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Title

Integral development : realising the transformative potential of individuals, organisations and societies / by Alexander Schieffer and Ronnie Lessem.

Author

Schieffer, Alexander,

Publication

Farnham, Surrey, UK ; Burlington, VT : Gower, [2014]

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• Lessem, Ronnie
• Lessem, Ronnie.

Description

xxx, 559 pages; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Transformation and innovation series

Uniform Title

Transformation and innovation series.

Subject

• Economic development > Social aspects
• Entwicklung
• Entwicklungstheorie
• Gesellschaft
• Political development > Social aspects
• Social systems

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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• committed to retain

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Development -- Quo Vadis?: Turning Point in Human Development -- 1.1. Orientation: What Integral Development is About -- 1.2. Global, Outer Shift: Dealing with the Profound Civilisational Crisis of Our Time -- 1.3. Personal, Inner Shift: Transcending Duality, Evolving Integrality -- 1.4. Integration: Development -- Over to All of Us! -- ch. 2 Looking Back and Current Trends: A Critical Review of Human Development -- 2.1. Orientation: Or Rather Disorientation? -- 2.2. The Development Age: How it Began... -- 2.3. And How it Continued: A Brief Overview of Core Development Approaches -- 2.4. Reviewing Economic Development Theory and Practice: The West (Mis-)Leading the Rest -- 2.5. Modernisation versus Dependency: The Rest Opposing the West -- 2.6. Development = A Destructive Force?: Is Another World Possible? -- 2.7. The End of Development? The Claim for a New Aesthetic Order of Development -- 2.8. The Tao of Development: Overcoming Dualism and the Call for Balanced Development
• 2.9. Integration: Or Rather Disintegration? -- ch. 3 Deconstruction -- Reconstruction: Steps towards Renewing Human Development -- 3.1. Orientation -- 3.2. Deconstruction: Facing the Disintegrating Patterns of Past Development -- 3.3. Reconstruction: Building Integrating Patterns into Future Development -- 3.4. Integration -- ch. 4 The Integral Perspective: Holistically Renewing Development -- 4.1. Orientation -- 4.2. The Rise of the Integral Age -- 4.3. Integral Worlds Approach: The Guiding Frame for Integral Development -- 4.4. Comparing Integral Worlds with Other Integral Approaches: Key Distinguishing Elements -- 4.5. Integration -- ch. 5 A New Approach: The Integral Development Framework -- 5.1. Orientation -- 5.2. Initiation: Initiating Integral Development via the Inner Core -- 5.3. Realities: Engaging with Four Transcultural Reality Viewpoints -- 5.4. Realms: Understanding the Four Transdisciplinary Realms -- 5.5. Rounds: Straddling All Four Transpersonal Rounds -- 5.6. Rhythms: Activating Fourfold Transformational Rhythms -- 5.7. Integration
• Ch. 6 Compass and Map: The Integral Development Journey -- 6.1. Orientation -- 6.2. The Compass: Journeying with a Fourfold Purpose -- 6.3. Key Maps: Charting the Integral Development Terrain -- 6.4. Build as You Travel: Co-Creating New Uni-Versities -- 6.5. Integration -- ch. 7 Know Your Self and Your Context: A Southern Individual Perspective -- 7.1. Orientation -- 7.2. Answers from Africa: Development Views from the Cradle of Humankind -- 7.3. The Indigenous Fourfold Way: Personal Development from the Fourth World -- 7.4. Psychological Types: An Exploration into Human Nature -- 7.5. The Seasons of Human Life: A Circular Development Perspective -- 7.6. Integration -- ch. 8 The Ecosystemic Organisation: A Southern Organisational Perspective -- 8.1. Orientation -- 8.2. Life Cycles in Organisations: Towards Association -- 8.3. Organisational Evolution via an Ecosystemic Shift: Beyond Competition -- 8.4. Integration -- ch. 9 Embeddedness in Society: A Southern Societal Perspective -- 9.1. Orientation -- 9.2. Development as a Whole Life Project: Rooted in the Grounds of a Society
• 9.3. Embeddedness in Society: Embedding Livelihood and Economics in Society -- 9.4. Unleashing Community Potential: On the Immersion in Local Value Domains -- 9.5. Reactivating Vitality of Place: Place Making and Localisation Strategies -- 9.6. Alignment with Nature as Central Development Agent: Recognising Nature's Role in Reconfiguring Development from a Local Perspective -- 9.7. Integration -- ch. 10 Southern Integration via a Communiversity: The Cases of Chinyika and First Peoples Worldwide -- 10.1. Orientation -- 10.2. Integrated Southern Practice: Chinyika in Zimbabwe and First Peoples Worldwide in the USA -- 10.3. Actualising the Communiversity: Motor of Community-Based Learning and Development -- 10.4. Integration: Integral Development as Healthy and Participatory Coexistence -- ch. 11 The Journey of the Self: An Eastern Individual Perspective -- 11.1. Orientation -- 11.2. The Hero's Journey: The Need for Myth and Images for Personal Development -- 11.3. The Pathway to Individuation: Owning the Shadow to Uncover the Seat of Creativity -- 11.4. The Evolution of the Self: Towards Integration and Unity
• 11.5. Inner Liberation and Freedom: On Becoming the Truth -- 11.6. Integration -- ch. 12 Organisational Co-Evolution: An Eastern Organisational Perspective -- 12.1. Orientation -- 12.2. Deep Dialogue: The Creation of Shared Meaning -- 12.3. Myth, Ritual and Storytelling: Activating Collective Meaning and the Developmental Role of Organisational Culture -- 12.4. Releasing the Spirit of Organisational Co-Evolution: The Philosophy of Kyosei -- 12.5. Integration -- ch. 13 Evolutionary Stages in Society: An Eastern Societal Perspective -- 13.1. Orientation -- 13.2. Reconnecting with Our Collective Story: Looking Back to Our Origins to Move Forward -- 13.3. Co-Evolving towards the Integral Society: In Touch with the Ever-Present Origin -- 13.4. The Co-Evolution of Self and Society: Interconnecting Individual and Societal Development -- 13.5. Societal Development without Loss of Soul: Healing Divides by Co-Evolving Polarities -- 13.6. Transculturation: The Creation of New Civilisational Consciousness -- 13.7. Translation: The Crucial Work of Translation between Cultures for Co-Evolution
• 13.8. A Culture of Transience: A Key to Activate the Regenerative Cultural Potential -- 13.9. Integration -- ch. 14 Eastern Integration via a Developmental University: The Cases of Sarvodaya, Om Creations and Aravind -- 14.1. Orientation -- 14.2. Integrated Eastern Practice: Sarvodaya in Sri Lanka and Om Creations in India -- 14.3. Actualising the Developmental University: Catalysing Societal Learning and Consciousness-Raising -- 14.4. Integration: Integral Development as Balanced and Peaceful Co-Evolution -- ch. 15 Transdisciplinary Learning and Research: A Northern Individual Perspective -- 15.1. Orientation -- 15.2. The Learning Cycle: Learning is Development -- 15.3. Research for Development: Integral Research to Enable Individual and Societal Transformation -- 15.4. To Live is to Know: Self-Making as a Key to Human Knowledge Generation -- 15.5. Integration -- ch. 16 Organisational Knowledge Creation: A Northern Organisational Perspective -- 16.1. Orientation -- 16.2. The Knowledge-Creating Enterprise: Geared Up for Innovation -- 16.3. The Complex Organisation: Dealing with Uncertainty
• 16.4. Integration -- ch. 17 The Knowledge and Network Society: A Northern Societal Perspective -- 17.1. Orientation -- 17.2. World Systems Analysis: A New Perspective on Human Development Indicating a Global Transition towards a Post-Capitalist World System -- 17.3. Self-Making, Self-Organisation, Emergence: New Bottom-Up Ways for Development and Knowledge Creation through Local Social Movements -- 17.4. The Network Society: The Challenge to Reconcile Technological Overdevelopment and Social Underdevelopment -- 17.5. Integration -- ch. 18 Northern Integration via a Renewed Research University: The Cases of Mondragon and a Future University for Africa -- 18.1. Orientation -- 18.2. Integrated Northern Practice: Mondragon Corporation in Spain and a Prospective New African University -- 18.3. Actualising the Research University: Driving Societal Innovation -- 18.4. Integration: Integral Development as Open and Transparent Knowledge Creation -- ch. 19 The Full Life: A Western Individual Perspective -- 19.1. Orientation -- 19.2. Co-Creating Full Realities: Activating the Development Topography, Bottom-Up
• 19.3. The Integral Life: Linking Integral Theory and Integral Life Practice -- 19.4. Integration -- ch. 20 Enterprise as a Force for Good: A Western Organisational Perspective -- 20.1. Orientation -- 20.2. The Renewal of Enterprise: Reorientation of Private Enterprise, Social Business and Other Emergent Enterprise Forms -- 20.3. The Integral Enterprise: Transforming the Enterprise into a Core Development Agent in Society -- 20.4. Integration -- ch. 21 Societal Wealth and Well-being: A Western Societal Perspective -- 21.1. Orientation -- 21.2. Does Marx still Matter? Evolving Capitalism with Marx -- 21.3. The Integral Economy: A Roadmap for Economic Transformation -- 21.4. Towards the Integral Society: The New Science of Sustainability -- 21.5. Integration -- ch. 22 Western Integration via a University of Life: The Cases of Interface, TIGE and Global Creative Experimentation -- 22.1. Orientation -- 22.2. Integrated Western Practice: Interface in the USA, the Global TIGE Initiative, and Creative Experimentation Worldwide -- 22.3. Actualising the University of Life: Laboratory for Active Change
• 22.4. Integration: Integral Development as Equitable and Sustainable Livelihoods -- ch. 23 We Have Come a Long Way!: Reviewing the Integral Development Journey -- 23.1. Orientation: The Grounds Covered -- 23.2. The Integral Development Journey: A Full Review -- 23.3. Towards Actualising Integral Development: Four New Uni-Versities -- 23.4. Integration: A Final Major Task Ahead -- ch. 24 Integral University Pioneer: Sekem and Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development -- 24.1. Orientation: A New Uni-Versity Beginning -- 24.2. Pioneering Steps towards an Integral University: Sekem and Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development in Egypt -- 24.3. Integration: Almost!
• Note continued: ch. 25 Co-Creating the Integral University: Fully Realising the Transformative Potential of Individuals, Organisations and Societies -- 25.1. Orientation: Getting Real! -- 25.2. The Integral University: Integrating Communiversity, Developmental University, Research University and University of Life -- 25.3. Full Integration: Realising our Transformative Potential via the Integral University -- A Vision to Strive For! Together!!.

ISBN

• 9781409423539 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 1409423530 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9781409423546 (ebook : alk. paper) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781409460404 (epub : alk. paper) (canceled/invalid)

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^^2013035196

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