This presentation was created in July to initiate a satellite classroom ("hub") for Roanoke to support community members participating in MIT's upcoming U.Lab. 2nd-tier design, economic democracy, mind and matter, Scharmer, state-stages, structure-stages, U.Lab, U Theory, Wilber, Please see: http://integralcity2roanoke.blogspot.com/2014/12/roanokes-ulab-hub-challenge-for-local.html http://integralcity2roanoke.blogspot.com/2014/12/roanokes-ulab-hub-challenge-for-local.html

1. Leading Innovation from an
Emerging Future (a Primer)
. . . Initiating a U.Lab Hub in Roanoke

2. A Brief Overview of Integral and
Theory U Perspectives
▪ Reintegrating Mind and Matter
– What is the “mind-body problem”?
– How do we reintegrate mind and body?
▪ “State-stages” of Consciousness and “Theory U”
▪ “Structure-stages” and Developmental Hierarchy
▪ Design Implications for Civil Society and Economic
Democracy

3. Reintegrating Mind and Matter
The “Problem”
“Calling for an adoption of
contemplative practice, Ken
Wilber explains in The Marriage
of Sense and Soul (1998) that the
"central problem" in the
relationship between religion
and science—"the major reason
modern science rejected religion,
and the major reason higher and
interior modes were replaced by
an exterior and monological
monopoly", followed science's
discovery "that mind and
consciousness were anchored in
the natural organism" (e.g. 'the
body')” (McConnell, Marriage).

4. Reintegrating Mind and Matter
The “Mind-body Problem”
“The basis of this issue was
reflected in a 1996 discussion
between Peter Senge and Nan
Huai-Chin about whether the
spiritual teacher "thought that the
industrial age was going to create
such environmental problems
that" we'd "destroy ourselves" or
whether we'd "find a way to
understand these problems" and
subsequently reshape the
institutions themselves. Viewing
this dilemma from a "deeper level"
however, Master Nan rejoined,
"There's only one issue in the
world. It's the reintegration of mind
and matter" (Senge)” [emphasis
added] (McConnell, Urban).

5. Reintegrating Mind and Matter
Scharmer’s “Three Divides”
“Published in September, "A
Marriage of Sense and Soul" pointed
to a “psychosocial” condition various
thought leaders including Ken
Wilber has referred to as
dissociation, Charles Eisenstein
terms separation, and Otto Scharmer
in his recently issued, "Leading
from the Emerging Future" frames in
three parts” (McConnell, Urban).

6. Reintegrating Mind and Matter
Scharmer’s “Three Divides”
“These gaps are depicted as an
ecological divide between "self
and nature", a social divide
involving a "disconnect between
self and other", and a spiritual-cultural
divide reflecting "a
disconnect between self and
Self--that is, between one's
current "self" and the emerging
future "Self" that represents
one's greatest potential"
(Scharmer, Introduction 4)”
(McConnell, Urban).

7. “State-stages” of Consciousness
and “Theory U”
State-stages – Ken Wilber
“However, recent advancements at
the leading-edge of the Integral
Approach—as pioneered by
American philosopher Ken Wilber—
have uncovered several key insights
that allow us to penetrate the field
of human development through a
clearly delineated and cleanly
articulated conception that features
two distinct and simultaneous
development movements through
vertical structure-stages and
horizontal state-stages” [emphasis
added] (Fuhs,1).

8. “State-stages” of Consciousness
and “Theory U”
Theory U – Otto Scharmer
“At the source of this new leadership
technology are the two root
questions of creativity: Who is my
Self? and What is my Work? And as
you can see, the Self in not the small
“s” self, the ego, but the capital “S”
Self, my highest future possibility.
And the work is not the small “w”
work that is my job, but the capital
“W” Work, which is my sense of
purpose or calling. It’s what I am
here on this earth to do” (Scharmer).

9. “Structure-stages” and
Developmental Hierarchy
Structure-stages – Ken Wilber
“The previous installment in the
Towards a Vision for Integral
Leadership series entitled, A Map for
the Integral Leader, outlined a
working definition of integral
leadership, which contained
elements referring to both vertical
structure-stages and horizontal
state-stages of consciousness. In
regards to vertical structures or
altitudes of development, this
definition suggested that an integral
leader understands and incorporates
all developmental altitudes” (Fuhs,
1).

10. “Structure-stages” and
MEMEnomics
MEMEnomics – Said Dawlabani
“MEMEnomics: the Next-
Generation Economic System is a
book by Said Elias Dawlabani,[1][2][3]
first being published in September
2013. The book was a finalist for the
2014 Eric Hoffer Award which honors
freethinking writers and
independent books of exceptional
merit[4]” (MEMEnomics).

11. “Structure-stages” and
MEMEnomics
MEMEnomics – Said Dawlabani
“Through rigorous analysis,
Dawlabani demonstrates how the
cultural emergence of world
economies, including the United
States, have approached capitalism
so far from the values of subsistence
(pg. 68). The author identifies the
financial crisis of 2008 as the tipping
point that signaled the entry of the
United States into the decay phase
(pg. 78-81) of Third Cycle (pg. 125) of
his model. Dawlabani explores the
complex problems visible in the
world today including shifts in global
wealth, dysfunction in Washington,
and the Arab Spring” (MEMEnomics).

12. Design Implications for Civil Society
and Economic Democracy
“Value Systems and the
Future of Leadership”
“Although many people in the
consciousness movement today
believe we are in the eighth-level
system, much still needs to be done
to fix the damage caused by
centuries of irresponsible first-level
policies and practices. This is a job
for leaders emerging into the
systemic big picture view of the
seventh-level system. This system
recognizes that chaos is natural and
change is inevitable” (Dawlabani).

13. Design Implications for Civil Society
and Economic Democracy
“Leaders in this system are highly competent and principled individuals
who cut through the noise of all the first-level systems to resolve long-standing
paradoxes. They do more with less and they disperse power as
needed. This is a system of distributed intelligence and nonrigid
structures in which knowledge and competence naturally align the
various components into a functional flow that makes the lower
systems beholden to a far bigger picture of themselves. This is the New
Frontier of leadership where political and corporate governance must
have the tools and the courage to transition the world to the values
that recognize the magnificence of existence and what it means to be
alive on a planet in peril” (Dawlabani).

14. Leading Innovation from an
Emerging Future (a Primer)
. . . Initiating a U.Lab Hub in Roanoke