week 1 co-initiating - integral spiritual practitioners hub - u.lab 2.0

Integral Spiritual Practitioners

Facilitating Co-creative Experience in an Emerging

FutureA U.Lab 2.0

Hub

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Week 1: Co-initiating“Case Clinics”: At-a-Glance

“Case Clinics guide a team or a group of peers through a process in which a case giver presents a case, and a group of 3-4

peers or team members help as consultants based on the principles of the U-

Process and process consultation.

Case Clinics allow participants to:Generate new ways of framing the issue.

Develop new approaches for responding to the issue.” This section from, a “Case

Clinics” page at:

https://www.presencing.com/tools/case-clinics

Week 1: Co-initiating

▪ Introduction of Hub/Core Group Members–Select time keeper(s).

▪ Reflective Overview–The key challenge we're currently “up against” . . .

▪ Stillness▪ Generative dialogue▪ Closing remarks and individual journaling (to capture learning points)

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Brian McConnellAs founding Director of group epignosis, Brian

has worked with the underpinnings of Integral thought and theory since first introduced to Ken Wilber's, Eye to Eye in 1997. Likewise, much of his background with contemplative practice has

been informed through personal study and practice in Theravada Buddhism.

Brian's current focus is grounded in exploring organizational learning and conscious practice

through shared, collective experience.

Introduction of Hub Members

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Joe GarofaloEmbodying an entrepreneurial soul with a good-

natured enthusiasm and heartfelt compassion for his community, Joe is co-owner of a local

food hub (CSA) in Atlanta, Georgia. In addition to his focus on creating change at the

organizational level, he's exploring ways in which to "presence" a more "integral" or

"holistic" consciousness.

Introduction of Hub Members

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Hunter HartleyA "green wizard", Hunter has two degrees from Vi

rginia Tech and sits on the board of a local 501(c)(3) working to facilitate economic development in one of our city's under served neighborhoods. This non-profit subsequently focuses on local food as a primary economic activity and integrating the farm as a healthy node of the local ec

osystem.

Introduction of Hub Members

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George ClementsHaving founded and operated a local business over the last three and a half decades, George is an especially valuable member of Roanoke's

urban community. The depth of his practical background in sustainability serves to affirm our

group's collective experience.

In this same way, George's orienting passion is reflected by managing his business in a manner

that helps optimize the local populace's happiness and ecological well-being.

Introduction of Hub Members

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The Integral Spiritual Practitioners hub is

comprised in part by practitioners who began working together earlier this year through their mutual participation wi

th MIT's U.Lab in January.Over this same period, they've

subsequently initiated and supported each other in various community related projects

Reflective Overview - Welcome to U.Lab 2.0

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"The quality of results produced by any system depends on the quality of awareness from which people in the system operate."

quote from "Introduction" to

Leading from the Emerging Future

Reflective Overview - Theory U Principles

Reflective Overview -

Current Situation

Current Situation: What key challenge or question are we

up against?

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Reflective Overview - Current Situation

Current Situation: What key challenge or question are we up against?

Reflective Overview -

Current Situation

We envision, and subsequently

propose, adopting whole-system approachs to vitalize a city's socioeconomic well-being by innovating designs in community (wealth) building.

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Reflective Overview - Stakeholders

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Reflective Overview - Intention

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Reflective Overview - Learning Threshold

What do we need to let go of . . . and what do we need to learn?

"Some models that employ state and realm technology, like Theory U developed by MIT lecturer Otto Scharmer, are already gaining momentum within both academic and business institutions. Scharmer's model includes a new mode of collective problem solving. By taking groups through a cycle of states, tracking from gross to subtle to causal back to subtle and back to gross, the Theory U process results in emergent solutions that come from exposure to alternate states." from Dustin DiPerna's, Streams of Wisdom -

pg. 160

Reflective Overview - Learning Threshold

What do we need to let go of -- and what

do we need to learn?

Graphic image recreated from - “Figure E: A modern

level of spiritual intelligence . . .” in Dustin

DiPerna’s, Streams of Wisdom – pg. 242

Adapted from “Figure E: A modern level of spiritual intelligence, a causal vantage point, and a state experience of subtle communion”

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Reflective Overview - Learning ThresholdWhat do we

need to let go of -- and what do we need to

learn?

This graphic image is a composite created by B. McConnell. Citation of sources to follow with (formal) publication.

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Reflective Overview - Learning Threshold

"Major Stages of Meditative States" - from Ken Wilber's, "What is Integral Spirituality?" 13

What do we need to let go of -- and what do we need to learn?

Structure-Stages

Traditional OS (1.0)

Modern OS (2.0)

Postmodern OS (3.0)

Integral OS (4.0)

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Reflective Overview - Learning ThresholdWhat do we need to let go of -- and what do we need to learn?

This table recreated from - “Figure 23: The individual

and collective benefits of . . .” in Dustin DiPerna’s, Streams of Wisdom – pg.

161

Note that the “vectors” of “spiritual growth” here, are

the same as those illustrated as a “cube” in the previous

slide . . . “state-stages” (e.g. “vantage points”), “structure-

stages”, and “states”.

Reflective Overview - Help

We envision, and subsequently

propose, adopting whole-system approachs to vitalize a city's socioeconomic well-being by innovating designs in community (wealth) building.

Where do we need help or

input?

Structure-Stages

Traditional OS (1.0)

Modern OS (2.0)

Postmodern OS (3.0)

Integral OS (4.0)

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▪ 1 - Listen to your heart : Connect with your heart to what you're hearing

▪ 2 - Listen to what resonates : What images, metaphors, feelings and gestures come up for you that capture the essence of what you heard?

Stillness

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Guided Inquiry and Dialogue

1 – Reflecting on these remarks move

into generative dialogue on how

these observations can offer new

perspectives on our situation and

journey.

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

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Closing Remarks1 – By coaches.

2 - By moderator: How do I now see our situation and

way forward?

3 - Thank you: An expression of

genuine appreciation to

each other.

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Individual Journaling

Integral Spiritual Practitioners

Facilitating Co-creative Experience in an Emerging

FutureA U.Lab 2.0

Hub

Welcome to . . .