Open Integral

Not sure how many people here know about the Integral Wiki, but it’s a worthy project worth contributing to:

http://integralwiki.net/index.php?title=Main_Page

 

Have a look at David Boje’s site here.

This “game” is an interesting concept for supporting multiparadigm perspective taking andfor opening up metatheoretical blindspots. Imagine this game applied to integral approaches with various integral approaches included among those presented here  (the organisational theories included here are well worth a look in themsleves).  Although the game is specifically for consultants something similar could also be used as an antidote against our own pet assumptions and theoretical biases.
David Boje founded the Journal of Organisational Change and Management which was the first academic journal to offer a special issue on integral theory.  He’s developed some wonderful postmodern appraoches to organisational development. He’s also developed a holon-based method for representing interorganisational development.

Most of the readers of this blog will be famliar with Integral World, the site maintained by Frank Visser that is the only home for serious critique of Ken Wilber’s version of integral theory. Until recently, the site has been explicitely Wilber-centric and Frank was reportedly reluctant to widen the scope to other integral traditions.

But in his latest editorial reflecting on the spin-offs of the Wilber rant, Frank Visser has made the momentous decision of opening up his site to the totality of integral traditions. This is therefore an open invitation to send your essays to Frank.

Here’s the quote:

“Starting today, Integral World will proceed with a different focus: a wider definition of integral, including and transcending Ken Wilber. As a start, read part one of Alan Kazlev’s series: “Towards a larger definition of the integral. Part One: Historical and Comparative use of Integral”“.

Let’s remember that integral philosophy is wider then Ken Wilber’s version of it – a fact he readily acknowledges – and that other versions of it can and should be explored. But also, I would like to add, that a critical analysis of Wilber’s theoretical proposals outside of the in-group context of the integral organizations, would be very timely. So not only “integrally informed”, but “sceptically informed” as well.”

Speaking of open source, check out MIT’s project. It’s described as “a free and open educational resource for educators, students, and self-learners around the world. OCW supports MIT’s mission to advance knowledge and education, and serve the world in the 21st century. It is true to MIT’s values of excellence, innovation, and leadership.” –Edward

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html