"Integral Without Borders is, in my opinion, the best and most important organization addressing sustainability from an Integral, comprehensive view, which makes it the most important organization of its kind.  Please look them over carefully and join with them in whatever way you possibly can.  You won’t regret it!"  ~ Ken Wilber, The Integral Vision

Integral Without Borders is a global network of practitioners dedicated to integrating perspectives and manifesting greater depth in the praxis of international development. We hold events and telecourses, offer mentoring and consulting, and provide resources. Welcome!

What Do You Think? - integralMENTORS Series (updated)

Mar
28

'What Do YouThink?' - is a series of brief papers presenting a number of ideas on Integral/AQAL theoria/praxis and asks you as a development practitioner your option!  To follow at a later stage - 'Worlds of Action'  - in collaboration with R2.

Ideas and information in these papers are kept to one page inclusive of diagrams - presenting views for practitioners in a simple format following Albert Einstein “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”

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IWB Fall Newsletter

Nov
15

The Fall Newsletter is published! There's extensive coverage of the Peru event on Engaging Cultures, Societies and Systems, as well as a healthy discount available for IWB members to the Integral What's Next Event this coming December. Please take a look.

Integral Without Borders Fall Newsletter

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Engaging Cultures, Societies, and Systems: Applying an Integral Approach to Sustainable Development in Peru

Oct
12

Practitioners in international development are constantly engaging social holons in a change process. Change occurs quite differently in social groups than it does in individuals, requiring us to develop different skills and understanding. Drawing on social psychology, on Wilber's Excerpt D, and on our own field experience, Integral Without Borders is holding a field learning event in Cusco, Peru to further examine the dynamics of cultures, societies and systems, as well as to learn skills to engage a truly integrally-informed social change.

Dates: Oct 16-Oct 26, 2012

Application deadline: August 30, 2012 (please apply with application form below)

Cost: $1500 (Includes accommodation, in-country travel, food, entrance fee to ruins, organization and facilitation. Does not include airfare.)  

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Integral Practitioner in Praxis Gathering Perspectives

Jul
13

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The Integral Practitioners in Praxis gathering took place at the Tlholego EcoVillage in the North Western Province, South Africa from the 28 May to 1 June 2012.

The attached paper shares some of the perspectives of the facitatators of the gathering.

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Integrating Spirituality into a Post-secular Approach to Development

Jun
11

This paper takes up the issue of how spirituality has become practically absent in urban development practise/ theory, as well as in international development practise and its theoretical discourse, by examining the idea of a post-secular approach to spirituality and by looking at acase study in the developing world.

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Integral Development - A view

Apr
13

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The purpose of this short paper is to suggest a different paradigm for an increased alignment between Donors, Agents of Change (AOC) who are often NGOs and Beneficiaries, which ultimately is likely to be more authentic, more effective and more durable.

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Integral Practitioner in Praxis - Conference in South Africa [Program added]

Mar
30
Tlholego EcoVillage

Dates: 28 May to 01 June 2012

For many years now we have seen programmes offering theory and theoretical discussions on integral practice.  Most of these have dealt with the internal development of the practitioner and although this is very important it is now time to move on.  It is important for us now to look at the way, in ‘real’ situations of praxis a practitioner would use this theory and possibly years of individual development/practice, to provide further insight and tools for the complex situations found in international development. 

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Other Up-Coming Integral Events

Feb
08

We want to let you know about three other events happening this spring and summer that are worth checking out. Although none of the events are directly on the topic of international development, all of them provide training on foundational skills that could be applied in the practice of development.

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integralMENTORS Newsletter 25 - February 2012

Feb
06
integralMENTORS Newsletter 25 for February 2012

Attached is the Newsletter February 2012 from integralMENTORS one of IWB's partner organisations.

This month the newsletter is made up of a number of contentious issues (with a small c). These include creativity and its definition, brainstorming, counterintuitive ideas, confirmation bias, and the myth of psychological types.

Please note that the views expressed in the newletters are soley those of the authors and not necessary of partner organisations.    

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Making Meaning of Climate Change: Two New Resources!

Feb
03

Two new resources have been uploaded to the Resources section of this site. Both are products of a year-long collaborative project between two IWB partner organizations, Drishti-Centre for Integral Action in Canada and Centro Bartolome de las Casas in El Salvador. The project sought to include 'human dimensions' in climate change adaptation engagement, in a context where climate change is predominantly still engaged as a scientific or technical problem.

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