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Matching Public Interaction Skills with Desired Outcomes
This article, written by Jan Inglis and published in the International Journal of Public Participation 1(2): 2-17, suggests that since public interaction requires certain sets of skills, identifying the skills best suited to the purpose and goals of a participatory process is important. When skills match the requirements of the task, outcomes are more likely to match expectations. It outlines the skills needed if comprehensive social change is the desired outcome.Reactivity to Climate Change
This short article written by Jan Inglis and published in the Integral Review (5) ;275 -277, outlines how evolvement of effective responses to climate change may be blocked, due to an impulse to revert to earlier developmental dynamics.How Then Do We Choose to Live: Facing the Climate Crisis and Seeking the "Meta Response"
Written by Jan Inglis and published in the Integral Review 4(1) 100-107, this article describes a growing sense of avoidance and/or hopelessness which can block our ability to respond to the climate crisis. The stages of adjusting or sorting to this challenge are described and compared to learning about a personal health crisis. So as to better address the climate crisis, the importance of connecting the field of Dialogue and Deliberation to the resources in the field of Adult Development is advocated and a meta approach or "the Gaia approach?\" is proposed.Multi-perspective Approaches to Climate Change: An Issue Booklet for Public Deliberation
This Issue Booklet has been designed in response to the question " How Do We Want To Respond to the Climate Crisis?" Although this is an enormous question, through considering it from four common yet diverse perspectives, we are more likely to see and move beyond our preferred bias, and be able to identify an effective combination of actions we are willing to live with and support—from policy directions to voluntary changes, that help us develop well considered inclusive responses and comprehensive actions.Mapping Multiple Responses to Climate Change
This booklet was developed for distribution at the State of the World Forum on Climate Change in Belo Horizonte, Brazil in August 2009. It shows the steps required to drill down from the large topic of climate change to the specific decisions required on questions regarding choices of actionsEvolving to Address Global Climate Change and the Scale of Public Interactions.
Global climate change is complex to address. It will require people to interact publicly as well as set policy, as a crucial part of addressing it. To date, skills for effective public interaction—where such interactions even exist—do not measure up to the demands of such global complexity. Hierarchical complexity is used to analyze common forms of public talk and interaction. Its premises are applied to approaches to conduct public discourse, including postformal approaches. The Scale of Public Interactions is introduced and indicates that Metasystematic stage approaches to climate change hold the most potential for addressing it. This article is based on the Model of Hierarchical complexity and accompanies other articles on that topic published in a special edition of the World Futures Journal of General Evolution special edition journal. This is an electronic version of an article published in World Futures Journal of General Evolution 64: Issue 5-7, 498–502, 2008. World Futures Journal of General Evolution is available online at informaworldTM http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a904607212Complexity Intelligence: Evolving Capacities for Complex Times
This article gives a brief introduction to the concept of Complexity Intelligence, the theoretical framework which is the basis for many of the programs and services provided by the Integrative Learning Institute.
To read a fuller version of this article, “Complexity Intelligence and Cultural Coaching”, by Inglis and Steele published in the Integral Review, please go to: http://integral-review.global-arina.org/current_issue/index.aspAnticipating the Impacts of Urban/ Rural Migration on Rural Communities: A Presentation to the Rural Communities Summit, Osoyoos, B.C. April, 2006.
This article models the application of a multiple perspective approach to public deliberation of a common community issue such as affordable housing.Meta-intelligence for analyses, decisions, policy, and action: The Integral Process for Working on Complex Issues. by Sara Ross in M. Tovey (Ed.), Collective intelligence: Creating a prosperous world at peace, ISBN 097156616X, pp. 213-223.
Book Reviews
The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability by James Gustav Speth. 2008. New Haven, CT: Yale University PressIntegral Ecology: Uniting Multiple Perspectives on the Natural World by Sean Esbjorn-Hargens and Michael Zimmerman Integral Books, Boston and London, 2009