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Integral Profiles: Cindy Wigglesworth

Contributors: Cindy Wigglesworth and Jeff Salzman

Part 1: Spiritual Intelligence and the Integration of Unity Church

Part 2: Spiritual Intelligence in Your Life

As Founder and Owner of Conscious Pursuits, Inc. Cindy Wigglesworth bridges a solid business background with her passionate beliefs about the importance of integrating our spiritual and work lives. She has gained a reputation as an expert in the field of "spirit at work" and speaks regularly on the subject, most recently at the 2003 Spirit in Business Conference and the 2003 Business and Consciousness Conference.

We were happy to sit down with Cindy to discuss her own personal journey to integral thought and practice, her thoughts about the developmental nature of spiritual intelligence and its role in our personal and professional lives, and the exciting pledge by Unity Church to become an explicitly integral church in the next few years.

Eleanor Roosevelt once said that "poor minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, and great minds discuss ideas." Integral minds, we might add, discuss all three.

In the Integral Profiles series, we sit down with some of today's most notable thinkers, teachers, and leaders, discussing the many ways they are catalyzing the Integral vision in their lives, in their hearts, and in their work. These men and women are collectively defining the leading edge of evolution in today's world, their thoughts and actions actively influencing the shape and scope of tomorrow's possibilities.

Part 1: Spiritual Intelligence and the Integration of Unity Church

In this remarkable discussion, Cindy describes how her own leadership influence, ability to understand problems, and ability to think systemically were dramatically expanding as she learned to relax her ego—which she ascribes to an increased ability to take more and more perspectives as our spiritual intelligence continues to mature. She and Jeff continue to discuss the often-difficult transition from post-modern to integral values and behaviors, which often requires a great deal of work around reclamation and healing of previous stages of development, leading to her own story of re-owning her faith in the Christian tradition. She talks about her deepening relationship with the Unity Church, and how she is assisting their recent pledge to become an explicitly Integral church in the next few years—bringing an all quadrants, all levels, all lines, all states, all types approach to the forefront of Unity Church's teachings and work in the world.

Part 2: Spiritual Intelligence in Your Life

Do you know what your core values are? Could you make a list if you were asked? And would you then be able to take that list and actually prioritize your values? In this video, Cindy discusses the notion of "spiritual intelligence" in considerable detail, emphasizing the need to not only align our values with our highest self and highest aspirations, but to go a step further and actually rank our core values in order to help us make better decisions from day to day. Cindy then goes on to talk about some other important aspects of spiritual intelligence such as being able to understand other people's worldviews, recognizing spiritual teachings in everyday encounters, and cultivating a deep sense of trust and faith that we are somehow constantly being held by something infinitely greater than us, by whatever name.