Integral Life

Integral Life

Integral Life is the premier member community for advanced personal development, offering transformational learning to global citizens seeking to live a full-spectrum life.

Website: https://integrallife.com

Posts by Integral Life

SHIFT YOUR PERSPECTIVE

Overflowing Purpose: An Inside Look

In this short 14-minute video, we give you an exclusive inside look at Overflowing Purpose, a transformative new course that brings together renowned thinkers like Ken Wilber, John Vervaeke, Robb Smith, Cindy Wigglesworth, Gail Hochachka, Peter Merry, Greg Thomas, and others to address the complex challenges of our time — and your unique role in meeting those challenges.

SHIFT YOUR PERSPECTIVE

Integral Healthcare Management

4 Comments

Integral Healthcare Management, an application of Integral Theory to the management of healthcare organizations, is a comprehensive and inclusive way of providing healthcare. This article explains the “all-quadrant” aspect of Integral Theory in the context of two common healthcare management challenges: operating a hospital in accord with national accreditation standards and complying with modern notions of “patient safety.”

SHIFT YOUR PERSPECTIVE

What Has Ken Wilber Been Up To Since Grace and Grit?

Published in 1991, the events that took place in Ken Wilber’s searing autobiographical spiritual love story Grace and Grit occurred in the 1980s. What has the great man been up to since then? Read on to see a very brief summary of the amazing events that took place after the events in the movie. After taking a hiatus from writing …

SHIFT YOUR PERSPECTIVE

Integral Finance

5 Comments

Money is a human abstraction. Although not found in nature, it is pervasively used throughout human activities and undertakings. In so doing, it generates an array of personal and cultural responses in addition to its material manifestations. As such, it is ideally suited for an AQAL analysis. This paper constitutes the introductory theoretical overview for Integral Finance. It introduces the basic principles and presents fundamental applications of Integral principles to money, including money’s nature, its various roles in the world, and its applications to and impacts on other disciplines.

SHIFT YOUR PERSPECTIVE

Criminology Needs an Integral Vision

1 Comment

This article supports the claim that there is substantial agreement within the discipline that criminology (and criminal justice) is in need of a change in approach. This article maintains that a framework is needed to organize the contributions and partial truths of existing disciplinary knowledge. It is argued that criminology needs an “orienting perspective” or a “meta-theory.” The article proposes that the Integral model provides a functional and apposite framework for addressing these problems. An in-depth, AQAL-based justification for this proposition is provided.

SHIFT YOUR PERSPECTIVE

The Meaning of Integral Criminology and Criminal Justice

Leave a Comment

This document was produced on the basis of a meeting that took place in March, 2001. There are some revisions reflecting activities and developments that have occurred since that meeting. Our intention is to suggest, in an introductory way, how the Integral approach could be applied to contemporary issues in criminology and criminal justice. We explore issues of the War on Drugs, the death penalty, and juvenile justice as illustrations.

SHIFT YOUR PERSPECTIVE

Integral Correctional Education

1 Comment

This article is part one of an overview of Integral Correctional Education. It briefly introduces salient aspects of the field of correctional education, defines correctional education, introduces the Integral model, and outlines the historical periods of correctional education practice. A discussion of some core principles of correctional education is followed by some problems that afflict inmate students, correctional educators, and the communities they serve.

SHIFT YOUR PERSPECTIVE

An Overview of Integral Congregational Ministry

AQAL perspectives provide a uniquely comprehensive holding environment for investigating the various approaches of Christian “confessional theologies”—those understandings of the Divine that are lived within; and “comparative theologies”—those inquiries into the ultimate spiritual values and goals of all human life as perceived and expressed in a variety of religions and wisdom traditions. The authors use the AQAL analytical framework to unite the interior, exterior, individual, and collective dimensions, and to explore aspects of specific lines, levels, states, and types associated with Christian ministry.

SHIFT YOUR PERSPECTIVE

Integral Business and Leadership

Leave a Comment

This introductory article is an early articulation of Integral approaches to business and leadership in which the authors use the clarifying and synthesizing perspectives of Integral Theory and methodology to update biases, make new connections, and illumine blind spots of the theorists who have gone before: Drucker, McGregor, Kaplan and Norton, Senge, Hammer, and Collins, et al.

SHIFT YOUR PERSPECTIVE

Introducing and Understanding Integral Art

237 Comments

This article briefly outlines a general definition of art and the main approaches of art theory andpractice. It then illustrates how those approaches coherently fit together via the four quadrants of AQAL theory. The article concludes that Integral Art preserves the important truths of these approaches (while negating their more extreme versions). Therefore, nothing short of an Integral approach will suffice in both tuning artists to their fullest expression and reminding critics of their widest embrace.

SHIFT YOUR PERSPECTIVE

The Metacrisis is Giving Rise to the Transformation Age

and

and 14 Comments

How can we contribute to the rise of the Transformation Age? We first need to understand what’s driving the emergence of the Transformation Age out of the Information Age: a global metacrisis, occurring amidst a great release of global power, which as it becomes more acute is exposing the limitations of the current era’s structures, sensemaking, key contradictions (all pluribus, little unum), scarce resources (meaning), and the sources of power themselves (convening power).

SHIFT YOUR PERSPECTIVE

Integral Ventures Signs on to Executive Produce Stuart Davis’s The Clones, Invites Integral Life Members to Participate

2 Comments

Integral Ventures is thrilled to announce that it signed on this week to join Matt Haught and Melissa Fritz to executive produce a TV pilot of The Clones, an original half-hour scripted comedy by Stuart Davis where family bonds are also family binds. As part of the deal, the producers have agreed to invite Integral Life members to participate in the funding.

SHIFT YOUR PERSPECTIVE

Watch the Grace and Grit Film Trailer!

12 Comments

Ken Wilber’s acclaimed and globally popular book, Grace and Grit, has been made into a feature film starring Mena Suvari and Stuart Townsend, with Frances Fisher, Rebekah Graf, Nick Stahl, and Mariel Hemingway – produced, written, and directed by Sebastian Siegel. The film adaptation explores Ken and Treya’s courage, commitment, transcendence… and their discovery of love beyond life.

SHIFT YOUR PERSPECTIVE

Integral Ventures Invests in the World’s Leading Engine Additive

7 Comments

Integral Ventures is pleased to announce that it has established Engine Performance, LLC, which has acquired the rights to distribute BestLine, the leading combustion engine additive on the market. BestLine represents a front line of defense against climate change by improving fuel economy, lowering emissions, and dramatically improving engine performance for car owners.