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This week, I participated in the “Quantum Social Science Bootcamp”, a webinar that introduced and discussed how different topics and fields can be redefined as we move from assumptions associated with Newtonian mechanics to those associated with Quantum mechanics. The … Continue reading →

Last week I participated in a short course on collective intelligence at Santa Fe Institute (SFI). I’m engaged in collective intelligence, leadership and development from an adult development perspective, so I thought it could be interesting to get insights from … Continue reading →

On a sunny Saturday this autumn, I was sitting on my chair packed into a circle with seven other human beings in the cellar of the bUm in Kreutzberg and discussing the view on the individual in the metamodern era. … Continue reading →

This blog post addresses the relation between stratified hierarchical organizations and self-organizing ones – and tentatively proposes a synthesis. Stratified hierarchical organizations Recently, I was involved in an analysis of Elliott Jaques’ Stratisfied Systems Theory, SST, from different perspectives resulting … Continue reading →

[This is a translation of an article that was recently published in German Integrales forum, no 36, Feb 2017] Last year’s Integral European Conference in Siofok, in Hungary had three main foci: Teal modes of business, applications on Spiral dynamics … Continue reading →

What is the nature of our relationship to language? To our own and to new ones that we might acquire? A common conception is that we have knowledge and thoughts, some of which we can express in language and an … Continue reading →

What is the nature of postconventional relationships? The question arose at a workshop in adult development I was giving this summer and I felt that couldn’t offer a sufficient answer. Research in adult development offers several perspectives on the way the … Continue reading →

This year initiatives around Frederic Laloux’s notion of Teal organizations have emerged around Europe, most notably at the Integral European Conference in May that dedicated a significant space for Teal. But what is Teal, why is it relevant today and … Continue reading →

[The following text presents an analysis of the Swedish response and debate around the refugee crisis from a value systems perspective. It was presented at the conference for Migration and the welfare states in October 2016. ] Abstract The Swedish response … Continue reading →

Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey just released the book An Everyone Culture – Becoming a Deliberatively Developmental Organization. Here are some quick thoughts on it along with some background. In 1982 Kegan wrote The evolving self where he took … Continue reading →