Urban Hub 22 : Transitions - Thriveable Cities

Integral UrbanHub
Transitions
Thriveable Cities
Urban Hub
a meta-pragmatic approach
Paul van Schaik
integralMENTORS

Urban Hub
Transitions
Thriveable Cities
integralMENTORS
Paul van Schaik
Creator & Curator
Integral UrbanHub
22

Copyright ©©integralMENTORS– September 2020
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The Process of Transition
The main reason that learning is as slow as it is, is that
learning means giving up ideas, habits, and values.
Some of the old "learning" that has to be given up or
"unlearned" was useful in the past and is still useful to some
of the people in the society.
Some of the things that people have to unlearn are traditions
that are dear to them, and that may be part of their character
development.
Max Singer

Living in cities is an art, and
we need the vocabulary of
art, of style, to describe the
peculiar relationship between
man and material that exists
in the continual creative play
of urban living. The city as we
imagine it, then, soft city of
illusion, myth, aspiration, and
nightmare, is as real, maybe
more real, than the hard city
one can locate on maps in
statistics, in monographs on
urban sociology and
demography and
architecture.
Jonathan Raban, Soft City

Content
Introduction
Meta-Memes unfolding
Stage Transitions – vertical development
Stage translation – horizontal development
Annex
1 Case Study: Thriving Cities Initiative
2 Action-Logics
3 Stage Transition – quadric development
4 Integral Evaluation
5 AQAL – aspects of integral theory & Framework
Books
Notes

It has become clearer and clearer to me that the work I am engaged
in involves building our capacities to cope with phenomena—that is,
the mess of the world, “the swamp,” the heat, the smell, the
emotionality, the conflict and all the things that come from engaging
as whole people with whole people.
This means leaving our desks, holding our models lightly and
engaging our senses.
The reward being work that is deeply rooted in the complexity of the
world, owned by the people who are affected by them instead of
opaque, unaccountable agencies.
Slouching Towards Flatland, Zaid Hassan, 2007

Integral begins with a recognition that we are evolving through growth
stages in individual consciousness and culture.
Each of these stages has something important to offer: a dignity, insight
and capacity, which shines most brightly when combined, or integrated,
with the dignity, insights and capacities of other stages.
This integration creates more than the sum if its parts, giving rise to new
emergent capabilities.
These capabilities include the ability to harmonize previously conflicting
perspectives and worldviews and to see and enact solutions that have
not been seen or tried before.

Walking in the world not talking of the world
No one vision is sufficient in and of itself – visions
can guide but only by collaborative action in a
creative generative process can visions grow and
become part of an ongoing positive sociocultural
reality.
Without taking into account the many worldviews
that currently co-exist and crafting ways of
including them in a positive and healthy form we
will continue to alienate vast sections of all
communities and humankind.
It is through the growing healthy versions of all the
different worldviews that we can attempt to move
towards an equitable, regenerative and caring
world living within the planetary boundaries.
Through action we will move forward – through
only ongoing talk we will stagnate and fail.
These curation are to be dipped into – explored
and used to generate ideas and discussion.
A catalyst for collaboration and action.
And most importantly grown, modified in a
generative form.
For more detail of integral theory and Framework
see earlier books in this series.
This is a living document - any suggestions for inclusion
in the next volume send to: info@integralmentors.org
How to use this book
A taste of many visions in our world.
Visions both positive - utopian, and negative - dystopian. Each
claiming to be true and enfolding all the others
But in reality, they are ‘true’ but partial – and some more ‘true’
than others. Each ‘shallower’ truth transcended but the best is
included in the next ‘deeper’ or broader truth. However also
creating new and more complex problems.
It’s how we use them together and in collaboration that will
define how successful we are. It is the morphogenetic pull of
caring that will determine how we succeed as a human race. It is
the ability to generate an equitable, fair, resilient and
regenerative ‘system’ that must drive us forward.
The means will be a combination of many of the ideas
showcased here but many more still to be discovered on our
exciting journey into the future. Held together through a
syngeneic Integral Mythological Pluralism
Too little courage and we will fail – too much certainty and we will fail.
But with care and collaboration we have a chance of success.
Bringing forth emergent impact through innovation, syngeneic
enfoldment & collaborative effort.
And a deeper understanding of a broader framework will be required
– that is, a more integral vision.
Explore and enjoy – use as many of the ideas as possible, enfolding
each into an emergent whole that grows generatively.
At each step testing – reformulating – regrouping – recreating.
Moving beyond, participating, thro’ stake-holding, thro’ share-
holding, to becoming a thrive-holder.
An Integral Framework
www.integralmentors.org

The Great Possibility
……. so it is today, with an integral age at the leading
edge. The possibility—and it is only a gossamer
possibility at this time—is that a new and wider wave
of consciousness— an integral wave, an age of
synthesis— is beginning to emerge and push against
all of the now-older waves (traditional, modern, and
postmodern), throwing each of them (but especially
the postmodern) into a legitimation crisis about its
own validity— a crisis of legitimacy that can only be
resolved by an increase in authenticity, or an actual
transformation to the new and wider integral wave of
unfolding.
This new unfolding will involve, in terms of its
paradigmatic base, an actual set of social practices,
not merely a new theory or set of theories. …………..
A paradigm is a social practice or behavioral
injunction, not simply a theory or intellectual edifice
(although, of course, they tetra-evolve together).
Accordingly, any new paradigm will include a set of
exemplars and practices— practices that, if they
contain more depth than their predecessors, will
throw the old approaches into a legitimation crisis
that can only be resolved by a vertical
(“revolutionary”) transformation— ….., the crisis in
legitimacy can only be resolved by an increase in
authenticity.
Thus, a new integral paradigm will therefore be a
new set of injunctions and practices, not simply
theories, not worldviews, not Web-of-Life notions,
not holistic concepts—but actual practices.

The point is simply that, in principle, cross-paradigmatic judgments are possible because there
is not simply one world against which paradigms compete for dominance, a kind of king-of-the-
hill battle that tosses all losers on the garbage dump, because there are no losers.
There is not one world over which all paradigms are fighting for supremacy, but many worlds
brought forth by different paradigms, worlds that can be eye-witnessed by the same subjects if
they submit to the discipline of the paradigms required to enact those worlds. And while "the"
world cannot contain many worlds, awareness can. And because we already know that there are
in fact many worlds, it follows that we already are standing in an awareness that has cross-
paradigmatic capacity, a capacity that can eventuate in meta-theoretical overview, such as the
one offered by AQAL.
In short, for AQAL meta-theory, the basic levels of consciousness are a measure of the
"amount" of awareness or consciousness in any line, but consciousness itself is nothing; it is not
a presence but an absence, an opening, a clearing, a space of perspectives, within which
phenomena arise.
You can't have more or less of consciousness, but you can have more or less phenomena
allowed to arise in consciousness. When the entire Kosmos arises in your consciousness, that is
Kosmic consciousness—the top of the mountain, so to speak (except there is no top, only an
infinitely receding horizon that nonetheless gets bigger and bigger the more that you can
love).
People do not perceive worlds but enact them. Different mindsets bring forth different worlds.

Integral Theory : AQAL Theory of Change
QUADRANTS
The four
principal
territories a
person must
navigate
successfully
STAGES
LEVELS
The stages of
transformational
development for
people, cultures,
systems
LINES
The many
human
intelligences,
cultural
dimensions,
and subsystems
in action
STATES
The peak
expressions of
people and
systems related
to business and
life
TYPES
The many faces of
individuals,
cultures,
organisations,
and systems
#Zones
The 8 zones:
inside and
outside of
each
quadrant
(deep and
surface
structure}
Areas included in the book
Areas not explicitly includedAreas not explicitly included

StagesofDevelopment
‘Strange attractors’
Deep drivers Manifestationstetra-mesh
Deep drivers by Stage & Quadrant of Development
Values/
mindsets
Planet-centric
World-centric
Socio-centric
Ethno-centric
Ego-centric
Subjective ULQ
Pre-Egoic
Impulsive
Behaviour/
empirical
Pluralistic
Rational
Bureaucratic
Metamodern
Objective URQ
Instinctive
Culture/
worldviews
Integral
Post-modern
Modern
Traditional
Mythic
Magic
Society
systems
Integral commons
Global community
Informational
Value communities
Late industrial/
Early informational
Corporate states
Industrial
Early nations
Agrarian
Feudal
Early empires
Tribal
2ndtier1sttier1sttier1sttier1sttier1sttier
Inter Subjective LLQ Inter Objective LRQ

Behaviour
Functional fit
Social Systems
Intensions
Values/Mindsets
Culture
Behavioural manifestation
Systems manifestation
Values/Mindsets
deep drivers
Cultural deep drivers
All quad.- or Tetra-meshed
Deep drivers and manifestations tetra-meshing : AQAL Iceberg model
An Integral View

"The one thing that you will have changed if you adopt an integral
approach is your own awareness, your own consciousness, your own
map of human possibilities, a map that has dramatically expanded from
organic interventions to caring for a human being in all of his or her
extraordinary richness across an entire spectrum that runs from dust to
deity, dirt to divinity, even here and now."
"..... the crucial ingredient in any integral practice is not the integral tools
themselves— with all the conventional and unconventional methods— but
the user of those tools, the integrally informed practitioner, who have
opened themselves to an entire spectrum of consciousness— matter to
body to mind to soul to spirit—and who have thereby acknowledged
what seems to be happening in any event: body and mind and spirit are
operating in self and culture and nature, and thus health and healing,
sickness and wholeness, are all bound up in a multidimensional tapestry
that cannot be cut into without fatal haemorrhaging."
Ken Wilber

Ambiguous
You can easily find convincing but totally contradictory information
for any assertion. Because of complexity and unpredictability the
ubiquitous availability of information has created a mist in which it
becomes increasingly difficult to find clarity.
A
V
Volatile
Things change continuously. What is true today isn’t true tomorrow.
Even the nature and dynamics of change change.
U
Uncertain
More than ever, we live with a lack of predictability and a prospect
for surprise. It is impossible to predict how projects will evolve..
C
Complex
Simple cause-and-effect chains have been replaced by complex
interconnected forces and events. Interconnectedness makes all
things increasingly complex.

all actions will have
unintended consequences
Thus

“In finding the world as we do, we forget all we did to find it as such,
and when we are reminded of it in retracing our steps back to
indicators, we find little more than a mirror-to-mirror image of ourselves
and the world.
In contrast with what is commonly assumed, a description, when
carefully inspected, reveals the properties of the observer. We
observers, distinguish ourselves precisely by distinguishing what we
apparently are not, the world."
Spencer Brown

Integral Altitude [AQAL]
Orange At this wave, the self “escapes” from the “herd mentality” of Amber, and seeks truth and
meaning in individualistic terms—hypothetico-deductive, experimental, objective, mechanistic,
operational—“scientific” in the typical sense. The world is a rational and well-oiled machine
with natural laws that can be learned, mastered, and manipulated for one’s own purposes.
Highly achievement oriented, especially (in America) toward materialistic gains. The laws of
science rule politics, the economy, and human events. The world is a chess-board on which
games are played as winners gain pre-eminence and perks over losers. Marketplace alliances;
manipulate earth’s resources for one’s strategic gains. Basis of corporate states.
Modern
Red First emergence of a self distinct from the tribe; powerful, impulsive, egocentric, heroic.
Mythic spirits, dragons, beasts, and powerful people. Feudal lords protect underlings in
exchange for obedience and labor. The basis of feudal empires—power and glory The world is
a jungle full of threats and predators. Conquers, outfoxes, and dominates; enjoys self to the
fullest without regret or remorse.
Pre Modern
Magenta Thinking is animistic; magical spirits, good and bad, swarm the earth leaving blessings,
curses, and spells which determine events. Forms into ethnic tribes. The spirits exist in
ancestors and bond the tribe. Kinship and lineage establish political links. Sounds “holistic”
but is actually atomistic: “there is a name for each bend in the river but no name for the river.”
Pre Modern
Amber Thinking is animistic; magical spirits, good and bad, swarm the earth leaving blessings,
curses, and spells which determine events. Forms into ethnic tribes. The spirits exist in
ancestors and bond the tribe. Kinship and lineage establish political links. Sounds “holistic”
but is actually atomistic: “there is a name for each bend in the river but no name for the river.”
Traditional

Integral
Indigo
Green Communitarian, human bonding, ecological sensitivity, networking. The human spirit must be freed
from greed, dogma, and divisiveness; feelings and caring supersede cold rationality; cherishing of
the earth, Gaia, life. Against hierarchy; establishes lateral bonding and linking. Permeable self,
relational self, group intermeshing. Emphasis on dialogue, relationships. Basis of values communes
(i.e., freely chosen affiliations based on shared sentiments). Reaches decisions through reconciliation
and consensus (downside: interminable “processing” and incapacity to reach decisions). Refresh
spirituality, bring harmony, enrich human potential. Strongly egalitarian, anti-hierarchy, pluralistic
values, social construction of reality, diversity, multiculturalism, relativistic value systems; this
worldview is often called pluralistic relativism. Subjective, nonlinear thinking; shows a greater degree
of affective warmth, sensitivity, and caring, for earth and all its inhabitants.
Post Modern
Turquoise Universal holistic system, holons/waves of integrative energies; unites feeling with knowledge
[centaur]; multiple levels interwoven into one conscious system. Universal order, but in a living,
conscious fashion, not based on external rules (blue) or group bonds (green). A “grand unification” is
possible, in theory and in actuality. Sometimes involves the emergence of a new spirituality as a
meshwork of all existence. Turquoise thinking uses the entire spiral; sees multiple levels of
interaction; detects harmonics, the mystical forces, and the pervasive flow-states that permeate any
organization.
Post Post Modern
Integral
Teal Life is a kaleidoscope of natural hierarchies [holarchies], systems, and forms. Flexibility, spontaneity,
and functionality have the highest priority. Differences and pluralities can be integrated into
interdependent, natural flows. Egalitarianism is complemented with natural degrees of excellence
where appropriate. Knowledge and competency should supersede rank,
power, status, or group. The prevailing world order is the result of the existence of different levels of
reality (memes) and the inevitable patterns of movement up and down the dynamic spiral. Good
governance facilitates the emergence of entities through the levels of increasing complexity (nested
hierarchy).
Post Post Modern
Early Integral
Meta-Modern
Altitude [AQAL]

“Development - happens when people, however poor in money, get
together, get organised, become sophisticated and go to scale. It
happens when they are savvy and able to influence or change the course
of events or the order of things locally, nationally or even globally - or are
themselves able to become that order or part of it.”
“Development - is that stage you reach when you are secure enough in
yourself, individually or collectively, to become interdependent; when ‘I’
can emerge as ‘we’, and also when ‘we’ is inclusive of ‘them’... Getting
organised is the foundation of all the other developmental goals we have
set; it is the essence of good governance and of sustainable work; it
empowers and opens doors; it makes you money and wins you respect.”
Small change: About the art of practice and the limits of planning in cities, 2004 Nabeel Hamdi

Stage TransitionsVertical Development

A great deal of research into human development now shows in more detail, how we grow in our understanding of
ourselves and our world. All human beings have a unique and precious ability to grow throughout their lifetime.
While there are many ways in which we can grow – physically, mentally, psychologically, interpersonally, spiritually,
artistically, professionally – research shows that our potential in all of these areas is moderated by our Centre of
Gravity in these different streams of development. That is where our level of embodiment is situated
Our Stage of development is not us and it is in flux. By understanding our current Stage, we see into certain aspects
of ourselves. Who we really are is much more than any theory anyone can ever hold about us. Through awareness of
our own developmental Centre of Gravity, we will have a better sense of ourselves as we grow, in general, as well as
in relationship to the others in our life and our world. In different situations we may respond from different Stages or
levels. We therefore have both a tendency towards a Centre of Gravity and also a contextual response to the
situation at hand. Development does not progress step-by-step, but in a much more complex pattern. It is important
to hold any model lightly and use it to support ourselves in ways that are beneficial to us all.
Our Stage of development shapes many aspects of ourselves – our thinking, emotional responses, behaviour, our
leadership capacities, our inter-personal interactions, social life, and much more. Our Stage of development doesn’t
determine these things, but limits, shapes and influences them – and it should be remembered that any Stage can be
transcended.
In understanding our Stage of development we can get a deeper understanding of how we make meaning and
what influences our daily strategies and actions.
This in turn give us a greater understanding of our relationships, and strategies for communication with others.
As we begin to recognise our current Stage we start to better understand our world view, and our Level of
‘leadership’ development and this helps us to begin to see our particular strengths, vulnerabilities and learning and
coping strategies.
This understanding of Stages is then embedded in a more comprehensive map that includes the Deep and Surface
Structures of the contexts, both in the interior inter-subjective area such as our culture and the intra-objective area
such as the physical systems in which we live i.e. eco-systems, infrastructure-systems etc.
All this is then expressed in our own behaviour and actions - the diagrams below map these interconnected areas.
Paul van Schaik – Guides for Integral Informed Practitioners

What causes the shift between Stages – especially in the lines - Cognitive, Self and Values. These shifts can be detected in the
language or concepts used. Also in what is seen as objective and what is subjective. Shifts usually cause discomfort and complaints
at first but if positive movement many ‘ah ha’ moments and excitement. In all these shifts life conditions are important – context
[the surface structure] causes shifts in the brain complexity or understanding [deep structure] – how no one is sure.
Transformation between Meta-Values Stages or Levels of Development
Pre ego-centric tribal pre-rational [Magenta/Purple]
First Tier Shifts
Key Words: Retro-romantic; Respects status quo; "tribal".
Magenta ‘world’ is threatening and full of mysterious powers and spirit beings which must be placated and
appeased.
Magenta is a Tribal ‘World’ development must always alignment to the tribe or clan.
Magenta sacrifices self to maintain the ways of the old.
Magenta looks for safety and security, seeks protection from harm and a strong family bond.
Magenta time horizon: Past
What’s important
- Allegiance to chief, elders, ancestors, and the clan; - Obeying the desires of spirit beings and mystical signs; - Preserving
sacred objects, places, events, and memories; - Rites of passage, seasonal cycles, and tribal customs; - Kinship and lineage.
Self-Identity
- Often found in very young children, who are governed by their impulses; - Adults at this stage have an inadequate
conception of the complexities of life and may easily feel confused and overwhelmed; - Have an expedient morality (actions
are only bad if one is caught).
Underlying values
- Thinking is animistic; magical spirits, good and bad, swarm the earth leaving blessings, curses, and spells which determine
events. - Forms into ethnic tribes. - The spirits exist in ancestors and bond the tribe
- .Kinship and lineage establish political links. - Sounds holistic but is actually atomistic: - There is a name for each bend in the
river but no name for the river.

Transformation between Stages or Levels of Development
Pre ego-centric
tribal
pre rational
Magenta/
Purple
to
Ego-centric
feudal
pre-modern
Red
First Tier Shifts
Pre ego-centric : tribal pre-rational to Ego-centric: feudal pre-modern

Ego-centric feudal pre-modern [Red]
Key Words: Heroic; Challenges status quo; reject order; fight 'the system"; "macho". Red expresses self
impulsively at any cost without shame or fear.
Red tends to dominate, gain the spoils, and earn the right to rape, pillage, and plunder.
Red world is a jungle full of threats and predators.
Red tends to like power/action, asserting self, and to dominate and control others.
Red needs a sense of power, action, excitement. The proving individual prowess, and instant rewards.
Red’s time horizon: Now
Underlying Values
- First emergence of a self distinct from the tribe; powerful, impulsive, egocentric, heroic.beasts, and powerful people.
- Feudal lords protect underlings in exchange for obedience and labour. - The basis of feudal empires—power and glory. - The
world is a jungle full of threats and predators. - Conquers, out-foxes, and dominates;
- Enjoys self to the fullest without regret or remorse.
What’s important
- Power, spontaneity, heroism, immediate gratification; - Standing tall, calling the shots, receiving respect, and getting attention;
- Being daring, impulsive, and enjoying oneself without regret;
- Conquering, outsmarting, dominating
Self-Identity
- First step toward self-control of impulses; - Sense of vulnerability and guardedness; - Fight/flight response is very strong; -
Very attack-oriented and win/lose in nature; - Short-term horizon;
- Focus on concrete things and personal advantage; - Sees rules as loss of freedom; - Feedback heard as an attack
First Tier Shifts

Ego-centric
Red
to
Ethno-centric
nations/empires
bureaucratic
Amber/Blue
Ego-centric: feudal pre-modern to Ethno-centric: nations/empires bureaucratic
Ethno-centric nations/empires bureaucratic [Amber/Blue]
Key Words: stewardship; Single secular or religious framework; "conformist".
Amber will Sacrifice self for reward later.
Amber will align to the one truth [which ever one that may be.
Amber ‘world’ has meaning, direction, and purpose, with outcomes determined by an all powerful Other or
Order.
Amber’s duty is to protect borders, homelands, hearth, preserve way of life, defend "holy" cause.
Amber’s time horizon: past and present (yesterday/today)
First Tier Shifts

Ethno-centric nations/empires bureaucratic [Amber/Blue]
Underlying Values
- Life has meaning, direction, and purpose, with outcomes determined by an all powerful Other or Order.
- This righteous Order enforces a code of conduct based on absolutist and unvarying principles of right and wrong.
- Violating the code or rules has severe, perhaps everlasting repercussions.
- Following the code yields rewards for the faithful. Basis of ancient nations.
- Rigid social hierarchies; - Paternalistic;
- One right way and only one right way to think about everything.
- Law and order;
- Impulsivity controlled through guilt;
- Concrete-literal and fundamentalist belief;
- Obedience to the rule of Order.
What’s important
- Sacrificing self for a transcendent Cause, (secular or religious) Truth, mission, future reward; laws, regulations, and rules
- Discipline, character, duty, honour, justice, and moral fibre;
- Righteous living; controlling impulsivity through guilt;
- Following absolutistic principles of right and wrong, black and white;
- Being faithful, maintaining order and harmony;
- One right way to think/do; -
- Convention, conformity.
Self-Identity
- Emergence of capacity to see and respond to what others want;
- Self-identity defined by relationship to group, whose values impart strong sense of “shoulds” and “oughts”;
- Values that differ from one’s own are denigrated or avoided; Conform to norms of whatever group they want to belong to
(including gangs and peer-groups);
- Avoid inner and outer conflict;
- Think in simple terms and speak in generalities and platitudes;
- Attend to social welfare of own group; -
First Tier Shifts

IntegralMENTORS Guides – [basic]
Amber
to
Orange
Aspires to better life now
for self
Challenges higher
authority to produce
tangible results
Seeks one best way
among many options
Awakening of a
dependent-seeking self
who challenges higher
authority and tests
possibilities
Once stability and security are achieved, and the afterlife is also
guaranteed, the time comes when people begin to question the price.
The saintly, puritanical , rigid, sacrificial lifestyle is devoid of pleasure,
leisure or adventurous thought. Once again, as with the breaking of
tribal bonds, people seeks to free themself from the restrictions and
constraints of an authoritarian punitive “suffer now to gain later” world
view. New, excess energy is produced in the system, creating
perturbations and at first subtle attacks on the established Blue [Amber]
Order. Deviation surfaces. The basic assumptions of “the system” are
questioned. A new elitism is born. The evidence of the BETA state is
everywhere, revisionist views abound. Blue [Amber] thinkers attempt to
regain control and stability by a frantic First Order Change mandate.
Heretics are burned at the stake. Non-conformists have to leave hearth
and home to pursue their personal destiny elsewhere.
Orange
to
Green
Discovers material wealth
does not bring happiness
or peace
Renewed need for
community, sharing, and
richer inner life
Sensitivity to have, and
have-not gaps
Awakening a sociocentric
Once assured of their material satisfaction (not necessarily their
neighbours) people discover in themself a spiritual void. They have
conquered the world, they have explored everywhere, even into space.
They have all the human comforts that can be manufactured and
purchased. Yet they has not achieved happiness. they finds themself a
neophyte in a subjectivistic, humanistic World. They have achieved the
good life but at a price. They are envied - perhaps respected - but not
liked. Life becomes shallow, meaningless and jaded, their lifestyle has
cost them health, family affection, self-respect and what they now
perceives to be most important of all - people, community, sensitivity
Ethno-centric
Amber/Blue
to
Socio-centric
modern
rational
Orange
Ethno-centric: nations/empires bureaucratic to Socio-centric modern rational
First Tier Shifts

Socio-centric modern rational [Orange]
Key Words: Manage, use, and exploit society for profit and play;
Orange is success-driven searching for best answer and ways to advance Goal-orientated planning and strategies to do better.
Economic focus is on competition.
Orange believes in the laws of science rule politics, the economy, and human events.
Orange to advance economic spheres of influence or access to raw materials and markets.
Orange needs success, to making things better, progress, prosperity, status, and glitz.
Orange’s time horizon: Months/years
Underlying Values
- At this wave, the self escapes from the herd mentality of amber, and seeks truth and meaning in individualistic terms
- hypo-theotico-deductive, experimental, objective, mechanistic, operational
- scientific in the typical sense.
- Highly achievement oriented, especially toward materialistic gains.
- The world is a chess-board on which games are played as winners gain pre-eminence and perks over losers.
- Marketplace alliances; - manipulate earth’s resources for one’s strategic gains. - Basis of corporate states.
What’s important
- Progress, prosperity, optimism, and self-reliance; - strategy, risk-taking, and competitiveness; goals, leverage, professional
development, and mastery;
- rationality, objectivism, demonstrated results, technology, and the power of science;
- use of the earth’s resources to spread the abundant ‘good life’;
- advance by learning nature’s secrets and seeking the best solutions.
Self-Identity
- Primary elements of adult ‘conscience’ are present, including long-term goals, ability for self-criticism, and a deeper sense of
responsibility. - Interested in causes, reasons, consequences, and the effective use of time;
- uture-oriented and proactive; - initiator rather than pawn of system; - blind to subjectivity behind objectivity; - feel guilt when
not meeting own standards or goals; -
- behavioural feedback accepted.
First Tier Shifts

dependent-seeking self
who challenges higher
authority and tests
possibilities
Order. Deviation surfaces. The basic assumptions of “the system” are
questioned. A new elitism is born. The evidence of the BETA state is
everywhere, revisionist views abound. Blue [Amber] thinkers attempt to
regain control and stability by a frantic First Order Change mandate.
Heretics are burned at the stake. Non-conformists have to leave hearth
and home to pursue their personal destiny elsewhere.
Orange
to
Green
Discovers material wealth
does not bring happiness
or peace
Renewed need for
community, sharing, and
richer inner life
Sensitivity to have, and
have-not gaps
self who strives for
belonging and acceptance
to discover inner harmony
Once assured of their material satisfaction (not necessarily their
neighbours) people discover in themself a spiritual void. They have
conquered the world, they have explored everywhere, even into space.
They have all the human comforts that can be manufactured and
purchased. Yet they has not achieved happiness. they finds themself a
neophyte in a subjectivistic, humanistic World. They have achieved the
good life but at a price. They are envied - perhaps respected - but not
liked. Life becomes shallow, meaningless and jaded, their lifestyle has
and human Warmth.
Shift to Second Tier
Green
to
Teal
Overwhelmed by
economic and emotional
costs
Confronted by
chaos/disorder
Need for tangible results
and functionality
Knowing moves above
feeling
In spite of their good intentions and social programmes, people in the
Green band of thinking does not produce the ideal state they
envisaged. After spending all the money, mounting the protest marches
and boycotts and forcing “freedom and equality” into the Law of the
land, people are still not equal. Billions are still not free. Evil
international troublemakers still emerge. Available resources are
shrinking. Nationalism and ethnicity reappear, threatening the very
fabric of community. Their world is in shreds and they cannot
understand why ~ it all felt so good at the time. At this point the GreenPeople do not perceive worlds but enact them. Different mindsets bring forth different worlds.
Socio-centric
Orange
to
World-centric
post modern
pluralistic
Green
Key Words: Equality; Protect societies for humanity & for their intrinsic nature no matter what their values; "Communalist".
Green Sacrifice self to get acceptance now.
Green ‘world’ is strongly egalitarian, anti-hierarchy, pluralistic values, social construction of reality, diversity, multiculturalism,
relativistic value systems; this worldview is often called pluralistic relativism.
Green Reaches decisions through reconciliation and consensus (downside interminable processing and incapacity to reach
decisions).
Green: Time horizon: 1 to 10+ years
Socio-centric: modern rational to World-centric post-modern pluralistic
World-centric post-modern pluralistic [Green]
First Tier Shifts

Underlying Values
- Communitarian, human bonding, ecological sensitivity, networking.
- The human spirit must be freed from greed, dogma, and divisiveness; - feelings and caring supersede cold rationality;
- Cherishing of the earth, Gaia, life; - Against hierarchy;
- Establishes lateral bonding and linking .- Permeable self, relational self, group intermeshing; -
- Emphasis on dialogue, relationships; -
- Basis of values communes (i.e., freely chosen affiliations based on shared sentiments).
- Refresh spirituality, bring harmony, enrich human potential.
What’s important
- Sensitivity to others and the environment; - feelings and caring (in response to the rationality of Orange); -
- harmony and equality; -
- reconciliation, consensus, dialogue, participation, relationships, and networking; human development, bonding and
spirituality; - diversity and multiculturalism; - relativism and pluralism; -
- freeing the human spirit from greed, dogma, and divisiveness; -
- distributing the earth’s resources and opportunities equally among all. - Systematic problem solving; -
- Begins to seek and value feedback.
Self-Identity
- Makes decisions based upon their own view of reality; -
- Aware that interpreting reality always depends on the position of the observer; -
- More tolerant of oneself and others due to awareness of life’s complexity and individual differences; -
- Questions old identities; - More interested in personal accomplishments independent of socially sanctioned rewards;
- Increased understanding of complexity, systemic connections, and unintended effects of actions; -
- Begins to question own assumptions and those of others; -
- Talks of interpretations rather than truth.
World-centric post-modern pluralistic [Green]
First Tier Shifts

self who strives for
belonging and acceptance
to discover inner harmony
and human Warmth.
Shift to Second Tier
Green
to
Teal
Overwhelmed by
economic and emotional
costs
Confronted by
chaos/disorder
Need for tangible results
and functionality
Knowing moves above
feeling
Awakening of an
inquiring, independent
self who no longer needs
approval yet can
collaborate
In spite of their good intentions and social programmes, people in the
Green band of thinking does not produce the ideal state they
envisaged. After spending all the money, mounting the protest marches
and boycotts and forcing “freedom and equality” into the Law of the
land, people are still not equal. Billions are still not free. Evil
international troublemakers still emerge. Available resources are
shrinking. Nationalism and ethnicity reappear, threatening the very
fabric of community. Their world is in shreds and they cannot
understand why ~ it all felt so good at the time. At this point the Green
mini-crucible produces a new alloy, a new paradigm - one that contains
the elements necessary for a major quantum leap in the understanding
of the species Homo sapiens, and at a level not even imagined in earlier
systems of thought. In the Orange band the hidden secrets of the
physical universe demand our attention. In the Green band the feelings
of people are paramount. “Getting along with” is valued above
“getting ahead”. In the Yellow [Teal] band a new self- interest returns,
but in a higher form designed for thinking in natural, evolutionary, living
systems.
Teal
to
Turquoise
Senses order within chaos
Search for guiding
principles
Whole-earth problems
arise as technology
Powerful insights gained in the Yellow [Teal] band and implemented in
an attempt to solve the global mess caused by the first six levels of
human existence, lack means of enforcement. Destruction is still
rampant. The ethic: "Recognise, truly notice what life is and you shall
know how to behave” makes no sense at all to people with earlierPeople do not perceive worlds but enact them. Different mindsets bring forth different worlds.
World-centric
Green
to
Planet-centric
early integral
meta-modern
Teal/Yellow
First Tier to Second Tier Shifts – The momentous Leap
World-centric: nations/empires bureaucratic to Planet-centric modern rational
An Integral View

Planet-centric early integral meta-modern Teal/Yellow
Second Tier Shifts – The momentous Leap
Key Words: Flexibility, spontaneity, and functionality have the highest priority. Teal express self with concern
for, and not at the expense of, other.
Teal ‘world’ is a chaotic organism where change is the norm and uncertainty an acceptable state of being.
Teal has recognition of overlapping dynamic systems and natural hierarchies in any context.
Teal’s time horizon: Lifetime (own history)
What’s important
The magnificence of existence (over material possessions); flexibility, spontaneity, and functionality; knowledge and
competency (over rank, power, status); the integration of differences into interdependent, natural flows; complementing
egalitarianism with natural degrees of ranking and excellence; recognition of overlapping dynamic systems and natural
hierarchies in any context.
Self-Identity
Comprehends multiple interconnected systems of relationships and processes; able to deal with conflicting needs and duties in
constantly shifting contexts; recognizes the need for autonomy while parts of a system are interdependent; recognizes higher
principles, social construction of reality, complexity and interrelationships; problem finding not just creative problem solving;
aware of paradox and contradiction in system and self; sensitive to unique market niches, historical moment, larger social
movements; creates ‘positive-sum’ games; aware of own power (and perhaps tempted by it); seeks feedback from others and
environment as vital for growth and making sense of world.
Underlying Values
Life is a kaleidoscope of natural hierarchies [holarchies],
systems, and forms. - Flexibility, spontaneity, and functionality
have the highest priority. - Differences and pluralities can be
integrated into interdependent, natural flows. - Egalitarianism
is complemented with natural degrees of excellence where
appropriate. - Knowledge and competency should supersede
rank, power, status, or group.
The prevailing world order is the result of the existence of
different levels of reality and the inevitable patterns of
movement up and down the dynamic developmental stages.
Good governance facilitates the emergence of entities
through the levels of increasing complexity (nested
hierarchy).

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approval yet can
collaborate
systems of thought. In the Orange band the hidden secrets of the
physical universe demand our attention. In the Green band the feelings
of people are paramount. “Getting along with” is valued above
“getting ahead”. In the Yellow [Teal] band a new self- interest returns,
but in a higher form designed for thinking in natural, evolutionary, living
systems.
Teal
to
Turquoise
Senses order within chaos
Search for guiding
principles
Whole-earth problems
arise as technology
connects everybody
Powerful insights gained in the Yellow [Teal] band and implemented in
an attempt to solve the global mess caused by the first six levels of
human existence, lack means of enforcement. Destruction is still
rampant. The ethic: "Recognise, truly notice what life is and you shall
know how to behave” makes no sense at all to people with earlier
world views. Therefore practicality. If it is realistic that an individual
Planet-centric
Teal/Yellow
to
Kosmic-centric
integral
TurquoiseA Broader Framework
Spirituality backed with
physics
Awakening of an
inquiring, independent
self who no longer needs
approval yet can
collaborate
should suffer, suffer he should. If it is realistic to be happy, then it is
good to be happy. If the situation calls for authoritarianism, then it is
proper to be authoritarian. If the situation calls for democracy, one
should be democratic. Behaviour is “right” and “proper" it is based on
todays best possible evidence. What was “right” yesterday may not be
so today. The supreme issue in GT is restoration of the world so it may
continue – not just human life but life it self. For the first time people
are able to face existence in all it dimensions even to the point of
valuing inconsistencies, opposites and flat contradictions. This mini
crucible ultimately produces a human being who find that the answers
are not within ‘reality’, currently available information or historical
evidence.
Turquoise TBA TBA
An example of how the ‘talk’ and the ‘walk’ differ for an individual operating out of a Green centre of gravity
Planet-centric early integral meta-modern to Kosmic-centric integral
Kosmic-centric integral [Turquoise]
Key Words: Flexibility, spontaneity, and functionality have the highest priority.
Turquoise is highly aware of complexity of meaning making, systemic interactions, and dynamic processes.

Kosmic-centric integral [Turquoise]
Underlying Values
Universal holistic system, holons/waves of integrative energies; Unites feeling with knowledge; Multiple levels interwoven into
one conscious system
Universal order, but in a living, conscious fashion, not based on external rules (amber) or group bonds (green). A grand
unification is possible, in theory and in actuality. Turquoise thinking uses the entire framework; sees multiple levels of interaction;
detects harmonics, the mystical forces, and the pervasive flow-states that permeate any organization.
What’s important
Holistic, intuitive thinking and cooperative actions; waves of integrative energies; uniting feeling with knowledge; seeing the self
as both distinct and a blended part of a larger, compassionate whole; recognition that everything connects to everything else in
ecological alignments; universal order, but in a living, conscious fashion not based on external rules (amber) or group bonds
(green); the possibility and actuality of a ‘grand unification’; the detection of harmonics, mystical forces, and the pervasive flow-
states that permeate any organization.
Self-Identity
Highly aware of complexity of meaning making, systemic interactions, and dynamic processes; seeks personal and spiritual
transformation and supports others in their life quests; creates events that become mythical and reframe meaning of situations;
may understand ‘ego’ as a ‘central processing unit’ that actively creates a sense of identity; increasingly sensitive to the
continuous ‘e-storying’ of who one is; may recognize ego as most serious threat to future growth; continually attend to
interaction among thought, action, feeling, and perception as well as influences from and effects on individuals, institutions,
history and culture; treat time and events as symbolic, analogical, metaphorical (not merely linear, digital, literal); may feel rarely
understood in their complexity by others.
Turquoise thinking uses the entire framework, sees multiple levels of interaction, detects harmonics, the
mystical forces, and the pervasive flow- states that permeate any organization.
Turquoise unites feeling with knowledge creating on multiple levels interwoven into one conscious system.
Turquoise sacrifices self to existential realities.
Turquoise’s time horizon: Global historical; More than one generation.

Complexity of Experience –
Stages or Levels:
Each higher Stage transcends and includes the lower
stages – including the best and transcending the areas
that no longer apply.
Development occurs through the interplay between
person and environment, not just by one or the other. It
is a potential and can be encouraged and facilitated by
appropriate support and challenge.
The depth, complexity, and scope of what people
notice can expand throughout life. Yet no matter how
evolved we become, our knowledge and
understanding is always partial and incomplete.
As development unfolds, autonomy, freedom,
tolerance for difference and ambiguity, as well as
flexibility, reflection and skill in interacting with the
environment increase, while defences decrease. But
each transformation can and will leave aspects of self
that does not always transcend and turns into shadow.
Overall, worldviews evolve from simple to complex,
from static to dynamic, and from egocentric to socio-
centric to world-centric to planet-centric.
Each later stage in the sequence is more differentiated,
integrated, flexible and capable of functioning
optimally in a world that is rapidly changing and
becoming more complicated.
People's stage of development influences what they
notice or can become aware of, and therefore what
they can describe, articulate, influence, and change.

Movement and stasis along the developmental Spiral
Either up or down
- are reflections of the interaction between LIFE CONDITIONS (the conditions
without which no development can take place)
- combine the historic times, physical place, psycho-social existence problems,
and socio-economic circumstances) and the vMEMEs [meta-memes] accessible
in the individual or collective mind (the systems-within).
Generally, the evolution is toward more elaborated, more complex and inclusive
ways of being - "higher" levels.
However, life is without guarantees and there can also be regressions to previous,
less complex, "lower" level structures.
In either case, the active vMEMEs are the containers for ideas and the essence of
value systems, worldview, and the many "real" worlds that exist in parallel -
sometimes in conflict, sometimes in confluence - on earth today.”
Clare Graves

Stage TranslationHorizontal Development

Guide to understand the manifestation of unhealthy and healthy version of each Stage.
Unhealthy manifestation > Healthy manifestation <
Witchcraft, curses and spells. War potions to encourage
conflict. Faction fighting, grudges.
Warm, supportive nests. Ritual, tradition and magic. Healthy
use of shaman. Belief in animistic spirit
Tribal
pre-egoic
Stage/Level
Strong self-image. Expressiveness in sport, music,
the arts. Breaking free from barriers
Warlords, violence, hit squads, gangsterism. Lack of guilt,
excessive bravado,
Post-tribal
ego-centric
Rigid ideology, punitive holy wars, zealotry,
depersonalisation of ‘enemies’. Heavy-handed bureaucracy
Truth, honour, justice, discipline, work ethic, sacrifice for the
greater good.
Traditional
ethno-centric
Crass materialism, dishonest government and business,
shady dealing. Contamination of the environment for profit.
Destructive, competitive, gamesmanship
Entrepreneurialism, ambition. Desire to improve, to be best.
Attitude of thrive and help thrive. Expand economic cake.
Produce the middle class
Modern
socio-centric
Naive egalitarianism within moral crusades. Compassion
becomes patronising contempt. Romanticises the under-
privileged. Develops a narrow view of human diversity.
Demands piety, harmony and understanding above all else.
Beyond materialism and dogma. Focuses on warm inter-
personal relations. Promotes affiliation and personal
growth. Supports consensus and community. Softens edges
in conflict. Genuine concern for others.
Post
Modern
world-centric
Big-picture view of life systems. Values what is natural – less
can mean more. Focuses on competency, responsibility, and
freedom of choice. Rejects status, conformity, authoritarian
structures. Information and knowledge-based decision
making. Capable of fearless, creative problem solving.
Often drops out, stays on side-lines or “does own thing”
regardless. Shows little passion for others. Absorbed in self-
interest. Pursues a variety of interests based on self-
motivation. Often “lets things be” to excess.
Early
integral
planet-centric
In tune with large scale of planetary concerns. Can “see”
everything at once. Thinks in holographic mosaics. Respects
all life – and the implicit order within the universe.
Understands mega-systems in nature, social relations,
evolution, business and the need to preserve Plant Earth for
future generations.
Becomes abstract, other-worldly, tuned into frequencies
and energy systems that transcend the anything practical.
Little use for people or community because of interaction
with life forces in nature, through media and information
net-works. Often condescending to those who are not
“tuned in”
Integral
kosmo-centric
This table is only a rough indication to the manifestation of values and behaviour at each stage in development.

Second-tier solutions
In general, to put it in ‘modern’ terms, any sort of Integral Methodological Pluralism allows the creation of
a multi-purpose toolkit for approaching today's complex problems - individually, socially, and globally - with
more comprehensive solutions that have a chance of actually making a difference. Or, to say the same thing
with post-modern terms, an Integral Methodological Pluralism allows a richer diversity of interpretations of
life's text to stand forth in a clearing of mutual regard, thus marginalizing no interpretation in the process.
Second-tier solutions to social problems involve sustained inquiries into ways that will allow each wave
(e.g., tribal, traditional, modern, post-modern and integral) to freely explore its own potentials but in ways that
those waves would not construct if left to their own exclusionary practices. In academic settings, integral
methodological pluralism allows the creation not so much of more cross-disciplinary studies (which confirm
each other in their first-tier prejudices) but in trans-disciplinary studies (which enact a new territory of
integral displays between old rivalries).
On an individual scale, the same approach can be applied to one's own profession, converting it into a practice
of integral law, integral medicine, integral business, integral education, integral politics, integral ecology,
integral psychotherapy and family practice, and so on. …….. Most of the tools to do all of the above already
exist (i.e., the MP of the IMP are already out there). All that is required, at least to get started, are a few
integrating principles to initiate the "integral" part of the IMP.
These heuristic principles suggest simple ways to practice on those practices already out there, thus quickly
converting any given practice into an integral practice.
Let's look at three such integrative principles as examples.
1. The Essence of Integral Metatheory: Everybody Is Right (excluding fake news)
2. Subjects do not perceive worlds but enact them.
3. Non-exclusion

Case Study
Thriving Cities Initiative
Tom Bailey
Annex 1

A Case Study - TCI Development transformations Tom Bailey
C40 Cities – Thriving Cities Initiatives
The mission of Thriving demands a fundamental shift in how we approach consumption, energy, life in general.
It is a global framing as well as local, and planetary as well as social. This will re
‘The most exciting breakthrough of the
twenty-first century will occur not
because of technology, but because of
an expanding concept of what it
means to be human.”
John Naisbitt
What is a world view?
• A complex, adaptive, and contextual mental framework that defines what reality is and how it works
• Informs your priorities, values, attitudes, concept of other people and defines what has meaning.
• Everything you experience is seen through this lens, and people of different world-views can experience and value the same
thing very differently.
• World-view is different to personality (e.g. Meyers Brigs) or personal attributes & talents (e.g. intelligence, creativity,
personability)
Where do world views come from?
• Are formed based on life conditions and experiences, and tend to develop through life. Each is a complex, adaptive, and
contextual intelligence that addresses and responds to the emerging and prevailing life conditions an individual has
encountered. Since people do have very different life conditions, they hence very different world views.
• Also have tended to develop and deepen over history of humanity
• Research indicates there are some common types or themes across human race today
• The mindsets, behaviours, cultures and systems in the world today are in a large part determined by the prevailing world-
view of those involved, hence why they’re so important for change.
What are the main world views today?
Create a world view sensitive approach

As indicated in the above, all world views and the systems and cultures associated with them have a vital role in a
functioning modern society, and so all are important and valuable, and so all must be accommodated in a balanced way.
TCI Development transformations
Three main world views are dominant today, summarised in the figure below:

Ethnic group / nation /
community centric.
Global view, yet individual if focal
point, and those like me.
All humans (and organisms).
“The right thing.” Being faithful,
maintaining order and convention.
Obedience and responsibilities.
“The good and fair thing.” Cherish all
life. Principles matter, i.e. pluralism &
equality.
“The efficient and effective thing.” Progress,
competence, success, optimism, freedom,
reward hard work and success.
Values
Reference
point
Truth is pre-ordained and absolute.
Only from a trusted source. Literal,
black and white. Simple answers.
Truth seen as partly or entirely
contextual. Personal interpretations.
Feelings and intuition are helpful tools
not confusion.
Truth is arrived at though empirical
reductionism, & while ultimately absolute,
our understanding changes.
Conformist. Group belonging.
Conservative.
Communalist. Inclusive, independent, &
tolerant. Harmony is best. Use systemic
approaches. Material world has own value.
Individualist and rational. Risk taking,
self reliance, proactive. Material world
is there to use. “It’s just business…”
Attitude
Goal
Knowledge
and truth
Stability. Order, law and
justice. Clear and enduring
framework of ideas.
Healthy planet, equality and harmony
for all people. End greed, cruelty etc. A
global community by breaking down
boundaries between us.
Material prosperity, independence,
newness, excitement.
Rigid social hierarchy. Authority
ordained. (positional)
Non-hierarchical. Authority to be
regulated or even avoided.
Significant but mobile hierarchical.
Authority earned (material)Hierarchy
TRADITIONAL MODERN POST-MODERN
Values
Reference
point
Attitude
Goal
Knowledge
and truth
Hierarchy
A detailed comparison of today’s three most common world-views:
Each sees the world in unique ways. Following figure gives examples and comparisons.

The following image gives a rough idea of population split for main world view, with the majority of people are
traditional globally. In developing countries, the proportion of traditional is higher, and in more developed
countries modern and post-modern levels are higher than the global average. This is because, as mentioned
above, world view are not accidents but depend largely on life conditions.
There are actually many further world view categories within grouping “other”, mostly made up of “pre-
traditional” or “meta-modern”, however given their low prevalence they will not be considered here, however.
Some general points on world views today:
• Over time trend is for growth in more recent world views at the expense of older ones
• Traditional most common in most countries
• Modern is currently the powerful and dominant, being system of globalised economic system, based on
science and evidence.
• Post-modern has been in emergence and seen strong impact for 30 years. Some evidence of strong push
back with resurgence of popularism and isolationism.

Communicating for world views
It is not a viable approach to force a preferred world view on others, or use arguments not fitting
to a particular world view. Common do’s and don'ts are included below.
Invoke ideals of responsibility & duty
to own group.
Call for good citizenship, looking after
your community and family.
Show behaviour will ensure future
reward, delayed gratification
Appeal to laws, order, being prepared
Show increased efficiency, competence,
rationality of an approach or view
Use evidence, data, analysis and
strategic reasoning.
Inspire to face challenge, be an
entrepreneur, calling for bigger, better,
faster etc.
Draw on success, progress and status
motivation, encourage to be trail-blazer
Be sensitive to human histories, plights
and feelings and always include nature in
conversation
Equalisation for the oppressed, act
through consensus,
Ensure inclusion of all groups and places
Present openness and authenticity
Focus on non-material goals and needs
Overstress needs of people (or nature)
outside of own group/horizon.
Demand that people step out of sink
with those around them
Disregard rules or traditions, or put
down allegiance to country or heritage
Contradict trusted sources
Talk down, use unfamiliar language
Talk of centralising of control or power to
achieve goals
Talk about hierarchies in any way
Deny feelings
Talk about absolute truths or use
demanding or explosive language
Rely only on complex language, hard facts,
technical knowledge, or seem elitist
Talk about collectivisation
Put down profit or entrepreneurship
Deny reward for good performance
Force to be one of the heard, or to seem
ordinary
Force sameness, trap with rules and
procedure
DON’T
DO
DON’T
DO

As can be seen in the above there are potential contradictions throughout that make it challenging to develop
a universally accessible narrative or framing. Here are three examples:
1. Traditional would not want overstress needs of people (or nature) outside of own group/horizon – This could conflict with –
Post-modern requiring that ensure inclusion of all groups and places
2. Modern no: Put down profit or entrepreneurship - Conflict with - Post modern yes: Focus on non-material goals and needs
3. Traditional no: Demand that people step out of sink with those around them - Conflict with - Modern no: Force to be one of
the heard, or to seem ordinary
Working with world views when driving for change
• World views do change slowly over time. Historically world views have tended to expand to include more of the more
recently emerging world views. This is expected to continue unless there are large shocks, such as war or climate disaster.
Post-modern and meta-modern are naturally focused on environmental issues and so over time this is expected to be
beneficial.
• However, the split of world views is not going to change significantly enough in next 10-20 years and so must work
with current split of world views – This is the period over which we need the shift to prevent climate breakdown, and so
from point of view of ecological collapse need a strategy that works with the split of world views we have now. Given that
most high consumers are probably modern, straight away need to work at modern framing, because we don’t have time to
wait, we need to change their behaviour now, so need a way of talking to blue and orange about sustainable living now.
Need to work with their existing mindsets.
• At the same time cannot force systems on people, and so over the long term must also work to allow greater
numbers at post-modern and meta-modern through improving life conditions - Can’t get a largescale sustained shift in
fundamental systems until have sufficient change in underlying world views. This is why communism didn’t work (and
actually resulted in 100m deaths), or why EU is backfiring, or Trump got into power, why backlash against climate action. We
must engage with people where they are
Based on this, and the analysis above on communications, here are some potential responses from a climate point of view.

Demand simple answers to complex
problems
Prefer having “bad guy” to blame
Others are the problem
Look after our own in time of crises
Nationalism and preference for strong
leaders
Less trust of strangers and new
perspectives
Recourse to heavy handed bureaucracy
and rigidly holding to rules
Growth only way out
Technical and economic solutions are
only way
Put environmental action on hold for
now
Time to compete for resources and win
over the others
Now’s the time for a climate change
crusade
There is huge opportunity here
Everyone will agree with me on this and see
this in the same way or they’re not clever
enough
Talking about equality but really keeping
everything high level and complaining
about system
Stick together and support each other
in own community where existing
bonds
Strengthen community bonds and
resilience
Invoke ideals of responsibility & duty
to own group.
Call for good citizenship, looking after
your community and family.
Understanding of the causes
Mitigate recession through GNG,
green investments and just transitions
etc
A wake up call, call to arms, action stations
Problem solving
Use evidence to see what this means for
society and develop a competent response
Potential
negative
response
Potential responses to crisis from point of view of climate, based on world view
Positive
response
Negative
response
Positive
response

Impact of COVID-19
We keep hearing this is a moment for change, even an opportunity. For whom? Is COVID likely to lead to progress or regression
on climate change? Forces at work in both directions.
COVID making harder to act
Being at threat of life, loosing work & general financial insecurity, will push people to the left of world view set, making people
less open to climate action, particularly on consumption. Given scale of recession likely, impact could be for decades.
COVID making easier to at
Psychological foundations of inaction being eroded. The COVID-19 crisis has some important lessons for us:
1. Society is not invulnerable…
2. But we can collaborate to respond to global challenges when we need to
3. Individuals cannot isolate from global problems…
4. But we can and do depend on those around us
5. We have been shown there are more important things than “stuff” when it’s over it won’t be fast fashion we rush out to, but
to each other and to the earth we live on.
Both will be at work and so must respond to both. Mitigate regression by minimising recession through green investment just
transition etc. On comm’s even more important to ensure are working with all world views. On positive ones, do best to leverage
these “lessons” but from point of view of each world view

Worlds views and Thriving Cities Initiative
Where the world views are in relation to TCI framing
• TCI is a post-modern project with inherently post-modern goals, values, processes and language. Post-modern is
entirely aligned, indeed TCI is a post-modern view. This is an extremely important recognition.
• Modern is main focus for action or change, to move modern to post modern: Modern world view dominates today’s
power structures, can present as fundamentally based on certain things that at odds with climate action. TCI challenges many
aspects of modern world view
• Traditional can be worked with directly in a number of ways. Traditional world view:
• Doesn’t mind over arching system, will copy everyone else once a new normal defined as long as provides for stability etc.
• However at the moment that means focused on consumption as prevailing view is “modern” one.
• Not open to global view (top half of portrait)
• Traditional will also shift to follow wider convention. Traditional typically
• Summary: There are positive elements of each world view in how they can relate to aspects if not all of TCI aims and methods.
However traditional and modern not naturally in support of TCI vision, which is essentially post-modern. However traditional
and modern make up vast majority of humanity, and so must consider how to bring on board.
• There are positive elements of each world view in how they can relate to aspects if not all of TCI aims and methods. However
traditional and modern not naturally in support of TCI vision, which is essentially post-modern. However traditional and
modern make up vast majority of humanity, and so must consider how to bring on board.
• Important because world views are not accidents, but based on wide mix of life conditions, therefore the current split is not
going to change significantly during the time we have left to stop environmental disaster, therefore any global shift will need
to bring along traditional and certainly modern.

Options for TCI in driving change
We must create a vision of a path towards a thriving future that actually makes space for, or speaks to, the other world views. This
is hard, because to do so is a post-modern project. We will need tailored approaches to each however.
The following image outlines two main approaches to driving action on thriving
Traditional Modern
Post-
mod
Approach A:
Focus on the
leading edge
Traditional Modern
Post-
mod
Approach B:
Engage at all
levels
Pro’s
• Ultimately unavoidable
if going to stop climate
change because
otherwise will leave out
most of humanity given
world views wont
change in time (even
less so due to COVID)
• Harness the best
energies of each world
view together to solve
problem
Con’s
• Much harder, require
for instance engaging
on only a slice of
portrait, and so a
reframe of TCI
Pro’s:
• Much easier
• Post-modern needs direction
• “leading edge” has driven
huge fast change in history
many times
Con’s
• Post-modern currently a
“disgraced leading edge” so
historical comparisons may
not be relevant
• Modern is directly opposed
to some of these principles
• Is contradicted because
post-modern depends on
prosperity created by a
modern system creating
affluence to think in global
way
• Post-modern is bad at
incorporating other views
TCI is left with three options, A, B or some mix of the two.
It seems inevitable that a degree of both is required.

Recommendations for TCI: Develop a world view sensitive impact strategy
Based on the above discussions, it is clear that TCI’s goals will not be met without being aware off and working with the
predominant world views around today, especially given the majority are not naturally aligned with TCI framing. This even
more important if online because won’t be able to deliver the material directly and can be accessed by multiple audience
types. This is important question, are we aiming at any audience or just
Therefore, specific recommendations are:
• Acknowledge TCI is a particular (and far from universal) world view in itself, being necessarily post-modern.
This is not a bad thing and is accepted as inherent to TCI, as post-modern systems, narratives, processes and
language are core to TCI, and these are the processes needed to address todays’ problems. It does not mean that TCI
should change track at all. It is however important to acknowledge and to create as much opportunity as possible to
reach out to these other groups.
• World view appropriate narrative development – In phase 2 of TCI the development of alternative economic
narratives is a core objective. Working with worldviews will be a key element, and so recommendations are made:
o Build an overall TCI narrative that which is post-modern in core content, but avoids the main big communication
risks outline above, so for instance removing obvious reference to having to pioneer new challenging things
(will excite modern but alienate traditional, so remove and find other ways to excite modern). A more
o Create specialised world view specific TCI narratives, effectively determining a traditional, modern and post-
modern focus. This can be used in specific situations or audiences. These could be combined into a narrative
guide that can be used to guide messaging on the go.
o Create resources that helps TCI cities and stakeholders build the most helpful narrative for their situation by
helping them think through how their community sees the world (acknowledging that city staff don’t.
o Not be just a new economic narrative (current framing), but also new cultural and (crucially) personal narratives.
o Develop COVID recovery specific narrative that uses the COVID recovery moment to subtly encourage
traditional and modern to adopt TCI post-modern approach (see below image for more detail).

• Adaptive tool’s and processes
o Can we develop versions and processes that are suitable to traditional and modern contexts? For instance, looking at
how we present the portrait by focusing on local rather than global issues.
o Make sure playbook of tools and actions are appropriate for use by different world view. Use for action design and
deployment at city level as part of TCI process (step 2) enabling creation of full thriving strategy
o Guidance for global leadership engagement by TCI/C40, mayors and partners
• Participation and workshop/stakeholder inclusion strategy
o Establish guidelines to make sure including people representing all world views in all local work. Wont always be
possible to accommodate all viewpoints, but huge benefit in involving from start
o identify champions and community leaders able to speak to other world views (this particularly important for
traditional)
WorldViews - Values
Stages - Meanings of Space & Boundaries
Green
Communally shared open areas used for mutual
social development, sharing and growth,
boundaries and divisions are scorned as artificial
and keeping people apart as the whole community
must share and have equal access to land and space
for the common good of the everyone in the group.
No one person nor group can be dominant.
Open areas, rural and natural land and space with
no limits to access, ownership and use as everyone
must be able to live in harmony with each other and
the environment without restraints and restrictions,
strong focus on the redistribution and sharing of any
material gains and spoils for the sustainable benefit
of all.
Meanings Of Space & Boundaries:
Urban Manifestations:
Subjects do not perceive worlds but enact them. Different states of subjects bring forth different worlds.
WorldViews - Values
Stages - Meanings of Space & Boundaries
Orange
Areas of property which can be used to realise the
benefits of calculated risk taking – from which
individual wealth, material gain and status can be
extracted to be displayed and shown for all to see
and made aware of economic influence and
achievement.
High status areas of living and working which have
resulted from successful wealth creation, prosperous
displays of affluence and image – buildings and
property developments which are designed and
built to make financially successful statements with
appearance more important than substance.
Meanings Of Space & Boundaries:
Urban Manifestations:
Subjects do not perceive worlds but enact them. Different states of subjects bring forth different worlds.
ons – Evolving Cities

Don’t talk about rebuilding a better
world, just creating safety
Don’t talk about what ideals need to
meet, talk about responsibility
Take this change to strengthen the
resilience and bonds in your community
Use COVID moment to push hard
messages
Highlight that this shows how exposed
our communities and loved ones are to
big risks like climate:
Society is not invulnerable and you
cannot isolate from world problems!
This is a new lens on this challenge, a
new opportunity to figure out answers
to the big risks and questions
Shifting to a more sensible, efficient,
evidence based approach that delivers
goals more effectively
Talk about doing better next time, that
was a trial run, now the big one (climate)
Show increased efficiency, competence,
rationality of an approach or view
Use COVID moment to push hard
messages:
Call out that GDP growth important for
this response but not always, must be
intelegently used or will lead to more
things like this
Be sensitive to human histories, plights
and feelings and always include nature in
conversation
Equalisation for the oppressed, act
through consensus, and ensure
inclusion.
Present openness and authenticity
Focus on non-material goals and needs
Be sensitive to hierarchies are discussed
by they will need to be discussed in
some form to make any progress
Recommendations for TCI language and responding to COVIDExample COVID and general narrative recommendations for TCI:

“We fail to take responsibility, to act productively in the interest of ourselves and others. And
in our attempts at a better life, we are often severely limited or thwarted by the immature and
socially inept behavior of ourselves and others.
There is a great fabric of relations, behaviors and emotions, reverberating with human and
animal bliss and suffering, a web of intimate and formal relations, both direct and indirect.
Nasty whirlwinds of feedback cycles blow through this great multidimensional web, pulsating
with hurt and degradation. My lacking human development blocks your possible human
development. My lack of understanding of you, your needs perspectives, hurts you in a
million subtle ways. I become a bad lover, a bad colleague, a bad fellow citizen and human
being.
We are interconnected: You cannot get away from my hurt and wounds. They will follow you
all of your life—I will be your daughter’s abusive boyfriend, your belligerent neighbor from
hell. And you will never grow wings because there will always be mean bosses,
misunderstanding families and envious friends. And you will tell yourself that is how life must
be. But it is not how life has to be.
Once you begin to be able to see the social-psychological fabric of everyday life, it becomes
increasingly apparent that the fabric is relatively easy to change, to develop. Metamodern
politics aims to make everyone secure at the deepest psychological level, so that we can live
authentically; a byproduct of which is a sense of meaning in life and lasting happiness; a
byproduct of which is kindness and an increased ability to cooperate with others; a
byproduct of which is deeper freedom and better concrete results in the lives of everyone; a
byproduct of which is a society less likely to collapse into a heap of atrocities.”
Hanzi Freinacht, The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics

Action Logics Stages of Leadership Development

Stages of Leadership Development

Communities

Briefly what I am proposing is that the psychology of the mature human
being is an unfolding, emergent, oscillating, spiralling process marked by
progressive subordination of older, lower order behavioural systems to
newer, higher-order systems as an individual’s existential problems
change.
Each successive stage, wave, or level of existence is a state through which
people pass on their way to other stages of being. When the human is
centralized in one state of existence, he or she has a psychology which is
particular to that state.
His or her feelings, motivations, ethics and values, biochemistry, degree
of neurological activation, learning system, belief system, conception of
mental health, ideas to what mental illness is and how it should be
treated, conceptions of and preferences for management, education,
economics, political theory and practice are all appropriate to that stage.
Professor Clare Graves

Stage Transition
Annex 3
Quadratic

The Never-Ending Quest
"At each stage of human existence the adult man {woman} is off on his quest of
his holy grail, the way of life he seeks by which to live.
At his [her] first level he is on a quest for automatic physiological satisfaction.
At the second level he seeks a safe mode of living, and this is followed in turn, by
a search for heroic status, for power and glory, by a search for ultimate peace; a
search for material pleasure, a search for affectionate relations, a search for
respect of self, and a search for peace in an incomprehensible world.
And, when he finds he will not find that peace, he will be off on his ninth level
quest.
As he sets off on each quest, he believes he will find the answer to his existence.
Yet, much to his surprise and much to his dismay, he finds at every stage that the
solution to existence is not the solution he has come to find.
Every stage he reaches leaves him disconcerted and perplexed. It is simply that as
he solves one set of human problems he finds a new set in their place. The quest
he finds is never ending."
-- Dr. Clare W. Graves

Stages of Development - Red transforms to Amber (Blue)

Stages of Leadership Development – Amber transforms to Orange

Stages of Leadership Development – Orange transforms to Green

Stages of Leadership Development – Green transforms to Teal (Yellow)

Stages of Leadership Development – Teal transforms to Turquoise

Stages of Leadership Development – Turquoise transforms to Indigo (Coral)

Tetra-Meshing the Developmental Journey

"Systems theorists are fond of saying that systems theory deals with the
“whole of reality” and thus it covers all the holistic bases. For example,
they point out that dynamic systems theory can even be used to
successfully describe the traffic patterns in large cities. And that is true—
the flow patterns of the automobiles follow specific patterns that
systems theory captures well.
But systems theory cannot tell you if the driver (i.e., the intentionality) of
a particular automobile is motivated by Red, Amber, Orange or Green
values, and so on —and yet those interior domains contain the key not
only to much of human existence and motivation, but to all of the
feelings of sentient beings throughout the planet. If all we do is
describe the traffic patterns of sentient beings —using ecology, systems
theory, chaos and complexity theory — then we have indeed reduced all
first-person consciousness to third-person objects, ‘its’, and artefacts: we
have killed all culture and consciousness."
Ken Wilber

"Perhaps of even greater relevance is that the long-term sustainability of
the planet is inextricably linked to the fate of our cities. We are
urbanizing at an exponential rate, with more than half of the world’s
population now living in urban centres.
The biggest global challenges we are facing from climate change, the
environment, availability of energy and resources, social unrest, and
financial markets are generated in cities, but cities are also the hubs of
innovation, wealth creation, and power.
Put slightly differently, cities may well be the problem, but they are also
the solution.
This strongly suggests that there is a great urgency to develop a more
quantitative, predictive, computational framework that can complement
the traditional, more qualitative, narrative approaches to understanding
cities – a framework that can help inform today’s and tomorrow’s
practitioners and policy makers.”
Geoffrey West - Santa Fe Institute

Guiding principle here is that you need enough
diversity in what data you are gathering and how you
are gathering it, that you can adequately capture
impacts that are occurring in all quadrants.
Types of data to be collected:
- third-person data (objective) such as surveys or
other quantitative ways to measure change,
- second-person (intersubjective data) such as data
that is generated and interpreted together as a
group or within a process, and
- first-person (subjective data) such as reflective
answers, thick description, or other qualitative
descriptions (one-on-one).
IIImpact on Practices
(practices & conduct
carrying out work)
Impact on Systems
(policies, structures that
support innovation in work)
Impact on Mindsets
(ways of thinking about and
approaching problems)
Impact on Culture
(collaboration, cultural
perceptions, and social
discourse in issues)
www.integralwithoutborders.org

THIRD-PERSON DATA
COLLECTION
• Build in content from the
indicator table into the feedback
forms, proposal questions, grant
reports, forum retrospectives, etc.
• This will generate actual numbers
along the 1-5 spectrum for these
indicators, which can be
quantified and used in evaluation
analysis and reporting.
• Any thing you quantify (numbers
of participants, proposals or multi
sector tables) can be useful to
analyze and include.
SECOND-PERSON DATA COLLECTION
• At the Evaluation Pod meetings and
Development Evaluation (DE) meetings generate
discussion and reflection through prompting
with skillful DE questions. Then, harvest the
insights and doing pattern-finding; that is where
indicators come in.
• Community Liaison carry out this pattern-finding
afterwards then reflect back to the other
participants later.
• During the DE sessions, do some group pattern-
finding with indicator tables written on flip-
charts, and participants use post-it notes to tag
where in the spectrum they would say the
outcome was achieved. This is based on
participant-observation and is co-generated in a
focus-group style meeting.
FIRST-PERSON DATA
COLLECTION
• To generate thick descriptions on
these indicators (about how and
why changes occurred as they
did):
• use more in-depth reflective
questions posed within one of
the activities, such as a qualitative
question in a survey
• or by doing key-informant
interviews with a sample of the
target audience.

Reflective, experiential inquiry
Description: interior felt-sense, how one feels (about oneself, org, project, issue),
Methods: phenomenology
Methodologies: personal ecology sheet
self-reflection (can use this tool to guide the process, can be an ongoing cascading reflection-stream,
and/or can be accessed through journaling).
Developmental inquiry
Description: interior personal change, developmental stages, changes in motivation, attitudes, and
values.
Methods: structuralism
Methodologies: developmental assessment (includes pre/post interviews that are carried out one-on-
one with a sample of the population and the interviewer is trained to ask the same questions that hone
in on indicators for motivational, attitudinal
I
R
Interpretive inquiry
Description: culture and meanings held by the group or community; for example, how do people
generally feel and what do they know about “conservation”, what does “conservation concession”
mean to them?
Methods: hermeneutics
Methodologies: focus group (using a guided method, shared below, as a pre/during/post method of
“taking the pulse” of the group—where motivation lies, what is working what is not, how can the project
shift and flow.
Ethno-methodological inquiry
Description: changes in social discourse, implicit “background” social norms, and shared worldview.
Method Family: ethno-methodology
Methodologies: participant-observation (using a tool with focus questions on specific domains of
change)

Systems inquiry
Description: quantitative measurement of seen changes in social, economic, political
systems in which the work is carried out.
Methods: systems analysis
Methodologies: systems-analysis tool
S
E
Empirical inquiry
Description: quantitative measurement of seen changes in behaviours, for example:
shifts in land-use practices, uptake of conservation practices in the household,
behavioural change in gender relations.
Methods: empiricism
Methodologies: measuring, ranking, and quantitative analysis (pre/during/post
measurement that ranks certain behaviours from 1-10 and can compare/contrast to
later assessment, after which time that data can be analysed using quantitative
methods to create graphs and figures of what percentage of behaviours changed
through the lifetime of the project.)

AQAL
Annex 5
Aspects of Integral theory & Framework

SELF
AQAL quadrants
My
Values & Mindset
Our
Culture &
WorldViews
Our
Society & Systems
My
Behaviour &
Lifestyle
Perspectives – Domains of Knowing
‘Consumption’
viewed from a
personal perspective
–
through personal
mindsets & values
‘Consumption’ viewed
from a social &
systems perspective –
(data and observation
driven)
from an empirical
perspective –
(data and observation
driven)
from a cultural
perspective –
through group
culture & worldviews
domains in which I am embedded
PERSPECTIVE (consumption)
AQAL quadrivia

Subjects do not perceive worlds but enact them.
Different states of subjects bring forth different
worlds. For AQAL, this means that a subject might be
at a particular wave of consciousness, in a particular
stream of consciousness, in a particular state of
consciousness, in one quadrant or another. That
means that the phenomena brought forth by various
types of human inquiry will be different depending
on the quadrants, levels, lines, states, and types of
the subjects bringing forth the phenomena.
A subject at one wave of consciousness will not
enact and bring forth the same worldspace as a
subject at another wave; and similarly with
quadrants, streams, states, and types (as we will see
in more detail).
This does not mean that the phenomena are not
objectively there in a meaningful sense; it means the
phenomena are not there for everybody. Macbeth
exists, but not for my dog. Cells with DNA exist, but
they can only be seen by subjects using microscopes
(which did not exist until the orange wave, which is
why cells did not "ex-ist" or stand out for magic and
mythic worldviews; you can find no account of DNA
in any magic or mythic text. This does not mean DNA
wasn't there, just that it did not "ex-ist" in those
worldviews).
Phenomena ex-ist, stand forth, or shine only for
subjects who can enact and co-create them (or, more
technically, only as they are tetra-enacted).
Stages of Development

AQAL
Integral Methodological
Pluralism, Quadrants &
#Zones
mapping interventions
integral methodological pluralism
(IMP), four research paradigms are
identified, which are consistent with
each of the four quadrant ontologies
of AQAL. The research paradigms
include epistemologies and
methodologies. Wilber identified
exemplar methodologies in each
quadrant. Thus, the framework of
IMP provides a coherent map that
links the ontologies, epistemologies
and methodologies within each
quadrant.

BEHAVIOR
Individual-Exterior: Brain and Organism
The visible, objective, external reality of an
individual
Context: empirically measurable individual
qualities; physical boundaries or surfaces;
biological features; brain chemistry; bodily states;
physical health; behaviors; skills; capabilities;
actions; etc.
Examples of areas addressed: energy level of a
practitioner; nutritional intake; conduct toward
environment or opposite sex; response to rules and
regulations; money management; computer
skills; acidity;
Tools for transformation: e.g., diet; hygiene;
exercise; skill-building; clear rules, regulations, and
guidance from a respected authority; use of
litigation to enforce regulations
EXPERIENCE
Individual-Interior: Self and Consciousness
The invisible, subjective, internal reality of an
individual
Context: self-identity and consciousness;
intentions; personal values; attitude; religious or
spiritual beliefs; commitment (e.g., cognitive,
emotional, moral); cognitive capacity; depth of
responsibility; degree of care for others and the
environment; etc.
Examples of areas addressed: psychological
health and development; educational level;
emotional intelligence; motivation and will;
understanding of one's role in the community and
impact on the environment; personal goals; the
practitioner's intrapersonal intelligence, mental
model, and self-knowledge;
Tools for transformation: e.g., psychotherapy;
religious or spiritual counseling; phenomenological
research; introspection; goal-setting;
AQAL Upper Quadrants

SYSTEMS
Collective-Exterior: Social Systems &
Environments
The visible, inter-objective, external realities of
groups
Context: visible societal structures; systems &
modes of production (economic, political, social,
informational, educational, technological);
strategies; policies; work processes;
technologies; natural systems, processes &
interactions in the environment
Examples of areas addressed: stability &
effectiveness of economic & political systems;
legal frameworks; strength of tech., educational &
healthcare infrastructure; poverty alleviation;
actual power, class, race & gender inequities; job
creation & trade; corporate regulation;
organizational structure; food security; health of
local biota or global biosphere; climate change;
restoration, protection & sustainable use of
natural resources;
Tools for transformation: e.g., policy-making;
capacity building; systems thinking; "upstream"
strategies; organizational reengineering; micro-
credit & micro-enterprise;
CULTURE
Collective-Interior: Cultures and Worldviews
The invisible, inter-subjective, internal realities of
groups
Context: shared values and worldviews; shared
meaning; mutual resonance; cultural norms,
boundaries and mores; language; customs;
communication; relationships; symbolism; agreed
upon ethics; etc.
Examples of areas addressed: cultural
"appropriateness"; collective vision; relationship
between practitioners and the community;
relationship amongst communityIfamilyIorganization
members; language differences; collective
interpretation of power, class, race and gender
inequities; collective perception of the environment
and pollution
Tools for transformation: e.g., dialogue; community-
directed development; inclusive decision making;
consensus-based strategic planning; organizational
learning; support groups (religious or secular); trust
building exercises techniques; community visioning;
cooperative participation; storytelling; collective
introspection; meme development and propagation
AQAL Upper Quadrants

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