Integral Without Borders

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

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.)  

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.    

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.