Helen Davis

Organisational management and stages

When I first came across Wilber, it was the idea of stages/levels that intrigued me most. Now that the University that employs me has actually paid me to research the literature on adult developmental levels further, I have to say that there has to be much more practical research before... Read More

How to choose?

 ... Some years ago now I decided as a good sceptic (in the old fashioned philosophical sense) that, as we can never ever really KNOW whether there is any God or underlying absolute, or if we have souls, or whether our mind is just a product of our brain, or whether there is an... Read More

Learning Cycles

Something for anybody interested to chew over.... Kolb came up wth a 'learning cycle'. To learn anything thoroughly we need to go through four stages--1) have an experience 2) reflect on that experience 3) draw conclusions on that experience 4) decide what to do with our conclusions....... Read More

Be rational (orange), kind (green) and ? (teal)

Recently Robb asked for ideas for the principles of integral living. It made me think of what I say to my students at the end of a module on management - specifically managing people. I ask them to remember, whatever else they forget about what I've tried to teach them, to be rational... Read More

Where have all the women gone?

As it's been a little while since I last logged on, I indulged in reading back through all the blogs in this forum over the past few weeks. And then it struck me. Where are all the women? There's the reliables, like Dora,. Gayle and Dee and, now, Amanda. But compared to the men,... Read More

Yes you did! But where is everybody?!!

I logged on today, expecting to see loads and loads about the momentous shift that has just taken place in the USA. It seems to me that the most powerful country in the world has just shifted its centre of gravity up to orange (from amber), in that it has acted more rationally than... Read More

More on conflict

Recently I wondered if I was seeing conflict coming up on this forum -but heavily coded, which I was finding quite frustrating (i.e. I couldn't get a handle on it.) Also, and I'm sorry to go on about this on this site, as a Brit, I think I don't always get the nuances of... Read More

Integral, integrity, secrets and lies

It recently came to light that a very good friend of myself and my husband, probably our best friend, had deliberately and actively misled us over a particular aspect of his life for the last few months. He had been seeking advice about a situation, and we had been seriously... Read More