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About Integral Voices
"Things fall apart; the center cannot hold" wrote Yeats about 100 years ago in his poem “The Second Coming.” While in the deafening incoherence of an unraveling center, inquiring and transforming conversations necessarily move to the edge. Edges are associated with danger, crisis, complexity, possibility, the unknown, and unknowable. We are now in edge times as never before.
Protected from the noise, a dialogic commons is a place that nurtures generative listening. A listening where the powers of resonance foster the emergence of creative imagination and a re-sacralizing coherence. Integral Voices convenes dialogues at evolving edges to catalyze a renaissance of real human development and the seeding of possible worlds.
Integral Voices is produced by the Center for Transformative Learning at Meridian University.
"We’re living in a time where the reset button of history has been hit. Radical social, economic and environment changes are becoming the norm and creating a rapidly changing world that demands new patterns of thinking, being and doing for our own personal development, as well as for collective well being."
— JEAN HOUSTON
Latest Episode
1:06:54
Aftab Omer, Vusi Vilakati, Luvuyo Madasa, Ruan Viljoen, and Paddy Pampallis
Solidarity and Crisis: What Can We Learn About Development from the African Context?
This episode of Integral Voices is an invitation to the dialogue and inquiry intended at the upcoming Integral African Conference. The conference is an opportunity to further our understanding of human development while drawing on the gifts and conditions of the African context. The conversation circles the theme of the role of solidarity in engaging the cascading crises that is the current global reality. Each of the panelists featured in this episode are speakers at the upcoming conference.
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Panel Conversation
1:22:15
Another World is Possible: Unlearning and the World We CreateHanno Burmester's soon-to-be-published book by Perspectiva Press, Unlearn: A Compass for Radical Transformation, offers a doorway into understanding the role of 'unlearning' in transformative change and transformative leadership.Learn More
Peter Senge and Aftab Omer
1:00:45
Freedom is a Simple Word: Allowing Another to be a Legitimate OtherWhat is the true nature of inner freedom? How do we recognize the legitimacy of the other? How do destiny and humility relate to leadership?Learn More
Thomas Steininger and Aftab Omer
1:00:39
It is Our Care that Creates New Worlds: Dialogic Capability Amidst Cultural CrisisCan we respond to the multi-dimensional crises of our time with a different kind of speaking and listening? Can we protect and preserve the great storehouse of ideas, stories and practices embedded in human cultures?Learn More
Panel Conversation
1:29:21
Nurturing Our Humanity: Reuniting Care and EconomicsWhat are the enabling conditions for reuniting care and economics? Are these also the conditions for the birth of an ecological civilization? Can we get real about markets and what the social wealth economic indicators are that promote real thinking about the human future?Learn More
Nina Simons and Aftab Omer
1:08:27
Revisioning Entrepreneurship: Generativity, Indigeneity and the FeminineIn this expansive and heartful conversation, Nina Simons and Aftab Omer explore the shadows and possibilities of entrepreneurship. Holding a vision of local interdependence and generative globalization, they discuss how transformative innovation gathers social, technological and cultural dimensions in ways that regenerate the commons.Learn More
Aftab Omer, Vusi Vilakati, Luvuyo Madasa, Ruan Viljoen, and Paddy Pampallis
1:06:54
Solidarity and Crisis: What Can We Learn About Development from the African Context?This episode of Integral Voices is an invitation to the dialogue and inquiry intended at the upcoming Integral African Conference. The conference is an opportunity to further our understanding of human development while drawing on the gifts and conditions of the African context.Learn More
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