The document discusses an integral approach to urban development. It outlines four quadrants that interventions can be mapped to: interior-individual, interior-cultural, exterior-behavioral, and exterior-systems. It also discusses mapping interventions according to stages of development. The goal is to generate solutions that cause second and third-order change by taking an integral, generative, and inclusive approach through frameworks like integral methodological pluralism.
Memetic Governance. Seminar ECCO, VUB. University of Brussels 2011Øyvind Vada
Øyvind Vada’s work is about how governance can be executed in a world where the public, private and third sectors are changing rapidly due to globalization and increased complexity. How we, as individuals, think, talk, decide and act together in all types of social systems, both locally and globally, is a function of a more and more interwoven world. Classical reductionist and hierarchical approaches to governance tend to fail due to these changes.
To reduce the gap between governance theory and governance practice, Vada argues that there is a need for new approaches that embrace complexity. He has developed a memetic approach for doing so, taking into account that we as individuals belong to different formal and informal social systems. These systems can be regarded as combinations of hierarchies, networks and markets.
Individuals and groups of individuals in social systems are, in Vada’s approach, treated as agents. As agents, we are free and goal-directed entities that maximize utility, benefit and/or fitness. We often have local and limited knowledge, and cannot always foresee effects of our individual actions on larger collective wholes.
Governing organizations includes governing agents. Vada argues that it is possible to design for a desired emergent outcome, where agents interpret predefined memes that influence how they perceive and process themselves, their surroundings and the tasks at hand. Different sets of predefined memes are created as tools and cognitive templates that form and process subjective thoughts, communications and actions, both individually and collectively.
Vada proposes an alternative way of allocating resources and exercising control and coordination in social systems – a new form of governance. He suggests a method where memes are instrumentally infused into social systems through processes where free and bounded rational agents are regarded as participants and players that impact their surroundings based on their own subjective agency. He shows how agents become carriers of shared memes in different arenas for diffusion and adaption. The predefined memes are formed as iconic and discrete models that can be applied to individual day-to-day situations as well as complex collective challenges. In the arenas, memes are woven into active exercises and assignments. Individual agents recognize the value of other agents’ viewpoints, make sense of the social systems they are part of and collectively create solutions that reduce the gap between the system’s strategic intent and its operational success.
The main task of Vada’s work is to merge an improved version of memetics with the intentions of classical governance. He has created a replicable method, which is potentially applicable in all organizations. The method seeks to balance a designed and planned approach to steering and coordination with emergent factors that are always present when human agency takes place.
M&OB - Introduction to Organizational Behaviorlearnito
Definition and Goals of Organizational Behavior (OB) Studies
Key Forces influencing OB
Characteristics of OB
Contributing Disciplines of OB
Fundamental Concepts of OB
Organizational Behavior Systems
OB Models
Social Systems and Organizational Culture
Approaches to and Limitations of OB
Design for Social Innovation: Redesigning at the Intersection of Business, Co...Sustainable Brands
A new field of practice is emerging at the intersection of design, management, complex systems theory, facilitation, and social change. This practice, sometimes called Design for Social Innovation, is giving birth to approaches for creating with social complexity from the inside. It offers "managing emergence" as a complement to traditional management. And it treats culture as a working material rather than a mysterious and difficult barrier to change. This workshop will provide a survey of Design for Social Innovation: key approaches and practices, case studies, and opportunities they present to the Sustainable Brands community.
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Is it possible to deliver a “Toyota-type” social service?
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Memetic Governance. Seminar ECCO, VUB. University of Brussels 2011Øyvind Vada
Øyvind Vada’s work is about how governance can be executed in a world where the public, private and third sectors are changing rapidly due to globalization and increased complexity. How we, as individuals, think, talk, decide and act together in all types of social systems, both locally and globally, is a function of a more and more interwoven world. Classical reductionist and hierarchical approaches to governance tend to fail due to these changes.
To reduce the gap between governance theory and governance practice, Vada argues that there is a need for new approaches that embrace complexity. He has developed a memetic approach for doing so, taking into account that we as individuals belong to different formal and informal social systems. These systems can be regarded as combinations of hierarchies, networks and markets.
Individuals and groups of individuals in social systems are, in Vada’s approach, treated as agents. As agents, we are free and goal-directed entities that maximize utility, benefit and/or fitness. We often have local and limited knowledge, and cannot always foresee effects of our individual actions on larger collective wholes.
Governing organizations includes governing agents. Vada argues that it is possible to design for a desired emergent outcome, where agents interpret predefined memes that influence how they perceive and process themselves, their surroundings and the tasks at hand. Different sets of predefined memes are created as tools and cognitive templates that form and process subjective thoughts, communications and actions, both individually and collectively.
Vada proposes an alternative way of allocating resources and exercising control and coordination in social systems – a new form of governance. He suggests a method where memes are instrumentally infused into social systems through processes where free and bounded rational agents are regarded as participants and players that impact their surroundings based on their own subjective agency. He shows how agents become carriers of shared memes in different arenas for diffusion and adaption. The predefined memes are formed as iconic and discrete models that can be applied to individual day-to-day situations as well as complex collective challenges. In the arenas, memes are woven into active exercises and assignments. Individual agents recognize the value of other agents’ viewpoints, make sense of the social systems they are part of and collectively create solutions that reduce the gap between the system’s strategic intent and its operational success.
The main task of Vada’s work is to merge an improved version of memetics with the intentions of classical governance. He has created a replicable method, which is potentially applicable in all organizations. The method seeks to balance a designed and planned approach to steering and coordination with emergent factors that are always present when human agency takes place.
M&OB - Introduction to Organizational Behaviorlearnito
Definition and Goals of Organizational Behavior (OB) Studies
Key Forces influencing OB
Characteristics of OB
Contributing Disciplines of OB
Fundamental Concepts of OB
Organizational Behavior Systems
OB Models
Social Systems and Organizational Culture
Approaches to and Limitations of OB
Design for Social Innovation: Redesigning at the Intersection of Business, Co...Sustainable Brands
A new field of practice is emerging at the intersection of design, management, complex systems theory, facilitation, and social change. This practice, sometimes called Design for Social Innovation, is giving birth to approaches for creating with social complexity from the inside. It offers "managing emergence" as a complement to traditional management. And it treats culture as a working material rather than a mysterious and difficult barrier to change. This workshop will provide a survey of Design for Social Innovation: key approaches and practices, case studies, and opportunities they present to the Sustainable Brands community.
Applying TQM in Social Projects -Children rights and youth participation as t...InterMedia Consulting
Is it possible to deliver a “Toyota-type” social service?
That is the question that led us to start a research on TQM, lean production methods and children participation. This article is the first article draft, intended to be a “provocative” piece of information that gathers without any kind of scientific design, data from different sources.
Dispositioning Advantage: A Pervert's Guide to Strategy DesignWilliam Evans
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This lively 45 (to 60 minute) romp will introduce you to the history of strategy in organizations (it’s dark, perverse, and full of dragons) from Porter to Rumelt, to Dettmer, and Boyd. Few will remember that in the early days of strategy, there was only one: drive down the experience curve and be the low-cost provider with a stream-lined supply chain. The talk will unpack what strategy actually is and more importantly, what it is not. It will painstakingly deconstruct how the term is ritually abused and misused, and then methodically introduce how strategy is a design problem, but too important to be left to the designers in their plaid shirts, funky glasses, and ernest but ultimately vapid proclamations about human-centered blah blah, validating blah, blah, buzzword bingo verbal diarrhea inventing flaccid constructs like ‘design strategy, content strategy, ux strategy’ and ‘strategic planning’.
The talk will introduce some conceptual frameworks used in military strategy and maneuver warfare, which dates back over 2,300 years to the time of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. We’ll explore how the time-tested principles of economic and military competition can be applied to social and commercial ventures, such as software and service delivery leading to considerable benefits in coherence, focus. and profit. We’ll then introduces a reasonable, systematic set of methods to help you translate current market uncertainty, fast changing customer needs, and ever-changing technological disruptions into a meaningful strategy and organizational capability ready for Hoshin Kanri.
Table for Multiple PerspectivesModernismCritical TheorySymbolic In.docxmattinsonjanel
Table for Multiple PerspectivesModernismCritical TheorySymbolic InterpretivismPostmodernismOntologyObjectivism - Reality is out there whether we know it or not.Objectivism - Reality is out there whether we know it or not.Subjectivism - We construct reality and agree upon it.Reality is an illusion created by discourses.EpistemologyPositivism - Knowledge is discovered through scientific measurements and tests.Subjectivist - Knowledge is tainted by dominant ideology (dominant ideology refers mostly to modernist theories)Interpretivism - Knowledge is discovered by the interpretation of meanings (relative to time, place, individuals)Discourses (especially modernist theories and concepts) create the illusion of knowledge.TheoryObjective truths that govern organizationsUnmasking the "real" truths that are hidden by modernist theories.Truths are relative and context specific (Depends on the meanings produced at different time, place and by different people)Rejection and Challenge to modernist theories. Provides alternative interpretations to modernist understanding of organizations.MethodologyQuantitative methods and Deductive ApproachQualitative methods and Inductive Approach (Focus on historical analysis and discourse analysis)Qualitative methods and Inductive Approach (Focus on Ethnography)Discourse Analysis and DeconstructionModernism: Discovers truths that govvern organizations. These truths that are scientifically derived are superior to commonsense andspeculations and act as universal laws that are applicable to all organizations.Symbolic Interpretivism: Questions the universal claim of modernist theories (truths). Instead, "truths" concerning organizations are sociallyconstructed and context-specific, dependent on time/place/individuals.Critical Theory: Exposes the ideological nature of modernist theories (truths). Modernist theories privileges the management/elites by espousingvalues that aligns with that of the management/elites. Aims to unmasks hidden truths of modernist organization theories.Postmodernism: Challenges the dominant position of modernist theories (truths) as objective knowledge. Aims to deconstruct the universalassumptions of these modernist theories (truths) and provide alternative discourses that give voice to the marginalized.
RMIT University
Slide *
Organisational Culture
RMIT University
RMIT University
Slide *
Organisational Culture
Objectives:Assignment One
Review of course: Why are we doing this?
How can different perspectives help me in the future?
Introduce the concepts of culture, norms and values.
Discuss how these concepts relate to organisations.
Distinguish between contemporary theoretical approaches to organisational cultureModern Symbolic interpretiveCritical theoryPostmodern
RMIT University
Assignment One
The Question To Be Answered:
'What managers most often want to know about their organization's culture is how to change it......But what is recommended to managers on the basis of cu ...
Presented at the Idean UX Summit Austin, May 2014. My colleagues and I are integrating approaches for creating with social complexity, and this talk provides an overview of our work in progress.
It outlines the nature of social complexity, and surveys three approaches appropriate for the challenge: Positive Deviance, Theory U & Social Labs, and the work of Dave Snowden and Cognitive Edge.
Consider this a case of "showing my mess." Future installments will reflect more synthesis, tell more stories, and better describe the emerging practice of managing emergence.
Virtual worlds are not the territory
Although they help us understand in a simplex form what is going on they also do great violence to what we take as reality.
The map is not the territory no matter how detailed.
Don’t end up eating the menu
Overview Presentation - "Consciousness, Cognition, Learning, and Reflective P...Brian McConnell
This slide presentation was featured in a Google Hangout video published to YouTube and entitled, "Introduction and Overview to an Online Discussion". You're invited to check it out at:
https://youtu.be/SNF2111xvQw
Expanding the User Centred Design Process to incorporate an Experience Evalua...JimmyUX
This presentation looks at many of the user centred design processes being used today and the different steps they take to shepard a system from conception through to production. It highlights some major common shortcomings within these processes and offers a solution based on research and evaluative techniques that may lead to a more holistic appraisal of a system with regard to experiential data.
This is a PowerPoint presentation shared recently by members of Roanoke's U.Lab Hub 2.0 at a lunch meeting with staff from Transitional Options for Women.
Dispositioning Advantage: A Pervert's Guide to Strategy DesignWilliam Evans
Strategy. The identification and exploitation of an opponent’s weakness. Before you can have Strategy Deployment (Policy Deployment, Hoshin Kanri), it tends to reason that you probably need a strategy to deploy. But how do you do that? What are the mechanisms? What are the methods? What are the principles that allow an organization to design a meaningful strategy?
This lively 45 (to 60 minute) romp will introduce you to the history of strategy in organizations (it’s dark, perverse, and full of dragons) from Porter to Rumelt, to Dettmer, and Boyd. Few will remember that in the early days of strategy, there was only one: drive down the experience curve and be the low-cost provider with a stream-lined supply chain. The talk will unpack what strategy actually is and more importantly, what it is not. It will painstakingly deconstruct how the term is ritually abused and misused, and then methodically introduce how strategy is a design problem, but too important to be left to the designers in their plaid shirts, funky glasses, and ernest but ultimately vapid proclamations about human-centered blah blah, validating blah, blah, buzzword bingo verbal diarrhea inventing flaccid constructs like ‘design strategy, content strategy, ux strategy’ and ‘strategic planning’.
The talk will introduce some conceptual frameworks used in military strategy and maneuver warfare, which dates back over 2,300 years to the time of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. We’ll explore how the time-tested principles of economic and military competition can be applied to social and commercial ventures, such as software and service delivery leading to considerable benefits in coherence, focus. and profit. We’ll then introduces a reasonable, systematic set of methods to help you translate current market uncertainty, fast changing customer needs, and ever-changing technological disruptions into a meaningful strategy and organizational capability ready for Hoshin Kanri.
Table for Multiple PerspectivesModernismCritical TheorySymbolic In.docxmattinsonjanel
Table for Multiple PerspectivesModernismCritical TheorySymbolic InterpretivismPostmodernismOntologyObjectivism - Reality is out there whether we know it or not.Objectivism - Reality is out there whether we know it or not.Subjectivism - We construct reality and agree upon it.Reality is an illusion created by discourses.EpistemologyPositivism - Knowledge is discovered through scientific measurements and tests.Subjectivist - Knowledge is tainted by dominant ideology (dominant ideology refers mostly to modernist theories)Interpretivism - Knowledge is discovered by the interpretation of meanings (relative to time, place, individuals)Discourses (especially modernist theories and concepts) create the illusion of knowledge.TheoryObjective truths that govern organizationsUnmasking the "real" truths that are hidden by modernist theories.Truths are relative and context specific (Depends on the meanings produced at different time, place and by different people)Rejection and Challenge to modernist theories. Provides alternative interpretations to modernist understanding of organizations.MethodologyQuantitative methods and Deductive ApproachQualitative methods and Inductive Approach (Focus on historical analysis and discourse analysis)Qualitative methods and Inductive Approach (Focus on Ethnography)Discourse Analysis and DeconstructionModernism: Discovers truths that govvern organizations. These truths that are scientifically derived are superior to commonsense andspeculations and act as universal laws that are applicable to all organizations.Symbolic Interpretivism: Questions the universal claim of modernist theories (truths). Instead, "truths" concerning organizations are sociallyconstructed and context-specific, dependent on time/place/individuals.Critical Theory: Exposes the ideological nature of modernist theories (truths). Modernist theories privileges the management/elites by espousingvalues that aligns with that of the management/elites. Aims to unmasks hidden truths of modernist organization theories.Postmodernism: Challenges the dominant position of modernist theories (truths) as objective knowledge. Aims to deconstruct the universalassumptions of these modernist theories (truths) and provide alternative discourses that give voice to the marginalized.
RMIT University
Slide *
Organisational Culture
RMIT University
RMIT University
Slide *
Organisational Culture
Objectives:Assignment One
Review of course: Why are we doing this?
How can different perspectives help me in the future?
Introduce the concepts of culture, norms and values.
Discuss how these concepts relate to organisations.
Distinguish between contemporary theoretical approaches to organisational cultureModern Symbolic interpretiveCritical theoryPostmodern
RMIT University
Assignment One
The Question To Be Answered:
'What managers most often want to know about their organization's culture is how to change it......But what is recommended to managers on the basis of cu ...
Presented at the Idean UX Summit Austin, May 2014. My colleagues and I are integrating approaches for creating with social complexity, and this talk provides an overview of our work in progress.
It outlines the nature of social complexity, and surveys three approaches appropriate for the challenge: Positive Deviance, Theory U & Social Labs, and the work of Dave Snowden and Cognitive Edge.
Consider this a case of "showing my mess." Future installments will reflect more synthesis, tell more stories, and better describe the emerging practice of managing emergence.
Virtual worlds are not the territory
Although they help us understand in a simplex form what is going on they also do great violence to what we take as reality.
The map is not the territory no matter how detailed.
Don’t end up eating the menu
Overview Presentation - "Consciousness, Cognition, Learning, and Reflective P...Brian McConnell
This slide presentation was featured in a Google Hangout video published to YouTube and entitled, "Introduction and Overview to an Online Discussion". You're invited to check it out at:
https://youtu.be/SNF2111xvQw
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This presentation looks at many of the user centred design processes being used today and the different steps they take to shepard a system from conception through to production. It highlights some major common shortcomings within these processes and offers a solution based on research and evaluative techniques that may lead to a more holistic appraisal of a system with regard to experiential data.
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3. Integral Approach to Development
Personal beliefs/mindset
Systems existing & proposedCultural views
Personal Behaviour
Context
Stagesofdevelopm
ent
Interior Subjective : Consciousness – mindsets & intention Exterior Objective : Capacities - Behaviour & Competences
Interior Intersubjective : Culture - worldviews Exterior Interobjective : Creations - systems & infrastructure
4. Integral Approach to Development
Beliefs/mindset (individuals)
Determine Values Centre of Gravity (VCG)
a number of instruments are available to measure VCG
Communications:
1. to nudge ‘improvements’ at current VCG (short term)
2. to transform to higher levels of understanding (long term)
- stories, messages, school programs, social media,
advertising etc.
Peer group pressure, role models etc.
Any intervention must be designed and implemented in
conjunction with projects/components in other quadrants
Cultural views (communities etc.)
Determine Dominant Mode of Discourse (DMD)
(a number of instruments are available to measure DMD)
Communications:
1. to nudge ‘improvements’ at current DMD (short term)
2. to transform to higher levels of understanding (long term)
- stories, messages, school programs, social media,
advertising etc.
Peer group pressure, role models etc.
Any intervention must be designed and implemented in
conjunction with projects/components in other quadrants
Behaviour
To change Personal Behaviour both
– translational more healthy at same level
- transformational towards a higher stage of development
through
- new laws & guidelines/instructions
- programs/projects in other quadrants.
Any intervention must be designed and implemented in
conjunction with projects/components in other quadrants
Interior Subjective : Consciousness – mindsets & intention
Context
For communication tools see ‘Guides for Integrally Informed Practitioners : Basic’ – Paul van Schaik vS Publishers
Stages of development
Exterior Objective : Capacities - Behaviour & Competences
Interior Intersubjective : Culture - worldviews Exterior Interobjective : Creations - systems & infrastructure
Systems
in place – what needs improving & what needs replacing
proposed systems C40 interventions
These ‘problems’ are know as ‘wicked problems’ and
actions or interventions usually bring forth unintended
consequences. This constant alignment to goals of vision
needed
Any intervention must be designed and implemented in
conjunction with projects/components in other quadrants
Projects need to be co created with
communities – not handed down from the
centre. See Modes of Participation table
below page 6 (level 6 to 8 for results)
7. Morpho-Generative and Snippable Transformation
Project
Step 1
Vision (Purpose)
Contextual
& creative
inputs from
all at each
step
Time
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Interior Subjective : Consciousness – mindsets & intention Exterior Objective : Capacities - Behaviour & Competences
Interior Intersubjective : Culture - worldviews Exterior Interobjective : Creations - systems & infrastructure
8. Project
Step 1Step 2
Contextual
& creative
inputs from
all at each
step
Time
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Interior Subjective : Consciousness – mindsets & intention Exterior Objective : Capacities - Behaviour & Competences
Interior Intersubjective : Culture - worldviews Exterior Interobjective : Creations - systems & infrastructure
Vision (Purpose)
Morpho-Generative and Snippable Transformation
9. Project
Step 1Step 2Step 3
Contextual
& creative
inputs from
all at each
step
Time
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Vision (Purpose)
Interior Subjective : Consciousness – mindsets & intention Exterior Objective : Capacities - Behaviour & Competences
Interior Intersubjective : Culture - worldviews Exterior Interobjective : Creations - systems & infrastructure
Morpho-Generative and Snippable Transformation
10. MY MEANINGS (the me space)
• what matters to me
• my inner world
• my thoughts, feelings, fears, values,
meaning. intentions & consciousness
• my worldviews
• my developmental centre of gravity
(Structural-Stage)
• my state centre of gravity (State-stage)
[Personal: Values, Commitment, Responsibility,
Altitude]
OUR SHARED MEANING & RELATIONSHIP
(the me space)
• our culture & relationships
• how we understand & relate to each other
• our worldviews
• our dominent mode of discourse (Structural-
Stage)
[Cultural: Shared values, Morale, Myths &
Legends, Covenants]
MY BODY & ACTIONS (the it/other space)
• what people can see about me
• the tangible & measurable parts of my
behaviour, my doing
• what I eat & do
[Behaviour: Actions; Competencies;
Compliance; Choices]
GROUP PROCESSES/SYSTEMS, STRUCTURES
(the its/others space)
• the design of things/systems
• the process, procedures, structures & systems
that support, explain, map, measure & guide
• aesthetics, how things look/work
[Systems: Organisational structures; Policies &
Procedures; Metrics; Contracts]
Subjective-Interior
Objective-ExteriorInter-objective-Exterior
People do not perceive ‘worlds’ but enact them. Different mindsets bring forth different worlds.
A Broader FrameworkInter-subjective-Interior
12. We
LL
It
UR
I
UL
Empiricism: Explores measurable
behaviour
Structuralism: Explores patterns of
direct felt experience
Autopoiesis:
Explores self-regulating behaviour
Phenomenology:
Explores direct felt experience
by means of:
Hermeneutics:
Explores mutual understanding
Cultural Anthropology:
Explores patterns of mutual
understanding
Social Autopoiesis:
Explores self-regulating dynamics
in systems
Systems Theory
Explores functional-fit of parts
within systems
7
Surface Structure
8
Deep Structure
3
Surface Structure
4
Deep Structure
2
Deep Structure
1
Surface Structure
6
Deep Structure
5
Surface Structure
• Genealogy,
• Developmental Psychology ….
• Interpersonal Values,
• Global Ethics …..
• Ethnomethodology,
• Cultural Studies,
• Semiotics …..
• Bio-phenomenology,
• Cognitive Sciences
• etc. …
• Biochemistry,
• Biology, Zoology,
• Behavioural Studies ….
• Socio-cybernetics,
• Communication Studies
• etc.
• Science of Politics,
• Complexity Sciences,
• Integral Economics ….
Its
LR
Zone Dimensions of Experience Explores zone: by means of Quadrant
• Meditation
• Introspection,
• Contemplation ….
A Broader Framework (IMP)
IMP – integral Methodological Pluralism www.integralmentors.org
SubjectiveObjective
Inter-
Subjective
Inter-
Objective
13. Mapping Interventions – THRIVEABLE Cities
Death & Life of Great
American Cities
Jane Jacobs
The Nature of Order
Pattern Language
Chris Alexander
SenseMaker
David Snowden
Complexity Science
Systems theory &
Cybernetics
Systems Dynamics
Urban Dynamics
Jay Forrester
Platforms for
Change
Stafford Beer
Integral City
Marilyn Hamilton
Smart Cities
Sustainable
Resilient Cities
EcoCity/Ecopolis
Cradle to Cradle
Collaborative Enquiry
Appreciative Enquiry
Ethno-Architecture
LeaderView &
CultureView
Holistic Manage
Allan Savory
Rational empirical
sciences
Spiral Dynamics
Constructive-Developmental
Theory (Kegan)
Social Learning
Theory
Global Action
Network Net
World Model
Buckminster Fuller
Constructive Developmental
Framework - Otto Laske
King 4
Building Thriveable, Integral
Cities seek to generate solutions
that meet second & third order
change.
[includes all in the earlier developments
see Urban Hub 5; Visions & Worldviews]
IMP Integral
- morphogenic,
- generative and
- snippable.
Integral Methodological Pluralism (IMP)
A set of social practices that corresponds with AQAL meta-
theory. IMP is paradigmatic in that it includes the most time-
honoured methodologies, and meta-paradigmatic in that it
weaves themtogether by way of three integrative principles:
non-exclusion, unfoldment, and enactment.
People-Centred
www.integralmentors.org
Metamodern
14. “I” Subjective realities;
- self and consciousness, states of mind,
psychological development, mental models/
constructs, emotions, state of self, etc.
“It” Objective realities;
- brain and organism, visible biological
features, degree of activation of the various
bodily systems, etc.
“We” Intersubjective realities;
- shared values, world views, webs of culture,
communication, relationships, cultural norms
and customs, etc.
“Its” Interobjective realities;
-. social systems, environmental systems,
visible societal structures. economic systems,
political systems, etc.
Mapping Interventions – Thriveable Cities
Map:
Interventions
Theories
Ideas
To:
Quadrants
Stages
Zones#
Lines
Tetra-mesh:
Where possible what is
mapped in each Quadrant
or Stage
Determine:
What is missing
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18. Source - Rooke and Torbert’s 2006 Harvard Business Review article : Seven Transformations of Leadership. From a sample of 1000 leaders in N America & Europe
WorldViews - Action Logic
19. WorldViews – vMemes SD
Subjects do not perceive worlds but enact them. Different states of subjects bring forth different worlds.
21. Action-Logic Line of Development
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People do not perceive worlds but enact them. Different mindsets bring forth different worlds.
22. INDIVIDUAL
PERSPECTIVES
Conforming
BLUE/ORANGE
Separate disciplines &
Narrow worldviews
Independent
Closed-minded, self-
serving, taking,
competitive, protective
Separately evolved,
protective of niches &
specialities, individual
competitive
performance
Antagonistic imposition
of knowledge, beliefs &
ideologies
I am alone and must
fight to survive
ATTEMPTING TO
COLLABORATE
Reforming
ORANGE/GREEN
Interdisciplinary team &
more integrated
worldview
Co-dependent
Relatively open-minded,
recognise diversity,
collegiate specialists,
harmonious
Evolving Ecosystems,
different niches &
specialities, self-
sustaining, team of
Champions
Bring diverse knowledge,
beliefs & ideologies, but
cooperate through
context-based expert
contributions
I will join others for
mutual benefit
INTEGRATING
VISION
Transforming
GREEN EXIT/Teal
Transdisciplinary team &
integrated systems
worldview
Inter-dependent
Open-minded, synergy
seeking, giving,
respectful, holistic
integration
Co-evolution
Ecosystems,
overlapping niches &
specialities, self-
sustaining champion
team
Synergistic context-
based expertise &
system design
contributions
INTEGRAL
MAPPING
Transformational
Teal/TURQUOISE
Synergetic teams &
emergent co-creation
systems of systems
Emergent
Integral, meta-
pragmatic, multi-
stratified minded,
holonic, scans the
macro, global
awareness
Emergent
growing/evolving
consciousness, highly
divergent.
Belong to the universe,
at one with life-force
Evolving Perspectives
23. Modern ideas:
Faith in science
Development and progress
Democracy
The individual
A meritocratic social order
Humanity can recreate nature by virtue of her reason
www.metamoderna.org/metamodernism
Contrast the metamodern ideas against the modern and postmodern ones:
Broader View - Metamodern
Postmodern ideas:
Critical questioning of all knowledge and science
Suspicion towards all grand narratives about “progress”
Emphasis on symbols and contexts
Ironic distance
Cultures have been oppressed and ruined by modern society
Reveals injustice in “democratic” societies
Relations create the individual
A multicultural order where the weak are included
Humanity has destroyed the biosphere
Metamodern ideas:
How can we reap the best parts of the other two?
Can we create better processes for personal development?
Can we recreate the processes by which society is governed,
locally and globally?
Can the inner dimensions of life gain a more central role in
society?
How can modern, postmodern and premodern people live
together productively?
How can politics be adjusted to an increasingly complex world?
What is the unique role of humanity in the ecosystems of
nature?
Metamodern Psychological
Development Framework
Hanzi Freinacht
24. A Quadrant Worldview A Quadrivia Worldview
domains in which I am embedded
Perspectives – Domains of Knowing
My
Values & Mindset
Our
Culture &
WorldViews
Our
Society & Systems
My
Behaviour &
Lifestyle
‘City’ viewed from
a personal perspective
–
through personal
mindsets & values
(centre of gravity)
‘City’ viewed from a
cultural perspective –
through group
culture & worldviews
(dominant mode of
discourse)
‘City’ viewed from a
social & systems
perspective –
(data and observation
driven)
‘City’ viewed from an
empirical perspective –
(data and observation
driven)
www.integralmentors.org
A Broader Framework
25. WorldViews - Individual
Integral Altitude [AQAL]
Orange At this wave, the self “escapes” from the “herd mentality” of blue, and seeks truth and
meaning in individualistic terms—hypothetico-deductive, experimental, objective, mechanistic,
operational—“scientific” in the typical sense. The world is a rational and well-oiled machine
with natural laws that can be learned, mastered, and manipulated for one’s own purposes.
Highly achievement oriented, especially (in America) toward materialistic gains. The laws of
science rule politics, the economy, and human events. The world is a chess-board on which
games are played as winners gain pre-eminence and perks over losers. Marketplace alliances;
manipulate earth’s resources for one’s strategic gains. Basis of corporate states.
Orange
Modern
Red First emergence of a self distinct from the tribe; powerful, impulsive, egocentric, heroic.
Mythic spirits, dragons, beasts, and powerful people. Feudal lords protect underlings in
exchange for obedience and labor. The basis of feudal empires—power and glory The world
is a jungle full of threats and predators. Conquers, outfoxes, and dominates; enjoys self to the
fullest without regret or remorse.
Red
Pre Modern
Magenta Thinking is animistic; magical spirits, good and bad, swarm the earth leaving blessings,
curses, and spells which determine events. Forms into ethnic tribes. The spirits exist in
ancestors and bond the tribe. Kinship and lineage establish political links. Sounds “holistic”
but is actually atomistic: “there is a name for each bend in the river but no name for the river.”
Purple
Pre Modern
Amber Thinking is animistic; magical spirits, good and bad, swarm the earth leaving blessings,
curses, and spells which determine events. Forms into ethnic tribes. The spirits exist in
ancestors and bond the tribe. Kinship and lineage establish political links. Sounds “holistic”
but is actually atomistic: “there is a name for each bend in the river but no name for the river.”
Blue
Modern
Subjects do not perceive worlds but enact them. Different states of subjects bring forth different worlds.
26. Integral
WorldViews - Individual
Indigo
Green Communitarian, human bonding, ecological sensitivity, networking. The human spirit must be freed
from greed, dogma, and divisiveness; feelings and caring supersede cold rationality; cherishing of
the earth, Gaia, life. Against hierarchy; establishes lateral bonding and linking. Permeable self,
relational self, group intermeshing. Emphasis on dialogue, relationships. Basis of values communes
(i.e., freely chosen affiliations based on shared sentiments). Reaches decisions through reconciliation
and consensus (downside: interminable “processing” and incapacity to reach decisions). Refresh
spirituality, bring harmony, enrich human potential. Strongly egalitarian, anti-hierarchy, pluralistic
values, social construction of reality, diversity, multiculturalism, relativistic value systems; this
worldview is often called pluralistic relativism. Subjective, nonlinear thinking; shows a greater
degree of affective warmth, sensitivity, and caring, for earth and all its inhabitants.
Post Modern
Turquoise Universal holistic system, holons/waves of integrative energies; unites feeling with knowledge
[centaur]; multiple levels interwoven into one conscious system. Universal order, but in a living,
conscious fashion, not based on external rules (blue) or group bonds (green). A “grand unification” is
possible, in theory and in actuality. Sometimes involves the emergence of a new spirituality as a
meshwork of all existence. Turquoise thinking uses the entire spiral; sees multiple levels of interaction;
detects harmonics, the mystical forces, and the pervasive flow-states that permeate any organization.
Post Post Modern
Teal Life is a kaleidoscope of natural hierarchies [holarchies], systems, and forms. Flexibility, spontaneity,
and functionality have the highest priority. Differences and pluralities can be integrated into
interdependent, natural flows. Egalitarianism is complemented with natural degrees of excellence
where appropriate. Knowledge and competency should supersede rank,
power, status, or group. The prevailing world order is the result of the existence of different levels of
reality (memes) and the inevitable patterns of movement up and down the dynamic spiral. Good
governance facilitates the emergence of entities through the levels of increasing complexity (nested
hierarchy).
Post Post Modern
Subjects do not perceive worlds but enact them. Different states of subjects bring forth different worlds.
Altitude [AQAL]
Green
Post Modern
Yellow
Early Integral
Turquoise
Integral
28. Meaningful Disruption
Providing meaningful disruption to the existing
Swanley town development processes and
proposals.
This will impact on:
- the systems that are in operation and need
improvement
- behaviours and practices that transforms
losing into leading.
In order to transform behaviour, values, culture
and systems, work with existing mindsets to
ensure the healthiest individual and community
change process.
Meeting people where they are, work with
existing values, cultures and systems to allow
them to transform to a greater or broader
understanding of the processes and systems
that are necessary to bring about long-term
improvements for all - to achieve thriving
communities in Swanley.
Interventions in any of the 4 domain have to be
matched by interventions in each of the
remaining domains to ensure that change and
development takes hold and causes some level
of meaningful transformation and impact.
This is known as Tetra-meshing
Changing Practices
& Behaviour
(practices & conduct)
Changing Systems
(policies, structures &
systems that support
innovation)
Smart-Towns
Changing Mindsets
& Values
(ways of thinking about and
approaching problems)
Changing Culture
(collaboration, cultural
perceptions, and social
discourse in issues)
People do not perceive worlds but enact them. Different mindsets bring forth different worlds.
Swanley - Sustainable Development
29. Swanley - Sustainable Development
My Vision
& Goals
Our Visions
& Goals
My actions &
activities to achieve
these Visions &
Goals
Our actions &
activities to achieve
these Visions &
Goals
What is my vision for Swanley in:
2 years ……………………………….. ………………………………..
5 years ……………………………….. ………………………………..
10 years ……………………………….. ………………………………..
25 years ……………………………….. ………………………………..
What is our vision for Swanley in:
2 years ……………………………….. ………………………………..
5 years ……………………………….. ………………………………..
10 years ……………………………….. ………………………………..
25 years ……………………………….. ………………………………..
What actions do I need to take to achieve my vision:
2 years ……………………………….. ………………………………..
5 years ……………………………….. ………………………………..
10 years ……………………………….. ………………………………..
25 years ……………………………….. ………………………………..
What actions do we need to take to achieve our vision:
2 years ……………………………….. ………………………………..
5 years ……………………………….. ………………………………..
10 years ……………………………….. ………………………………..
25 years ……………………………….. ………………………………..
Now fold-back the future to activity timelines
Now let’s dream of our thriveable future – what do we
want for our children, grand children, parents and
ourselves
Work on separate sheets and integrate together
Communities and the individual that make up
each community need to be able to articulate
their dreams for what their community could be.
They need stories of what life could be if they had
a real input or even control of their communities
development within an overall meta-framework.
Here we will start to map some of those dreams
and the possible ways to set them in motion.
www.integralmentors.org
31. Individual Visions & Goals
Values & Attitudes
GROUP LEADERS
(Head teachers
Chairperson BOT
Team Facilitators
Governors
Head of Departments
Ministers
etc.)
Group Visions & Goals
Cultural Views
(PTA
BOT
Idara
Muderyya
Ministries
Institutions
etc.)
Individual Activities
Behaviour and actions
Activities needed to facilitate
the projects
Group Shared Activities
Systems etc.
Activities needed to facilitate
the projects
Subjective-Interior
Objective-Exterior
Inter-subjective-Interior
Inter-objective-Exterior
Effective Schools Project - Egypt
www.integralmentors.org
32. Cultivating Transformation
Expand observations. Researchers and city authorities need to extend the
quantity and types of urban data collected. The biggest gaps are in the global
south. Data on informal settlements are sparse or non-existent. As well as
improving availability, the coverage, quality, resolution and reliability of data
need to be enhanced, and reporting should be standardized. Methodologies
for remote sensing with satellites, drones and autonomous vehicles need to
be developed for monitoring dense urban fabrics.
Understand climate interactions. Climate processes are complex — more
so in cities. For example, urban air pollution in Chinese cities is causing
heavier rainfall as fine particles influence clouds. Impermeable surfaces, such
as concrete or asphalt, hold heat and reduce evaporative cooling, amplifying
urban ‘heat islands’
Study informal settlements. By 2050, three billion people, mostly in the
global south, will be living in slums: neighbourhoods that have no mainstream
governance, on land that is not zoned for development and in places that are
exposed to climate-related hazards such as floods. Poor housing and basic
services compound the risks for individuals and households.
Harness disruptive technologies. The digital revolution is transforming
cities. For example, urban shared-mobility schemes have improved air quality
and social inclusion, and reduced congestion. In Lisbon, for instance, studies
have shown that a fleet of shared taxis could maintain residents’ mobility
levels using only 3% of the current number of vehicles. Global adoption of
shared, automated electric vehicles could cut world’s vehicle stocks by one-
third.
Support transformation. Bold strategies are needed for achieving low-
carbon, resilient cities. For example, China’s ‘sponge city’ initiative helps to
reduce urban flood risks by increasing green spaces, restoring wetlands and
using permeable materials to absorb rainwater and delay runoff. More needs
to be learned about how to change residents’ lifestyles and consumption
patterns, through policies and incentives, to make zero-carbon
neighbourhoods and cities.
www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-02409-z
Six research priorities for cities and climate change
Culture
Worldview
Social
Systems & environment
Intention
values & mindsets
Behaviour
34. Integral Evaluation
Guiding principle here is that you need enough
diversity in what data you are gathering and how you
are gathering it, that you can adequately capture
impacts that are occurring in all quadrants.
Types of data to be collected:
- third-person data (objective) such as surveys or
other quantitative ways to measure change,
- second-person (intersubjective data) such as data
that is generated and interpreted together as a
group or within a process, and
- first-person (subjective data) such as reflective
answers, thick description, or other qualitative
descriptions (one-on-one).
IIImpact on Practices
(practices & conduct
carrying out work)
Impact on Systems
(policies, structures that
support innovation in work)
Impact on Mindsets
(ways of thinking about and
approaching problems)
Impact on Culture
(collaboration, cultural
perceptions, and social
discourse in issues)
integralwithoutborders.org
37. Integral Evaluation
1. Consulting and Capacity Building
2. Client’s Unstructured Data
3. Structured Data
4. Integral Indicators and Metrics
5. Database Management
6. Integral Analysis
7. Dashboards
www.tomoanalytica.com
Reflective, experiential inquiry
Description: interior felt-sense, how one feels (about oneself,
org, project, issue),
Method Family: phenomenology
Methodologies: personal ecology sheet
self-reflection (can use this tool to guide the process, can be an
ongoing cascading reflection-stream, and/or can be accessed
through journaling).
Developmental inquiry
Description: interior personal change, developmental stages,
changes in motivation, attitudes, and values.
Method Family: structuralism
Methodologies: developmental assessment (includes
pre/post interviews that are carried out one-on-one with a
sample of the population and the interviewer is trained to ask
the same questions that hone in on indicators for motivational,
attitudinal
Interpretive inquiry
Description: culture and meanings held by the group or
community; for example, how do people generally feel and
what do they know about “conservation”, what does
“conservation concession” mean to them?
Method Family: hermeneutics
Methodologies: focus group (using a guided method, shared
below, as a pre/during/post method of “taking the pulse” of
the group—where motivation lies, what is working what is not,
how can the project shift and flow.
Ethno-methodological inquiry
Description: changes in social discourse, implicit “background”
social norms, and shared worldview.
Method Family: ethno-methodology
Methodologies: participant-observation (using a tool with
focus questions on specific domains of change)
Systems inquiry
Description: quantitative measurement of
seen changes in social, economic, political
systems in which the work is carried out.
Method Family: systems analysis
Methodologies: systems-analysis tool
Empirical inquiry
Description: quantitative measurement of
seen changes in behaviours, for example:
shifts in land-use practices, uptake of
conservation practices in the household,
behavioural change in gender relations.
Method Family: empiricism
Methodologies: measuring, ranking, and
quantitative analysis (pre/during/post
measurement that ranks certain behaviours
from 1-10 and can compare/contrast to
later assessment, after which time that data
can be analyzed using quantitative
methods to create graphs and figures of
what percentage of behaviours changed
through the lifetime of the project.)
Integral Methodological Pluralism application - international development framework : Gail Hochachka IWB
40. Mindsets
www.benefitmindset.com/index.php/about/
At the Orange-Green interface
“Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become
your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values
become your destiny.”—Mahatma Gandhi
Amber Orange Green
……. there is no way to avoid the subconscious influence of our mindsets. Its hidden web of influence permeates everything—all
the time. What’s inside us, our beliefs, attitudes and assumptions—manifests outside, pulling the strings of our future possibilities
on both an individual and a collective level.
41. Change Makers - Apps
The ten groups of values can then be divided along two major axes, as shown above:
• self-enhancement (based on the pursuit of personal status and success) as opposed to self-transcendence (generally
concerned with the wellbeing of others);
• openness to change (centred on independence and readiness for change) as opposed to conservation values (not related
to environmental or nature conservation, but to ‘order, self-restriction, preservation of the past and resistance to change’).
Much of the ongoing research on values simply supports some commonsense, intuitive ideas. Some values or motivations are
likely to be associated; others less so. When we are most concerned for others’ welfare, we are very unlikely to be strongly
interested in our own status or financial success (and vice versa). When we are at our most hedonistic or thrill-seeking, we are
unlikely simultaneously to be strongly motivated by respect for tradition. But it also reveals that these relationships are not unique
to our culture or society. They seem to recur, with remarkable consistency, all over the world.
www.valuesandframes.org/handbook/2-how-values-work/
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