Learning to Co-Evolve . . . Integral Spiritual Recovery:

From "ego-system to eco-system economies" . . . a case clinic.

Welcome and Introduction

“. . . a forum where participants engage in "generative dialogue" to explore the innovation and design of community-based ecosystems for an ‘emerging future’.”

Case Clinic – Overview

Integral Spiritual Recovery: Learning to Co-Evolve

(an overview)

• "Intention Statement":

• Current situation: What key challenge or question is the group facing?• Stakeholders: How might others view this situation?• Intention: What future are we trying to create?• Learning threshold: What do we need to let-go of . . . what do we need to learn?• Help: "Where" or in "what" do we need input or help?

• Stillness

• Mirroring: Images (Open Mind), Feelings (Open Heart), Gestures (Open Will)

• Generative dialogue

• Closing remarks

• Individual journaling to capture the learning points

Intention StatementLearning to Co-Evolve . . .

Current Situation: What key challenge or question is the group facing?

Intention Statement – Current Situation

Integral Community BuildingBringing Sustainable Urban Eco-systems to Life

Intention Statement – Current Situation

Roanoke Community Cooperative - a 501(c)(6) nonprofit

We're currently in the process of forming an Advisory Board and

drafting legal documents (Articles of Incorporation

and Bylaws) to incorporate the co-op as a non-profit

trade association.

Image – screenshot from Trello

Intention Statement – Current Situation

Integral Spiritual Recovery - Learning to Co-Evolve

"Students will be able to describe their

spiritual experience to others in relation to the

particular level of development with which they most

readily identify and the emotional or relational patterns that shape or otherwise inform that

process."

. . . but how??

Image – screenshot from Udemy

Intention Statement

Stakeholders: How might others view this situation?

Learning to Co-Evolve . . .

Intention Statement – Stakeholders

What do we mean by "stakeholder"?

Quoted excerpt from Fritjof Capra’s website at: http://www.fritjofcapra.net/the-ecology-of-law/

“At the forefront of science, meanwhile, a new paradigm has been emerging that involves a

fundamental change of metaphors, from seeing the world as a machine to understanding it as a network, as well as the realization that nature

sustains life through a set of ecological principles that are generative rather than

extractive. A corresponding paradigm shift has not yet happened in jurisprudence, nor in the

public conception of law. But it is now urgently needed. In our book we call for a profound

change of legal paradigms, leading to a new ecological order in human law.”

Intention Statement – Stakeholders

What do we mean by "stakeholder"?

Although we find ourselves working with various models in practical applications of meta-theory, our orienting perspective is

perhaps most notably informed by Ken Wilber’s – AQAL framework.

Graphic figure from: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8ZGXXxKkYoFNTU2YjI4MTktY2QyNy00YzRhLThhMjEtMjU2NDM0NDZlMTc4/edit?hl=en&pli=1

Intention Statement – Stakeholders

The Three Divides and Eight Acupuncture Points Across Four Levels

Adapted from graphic image (Fig. 1) at: http://www.blog.ottoscharmer.com/?p=557

“Unfortunately, there has not been any

significant evolution or opening of the

mainstream thinking since the financial

crisis, and our economic debates are still shaped by

the same frameworks, faces,

and false dichotomies that ushered in the

crisis.”

Intention Statement – Stakeholders

State-Stages to Awakening

Adapted from graphic image (Fig. 1) at: http://www.blog.ottoscharmer.com/?p=557

One of the forms in which our subjective and intersubjective

conscious experience occurs is as "state-

stages". These realms of subjective awareness

interrelate with the respective levels (i.e. 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0) of

conscious development (e.g. "structure-

stages").

Intention Statement – Stakeholders

What do we mean by "stakeholder"

in respect to "structure-stages"?

Adapted from graphic image at: https://www.presencing.com/ego-to-eco/economic-evolution

Intention Statement – Stakeholders

What do we mean by "stakeholder"

in respect to "structure-stages"?

Adapted from graphic image at: https://www.presencing.com/ego-to-eco/economic-evolution

Intention Statement - Stakeholders

“Often lost in the debate about healthcare reform are the individual patients and caregivers who make up the system.

However, by engaging in an open dialogue with the community, a restive group of

physicians in rural Germany is reinventing the local healthcare system from the ground

up. They also are discovering a powerful opportunity for personal and systemic

change: the doctor-patient relationship.”

Reflections – “Breathing Life into a Dying System”

Excerpt from article at: http://www.ottoscharmer.com/sites/default/files/2003_BreathingLife.pdf

Intention Statement - Stakeholders

“The authors – active participants in this

initiative and long-time contributors to the SoL community – describe the promising changes

unfolding in their region and offer a

framework that applies to other systems in need of renewal.”

Reflections – “Breathing Life into a Dying System”

Intention Statement - Stakeholders

Consequently, and where, as a group, our primary focus involves

innovating and designing ecosystems that vitalize our city’s

well-being and support distributed forms of ownership, our learning process is an ongoing inquiry

or experiment in delivering and

sustaining these systems.

Reflections – “Breathing Life into a Dying System”

Intention Statement

Intention: What future are we trying to create?

Learning to Co-Evolve . . .

“From our shared vantage point, what our core group sees as "wanting to be born" in

our work together "is the capacity to change the quality of human relations" in our

immediate communities by "empowering marginalized populations" comprised of the working poor, underemployed, young, etc.

The prototype then, "with which we're currently working entails initiating community

forums that bring "stakeholders" together with local community members to explore the

innovation and design of sustainable ecosystems for an "emerging future".”

How Do We Create (Future) Communities Free of Ignorance and

Fear?Intention Statement – “Intention”

Subsequently, it's our intent to forge avenues of communication and

community relations that serve to inform the

innovation and design of ecosystems capable of

vitalizing Roanoke's well-being through distributed

forms of ownership.

How Do We Create (Future) Communities Free of Ignorance and

Fear?Intention Statement – “Intention”

You're invited to visit the "Roanoke Community Cooperative" website at: http://roanokecommunityco-op.weebly.com/

Intention Statement

Learning Threshold: What do we need to let go of . . . what do we need to learn?

Learning to Co-Evolve . . .

“Elizabeth Kubler-Ross wrote the seminal book On Death and Dying (1969) in which

she laid out a psychological model for the stages of

extreme change…coping with the death of a loved one. In the years after

publication, psychologists, sociologists and economists have applied Kubler-Ross’s

work to the process of dealing with many varieties

of life change.” 

“Stories Are About Change"

Learning Threshold – Letting Go . . .

Excerpt and image from; http://www.storygrid.com/stories-are-

about-change/

Intention Statement

Help: Where do we need input or help?

Learning to Co-Evolve . . .

With a focus toward assuring food security for local, marginalized

populations then, we're approaching this responsibility as a collaborative

endeavor especially involving other nonprofits like LEAP For Local Food,

Congregations in Action, Happy Healthy Cooks, Roanoke Community Garden

Association, and the RVAR Local Food Initiative.

"The profit in nonprofits"

Intention Statement – Help

"Community service organizations contribute millions to the economy and strengthen the

region's social fabric."

Intention Statement – Help

"The profit in nonprofits"

Quoted excerpt from Roanoke Business - November 2015

"In conclusion then, but for these same reasons, a key premise of "Toward Integral Economic Democracy" is

anchored in the supposition "that by better attending to the conscious processes by which we derive meaning . . . co-creative

awareness" is capable of birthing "remarkably new modes of thought and

system design across multiple disciplines including learning, leadership, economics,

and governance" [emphasis added] (McConnell 1). And therein lies the challenge . . . can we talk about it?"

Intention Statement – Help

"And therein lies the challenge . . . can we talk about it?"

"Roanoke's U.Lab Hub - A Challenge for Local Leaders" at: http://integralcity2roanoke.blogspot.com/2014/12/roanokes-ulab-hub-challenge-for-local.html

Case Clinic – Overview

Integral Spiritual Recovery: Learning to Co-Evolve

(an overview)

• "Intention Statement"

• Stillness:

• Listen to your heart: Connect with your heart to what you're hearing.• Listen to what resonates: What images, metaphors, feelings and gestures come up for you that capture the essence of what you heard?

• Mirroring: Images (Open Mind), Feelings (Open Heart), Gestures (Open Will)

• Generative dialogue

• Closing remarks

• Individual journaling to capture the learning points

Case Clinic – Overview

Integral Spiritual Recovery: Learning to Co-Evolve

(an overview)

• "Intention Statement"

• Stillness

• Mirroring: Images (Open Mind), Feelings (Open Heart), Gestures (Open Will)

• Each coach/participant shares the images/metaphors, feelings and gestures they may have sensed.• Having listened to the "coaches", Brian reflects back on what he heard.

• Generative dialogue • Closing remarks

• Individual journaling to capture the learning points

Case Clinic – Overview

Integral Spiritual Recovery: Learning to Co-Evolve

(an overview)

• "Intention Statement"

• Stillness

• Mirroring: Images (Open Mind), Feelings (Open Heart), Gestures (Open Will)

• Generative dialogue:

• All reflect on Brian's remarks and move into a generative dialogue on how these observations can offer new perspectives on, or for; the group's situation and journey.

• Go with the flow of the dialogue. Build on each other's ideas.

• Closing remarks

• Individual journaling to capture the learning points

Case Clinic – Overview

Integral Spiritual Recovery: Learning to Co-Evolve

(an overview)

• "Intention Statement"

• Stillness

• Mirroring: Images (Open Mind), Feelings (Open Heart), Gestures (Open Will)

• Generative dialogue:

• Closing remarks:

• By "coaches"• By case giver (Brian): How do I now see our situation and way forward?• Thank you: An expression of genuine appreciation to each others.

• Individual journaling to capture the learning points

Case Clinic – Overview

Integral Spiritual Recovery: Learning to Co-Evolve

(an overview)

• "Intention Statement"

• Stillness

• Mirroring: Images (Open Mind), Feelings (Open Heart), Gestures (Open Will)

• Generative dialogue:

• Closing remarks:

• Individual journaling to capture the learning points

Learning to Co-Evolve . . . Integral Spiritual Recovery:

From "ego-system to eco-system economies" . . . a case clinic.