English translation of the presentation on Ken Wilber’s Integral framework I created and gave in April 2009 for the top-management of one large Moscow company (upon a friendly request from its owners).

1. Integral approach:
5 basic components

2. Today we have access to…
…all cultures and knowledge in the world

3. How can we make sure not to get lost?

4. We need a road map

5. A bad map*
*will not work

6. A good map is better than a bad map.

7. Integral approach
— perhaps, the most
comprehensive, simple, and
accurate map

8. 5 basic factors
 Quadrants
 Levels
 Lines
 States
 Types

9. 5 basic factors
Tracking them allows you to:
• Take into account what’s needed
• Fully realize
– your own potential
– the potential of your activities

10. Quadrants

11. Quadrants
Basic perspectives on
• a human being
• any issue
Main pronouns:
1st person — “I”
2nd person — “You” (“Thou”) *
3rd person singular — “It”
3rd person plural — “Its”
* In the dialogue of “I” + “Thou” the miracle
of “We” emerges that is based on mutual
understanding

12. I + YOU = WE
I am telling you…
IYOU

13. …about my new bike*
* Bicycle — “it. ”

14. ITS
Interobjective connections
• ecosystems
• environment
• systems theory

15. 4 quadrants
— interior and exterior sides
of individual and collective
dimensions

16. Left-Hand
Quadrants
— the interiors

17. Right-Hand
Quadrants
— the exteriors

18. Upper Quadrants
— individual dimension

19. Lower Quadrants
— collective dimension

20. 4 quadrants
Each occasion or event can
always be looked at through
the perspective of each of
these quadrants.

21. 4 quadrants
Each occasion or event always
manifests simultaneously in
all 4 quadrants.

22. 4 quadrants
Therefore, an event that is
seen in one quadrant always
has correlates in the other
three quadrants.

23. A thought
just crossed
my mind!

24. This thought is accompanied by activation of neurons in the brain

25. My thinking is molded to a large degree by the culture that I inhabit

26. My organism exists within communicative webs of objective social
systems

27. Thus:

28. Upper-Left Quadrant
• I, the cognizing subject
• My direct experiences,
feelings, thoughts
• Meaning or depth that I find in
my activities
CONSCIOUSNESS
Validity claim:
• subjective truthfulness (honesty,
sincerity)
Example of a methodology:
• introspection

29. Upper-Right Quadrant
• It, the cognized object
• Objective organism
• Objectively measurable:
• behavior
• neural activation
• hormones
MATERIAL OBJECT
Validity claim:
• objective truth
Example of a methodology:
• biology, physiology

30. Lower-Left Quadrant
• We, cultural context
• Interpersonal communication
• Worldview shared in the
group
• Group values
• Corporate ethics
CULTURE
Validity claim:
• intersubjective justness
Example of methodology:
• hermeneutics

31. Lower-Right Quadrant
• Its, interobjective connections
• Techno-economic mode of
production
• Environment, ecosystems
SOCIAL SYSTEM
Validity claims:
• functional fit
Example of methodology:
• systems theory

32. Levels of
Development

33. Evolution
• Evolution manifests in all quadrants.
• Each new level of development transcends but includes the previous one: from
matter to life to mind to soul to Spirit; from physics to psychology to theology to
mysticism.

34. Upper-Left (“I”)
• Evolution of individual consciousness.
• Development of cognitive capacities:
• preoperational cognition
• concrete operational cognition
• formal operational cognition
• postformal cognition (vision logic)

35. Upper-Right (“It”)
• Evolution of objective organism.
• Evolutionary stages of the brain*:
• reptile brain: brain stem
• instinctual behavior
• basic survival programs
• mammalian brain: limbic system
• affective reactions
• emotional responses
• “language of feelings”
• human brain: neocortex
• thinking
• rationality
• verbal language
* The Triune Brain theory (McLean)

36. Lower-Left (“We”)
• Cultural evolution.
• Progress of worldviews:
• egocentrism
• narcissism (the world as extension of
me)
• early childhood
• ethnocentrism
• nationalism (perspective of only my
group of people)
• fascism
• fundamentalism
• worldcentrism
• cosmopolitism (perspectives of all
groups of people in the world)
• global ecological consciousness

37. Lower-Right (“Its”)
• Evolution of social systems
and technologies.
• Techno-economic mode of
production:
• foraging
• horticultural
• agrarian
• industrial
• informational

38. Lines of
Development

39. Upper-Left (“I”)
• Theory of multiple intelligences
(H. Gardner)
• Lines of development of:
• cognition (J. Piaget)
• psychosexual (S. Freud)
• emotional intelligence (D. Goleman)
• hierarchy of needs (A. Maslow)
• values (C. Graves, Spiral Dynamics)
• self or ego development (S. Cook-
Greuter)
• moral development (L. Kohlberg)
• and so on

40. Lower-Right (“Its”)
• Lines of development:
• techno-economic mode of
production
• geopolitical structures
• evolution of social systems
/ ecosystems

41. Upper-Right (“It”)
• Lines of development:
• biological growth
• neurophysiological development
• evolution of behavior

42. Lower-Left (“We”)
• Lines of development:
• cultural worldviews
• shared values
• mutual understanding
• group identity

43. States of
Consciousness

44. Waking
— gross state of consciousness

45. Dreaming
— subtle state of consciousness

46. Deep dreamless sleep
— causal state of consciousness

47. Types

48. Typologies
• Masculine and
feminine types
• C. G. Jung’s
psychological types
• Enneagram

49. So:

51. Thank you for your attention!