Making Things Happen: The Integral Incubator

Integral stages of development bring online a whole new set of rules for how we can function in our professional life, not only in terms of how we see ourselves, but in how we relate with other people, and how we go about making an impact in the world.

In this interview, personal productivity expert and integral teacher Jeff Salzman shows that this developmental leap requires that we loosen the bonds of the green altitude, the post-modern worldspace that is marked by a confused relativism as well as an ambivalence about the use of power and the pursuit of personal success. Integral functioning allows us to unabashedly reclaim the best of the previous stages of development that are still alive in us, and to bring their power back online:

• The sense of deep community, collaboration—and magic!—that is characteristic of the Magenta (tribal) altitude
• The ability to assert ourselves and stake a claim in the world, characteristic of the Red (power) altitude
• The discipline of the Amber (traditionalist) altitude, as well at its profound faith in and obedience to a higher personal power that is alive and expressing Itself through us
• The radical freedom and opportunity for personal achievement and expression that comes with the Orange (modernist) altitude
• The deep commitment to right the wrongs of the world and to dedicate the fruits of our labor to the highest and best for all, which are markers of the Green (post-modernist) altitude.

A successful integration of these evolutionary worldviews creates a powerful emergent consciousness—integral consciousness—as well as new capabilities that bring online the best of each previous worldspace, while leaving behind what is limited and gripped about them.

As co-founder of Boulder Integral, Jeff also talks about an exciting new program his organization is producing called the Integral lncubator, debuting this November. Developed with integral theorist, Ken Wilber, the Incubator is a five-day intensive designed to help integrally-informed professionals stabilize higher levels of personal power and professional impact, using their own work as the object of practice. By creating intensified environments of discipline, creativity and teamwork, the Incubator is designed to help people get real traction on the great idea or project that they are called to bring into the world, whether it be a creative endeavor like a book or movie, a service or educational project, or a new business or professional practice.

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