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Futures Tools for Everyday Life and Work Integral Futures: knowing ourselves,

Futures Tools for Everyday Life and Work Integral Futures: knowing ourselves, our businesses and our contexts in richer ways Dr Stephanie Pride StratEDGY Strategic Foresight. In this session . . . Why use tools? What is Integral Theory? Unpacking the Four Quadrants

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Futures Tools for Everyday Life and Work Integral Futures: knowing ourselves,

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  1. Futures Tools for Everyday Life and Work Integral Futures: knowing ourselves, our businesses and our contexts in richer ways Dr Stephanie Pride StratEDGY Strategic Foresight

  2. In this session . . . • Why use tools? • What is Integral Theory? • Unpacking the Four Quadrants • Applying the Four Quadrants to • understanding contexts • self understanding for leadership • understanding your organisation • Discussion/questions

  3. “We shape our tools, thereafter they shape us” John Culkin, after Marshall McLuhan

  4. “the Integral Approach helps you to see both yourself and the world around you in more comprehensive and effective ways” Ken Wilber, ‘Introduction to Integral Theory and Practice’ 2005

  5. Integral Theory - The Four Quadrants INDIVIDUAL EXTERIOR INTERIOR COLLECTIVE

  6. “I” - Intentional (interior/individual) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henri_Rousseau_-_Il_sogno.jpg

  7. Interior/individual “I’ – Intentional: thoughts emotions memories states of mind

  8. “It” - Behavioural(exterior individual) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:View_of_Viscera_Page_82.jpg#mediaviewer/File:View_of_Viscera_Page_82.jpg

  9. Exterior/individual“It” - Behavioural • Individual organism • material body and brain (e.g. valves, blood vessels, neuro-transmitters) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Skull_and_brain_normal_human.svg

  10. “We” - Cultural (interior/collective) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henri_Rousseau_-_Il_sogno.jpg

  11. Interior/collective“We” - Cultural collective interior experiences shared values, language, meaning, relationships culture traditions

  12. “Its” - Social (exterior/collective) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki File:Bowen_House_Beehive_Parliament.JPG#mediaviewerFile:Bowen_House_Beehive_Parliament.JPG

  13. Exterior/collective“Its” - Social social, political, economic systems & processes organisational systems exterior forms and behaviours of the group

  14. Understanding Contexts: The Four Quadrants Applied to Health

  15. Understanding Contexts:Four Quadrants Applied to the ‘eco-crisis’

  16. Four Quadrants applied to self–understanding for leadership

  17. Four Quadrants applied to understanding your business

  18. References/further reading • ‘Introduction to Integral Theory and Practice: IOS BASIC AND THE AQAL MAP’ Ken WilberAQAL, Spring 2005, Vol. 1, No. 1 • ‘An integral theory of consciousness’ Ken Wilber, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 4 (1), February 1997, pp. 71-92Imprint Academic http://imprint.co.uk/Wilber.htm

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