July 16, 2025 IAM scholars Brandon Norgaard, Nicholas Hedlund, PhD, and Claudia Meglin provide a sweeping (albeit provisional) cartography of emergent frameworks rooted in an “Integrative Worldview“—ranging from metamodernism and integral theory to systems science, process philosophy, and critical realism—that are converging around a shared impulse to address the root causes of our civilizational predicament.
Brandon Nørgaard
Brandon Nørgaard is a co-founder of the Enlightened Worldview Project, an initiative aiming to promote improved sensemaking, civic engagement, and inner development through networks of local civil society hubs and meta-hubs. He is also a graduate student studying wisdom design at the California Institute for Human Science (CIHS). He started his career as a software engineer and has recently been involved in the convergence of metatheory, technology, and community development. He has been involved with metacrisis studies and is working to bring integral concepts and practices to the community level and to metamodernize legacy institutions.