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Thursday, July 23, 2009
Towards an integrated approach to life and work
Below is the text of a scholarship application I made recently to attend the 2009 Integral Education conference at Whidbey Institute, near Seattle. I take up four themes which seem especially relevant to me: gender, Christianity, education, and psychotherapy. The scholarship application was successful. Thank you, Next Step Integral!
"One of the great benefits of an emerging integral awareness is a view of how all the pieces of one’s life can fit together. One of the great challenges that follows this first realization, however, lies in coming to terms with the fact that there may not yet be a cultural context nor a politico-economic context to anchor that individual realization as a member of a collective. As I have wrestled with this latter awareness over the last year or so, I believe I have come to a vision that I would hope attendance at this conference could help me to enact. That vision is the following: 1) that priorities for integration within the North American cultural context include that we address how the postmodern wave has changed spirituality/religion and committed/familial relationships, and 2) that priorities for integration within the North American politico-economic context include that we address how the postmodern wave has changed the institutions of mental health provision and education.
Regarding the cultural changes brought on by the postmodern wave, I believe the development of an integral Christianity is crucial because through it we can do the following:
• provide individuals with a cradle-to-cradle (if you incorporate re-incarnation into your view of Christianity) institutional context for their lives over the lifespan; as Wilber notes in Integral Spirituality, no other institution has such a strong trans-generational focus; since it is trans-generational, the church is a very important institution for sustaining families; we are facing a waning mainline protestant church with a concomitant increase in fundamentalist church membership;
Thus, we need integral Christians to reach out to fundamentalists to help unify Christianity on the way to a trans-Christian world spirituality.
Related to the above, the development of an integral gender and sexuality studies and practice is important because through it we can do the following:
• strengthen partnerships/marriages and families in a way that harmonizes the individual rights and responsibilities of both men and women, so that they can, in turn, provide optimal parenting; currently we see a postmodern wave with a fractured view of healthy relationships between the sexes; in particular, men are sometimes viewed as having been at fault for problems between the sexes, rather than as co-creators of a the now outmoded survival system of patriarchy; furthermore, men are seen as having responsibilities to both protect/provide for and nurture their offspring, yet currently are without the legal rights in place to balance those responsibilities;
Thus, we need integral Gender and parenting specialists to reach out to both male and female gender feminists to help unify feminism on the way to a trans-feminist world.
Regarding the changes to the North American politico-economic context brought on by the postmodern wave, I believe that integration within the emotional well-being professions is important because through it we can:
• address the suffering of individuals across all fulcrums of their selves, as well as include their antecedent self, through the better differentiation and integration of coaching and counselling/psychotherapeutic services; currently these professions are at least partly divided according to whether they tend to address the professional versus the personal domains of an individual; whether they tend to address the higher fulcrums or the lower ones; and furthermore, they are divided according to their perceived focus on developing strengths versus healing wounds at various levels of the individual;
Thus, we need integral counselling therapists to work to unify the helping professions on the way to a “trans-helping” world – i.e. a world that supports healing in the context of a developmental view.
Most important for this conference, I believe that integration of all three of the themes identified above within the K-12 education system is crucial because through it we can:
• develop the capacities of girls and boys, young men and women for sustained attention, wide-open awareness, for knowledge work and for the management of their own emotions and interpersonal interactions, in order that they can become the effective world citizens we desperately need and want in the 21st century."
"One of the great benefits of an emerging integral awareness is a view of how all the pieces of one’s life can fit together. One of the great challenges that follows this first realization, however, lies in coming to terms with the fact that there may not yet be a cultural context nor a politico-economic context to anchor that individual realization as a member of a collective. As I have wrestled with this latter awareness over the last year or so, I believe I have come to a vision that I would hope attendance at this conference could help me to enact. That vision is the following: 1) that priorities for integration within the North American cultural context include that we address how the postmodern wave has changed spirituality/religion and committed/familial relationships, and 2) that priorities for integration within the North American politico-economic context include that we address how the postmodern wave has changed the institutions of mental health provision and education.
Regarding the cultural changes brought on by the postmodern wave, I believe the development of an integral Christianity is crucial because through it we can do the following:
• provide individuals with a cradle-to-cradle (if you incorporate re-incarnation into your view of Christianity) institutional context for their lives over the lifespan; as Wilber notes in Integral Spirituality, no other institution has such a strong trans-generational focus; since it is trans-generational, the church is a very important institution for sustaining families; we are facing a waning mainline protestant church with a concomitant increase in fundamentalist church membership;
Thus, we need integral Christians to reach out to fundamentalists to help unify Christianity on the way to a trans-Christian world spirituality.
Related to the above, the development of an integral gender and sexuality studies and practice is important because through it we can do the following:
• strengthen partnerships/marriages and families in a way that harmonizes the individual rights and responsibilities of both men and women, so that they can, in turn, provide optimal parenting; currently we see a postmodern wave with a fractured view of healthy relationships between the sexes; in particular, men are sometimes viewed as having been at fault for problems between the sexes, rather than as co-creators of a the now outmoded survival system of patriarchy; furthermore, men are seen as having responsibilities to both protect/provide for and nurture their offspring, yet currently are without the legal rights in place to balance those responsibilities;
Thus, we need integral Gender and parenting specialists to reach out to both male and female gender feminists to help unify feminism on the way to a trans-feminist world.
Regarding the changes to the North American politico-economic context brought on by the postmodern wave, I believe that integration within the emotional well-being professions is important because through it we can:
• address the suffering of individuals across all fulcrums of their selves, as well as include their antecedent self, through the better differentiation and integration of coaching and counselling/psychotherapeutic services; currently these professions are at least partly divided according to whether they tend to address the professional versus the personal domains of an individual; whether they tend to address the higher fulcrums or the lower ones; and furthermore, they are divided according to their perceived focus on developing strengths versus healing wounds at various levels of the individual;
Thus, we need integral counselling therapists to work to unify the helping professions on the way to a “trans-helping” world – i.e. a world that supports healing in the context of a developmental view.
Most important for this conference, I believe that integration of all three of the themes identified above within the K-12 education system is crucial because through it we can:
• develop the capacities of girls and boys, young men and women for sustained attention, wide-open awareness, for knowledge work and for the management of their own emotions and interpersonal interactions, in order that they can become the effective world citizens we desperately need and want in the 21st century."
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Educating the Heart
The Dalai Lama Centre for Peace and Education focuses on bringing world-renowned teachers and researchers to Vancouver to share their messages -- and hopefully practical suggestions -- for developing inner peace, and for changing our education system to encourage children to grow up with a greater sense of emotional well-being. September 26-29th, 2009 will see a major event with Dalai lama in attendance along with Desmond Tutu, Matthieu Ricard, and Eckhart Tolle.
Empowering Women and Men to End Their Own Hunger
Title of this post, the tag-line for the Hunger Project illuminates the great work in the world they are involved in. I am interested to know more about what they mean when they are training people in a gendered approach to HIV/Aids prevention.
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