Bert is a clinical psychologist, executive coach, leadership training and YPO facilitator, and former Chief of Staff of Ken Wilber’s Integral Institute. While still serving clinical populations, Bert’s current workload usually consists of assisting executives and executive leadership teams in their efforts to secure next levels of performance. Prior to his graduate work in psychology and psychotherapy, Bert’s undergraduate honors degree was in political science with an emphasis on International Relations.

During this presentation, Bert will introduce an array of “mental models” (Polarity Management etc.), that will be used to address political and cultural issues alive today, both in America and in the larger world. In particular, how are these issues perceived and understood through the various Integral lenses, and the stage model in particular. Beyond that, it will be valuable if we can spend most of our time involved in Q & A type dialogue related to this matter.

Most centrally, how do Integrally informed individuals of good faith make more informed sense of the issues and challenges that face us today. How does the Integral right regard Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.? How aware are we of our own mindsets, worldviews, values and intentions in relation to such sense-making? How have we formed our current political positions and what is the nature of our self-identification with these alignments? Are these recently formed points of view, or have we loyally been oriented to tribal partisanships for years or decades? Most importantly, what is our conscious and unconscious relationship to our good intentions to be a “morally good” person on the one hand, and how do we otherwise relate to facts, data and evidence-based information that has the potential to disrupt powerful feelings and strongly held beliefs?

F. Scott Fitzgerald stated “I wouldn’t give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity, but I’d give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity”. The “Integral Right”, closely aligns with classical liberalism and the positive elements progressive pluralism. It involves the regeneration, restoration and revitalization of value codes that have always formed the essential foundations upon which more evolved social energies are empowered to flourish and thrive.

The Tao is the eternal and ancient way. The more things change, the more they remain the same.