“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. View the full archive of conversations at https://meridianuniversity.edu/integralvoices.
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....
25 Oct 2021
Freedom is a Simple Word: Allowing Another to be a Legitimate Other
What is the true nature of inner freedom? How do we recognize the legitimacy of the other? How do destiny and humility relate to leadership?In this touching and emergent Integral Voices conversation between Peter Senge and Aftab Omer, they draw on ideas expressed by Martin Buber, Humberto Maturana and Peter‘s work in South Africa to explore these questions.
17 Sept 2021
Nurturing Our Humanity: Reuniting Care and Economics
What 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? In this Integral Voices conversation, three Pathfinders, Riane Eisler, David Korten, and Hazel Henderson, are joined by moderator Aftab Omer to engage each other’s ideas candidly and creatively to make sense of our historic...
5 Apr 2021
Another World is Possible: Unlearning and the World We Create
Hanno 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. The panel conversation will also draw on Tomas Björkman's books The World We Create and The Nordic Secret, Monica Sharma’s book Radical Transformational Leadership: Strategic Action for Change Agents, and Indra Adnan’s forthcoming book The Politics of Waking Up...
8 Oct 2020
Trust, Fractals and Learning: Exploring the Practice of Transformative Leadership
Monica Sharma and Aftab Omer in ConversationWhat makes leaders trustworthy? How can cultural and system transformation be scaled? How do transformative leaders serve by engaging worldviews? In this conversation between Monica Sharma and Aftab Omer they identify some of the capabilities required for transformative leaders to systemically engage the fragilities and possibilities of our time. Monica Sharma is a physician and epidemiologist, who spent 22 years at the United Nations with a f...
24 Sept 2020
It is Our Care that Creates New Worlds: Dialogic Capability Amidst Cultural Crisis
Thomas Steininger and Aftab Omer in Conversation Can 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? In this conversation between Thomas Steininger and Aftab Omer, they explore the power of dialogue to deepen democracy and transform culture so that the great transmission of human capacities may endure. View the ful...
11 Sept 2020
Revisioning Entrepreneurship: Generativity, Indigeneity and the Feminine
Nina Simons and Aftab Omer in conversation:In 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.View the full Integral Voices archive and sign up to stay updated on future episodes at https://meridianuniversity.edu...
27 Aug 2020
Listening to the Voice of the Field: The Great Conductor and the Black Hole
Integral Voices"Listening to the Voice of the Field: The Great Conductor and the Black Hole"Thomas Hubl and Aftab Omer in Conversation on Collective Trauma and Social HealingIn this wide-ranging and emergent conversation, Thomas Hubl and Aftab Omer explore collective trauma, social healing, and the ways in which scientific inquiry and mystical understanding inform the challenging work of collective trauma practitioners. Aftab and Thomas share their reflections on related themes including the ...
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