conference Daily Explorations

Action research was designed into the Conference, where the Conference became a co-created, and documented, learning experience that enabled inclusive participation, open inquiry,emergent discoveries, and integrated interpretation. Each week of the Conference focused oncore aspects of action research: think, plan, act, and reflect. Each week involved theexploration of three intelligences, one intelligence per day. Each day involved a series ofguided interviews derived from the set of 3 principles associated with each Integral City

intelligence. (Appendix A: The Proceedings summarizes each intelligence, core interviewquestions based on the principles, the focus questions for each session, the speakers and linksto transcripts.)

The Conference, as a 4-week research process, integrated action research (think, plan, act andreflect) with the audience and the production team to inquire about a new operating system forthe city. Our audience consisted of sponsors/partners (organizations who have a vestedinterest in the success of the city), knowledge workers (thought leaders, designers andpractitioners), and city-zens (people of the city who seek quality of life (Figure 3)). Consistentwith action research, our thinkers were engaged as thought leaders, planners were engaged asdesigners, actors were engaged as practitioners, and reflectors were engaged as Conferenceharvesters, hosts and producers. At the same time all the roles were potentially available and

practiced by all participants. A complete list of these players can be found in Appendix B.


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Figure 3: Conference Audiences

Design intentions for the Conference enabled:

Strategic access to audiences (city-zens, knowledge workers, sponsors-partners) who

enact Integral City intelligences Access to research on how to engage, align, mesh, enable, renew, facilitate, activate,

partner and collaborate for win-win-win city prosperity

Opportunities to listen to, speak with and influence city stakeholders

Opportunities to develop and accelerate city leadership

Co-creation of designs, policies and practices for city environments, integrations,connections, energy, change, hive mind, strategies, spirit and evolutionary energy

Effectively, the Conference design reflected a circular economy of the human hive (Figure 4):gathering pollen from the thought leaders, who research and write about the city; generatinghoney from designers and policy makers who are creating processes and structures that enablethe city to be a life-giving system of systems; harvesting the energy from practitioners who arepracticing new ways of living together for city wellbeing; and regenerating the hive through co-creating purpose, priorities, people and prosperity.


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Figure 4: The Circular Economy of the Human Hive

Delivery: A Production Platform

The Conference platform was an online learning environment that allowed synchronous and

asynchronous participation of learners. This choice allowed the world to gather - withoutonerous travel expenses, without the generation of greenhouse gas emissions and, mostimportantly, with the ability for speakers and the audience to virtually engage. A significanttechnological platform, and a production team, enabled this event.

Each of the four weeks aimed to produce a techno logical container, a wiki of the human hive,as a knowledge base to hold Conference findings (Figure 4). While the technological base tofully support this work on an ongoing basis has yet to emerge, a vast array of technologyplatforms supported the event itself (Appendix C). A sampling of the technology that served theConference includes:

Organizing infrastructure for the Production Team (Basecamp)

Communications infrastructure to confirm, update and advise speakers (Microsoft Word,Google Drive and Gmail)

Marketing infrastructure for the website, email blasts, registration and payment system(Kajabi, iContact, PayPal)

Live interactive infrastructure for the interviews, question and answer exchanges with theaudience, and break-out sessions for participants to engage with each other andspeakers (Maestro Conference)


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Harvest infrastructure to edit the interviews for placement on the website, daily and

weekly summaries of the Integral City Intelligences and asynchronous discussion areas,and transcripts of every interview (Audacity, Kajabi, Microsoft Word)

Over 50 volunteers from across the planet offered their leadership and resourcefulness to makethe Conference a success. They collaborated across disciplines, cultures, time zones and lifeconditions. Two teams organized and delivered the Conference: the Core Team and theVolunteer Team. The Core Team consisted of the following key roles: production, marketing,operations, sponsorship, program design, interviewing, Maestro hosting, audio recording,harvesting, speaker support, member & website support, editing and volunteer coordination.The Volunteer Team supplied a series of supporting roles: speaker support, member support,website and harvest support, interview transcribers and translators. A full list of volunteers is

found in Appendix D.

The Conferences success is attributed to our commitment to work well together and live theMaster Code: look after self, look after others and to look after this place / planet (see Findingsfor details). Our success drew on our individual and collective intelligences, commitment to anevolutionary purpose, a sense of adventure and good humor.


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Deliverables, Data, Proceedings, Harvests

Thought leaders, designers and practitioners dove into each of the 12 evolutionary intelligencesexplored in the book, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive. Theresult is 36 guided interviews that were recorded over the course of the Conference three foreach of the twelve intelligences plus a set of 12 daily harvests and 4 weekly images.

Each session was designed around a set of questions that allowed interviewees to explore theintelligence and the three principles associated with that intelligence. The specific questionsused, based on the principles supporting each intelligence, can be found in Appendix A.

The data produced live, for each interview, has been recorded and posted on the Conferencewebsite as downloadable mp3 files for Conference members. These mp3 files have beentranscribed by volunteers and edited by professional editors; they are available for members asdownloadable files for their personal learning or to contribute to research. Please see Appendix

A for links to 36 transcriptions and harvests.

As the Conference was unfolding live, in addition to the raw data in the interviews, our HarvestCaptain, created a daily summary in the form of a narrative or a poem exploring the essence ofthe days intelligence. Each piece was shared immediately with Conference participants,allowing participants and speakers to get a sense of what happened each day and to support acollective sense of meaning. It also served as a model for participants own exploration of themeaning they make of each intelligence. A further model was provided each week by ourgraphic artist, who painted the meaning of each week. Her images now serve to illustrate theseproceedings. (See Appendix A-13 for the link to the daily and weekly harvests.) This resulted inspeaker and participant posts in the websites discussion areas relating to the interviews andthe intelligences: articles, photos, slideshows, poems, essays, music, discussion.

The data gathered has been further analyzed and synthesized to generate the findings,recommendations and conclusions noted in the following pages.


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PROVOCATIVE FINDINGS

Centralized Coordination, Week 3: Aligning Strategies to Prosperby Erin Stewart Elliott

The Conference was full of discoveries: in the moment, among cross-section connections within

and between participants/speakers/interviewees, and from analysis of the session transcripts ofand daily and weekly harvests. Core findings that provoke and promise are outlined below.

The Challenges Cities Face

Cities face five big crises that face the world: water, food, energy, finance, climate change. Thesimplest explanation for these crises, is a separation between our interior and exterior worlds.Integral City thinking and doing can help. The four integral maps offer ways for us to exploreand create habitats that will allow for the prosperity of all in the human hive. Central to this is


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the realization that the challenges and crises we face are purposeful: in the face of crisis, ashuman beings we become what we need to become to overcome the crisis, with radicaloptimism.

Radical Optimism

The source of our radical optimism lies in our distinct ability to use logic, to seek evidence andanalyze our world. It lies in our ability to think into the future, discerning patterns and trends.We also exercise moral intelligence, recognizing right and wrong. Last, we have compassion;we endeavor to take care of self, other and place, the Integral City Master Code. Our choicesare radically full of optimism and meaning when we are inspired by our kindness, humor and

joy. Radical optimism was reiterated by many visionaries as a compelling disposition of Life.

City IntelligencesMost participants were unfamiliar with the intelligences or how or why to use them. The IntegralCity model and the Conference itself demanded a new type of engagement between individualand collective intelligences that has not yet found expression in the ecology of the city. Theidentification and application of the lenses of intelligence demands a shift in perspective (how doI see city intelligences in me, in others, in organizations, in the city as a whole?); and a shift inworldview (how does a city-centric perspective change my view of the world). (See Appendix Afor definitions of city intelligences.) This work is opening a new view of the city that goes wellbeyond understanding the city has an internal focus, to the city having a purpose on a planet ofcities.

Principles of Living SystemsMany speakers spoke of principles that resonate with the 12 Intelligences of the Integral City(Appendix A). Five sets of principles emerged over the course of the Conference.

The first set of principles surfaced in Week 1: A Planet of Cities. We heard from ElisabetSahtouris about her 15 principles of living systems and the application of these principles thatallow us to celebrate crisis because that is the way that nature triggers radical creativity. Shealso reminded us that life rewards symbiotic cooperation for the very practical reason that ittakes less energy to be friendly than to wage war.

Three further sets of principles emerged in Week 2: Gaias Reflective Organ. Mark DeKayarticulated the principles of sustainable design and Alex Van Oost described their application in

cities using the Almere Principles. From an organizational perspective we heard from BrianRobertson on the principles of Holacratic organization.

The fifth set of principles emerged in Week 3: Aligning Strategies to Prosper with HazelHenderson and the life giving principles for investment that she developed with Biomimicryauthor, Janine Benyus.

We compared these five sets of principles to the Integral City intelligences (see Appendix E),revealing the growing perception that the intelligences are based on contexting, capacity


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building, life-giving strategies and evolution. Not surprisingly, different versions of the MasterCode, articulated in Week 4: Amplifying Intelligences, could be identified in three of the abovesets of principles.

A New Operating System for Cities

A new operating system for a planet of cities is alive to cycles of radical optimism in a living,conscious universe that replenishes us every second. The new operating system for the city iswithin each of us and between each of us. It is profoundly conservative with what works welland it is profoundly experimental with what does not work. It is powered by the Master Code.

The City is Co-Creating Us

Four key words and concepts define our relationship with cities: transaction, translation,transformation and transduction. We are learning to be clear about our transaction with theplanet, our ecological footprint, for example. We are beginning to understand that life isadaptive and fully within us. We are learning to translate effectively from, between and intodifferent cultures, values, levels of worldview. In addition, our cities transform along with us.What we build changes us, and our consciousness changes what we choose to build over timeas well. Last, our ego-and ethno-centered view of the world is being transduced to a planet-centric view. Our collective consciousness is re-wiring us for new kinds of connections.

The Master Code: Take Care of Self, Others, Place/Planet

The three principles of the Master Code are alive and well in the world and played a key role inthe Conferences success. They guided us to live the Master Code itself:

1. Expect the unexpected. We found that the practice of radical humility of not knowingwhat each interview would bring enabled emergence.

2. Pay attention to the rules. We noticed that the new currency in the world isrelationships, particularly within and between different worldviews or levels ofconsciousness.

3. Enable emergence and resilience. We observed a new narrative of the citys emergingstory as a living system. It offered new connections that align purpose, practices,principles and perspectives.

Over the course of the Conference, we realized that operationalizing the Master Code meanschoosing behavior that is appreciative and focused on community. Appreciative inquiry co-

generated resourceful processes to discover, dream, design and deliver. Our communityresponse-ability invited capacity-building opportunities to educate, engage, enact and evaluate.

The many voices in the Conference converged around the intelligences that contribute to thecreation of a new operating system for our cities. The participants identified the Integral Cityvoice they most identified with: city-zens, civil society, city government/institutions and business.The DNA of our Master Code intersects with these voices to emerge intelligences in the WEspace of the voices. This is revealed Table 1 below.


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Table 1 Take Care of Yourself Take Care of Each Other Take Care of this Place

City-zens Outer Intelligence

Practitioners gave usinstructions forcleansing, connecting,and crowning ourpersonal energies forcollective clarity.

Integral Intelligence

Designers showed us howleaders improve theireffectiveness with the WE ofgroups, teams andorganizations by working on,with and as the system.

Ecosphere Intelligence

Practitioners explained howthe citys regional healthimproves when universities,business, citizens and citywork together for commonpurpose of place.

Civil

Society

Inner Intelligence

We discovered with cityfaith leaders that theyneed to invite citizens tosee themselvesspiritually empowered atthe scale of the city.

Cultural Intelligence

We heard how civil society cancatalyze and supportneighborhoods to buildtogether art-based gatheringplaces.

Living Intelligence

Bankrupt cities and citiesunder siege shared how theydiscover new capacitieswhen Citizen Observatoriesconvene the collective WEfor city change.

Government Structural Intelligence

I designers andarchitects can maketheir WE dreams for new

city governance real bychallenging the statusquo with experiments ineco-villages & energyproduction that engagethe many Is in a waveof WE intention.

Meshworking Intelligence

When villages in thedeveloping world discover howthey can mesh themselves and

message their story about howclimate change affects them,neighbors learn how to engagewith each other and localgovernments also national,regional and global institutions.

Navigating Intelligence

Investment fund managersusing principles based onliving systems open up whole

new standards foreconomies, environments,social and cultural pillars ofsustainability and resilienceat all scales from public, toprivate, city, nation, andglobe.

Business EvolutionaryIntelligence

Leaders explained howthey have the power to

transact, translate,transform and transducethe entire supply chainof business interestsand economies.

Inquiry Intelligence

Appreciative Inquiry unlocksthe energy of stakeholders,who: discover they have

wisdom to take on thechallenge of a new cityoperating system, to dreamnew possibilities, to designways to change their cities andto deliver new decision-makingprocesses that connect privateand public sectors with all cityvoices.

Emergence Intelligence

When a major bank redefinesits service to the city in termsof catalyzing generative

relationships, the power ofplace is released, so that theintractable problems relatedto water, food, energy,climate and finance areapproached with full humanconsciousness and greatestcultural values.


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Integral Strategies for Designing the New Operating System

In seeking to design a new operating system, we need to consider that we are heading out onan expedition for evolutionary purposes. We need to be willing to be diverse andtransdisciplinary, flexible and adaptable, travel with open hearts and minds and spirits, andshare principles to guide us on our journey. Together we need to be master designers who findways to balance the necessary structure to support our expeditions as well as create theconditions for self-organizing.

This minimum requisite order of complexity for an Integral City operating system must allowpeople to show up (in all quadrants), grow up (through all levels of complexity) and takeresponsibility (including all the necessary perspectives to gain a whole view of the city). The four

quadrants include realities that are core to any human system intentional, cultural, behavioraland structural (as set out below). The integral design also embraces four levels of complexityrepresented by traditional, modern, post-modern and integral worldviews. And integralmethodological design aligns the many partial contributions into a whole ecology of the city.

Below are the strategies that will enable the necessary design (organized in the four IntegralCity quadrants as set out in Map 1 of Appendix F).

Intentional Strategies

With collective purpose the borders of individual ego soften, allowing new connections andsynergies to emerge. Our hive minds bring us together, in ever- increasing quantities, thatcreate problems but offer us new capacities to resolve them. We naturally do this as part of

Earth's natural systems. This is a piece of the new cultural narrative. Our hive minds needinquiry for planetary survival. We are emerging a collective intelligence where results are muchmore than what any person or perspective could accomplish alone.

Being intentional in our relationship with cities requires choosing inquiry over answers. Whilethis is not automatic, inquiry itself will help us figure this out. This requires us to grow up anddevelop our capacity to be response-able, to positively face the wicked problems and see thepotentials for new approaches. Our inner beings are inviting the co-creation of places where thewhole person emerges: body, mind, soul and spirit.

A new operating system that intentionally inquires will help people see who they have been,where they are now and who they can become. It will help them find their place in the collective

context, to find their peace/piece. The evolutionary spirit will flow through them.

Cultural Strategies

Finding and sharing radical optimism unifies and makes whole the scale of the city. We areseeking a learning commons where the conversations that matter reveal all of us to ourselvesand each other. A new story, with the seeds for a new operating system for cities, is a newcultural narrative that will enable us to connect with what matters and to design what works withmemetic competence. Meshworking is at the heart of this strategy, allowing us to see self and


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whole, discovering our power in our collective vulnerable strength.

Cultural strategies that integrate all we know, pertaining to a specific purpose, are eminentlypractical and achievable, even with diverse values and worldviews.

Behavioral Strategies

We are growing new senses that enable us to articulate a new "why" for our very being in theuniverse. Our inner and outer work scale up to become Gaias inner and outer work as we growour antennae to be/do/evolve her reflective organ. We are now seeing the city we havent seen.We hear the city we havent heard. We are now sensing that we are the Universe in miniature.Our behavior is the citys behavior, the planets behavior, the Universes behavior. Our storiesgrow themselves.

Structural StrategiesStructure is both naturally-occurring in our environment (the habitat we are given) as well as thenaturally-occurring structures we construct (the habitat we make). What we build tells part ofthe citys story; our structures both conceal and reveal our relationships with nature. We needto create habitats where we support each other and struggle with each other to grow up, wakeup, hone up and clean up. We need to design for flow.

The very design process we use to create habitats that serve us well, needs to be explored.Our work at this time involves cultivating relationships between generations to draw on theirmotivations and gifts. We see, in this context, that design principles that enable city structuresto work well, consider the following:

1. A city's well-being depends on its relationship with its ecological context2. A city has blurry boundaries3. A city self-organizes4. City systems are interwoven, interconnected and non-linear5. Knowledge in the city is multi-scalar, from the individual to the species6. Knowledge in the city comes from multiple perspectives

Navigating Intelligence arises when the community builds the indicator framework that provideslife-giving feedback. Navigating intelligence is the connection between a community and what itbuilds, and the community itself needs to choose to monitor and disclose what matters. Eachcity, and each people, have to find their own way. It is essential that each community explorepatterns themselves, figure out what matters themselves and measure what matters most tothem.

The numbers and the stories in our cities are at the heart of Navigating Intelligence. Wheneffectively looping between what we build and what we want from what we build, the result iscity infrastructure, or playground equipment, that will be used. To get the result we want, wehave to play together.


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PRACTICAL RECOMMENDATIONS

Emerging Systems, Week 4:Amplifying Intelligenceby Erin Stewart Elliott

Practices for the new operating system arise as recommendations for the Integral City 2.0 inthree categories: the expanding city-centric audience, Conference sponsors and partners andfuture collaborators.

Practices for City-Centric Audiences

An expanding representation of the human population is seeking to serve the city. This is takingplace as peoples everywhere see the necessity to ensure both the survival and evolution of thehuman species. It is not enough to ask what the city can do for us; it is time to ask what we cando for the city. Our work appears to be the creation of a new operating system for the city.This relies on our abilities to:

1. Act as a wise planet of cities:a. View cities as living systems on a planet of citiesb. Amplify our resilience and drive innovationc. Design for the life cycles of and within the city, its inhabitants, and its eco-region

d. Determine ways to shore up our resilience amidst shifting factors2. Endow Gaias reflective organ with relationships:

a. Make relationships the prime currency for the Integral Cityb. Identify ways to support and sustain the well-being of citiesc. Explore the value of individual leadership, cultural storytelling, and

developmental infrastructured. Develop capacities for integrity and integral leadership


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3. Connect all the dots:a. Weave individual inquiry, meta-wisdom, and hierarchical systemsb. Carve a path beyond barriers and co-create a natural flow of resourcesc. Meshwork to align various partners to achieve a common purposed. Monitor the health of our cities - and how to make them even more effective

4. Amplify our evolutionary power source:a. Use the Master Code to create a more sustainable, thriving futureb. Monitor and manage our personal energy and well-beingc. Explore learning systems that promote individual, cultural, and holistic

contributiond. Use skilful means to care for self, others, and place/planet

Propositions for Sponsors & Partners

Our primary recommendation for sponsors and partners is to use Integral City curriculum designto develop your markets, relationships and conferencing capacities. The following actions willestablish strategic market relationships while improving your collective relationship with cities:

1. Position & platform your organization as a vital city asset :a. Integrate your story into the citys story when you are speakers and/or

participants; situate your organizations values in the values of the cityb. Position your organization as a wise leader/elder for decision making and

resource allocation who serves city and planet by actively participating ininterview dialogues and online comments

c. Commit to contribute and lead research, planning and management in the cityd. Expand your organizations (nascent) role in contributing to prosperity by making

cities prosperous for all life systemse. Expand markets & reduce expenses by using online conferencing to connect

your purpose and messages to people, priorities, place and planet2. Access audience & market through values-based relationship development:

a. Access diverse environmentally aware and/or cultural creative audiences withclear messaging about your organizations contributions to the Conferencepurpose

b. Position your organization positively in the flex and flow structures of the city byrelating directly to Conference speakers and participants who are aligned withyour values

c. Position your organization as a leader in the creation of integrated vital signsmonitors that show the health of the city and eco-region, by engaging the

younger generations as valued partners, clients and commentators3. Amplify & design your unique capacity to co-generate innovation:

a. Amplify the citys unique value contribution locally and globally by sponsoringlocal projects that are integrated with global research

b. Design your organizations systems, products and services to contribute to cityand planet health by integrating principles and practices learned in theConference

c. Reveal how your organization contributes to the health and well-being of citysystems and supply chain (health care, education, civil society, development,


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infrastructure) as an Integral City market leaderd. Link with your peers; demonstrate how integrally-informed/designed

organizations co-create learning habitats and systems that optimize innovation inthe city/eco-region (e.g. drawing on Conference Partners on pages ii and iii)

Protocols for Future Collaborators

We recognize that the contribution of the Integral City 2.0 Conference to designing a new cityoperating system is just beginning. As future collaborators join in this work, we recommendenacting the following protocols to support the evolutionary relationship between the humanspecies and our city habitats:

1. Design and/or build integrated delivery platforms for ongoing learning :a. Support the creation of a learning platform that upgrades the integration of

technology and social environments in online conferencingb. Create a platform that invites participation of a broader range of people

2. Create habitats for change:a. Co-create and nurture conditions for personal change and transformation with

supportive environments for personal choices that engage glocal challengesb. Create conditions for adults to continuously change, evolve and affirm lifec. Create a learning community of adults who have chosen to evolutionarily be

always becoming so that we can support and learn from each other3. Co-create conditions for collective intelligence:

a. Sense the collective intelligence field of cities as living systems at the earlystages of gestation

b. Live the Master Code (look after self, other, place) as a planet of cities

c. Enact inquiry in the morphogenetic field, the collective expression of not simplyaction inquiry, but enaction inquiry

4. Localize Integral City leadership roots:a. Support the mapping of the planets social network of Integral City -zensb. Co-create structures to support local leadership in cities

5. Globalize Integral City impact:a. Ignite a mass amplification of collective intelligence and wisdom in the cities of

the planet through your networksb. Support the power of the Integral City community to shift humanity to a higher

level of consciousness than the one that led us to today's multiple crisesc. Explore and support the creation of the social spaces for the Integral City

community: community of interest, community of practice, or Commons

6. Amplify spiritual dimension:a. Support the integral development of the spiritual dimension in cities


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PROACTIVE CONCLUSIONS

An Integral City 2.0 Operating System confirms the principles set out on page 3, and revealsthat the following vision and design operate at its core:

1. Planet & City-Centricity:a. Healthy cities operate with respect that they are members of a planet of citiesb. Operating system building blocks address global challenges through

collective responsibility for commons resources (natural, language, internet);they align and re-purpose transactions, translations and transformationsmediated by regulation and monetization

2. Life-Giving DNA:a. The Master Code is the core DNA of the new operating system for the city:

take care of self, others, place/planetb. Radical optimism is a natural energizing survival strategy of living systemsc. The 12 Integral City intelligences provide a framework for sharing a principle-

based narrative about the city3. Integration and Principles:

a. Life-giving principles are the root of operating system practices, praxis andprotocols

b. The four voices of the city: city-zens, civil Society, government/agency,business/organization correlate to required city roles and expressions throughthought leadership, design innovation and co-generative practice

c. Relationships are the most valuable currency of the city; stories are theirprimary distribution channels

4. Practices and Protocols:a. Retelling stories is a necessary life-giving, recursive feedback loop that

supports our sense of wholeness, coherence, integration and orientation ofthe city with the planet

b. The values of the individual catalyze innovation and creativity and the valuesof the collective embrace human diversity in its many capacities; a newoperating system subsumes both into a new value system of collectiveintelligence which recalibrates both hyper-individuality and hyper-collectivism

c. Empowering WE to a new level of engagement, design and governance inone city opens the field of collective intelligence for all cities on our planet ofcities

5. We Made It to Base Camp:a. We recognize that most of the Integral City Intelligences hardly know

themselves as realities of the city let alone each other. This was anintroduction to a new paradigm, a new language and a new lens for the city

b. With the one month intensive now inside of us and this first report outside ofus, we realize that we are just at Base Camp. This Conference has been acatalyst to change making conversations - offering a new way for us toappreciate the city, relate to it and grow with it

c. As we move beyond Base Camp we will continue to use Inquiry as a co-generative way to shape the future and co-design Operating System 2.0


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REFERENCES

Integral City 2.0 Online Conference Websites:

You can register here so the links and hyperlinks work for you.

Free Expo:http://www.integralcitycollective.com/fe/27589-about-the-Conference

Subscription eLab (for subscribers):http://integralcity.kajabi.com/user_sessions/new

Integral City:

Book: Hamilton, M. (2008). Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive.

Gabriola Island BC: New Society Publishers.

Websites:

www.integralcity.com

Integral City blog:http://marilyn.integralcity.com/?s=elaboratory

Action Research/Inquiry:

Cooperrider, D., & Whitney, D. (1999). Appreciative Inquiry: Collaborating for Change. SanFrancisco: Berrett-Koehler.

Stringer, E. T. (1996). Action Research: A Handbook for Practitioners. Thousand Oaks, CA:Sage Publications Inc.

Torbert, W. R., Livne-Tarandach, R., Herdman-Barker, E., Nicolaides, A., & McCallum, D.(2008). Developmental Action Inquiry: A Distinct Integral Theory That Actually IntegratesDevelopmental Theory, Practice, and Research. Paper presented at the Conference - IntegralTheory In Action: Serving Self, Community and Kosmos.

Watkins, J. M., & Mohr, B. J. (2001). Appreciative Inquiry: Change at the Speed of Imagination.San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer.

Whitney, D., & Trosten-Bloom, A. (2010). The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide

to Positive Change (2nd rev. ed.). San Francisco, Calif.: Berrett-Koehler.
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APPENDICES

Appendix A: The Proceedings (Intelligences, Interview Questions, Speakers)

Appendix B: Biographies of Speakers and Interviewers

Appendix C: Summary of Conference Stages, Actors and Platforms

Appendix D: Production Teams

Appendix E: Comparing Sets of Principles to Integral City Intelligences

Appendix F: Integral City Maps


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Appendix A: The Proceedings

Note: The 36 Interviews from Appendices A1-A12 are downloadable here

Note: The 4 Weeks and 12 Days of Harvests fromAppendix A13 is downloadable here.

Appendix A-1: Ecosphere Intelligence

Ecosphere Intelligenceis an awareness and capacity to respond to the realities of a citysclimate and eco-region environment.

Core Interview Questions

1. What is the relationship of the city to the eco-region?2. How do we develop resilience in the face of any stress or disaster?3. How do we amplify diversity as a major contributor to innovation, and the driver of new

inventions?

Interview Focus Speakers

Thought Leader What is Ecosphere Intelligence? Dr. Bill Rees

Designers What and where are designers

implementing Ecosphere Intelligence?

Dr. Brian Eddy

Dr. Michael Zimmerman

Practitioners What and where are practitionersimplementing Ecosphere Intelligence?

Dr. Karen OBrien

Dr. Lummina Horlings
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Appendix A-2: Emergence Intelligence

Emergence Intelligence looks at the city as a whole, through the lenses of aliveness, survival,adaptiveness, regeneration, sustainability, emergence & resilience.


1. What are the stages that living systems cycle through?2. Who are the citys conformity enforcers, diversity generators, resource allocators and

inner judges?3. How do we each play these roles and help sustain well-being in the human hive?4. What is a citys 40 lbs of honey?


Thought Leader What is Emergence Intelligence? Dr. Buzz Holling

Designers What and where are designersimplementing Emergence Intelligence?

Jan deDood

Harrie Vollaard

(Rabobank)

Practitioners What and where are practitionersimplementing Emergence Intelligence? Dr. Ian Wight

Will Varey PhD (cand.)


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Appendix A-3: Living Intelligence

Living Intelligence relates to the aliveness of each citizen through each of its lifecycle stagesand the aliveness of the city through its lifecycle stages.


1. What cycles of life are you working with/in the city and at what scale?2. How are individuals and all the collectives in the city considering the wellbeing of

tomorrows city unto the 7th generation?3. Where are the processes and plans for succession that support people?


Thought Leader What is Living Intelligence? Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris

Designers What and where are designersimplementing Living Intelligence?

Darcy Riddell

George Por

Practitioners What and where are practitionersimplementing Living Intelligence?

Bjarni Jonsson

Roberto Bonilla


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Appendix A-4: Integral Intelligence

Integral Intelligence uses four essential maps of city life:

the four quadrant perspectival map of reality (bio-psycho-cultural-social)

the nested holarchy of city systems

the scalar fractal relationship of micro, meso and macro human systems

the complex adaptive dynamic stages of change


1. How do integral maps give us insight into vibrancy of wholeness and help us to detectwhen that wholeness is out of sync?

2. How do we develop capacities for integration and integrity?3. How can we apply these maps to better understand the complexities of human reality at

the scale of the city?4. Whats one place you recommend getting started?


Thought Leader What is Integral Intelligence? Ken Wilber

Designers What and where are designersimplementing Integral Intelligence?

Dr. Barrett Brown

Dr. Yene Assegid

Practitioners What and where are practitionersimplementing Integral Intelligence?

Jan Inglis

Graham Boyd


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Appendix A-5: Cultural Intelligence

Cultural Intelligencerepresents the We life of the city. It considers the relationships in the citythat transcend boundaries that both contain and separate including: the individual and the groupvoice; multiple levels of values; and city cultures and rural cultures.


1. How are relationships the prime currency of the Integral City?2. How does listening build social/cultural capital or intelligences?3. What do our relationships tell us about our capacity to survive, connect and regenerate?


Thought Leader What is Cultural Intelligence? Dr. Jean Houston

Designers What and where are designersimplementing Cultural Intelligence?

Gail Hochachka

Jon Hawkes

Practitioners What and where are practitionersimplementing Cultural Intelligence?

Ann Duffy

Milenko Matanovic

Carl Anthony

Paloma Pavel


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Appendix A-6: Structural Intelligence

Structural (or building) Intelligencerepresents the Its space of the city. This Intelligenceconnects us to the realities of the city, that we see, feel, hear, smell, touch and taste. It gives usthe capacity to structure and systematize our environment.


1. How do you manage life-sustaining energy for yourself?2. What are the design qualities of healthy city structures that support the well being of all?3. What is one thing you can do to take responsibility for the for the structures and systems

that you design?


Thought Leader What is Structural Intelligence? Mark DeKay

Designers What and where are designersimplementing Structural Intelligence?

Marleen Kaptein

Alex Van Oost

Practitioners What and where are practitionersimplementing Structural Intelligence?

Brian Robertson

Brett Thomas


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Appendix A-7: Inquiry Intelligence

Inquiry Intelligence asks key questions that reveal the meta-wisdom of the city:

Whats working/not/could be better?

Whats your source of energy?


1. How can we inquire (research) about what is working and not working in the city and co-generate a vision for the citys contribution to the planet?

2. How have you approached research that enables the creation of what you call Integrated

Community Sustainability Plans?3. How and/or where have you seen (or designed) Best Practices for Integrated

Community Sustainability Plans (ICSP) being implemented and managed appropriatelyat all scales in the city?


Thought Leader What is Inquiry Intelligence? Dr. Ann Dale

Designers What and where are designersimplementing Inquiry Intelligence?

Dr. Tam Lundy

Dr. Ian Wight

Practitioners What and where are practitionersimplementing Inquiry Intelligence?

Joanne DeVries

Ann Perodeau


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Appendix A-8: Meshworking Intelligence

Meshworking Intelligence attracts the best of two operating systems one that self-organizes,and the other that can replicate hierarchical structures -- to create and align complex responsivestructures and systems that flex and flow.


1. What networks are you connecting with in your work (thinking of first stage ofmeshworking)?

2. How have you created communities of practice (COP) (thinking of 2nd stage ofmeshworking)?

3. How has meshworking aligned partners to achieve a common purpose (thinking of 3rd

stage of meshworking and how you align COPS and/or systems of systems ?4. What evidence (if any) can you see that capacities are arising that transform, transcend

and transmute intractable problems into manageable processes?


Thought Leader What is Meshworking Intelligence? Dr. Don Beck

Designers What and where are designersimplementing Meshworking Intelligence?

Gail Hochachka

Dr. Bert Parlee

Practitioners What and where are practitionersimplementing Meshworking Intelligence?

Anne-Marie VoorHoeve

Morel Fourman


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Appendix A-9: Navigating Intelligence

Navigating Intelligence monitors and discloses the wellbeing or general condition of the city.


1. You have designed a series of Feedback Loop Tools - including Indicators, Scorecards,Dashboards, Reporting Frameworks and Scoreboards - based on Love, Green andSolar Economies. Can you trace the thinking behind your system and what you are mostexcited about in your current work?

2. How might a city who wants to get clear on its purpose as part of a Planet of Cities,design vital-signs monitors which give feedback about its wellbeing and contribute toplanetary wellbeing?

3. Where are you seeing cities, that are tracking feedback loops, responding to data andmaking course corrections to enable progress naturally?


Thought Leader What is Navigating Intelligence? Dr. Hazel Henderson

Designers What and where are designersimplementing Navigating Intelligence?

Gaetan Royer

John Purkis

Practitioners What and where are practitionersimplementing Navigating Intelligence?

Gil Friend

Christa Rust


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Appendix A-10: Evolutionary Outer Intelligence

Evolutionary Intelligence is the capacity to transcend and include the intelligences we currentlydemonstrate, in order to allow new intelligences to emerge.

Outer Intelligenceis the biological It space of the citizen the space where the body acts,behaves and evolves.


1. What is the relationship of truth, beauty and goodness as values that we enact asleaders and as values we encounter in our daily lives?

2. In what ways do you think cities can create the conditions for the enjoyment of truth,

beauty and goodness?3. Why do you think we need to be mindful about creating habitats that embody truth,

beauty and goodness?4. How can we build an evolutionary worldview into a new operating system for the city?

How have you seen indications of that happening along the historical contexts ofModernism, Post-Modernism and any signs of the Integral Worldview emerging? Whatare some practical steps an individual can take to do that? What ways would you like tosee City Hall do that?


Thought Leader What is Evolutionary Outer Intelligence? Steve McIntosh

Designers What and where are designersimplementing Evolutionary OuterIntelligence?

Leo Burke

Beth Sanders

Practitioners What and where are practitionersimplementing Evolutionary OuterIntelligence?

Peter Merry

Deirdre Goudriaan


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Appendix A-11: Evolutionary Inner Intelligence

Evolutionary Intelligence is the capacity to transcend and include the intelligences we currentlydemonstrate, in order to allow new intelligences to emerge.

Inner Intelligenceis the I space of each citizen. It is the seat of intentional consciousness,attention, interior experience and intelligences or lines of development, e.g. emotional,cognitive, spiritual.


1. What are you noticing is the relationship between the "I" of Spirit and the "WE" of Spiritin the city today? What kind of tensions are impacting individuals and groups?

2. How are we growing any sense of "collective intelligence" when we are challenged tostay present to the people we are physically with (say in Starbucks) when we seem moreattracted to connect with virtual sanghas who seem more aligned to our values,aspirations and worldview?

3. How can we grow evolutionary inner capacities that resonate with higher values whenthe cultures in which we are immersed seem so chaotic and unaligned? What does itmean to develop a "relationship between care, intelligence, responsibility and spiritualawakening"? What practices do we need to create time and space for in the city so thatcan happen?


Thought Leader What is Evolutionary Inner Intelligence? Terry Patten

Designers What and where are designersimplementing Evolutionary InnerIntelligence?

Craig Hamilton

Bruce Sanguin

Practitioners What and where are practitionersimplementing Evolutionary InnerIntelligence?

Cindy Wigglesworth

Carissa Wieler


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Appendix A-12: The Master Code

The Intelligence of the Master Code: take care of self; take care of others; take care of thisplace/planet.


1. How do Leaders design (a new operating system)?2. What have you/we learned about working for the Planet of Cities as we work in/for our

Cities on the Planet? (When we think of the city as living, emergent, resilient, how doesthat impact a design for a new operating system for the City 2.0?)

3. How does Integral Intelligence reveal Gaia's Reflective Organ (both cities and us asindividuals) as an organ of relationships?

4. What strategies (Inquiry, Meshworking, Navigating) help you/us design cities thatprosper?

5. How does our evolutionary power source/city spirit accelerate new possibilities for theHuman Hive at this time?

6. How is the Master Code the DNA for a new operating system for the future of the HumanHive?


Thought Leader What is Evolutionary Intelligence? Dr. Marilyn Hamilton

Brett Thomas

Designers What and where are designersimplementing Evolutionary Intelligence?

Dr. Alia Aurami

George Por

Cherie Beck

Amy Oliver

Practitioners What and where are practitionersimplementing Evolutionary Intelligence?

Dr. Marilyn Hamilton

Beth Sanders

David Faber

Eric Troth


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Appendix A-13: The Conference Harvest

The Conference was harvested daily with a summary that captured the essence of each daysset of three interviews in a narrative or poem, crafted by Beth Sanders.

The Conference was harvested weekly with a painted image, created by graphic artist ErinStewart

Harvests Focus Harvesters

Daily

Weekly

What is the Essence of the daysintelligence and weeks theme?

Beth Sanders

Erin Stewart Elliott

Note: Conference Harvest isdownloadable here.
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Appendix B: Biographies

Producers

Dr. Marilyn Hamilton is Conference Producer, Designer, Interviewer, Thought Leader. She isa city evolutionist, activist, author, and researcher. She is Founder of Integral City MeshworksInc. and author ofIntegral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive. Marilyn workswith cities, eco-regions, communities of practice and students to design thriving habitats for thehuman hive. She engages multiple stakeholders to integrate spiritual, social, economic,environmental and cultural capitals that emerge new human capacity. Marilyn enables cities andeco-regions to co-create conditions for human that are as resilient as the beehive is for bees.Serving internationally, Marilyn is/was Charter Integral Institute Member; Founder, Center forHuman Emergence Canada; Charter Juror Globe Sustainable City Awards; Charter CanadianSustainability Professional. Marilyn is Faculty at Royal Roads University, University of Victoria,and lecturer at U British Columbia, Simon Fraser U, JF Kennedy U, California Institute ofIntegral Studies, Adizes Graduate School, University of Oslo and the University of Wageningen.

Brett Thomas is Conference Co-Producer. He is the co-founder of Stagen, a Texas-basedorganizational consulting firm that specializes in Integral Leadership. He is the author andarchitect of the Stagen Leadership Academy's 52-week intensive Integral Leadership Program,

now in its 10th year. Brett is a 20-year veteran in the field of human performance andorganizational development having designed and facilitated hundreds of workshops andcorporate training programs. Brett has logged over 10,000 hours coaching CEOs. He haspublished work on applied integral theory and has co-designed and co-delivered internationalConferences and seminars on applied integral theory. Brett served many years as the ManagingDirector of the Integral Institute Business and Leadership Center and on the Editorial Board forthe Journal of Integral Theory and Practice. Brett currently serves on the boards of both IntegralLeadership Review and Integral Publishers. He is writing a book with Russ Volckmann onIntegral Leadership.


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Co-Designers / Interviewers

Beth Sanders MCIP, RPP (Alberta), MCIP (Canada) is Conference Program Co-Designer,

Interviewer and Harvester. President of POPULUS Community Planning Inc., in Edmonton,Canada. Beth works across Canada with government, business and community organizationswho strive to create cities that serve citizens well, and citizens that serve cities well. Beth isshepherding city decision-making into a new era where the following are front and center:pragmatic purpose, community health, fiscal and economic sustainability, environmentalresponsibility, cultural responsibility and public conversation. Beth is president of the AlbertaProfessional Planners Institute and is a corporate advisor to the McDonald Sustainability Group,Inc. She is co-founder of the Center for Human Emergence Canada and a member of theIntegral City advisory board. While looking for a publisher, Beth is blogging her book, Nest City:The Human Drive to Thrive in Cities. Beth is serving as Program Co-Designer, Interviewer andHarvester of the Integral City Expo and eLab.

Cherie Beck

Cherie Beck is Conference Operations Co-Pilot and Sponsor Liaison. Building on a career asExecutive Account Manager architecting technology based systems to solve business problems,Cherie is a pioneer of the application of human potential and culture change to projects

involving leadership skills, personal development and organizational dynamics. She is masterpractitioner and trainer of Spiral Dynamics integral; an emissary for Strauss and Howe's work onGenerations and cyclical change; and a certified executive coach. She contributes to severalthink tank organizations on human behavior issues and the design of emerging social andgoverning structures. Cherie is currently involved in a start-up company to engineer changeinitiatives and communication strategies assisting business and communities in the adaption ofinnovative and revolutionary technologies in the city.


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Interviewers

David Faberis Conference Interviewer. He is President and CEO of VisiV Incorporated, amanagement consulting firm. He is the former Executive Director of Enterprise StrategicManagement at the City of Edmonton, Canada, where he developed an integrated set of

strategic documents to guide city decision-making: The Way Ahead, The Way We Green, TheWay We Live, The Way We Grow, and The Way We Move. David is running for municipalelection fall 2013.

Eric Troth is Conference Maestro Host. He is a seasoned facilitator of deep group processeswithin teleconference settings. He will be serving in the role of Maestro Conference host duringthe month-long Integral City Expo and eLab. Eric has an enduring passion for the Conferencethemes of sustainability, resilience, and emergence. He is committed to the development ofcapacities for higher order collective intelligence and large-scale systems change. As aninstigator of self-organized virtual gatherings within the Integral-Evolutionary world space, hehas hosted hundreds of calls building online community for the purpose of sensing into theedges of possibility. In the fall of 2012, Eric will be launching his own series of Evolutionary

Engagements to explore the emergence of new forms of Integral political discourse andpractice.


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Thought Leaders, Designers, Practitioners (Alphabetical)

Carl Anthony is Ford Foundation Senior Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Department ofGeography at University of California, Berkeley. He is Founder of the Earth House LeadershipCenter in Oakland California. Prior to his present role he was acting director of the Ford

Foundations Community and Resource Development Unit, where he directed the foundationsSustainable Metropolitan Communities Initiative and the Regional Equity DemonstrationInitiative. He founded, and for twelve years, was executive director of the Urban Habitatprogram of Oakland, California, promoting multicultural urban environmental leadership forsustainable, socially just communities in San Francisco Bay Area.

Dr. Yene Assegid is a Transformative Leadership Coach, Consultant working with civil societyaround the World for close to 20 years. Her Doctoral research, in Transformation Learning andChange from California Institute of Integral Studies, aimed at gathering leadership wisdom,through one to one interviews with African Heads of States and senior leaders. Her bookButterflies Over Africa(2009), argues how Development AID would benefit from using anintegral approach. Her second book Forget not the Sparrows(2011) looks into the social impactof war triggered exile on families, which she tells through her own story. Yene just started TheShola Company, an integrally informed vessel to: promote integrally informed global leadership

mindset; create research and publications opportunities; and avail a platform for collectivelearning through global integral community interaction. She currently resides in Beijing, China.


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Dr. Barrett Brown specializes in leadership and change management for sustainability. He hasworked on four continents, helped develop and launch a dozen companies, consultancies, andNGOs, built corporate universities, coached senior executives, and delivered leadershipinitiatives for Global 1000 leaders. He is an advisory board member for Integral City MeshworksInc. and several other global, integral organizations that focus on urban sustainability issues.

Barretts Ph.D. and Master's degrees are in Human and Organizational Systems from FieldingGraduate University. Barrett's recent doctoral research explored how sustainability leaders withcomplex worldviews engage in change initiatives.

Dr. Don Beck is the co-author of The Crucible: Forging South Africas Future and SpiralDynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership and Change. Don Beck gave up an outstandingacademic career to work globally in the area of large scale systems change. Don has workedwith large banks, five different US airlines, major global energy companies, heavy industry,hospitals and health care institutions, law enforcement agencies, city governments and manyother public institutions. Don moves freely between cutting-edge academic and scientifictheories of value formation and change but is also able to design practical applications in thereal world. Don has been featured in a number of media, including EnlightenNext Magazine. Hehas spoken in the UN and a number of global Conferences. In the last year he has receivedrecognition from three significant authors addressing evolution and culture: Lynne McTaggart in

The Bond, Carter Phipps in Evolutionaries and James ODea in Cultivating Peace.


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Roberto Bonilla Nezis currently working on the most important project of his life, he calls itMexico Project, Integral. Briefly, this work involves the application of Spiral Dynamics Integraltechnology to align actions (energy) in Mexico to enable us to individually and collectively totake the next step towards a sense of responsibility for our home, while respecting the law andwork systems. Roberto has a Masters in Mechanical Engineering with specialization in Design

and Manufacturing from the Institute of Technology Monterrey. He has 30 years experienceIndustrial, Educational and Consulting.

Dr. Graham Boyd is Managing Partner with TetraLD, located in London UK. His focus isenabling people to improve their performance by changing the environment around theindividual. He is particularly interested in distributed leadership and Integral learning transfer tothe next generation of leaders. Graham is a 'deep generalist,' having worked successfullyacross science, business, strategy, facilitating dialogue, coaching and training. Graham startedhis professional life in high energy physics and computing. He moved to Procter & Gamble,where he led the development of new products and new organizations, including the BeijingTechnical Centre. The common thread in his work is complex systems thinking: seeing thewhole, the interactions, and the parts, and changing the system for the better. He bridgescultures and generations from experience, having lived in South Africa, Germany, Italy, Japan,Belgium, the UK and China. Graham is the co-founder, with Robin Wood, of the Renaissance2

think-and-do tank.

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