What's your 'elevator line' to describe Integral (in one minute or less)?

It seems to me the underlying theme of the whole integral approach, worldview, and social movement pioneered by Sri Aurobindo and expanded to its full potential by philosopher Ken Wilber is a profound curiosity and openness to all of reality that inspires engaging in practices to consciously open further while avoiding bad habits that close the mind to any aspect of it. 

It's about openness beyond mere tolerance; opening all the way to inclusion, integration, and ultimately identity with reality in all its wonder and beauty. It's about open balanced growth through our own potentials. It's about being open to everything, including our own critical faculties for discriminating wisdom, sound judgment, and responsible choice that we use to explore everything we're open to. 

It's about transcending the culture wars by witnessing metaphysical belief systems as objects of awareness rather than attachment, replacing the tendency to fight each other with passionate growth and compassionate service.

Since Integral is a already a meta-theory, it is difficult to describe its philosophical underpinnings without relating it to a specific subject (i.e. psychology, culture etc.). However, if you talk about Integral as a perspective, it can be described as a way of viewing any issue or topic area that privileges the ideas of multiplicity, inclusivity, development, transformation and integration with a goal to fostering mutual understanding and creative solutions to the world's problems.

"The world is complex and there's all these different groups that hate each other."

[edit:]  I imagine that people who are integrally minded would have their interest piqued by this statement, whereas people who don't see a problem would just ignore this statement. If they show interest in the problem, then maybe you've got an opportunity to spend 5 mins actually describing AQAL, in that, many conflicts can be looked at in terms of recognising partial truths and synthesising them using a model complete enough to hold them all in a workable way.

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Integral to me is about healing, opening, integrating, living, loving, and unifying into a whole.

With love and affection,

Windancer

"It's the first location awareness map app for humankind. Check in, figure out where the #$%%^ you are, then check out all the cool places you and the rest of us can go. 8-)

I face this challenge daily - especially as we've undertaken the monumental task of trying to align the 150+ people in our organization to fit Integral within our brand.

I've found that in the business setting the spiritual stuff doesn't go over well. People seem more receptive to a "they make and integrate maps of meaning for all humankind". Utter words like "spiritual", "holistic", and "enlightenment" and watch their eyes roll back...

"The Integral approach is about informing oneself in a structured fashion on the multiple perspectives upon any subject, because different perspectives shed a variety of lights onto the map. Thus, the better informed we are, the wiser our choices become – it's really all about being as aware as possible and as inclusive as possible. Those perspectives include looking at we call the four quadrants: what I feel, what I do, what we share and what we know."

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"what one feels on the inside, what one does in the world, what we all share as common structures, and what we know as our culture."

P.s.: I'd love to see a lot of answers to your question, Kylie; thanks for having brought it up!