From my personal statement:How does your desire to enroll in this program align with your sense of yourself and your life aspirations?

Today, I want to show you my answer for " How does your desire to enroll in this program align with your sense of yourself and your life aspirations?" This was second question in personal statement, which JFKU admission suggested.

My life aspirations are to work globally doing exciting things and to contribute to the world using my own unique knowledge and experiences.

Since I was a little child, I have always had a desire to work on an international level and do valuable things for the world. Since I was 12 years old, I wanted to become an international lawyer for International Court of Justice in The Netherlands*. But this dream of mine changed at 18 when I had the opportunity to study business in one of the top universities of Japan- Hitotsubashi University, where I got this motivation to be an international business person. Now, I am an international tax consultant, so my dream has come true in a way. However, through my daily work, I felt that my view of things was becoming narrow where I wondered whether my work was really contributing to the world or not. This is where I said to myself “I want to get away from this daily routine at any cost.” or “I wanted to change myself by all means.”

During my struggle to find a new myself and a better way of contributing to the world, I found about this MA program in Integral Psychology on the internet and something screamed within my mind “This is what I really wanted!!” I believe that Integral Theory is a meta-theory and has a much broader range of applications than any other theory. Therefore, I believe this program provides me a golden opportunity to nurture my skills through, develop a deeper understanding of psychology and contribute to the world in my own way.

*When I was a child, I thought working at International Court of Justice is most prestigious in the legal profession.

The Integral Vision: A Very Short Introduction to the Revolutionary Integral Approach to Life, God, the Universe, and Everything

Book Description:

Philosopher, psychologist and mystic Wilber (A Brief History of Everything) delivers on the subtitle's far-reaching promise. In a scant 200+ pages chock-full of handsome illustrations and spare, Zen-like diagrams and tables, he forges ahead on his established path, posing, What if we attempted to find the critically essential keys to human growth, based on the sum total of human knowledge now open to us? His answer is a kind of meta-structure of human experience and, more importantly, human potential. His Integral Map, or Integral Operating System (IOS), of quadrants, levels, lines, states, and types is drawn from developmental psychology, worldviews, multiple intelligences, gender studies, the nature of consciousness, etc. If this sounds heady and extremely ambitious, it is. Wilber asserts that the IOS approach to life permits all fields of endeavor at last to speak with one another in a common language. Clearly, however, spirituality dominates much of his thought. Not for the faint of brain, Wilber's work is still accessible and at times surprisingly practical. Some language spirals up majestically, recalling great Eastern texts. Reminiscent in spirit and watershed import of Ram Dass's Be Here Now, Wilber's work may well become a popular classic for explorers on the frontiers of humanity.

I recommend this book for beginners of Ken Wilber's philosophy. This book introduces the essence of his theory, 5 elements (quadrant, level, state, line and type).　　The explanation is very plain and book illustration is beautiful.

My Indian colleague wanted this book.

Pirates of Silicon Valley

• Actors: Anthony Michael Hall, Noah Wyle, Joey Slotnick, J.G. Hertzler, Wayne Pére
• Directors: Martyn Burke

Story:

The revolution came when we weren't looking. It happened in a garage. In a dorm room. In countless hours of effort, imagining and intrigue. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates were changing the way the world works, lives and communicates. The event-packed saga of the quirky visionaries who jump-started the future unfolds with exhilarating, cutting-edge style in Pirates of Silicon Valley. Noah Wyle (ER) portrays Jobs and Anthony Michael Hall (The Dead Zone) portrays Gates in this chronicle of the fierce and often humorous battle to rule the fledgling personal computer empire. "The story is almost Shakespearean... it's a tale of lust, greed, ambition, love and hate," writer/director Martyn Burke reflects. And it's a success story unlike any other.

This movie was fun for me. I wanted to know the relationship between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and also how they achieved success and fame.

Both of them really loved computer and they ungrudgingly made an effort to create new things. I think their state of consciousness in devoting themselves to computer were "flow" or "zone".

The state of consciousness may be key point for success.

Umm, after all, they are quite peculiar character!

Trailer

What brought me to apply to the MA in Integral Psychology?

I'll show you my essay which I wrote down for JFKU admission. I'd like you to know me more reading this. I'm very happy that you read the following my personal statement.

1. What brought you to apply to the MA in Integral Psychology?

There are mainly two reasons for applying to the MA in Integral Psychology at John F. Kennedy University.

The first reason for my application is that I would like to study Integral Theory which Ken Wilber proposed. In our own day, I think that there are multitudes of problems all over the world. For example, cruel wars, disastrous environmental problems, financial crisis, etc. In regard to these problems, I have had some internal conversations with myself, for example- “What can I do for these problems?” or “How can we solve these problems?” However, I did not have any clear answers for these questions, and for me, these problems seemed to be very difficult to tackle. When I was feeling short on my ideas, I came across Ken Wilber’s book- A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality by accident, and I was very impressed with his theory and his way of looking at the world. Therefore, I became keen to study Integral Theory in a proper and more detailed way.

The second reason for my application is that I would like to apply psychological theories and integral theory into the business field in order to build a better business world. I have had an experience of working for one of the biggest accounting firms in the world- Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, for around two years and I noticed that there were a lot of areas in the workplace where I could apply psychological approaches. For instance, I noticed that psychological approaches could be applied on areas of employee motivation, stress management, management of a team, etc. More specifically, I think that I can apply some of the humanistic psychology’s theories such as hierarchy of needs theory of Abraham Maslow to motivate employees, apply some of the social psychology’s theories to analyze the corporate culture, or apply some developmental psychology’s theories to evaluate the consciousness levels of CEO or employees. In addition to the above ideas, I also have some other ideas of applying psychology to the business world. Integral Psychology’s program at your prestigious university covers a variety of psychology areas, and being able to study the same will be very fascinating for me.

With the above mentioned reasons, I am applying to the MA in Integral Psychology at John F. Kennedy University to gain a deeper understanding of psychology, not only theoretically, but also to implement the same in the business world and elsewhere.

Japanese commuting environment: Integral Theory 4 quadrants

As you may know, Japanese commuting environment (lower right quadrant) is not so good in large cities. In particular, we, business persons suffer on a crowded train every morning. I think this commuting environment (lower right quadrant) may have negative impact on other quadrants.

When I commute in an overcrowded train, I feel unpleasant and I sometimes think that I want to escape my current situation (upper left quadrant).

Then, this feeling makes me irritated or stressful, moreover this emotion leads to working behavior (e.g., not efficiently act, a lot of sighs).

I suppose that a large number of Japanese business persons feel like this.

As a result, a jam-packed train becomes an infamous symbol in Japanese working environment and we, Japanese have negative image (lower left quadrant) about commuting.

Thank you very much for everyone! The last day to study Integral Theory in Japan

Yesterday was the last day for me to study Integral Theory in Japan. I’m involved with this community because I’m one of original members. I remembered that the atmosphere in the first meeting was somewhat strained or one meeting was held with only 4 people…. I spent my life in Kansai (Osaka, Kyoto, Nara, Hyogo region) with this community.

After I graduated from my university, I started my career as an international tax consultant. While I was working, I noticed a lot of problems in business world and I was struggling with various distress and conflict in my company. Then, I met Ken Wilber’s book.

I’m very happy to spend my life with this community.

Well, I would like to talk about this community. This community was held to study Ken Wilber’s essential philosophy, Integral Theory, which was established by one young man who is a graduate student and majors in cosmophysics.

Just when I wanted to study Ken Wilber’s philosophy, I found his blog and he announced study meeting in his blog. Ah, I feel nostalgic.

If I say great point of this community in a word, that is “diversity”. Looking at participants occupation, a graduate student who majors in cosmophysics, a part-time jobber, a CEO in a NPO company, an employee in a political group, a doctor, a member of the Self-Defense Forces, a psychotherapist, a nurse, a professor and I as a business consultant. As you look at these backgrounds, very wide range people participate in this community.

Some people may think why so many different people gather in a same place and study common theory. Apparently, that is a mysterious, but I think that is not so.

That is because Integral Theory is a most strong theory for diversity. Yes, the essential of Integral Theory is to respect various different points of view.

And then, this theory is not rather a difficult theory than approachable theory for all people. Moreover, this theory is made use of each person’s daily life and each person’s field. For example, Integral Life Practice, education area, business area, medicine area and so on.

Diversity in this community made each study session very fun, exciting and meaningful. Without the courageous decision of the founder, Kadobayashi-san to found this community and all participants’ cooperation, this community could have not been born and continued.

I am deeply grateful to you all! I wish you the best of luck with everything. I would like to contribute to this community from America if I have something I can do.

PS: I was given two farewell gifts from my dear members. I couldn’t predict that. Yes, it was a really surprise for me.

This wonderful pen is a “CROSS” pen, which is one of the famous writing materials makers. When I opened a wrap and I looked at the name “CROSS”, I felt my feeling deeply connected with my dear members.

Moreover, my dear friend who is a same my age gave me two classic CDs. One is Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No9 “From the New World”. The other is Tchaikovsky: Symphony No5.

I’m writing this article listening to these songs.

I’m so moved and I appreciate for everyone. I want to challenge my "new world" America with that song "From the New World"!!

From the New World

Transmuting My Authentic Primary Emotions

I rarely become irritated, but today, I felt angry at something. I don’t know what “something” is. I thought this is good opportunity to face with my feeling.

The following practice of transmuting emotions is shown in Integral Life Practice (p61) which is one of my bibles. This practice is very simple and this is comprised of five steps.

1 Notice what you are feeling and how this shows up in your body, both physically and energetically.

2 Relax the tendency to judge, suppress, or otherwise react to it, and just allow it to be what it is, embracing it with awareness.

3 If your emotion is about someone or something, relax your relationship to the object. Let the emotional energy be there. Notice that it is arising within you (rather than happening to you, as in “she makes me feel this way.”) Relax into full responsibility for your emotional patterns and energies.

4 Feel the energy of your emotion and the situation or relationship in which it is arising. Breathe and allow the energy of the emotion to flow. Notice how that can take place constructively rather than destructively. Take several breaths and notice how the emotion changes as it is channeled and circulated.

5 Pay attention until you recognize the transitory nature of the emotion and allow its raw energy to self-liberate, like water boiling into steam, as a free, unobstructed, and positive expression.

The key point of the above process is the acceptance and allowance of the emotion. Then I let my emotion show itself to me. I let it reveal the liberated, unobstructed, or awakened expression of its raw energies.

I want to make use of my negative feeling to energize my life.

Authentic Emotion	Liberated Energy of Emotion
Anger, critical mind	Clarity, integrity, and penetrating intelligence

My inner feeling now

Previously, I always enjoyed new challenges in my life. So, when I did something new, my inner feeling ratio was “expectation: anxiety=100:0” at all times. Yes, I was very positive, I think.

However, this time, to study abroad in America, is a big challenge for me. To tell you the truth, my inner feeling ratio was “expectation: anxiety=30:70” one month ago, and now is 51:49.

Anxiety is still high, because I’ll definitely struggle with a communication in English.

I wish the ratio would be 100:0 soon.

What do you do every day as your integral life practice? I’ll show you my integral life practice.

Gross Body Module

Practices	Frequency
Push-ups, Squats, Crunches	Once every two days
Running	Almost every day
Half Marathon (21.0975km)	Three times a year
Full Marathon (42.195km)	One time a year
Soccer	Sometimes

Subtle Body Module

Practices	Frequency
Kundalini Yoga	Every morning and every night
Qigong	Every night
Subtle Breath Practice	Every night

Mind Module

Practices	Frequency
Reading (Related to Integral Theory, Management, Philosophy, Psychology or Sociology, etc.)	Every day
Study Session (Related to Ken Wilber or Integral Theory)	Every month

My Integral Life Practice

What do you do every day as your integral life practice? I’ll show you my integral life practice as below.

Gross Body Module

Practices	Frequency
Push-ups, Squats, Crunches	Once every two days
Running	Almost every day
Half Marathon (21.0975km)	Three times a year
Full Marathon (42.195km)	One time a year
Soccer	Sometimes

Subtle Body Module

Practices	Frequency
Kundalini Yoga	Every morning and every night
Qigong	Every night
Subtle Breath Practice	Every night

Mind Module

Practices	Frequency
Reading (Related to Integral Theory, Management, Philosophy, Psychology or Sociology, etc.)	Every day
Study Session (Related to Ken Wilber or Integral Theory)	Every month

Spirit Module

Practices	Frequency
Meditation	Every morning (15minutes) and every night (30minutes)

Shadow Module

Practices	Frequency
3-2-1 Shadow Process	Every time when my shadow emerged

The above charts show my ILP modules. As can be seen, I believe that my growth work is well balanced. However, I would like to add some practices/activities while studying abroad.

For example, I would like to participate in some communities, join study groups, be a member of some sports team in CA, and study psychotherapy for my shadow module. While studying abroad in America, I would like to challenge a lot of things actively and to continue my self-growth.

To improve my writing skill

Alan Wilson Watts

Nowadays, I copy out Ken Wilber's books on my notebook, because I want to acquire sophisticated writing skills like Ken. Ken Wilber said that he also wrote down all Alan Watts books, who was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience.

Now I transcribe “The Essential Ken Wilber-An Introduction Reader”. I recommend this book because this book really includes essence of his philosophy.

After I copy out it, I’ll write down “The Simple Feeling of Being Embracing Your True Nature” which is an amazing book…..includes a lot of breathtaking poetic words.

Useful resources about Integral Activities

I found the following useful resources from Integral Leadership Review, I'll show you.

Integral Leadership Review Website Overhaul

As you no doubt have noticed, we are in the process of overhauling Integral Leadership Review, and creating a website that can accommodate new interactive Web 2.0 technologies. Eventually, all of the material from the original site will be brought into the new site and be indexed and searchable via topic, author or date.

In the meantime, please visit our archive page that gives you immediate access ten years of issues (listed by year/month), or you can go directly to our old site to browse previous issues.

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The Center for Human Emergence in Mexico offers the following “webinnar”

Seminario de las Dinámicas de la Espiral Integral en la Práctica parte I

Inicio: 24 de Enero 2011
Termino: 7 de Marzo del 2011

Objetivo: Analizar un caso práctico para derivar acciones concretas de mejora a un problema social complejo

Requisito: Estar familiarizado con la teoría de Dinámicas de la Espiral Integral

Facilitador certificado: Roberto Bonilla N

Cupo Máximo 24 personas, aun tenemos 8 lugares disponibles

Inversión: $ 0.00 = Gratuito

Modalidad: Asincrono

Si te interesa participar en esta experiencia de aprendizaje o tienes alguna duda favor de enviar un correo electrónico a Roberto Bonilla roberto.bonilla@humanemergencela.org

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Presencing Institute

Five years ago when a small group of us started the Presencing Institute, we envisioned a global Presencing-in-Action Leadership School that would integrate science, consciousness, and profound societal change. As a first step, we decided to prototype a much smaller version of it and call it the Presencing Institute (PI).

We believe that we live in a time where emerging global communities like ours can have a big impact if we can rise to the occasion. To dialogue about this, and other questions, we are considering convening the first Global Presencing Forum in Fall 2011 (Oct 24-25) in Cambridge, Mass. Let us know what you think and whether such a forum might be of interest and relevance for you!

Contact: Otto Scharmer scharmer@presencing.com

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Waking up the Workplace

This spring we are launching a free online interview series exploring the emerging field of conscious business with some of the world’s leading visionaries, practitioners, and thinkers. We are scheduling interviews with luminaries such as: Fred Kofman, Bill Tobert, Otto Scharmer, Tony Schwartz, and Tami Simon.

What would happen if we saw the business of work, not just as a means for trade and profit, but as a vehicle for actualizing our deeper human potentials in a conscious and creative transformation? What would happen if we looked at business as a vehicle for the leading edge of evolution itself?

We say it’s time to start putting the pieces of this new vehicle together, so that we can take it for a spin.

Are you in for the ride? Join the conversation. Please visit our site, join our newsletter, and be notified of interviews as they come online.

www.Waking Up the Workplace.com

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The Association of Leadership Educators

The Association of Leadership Educators (ALE) will be holding their next annual conference, July 10-13, in Denver, Colorado. The mission of ALE is to strengthen and sustain the expertise of professional leadership educators. The conference will include a mixture of both research and practice presentations. The conference planning committee is currently seeking proposals in six tracks including Research Papers, Practice Papers, Posters, Roundtables, Symposium of Emerging Research, and Educator Showcase. The deadline to submit proposals is April 1, 2011. Please go to www.leadershipeducators.org for more information.

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Oneness in Business

Bring your spirituality and business in 2011 to the next level: international 4-day Oneness in Business seminar, 21-24 januari 2011, Amsterdam, http://bit.ly/9MCAA3

Facilitated by Jerome Hartigan and Adriane Hartigan-von Strauch,
Business and Creative Entrepreneurs and Oneness Trainers, New Zealand

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The Integral Incubator

Boulder Integral has just announced three new Incubators for the year 2011. Pick a week that works for you!

Led by Jeff Salzman, with Special Guest Teacher, Ken Wilber

March 14 – 18, June 29 – July 3 or October 7 – 11

The Integral Incubator is a five-day “work-ation” to dive deeply into your life’s work. Join a group of dedicated evolutionaries, who, like you or a loved one of yours, has a dream that is waiting to be born.

Check out videos, photos and other details on www.integralincubator.com

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Integral Spiritual Network and Pacific Integral

Integral Spiritual Network and Pacific Integral have joined forces to kick off the first global GTC (Generating Transformational Change) program at the Worldview Centre in Maleny, Queensland on June 16, 2011. This will be the first of four intensives – the first two will be in Australia (June & Sept) and the second two (early Dec and March 2012) will be in New Zealand.

If you would like to read more on the GTC program and what it offers – have a look here on the Pacific Integral site. The course is going to be priced in NZD which will make it even more affordable for those of you who happen to have a stronger dollar than the NZD.

More detailed information will be coming soon, but in the meantime please get in touch with Tom: tom@isn.org.nz or Tamara tamara@isn.org.nz if you have any questions. Tom and Tamara have been on the program this year and can give you a good inside view of the benefits of doing this program.

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Centre for Human Emergence-UK

Please keep in touch with the website events page. Right now what you will see there is a planned training week for May 9-14th. This will start with an SDi Level 1 Certification. And for the 12th to 14th for the first time in the UK we will deliver a Level 2 certification in Organisational Design and Meshworks. We see this as a big step forward.

CHE exists because SD and Integral don’t merely describe the world. Proper understanding of the dynamics forces in individuals and society enable us to predict trends and to support the changes that the world needs. That’s the job we are here to do.

The Level 1 knowledge is the prerequisite for understanding why and how SDi can be used. It embeds theoretical knowledge and depth. The Level 2 trainings develop practitioners. They are about doing, and they offer practical toolkits and templates which enable practitioners to provide value to clients. The Organisational Design will build capabilities that are of use at many levels, and equally valid in public sector, corporate, SME and third-sector contexts. In the future we will have Level 2′s for Personal Emergence and for Leadership.

Contact: jon@humanemergence.org.uk or visit Center for Human Emergence – UK

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European Forum for the Study of Religion and Environment

University of Chester

“Animals as Religious Subjects: A Transdisciplinary Conference”
Hosted by the European Forum for the Study of Religion and Environment
University of Chester, UK
May 21-24, 2011

http://www.chester.ac.uk/trs/animals-as-religous-subjects

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John F. Kennedy University

Leadership for Sustainable Change Certificate

New cohort begins October 2011 – now accepting applications
www.jfku.edu vsolimar@jfku.edu

Co-led by Dr. Monica Sharma, former United Nations Director of Leadership and Capacity Development, and JFK University core-faculty Dr. Vernice Solimar, the Leadership for Sustainable Change certificate’s philosophy is based on the Earth Charter and is designed to achieve community well-being, ecological integrity, economic opportunity, social justice and world peace. This certificate uses a learning-in-action approach where students apply their coursework directly to a proposed project which they will design and implement. The certificate offers:
• Visionary, practical leadership skills for identifying and addressing systemic and root causes of issues from an integral worldview.
• Practices to source inner-wisdom and power for resiliency in the face of stress and adversity, to design new systems for solving problems and to create new partnerships in organizations and communities.
• A conscious full spectrum approach to design results-oriented projects and initiatives.
What students are saying:

“Unbelievable! Deep and compassionate. This was seriously one of the best educational experiences I’ve ever had. This was what I was looking for coming to JFKU – the integration of theory, wisdom, systems and action!” – Brett, Cohort 1

“This course was powerfully transformative. It touched the deepest parts of myself and brought forth clear vision and strategies for leading positive change in the world.” – Lloyd, Cohort I

Please contact Dr. Vernice Solimar at vsolimar@jfku.edu or 925-969-3521 for more information.

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GWLN GLOBAL INNOVATION DIALOGUE™

January 24, 2011 starting at 5pm
Benson Center, California Mission Room at Santa Clara University

Maddy Dychtwald, a nationally recognized author, public speaker, marketing advisor and entrepreneur will speak about her latest book Influence: How Women’s Soaring Economic Power Will Change Our World for the Better. As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, women are on the verge of attaining economic parity with men-something our great-grandmothers and grandfathers would never have imagined. With this new economic fortitude, women have the opportunity to wield previously untapped power to influence the direction of the marketplace, the workplace, the family, and worldwide leadership. In this presentation, based on her newest book, Maddy Dychtwald paints a captivating picture of women coming into influence both in America and worldwide, which no woman or man can afford to ignore.

“The news that Maddy Dychtwald and Christine Larson share in INFLUENCE is big and good: women are moving toward economic and power parity with men. And as Dychtwald and Larson show plainly, increasing numbers of women are achieving economic independence and beginning to use that influence in ways that will benefit us all for generations to come.”

- Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Laureate

For more information or to volunteer contact Bonita Banducci 650 529-9336 banducci@genderwork.com

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Integral City

Register for Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC, Feb.14, 2011 The Human Hive Creating Intelligent Livable Cities.

Liveable Cities. Transition Towns. Creative Cities. Ecovillages. Child Friendly Cities. Sustainable Communities. In the face of new challenges like peak oil, climate change and economic chaos how can city experts make sense of the overwhelming challenges that threaten life in the “human hive” as we know it? How can well meaning, well educated and well intentioned staff of City Hall, School Districts, Health Authorities, Civil Society find the time, space and spheres of influence they need not just to do their jobs effectively but to make sense of life conditions never before experienced? Is it time for City Hall (in its largest sense) to let go of its traditional role of expert civil servant, and learn a new way of finding the expertise and resources it needs from the very citizens, families and organizations it serves? Is it also time for citizens to let go of their traditional assumption that “you can’t fight city hall”?

This workshop will explore approaches for waking up new intelligences for new times – ones that can build bridge across the divides of purpose, profit, people and place and discover the answers we all need to survive and thrive in the human hive. This workshop will reveal the conditions for creating a consciousness climate change that can grow the intelligence of the city as a whole – including but not limited to City Hall, School Districts, Health Care Authorities, Civil Society, Developers, Private Sector and Citizens.

Facilitator: Marilyn Hamilton, PhD, CGA founder of Integral City Meshworks Inc. and TDG Global Learning Connections, uses the integral framework to design change in the city that is ecologically informed and operationally integrated. She is a charter member of Integral Institute and Spiral Dynamics Integral International Training Board. Author of Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive (2008, New Society Publishers), she maps out an eco-regional manifesto that reveals the “Human Hive” as an evolutionary system. She is Associate Faculty at Royal Roads University School of Leadership, Adizes Graduate School and California Institute of Integral Studies. www.integralcity.com

Register: http://www.royalroads.ca/continuing-studies/course-basket.htm

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International Leadership Association

Webinar

Chris Ernst & Donna Chrobot-Mason, “Boundary Spanning Leadership”

When: January 26, 2011, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET
Registration: www.ila-net.org/webinars/boundaryspanningleadership

The most important challenges we face today are interdependent ñ they can only be solved by groups working collaboratively together. For businesses, governments, organizations, and communities to solve modern problems and realize new opportunities, leaders must think and act beyond current group boundaries and identities. Enter Boundary Spanning Leadership: the capability to create direction, alignment, and commitment across boundaries in service of a higher vision or goal.

Boundary Spanning Leadership begins with a new understanding of the boundaries that confine and limit human relationships, whether they be vertical, horizontal, stakeholder, demographic, or geographic. It then outlines six key practices for leading at the nexus where groups collide, intersect, and link: Buffering, Reflecting, Connecting, Mobilizing, Weaving, and Transforming. And it leads to new possibilities and inspiring results that groups can realize together above and beyond what they can achieve on their own.

Join this webinar to learn more about this new leadership model, forthcoming from McGraw-Hill Professional and the Center for Creative Leadership (November 2010) and to learn how to transform todayís limiting borders into tomorrowís limitless frontiers to solve problems, create innovative solutions, and to transform your organization to thrive in a flat world. For additional information, please see www.spanboundaries.com.

Chris Ernst is a senior faculty member in the Center for Creative Leadershipís (CCL) Organizational Leadership Practice.

Donna Chrobot-Mason is an associate professor in psychology at the University of Cincinnati and Director of the Center for Organizational Leadership.

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National Collegiate Leadership Conference 2011
Destination Leadership:
Your Journey Through a Changing World
The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
February 18-20, 2011

Registration is now open and will end February 4, 2011 or when we reach our capacity of 600 participants.

The National Collegiate Leadership Conference is a student-run annual conference that serves as the cornerstone of the leadership experience and training for hundreds of college students across the nation. The philosophy of NCLC is that service, social justice, and leadership are all connected. Thus, the programming for this conference offers students a variety of opportunities to learn, understand, interact with, experience, participate in, engage in, and reflect on service, social justice, and leadership. The skills that students learn from this conference can be applicable in students’ organizations, families, campuses, job settings, as well as local and global communities.

http://arizonaleadership.orgsync.com/org/nclc

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2011 International Conference of the Association of Global Management Studies

Excalibur Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada 89109

(February 28-March 1)

Theme: Global Strategies and Innovation Across Disciplines

The 2011 International Conference of the Association of Global Management Studies (AGMS) provides a platform to discuss challenges pertaining to contemporary issues in management studies. It also fosters multidisciplinary research involved in the development of theoretical and practice knowledge of all business and related fields by researchers, educators and practitioners.

Conference Tracks

Contemporary Issues in eLearning/Distance Learning Contemporary Issues in Project Management Contemporary Issues in Accounting Contemporary Issues in Green Computing and Healthcare Informatics Contemporary Issues in Information Systems Security Contemporary in Strategic Management Global Issues in Social Networks Global Outsourcing and Management Contemporary Issues in Management Science and Operations Management Global Issues in Research Methodology Global Issues in the Management of Information Systems Global Issues in GIS Global Issues in International Economics/Finance Global Issues in International Business Global Issues in Marketing Global Issues in Ethics Global Organizational Issues in Management Global Cultural Issues in Management General Topics in Management Studies Challenges in Corporate Governance.

http://www.ilamembers.org/mc/community/eventdetails.do?eventId=297715&orgId=ila&recurringId=0

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VISIONARIES SEEK ACTION AT WORLDFUTURE 2011!

The World Future Society’s conference WorldFuture 2011: Moving from Vision to Action, to be held July 8-10, in Vancouver, British Columbia, will focus on developing specific action plans for meeting–and getting ahead of–the challenges we face now.

Approximately 150 speakers will offer their latest insights and strategies in governance, education, law enforcement, futures methodologies, marketing, and much more.

Registration: http://www.wfs.org/content/register-worldfuture-2011

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Spiral Dynamics in Action
Copenhagen, Denmark

This intensive two-day Spiral Dynamics seminar will closely enquire into the “master cultural code” that can scale at any level, from community to country to planet—which is profoundly necessary because so many issues are a product of conflicts and clashes as seen in stereotyping and threats from radical, fundamentalist views.

As we probe into determining how to mesh different subcultures within a common political space, we warmly invite you to delve with us into this global formula that is relevant to so many concerns we experience today in dealing with dangerous conflicts and fragmentation virtually everywhere.
 
For example, recall that the last major global conference in Copenhagen, which was on climate change and the environment, failed to produce the intended results. If the participants had understood value systems and the Meshworks Solutions approach which we will be examining at our SDi intensive, the outcomes then might well have been different. Also, as the midterm elections in the US this week saw the swing back towards the Republican Party and even President Obama admitted during the post-election news conference that his administration has yet been unsuccessful in finding solutions to difficult problems that Americans can accept, no doubt he should send his own staff to our February gathering Copenhagen to benefit from the profound insights offered by Spiral Dynamics in Action.

Many years ago Professor Clare W. Graves predicted to Dr. Beck, “our time would come.” Clearly it has, and this unique learning opportunity offers you the chance to uncover your place, purpose, and essential function in making our off-kilter world a saner place!

 Dates: February 1-2, 2011
Venue: Copenhagen, Denmark
. Info and registration: Teddy Hebo Larsen 
teddyhebo@gmail.com

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Pacific Integral
Generating Transformative Change Program

Starts April, 2011

The nine-month GTC Leadership Intensive is an extraordinary opportunity to come together with a diverse group of individuals committed to catalyzing their next stage of leadership and transforming our world for the better. Over the past seven years, our GTC program has earned a reputation for building a global network of conscious leaders, with a curriculum based in evolving, leading-edge theories and practices of change, and grounded in long-term research. As a participant in Pacific Integral’s tenth GTC cohort, you will develop a radically expanded view of your self and your role in the world, along with the confidence and clarity to step forth into greater leadership.

Information: http://www.pacificintegral.com