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Integral Planning 


When you follow your bliss...
doors will open where you would not
have thought there would be doors,
and where there wouldn't be a door
for anyone else.

Joseph Campbell
Renowned scholar and Mythologist

 

Cammi Angel

 

Integral Lectures, Education & Trainings
 
Schedule 2009

Lectures
  Integral Approach to Climate Change and Agriculture
  Il Café Paesaggio - L'approccio integrale al paesaggio
Education Leadership, Governance and Corporate Sustainability
  Integral Education
  Business Ethics
  Managing Sustainability
 
- Students Works
Trainings Integral EMAS
  Consciousness Training Anne Caspari
  Consciousness Training Karin Rometsch
 



The Integral Framework in Action
Behind the Scenes of Change, Complexity and Sustainability

Date: Wednesday, May 20
Time: 14.15 - 16.00
Place: Aud. 4, Eilert Sundts Hus
University of Oslo, Norway


Anne Caspari will be talking about how an integral framework
can be applied to international environmental planning projects and
broader sustainability issues. She will introduce the main aspects of an
integral approach, which provides a new way of understanding highly
complex emerging geo-political situations and eco-social issues. Using
examples from her research, she will discuss the implications of this
approach for climate change adaptation. Her talk will also give a
glimpse on how to design successful solutions, initiatives and projects.


For more information pls. contact Karen O'Brien
Chair, Global Environmental Change and Human Security Project Department of Sociology and Human Geography
University of Oslo, Norway
Email: karen.obrien@sgeo.uio.no

 


Leadership, Governance and Corporate Sustainability
MBA Course at European School of Economics, London

This course underpins the philosophy of the ESE that encompasses self- discovery and personal development as applied to leadership in business. The aim is to equip students with the understanding, the motivation and the “how” to discover what they are suited for and to hone them with a competitive edge in a global market.


Students will learn to express themselves more authentically in order to create value. Using Ken Wilber’s Integral Framework, this course takes a value based approach to leadership, governance and corporate sustainability.
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Business Ethics
Postgraduate Master Course at European School of Economics, Rome

This course offers students a fully integrated, multi-disciplinary framework to understand both ethical issues and personal values in themselves, in other individuals, organisations and societies.

    The course will provide a profound ethical decision making framework, and insights into the foundations of value based leadership. Case studies will exemplify the elaboration of ethics programs, policies and ethical audits.
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Il Café Paesaggio
- L'approccio integrale al paesaggio
Lecture held on February 3, 2008

Lecture on landscape in the Ruspoli Castel of Vignanello on Sunday, Feb 3rd 2008. The lecture is about how to approach landscape in its manifold significance and interpretation.



Taking some input from the basic thought behind the “World Café” concept, the idea is to discuss landscape from all different kind of angles together with the audience.

In the “Landscape Café”, we will have a look at landscape ecology, aesthetics, architecture, as well as planning and discussing what each discipline has to offer in order to deepen the understanding of both genesis and meaning of landscapes such as the Tuscia. A more integral picture will emerge, a process which will be supported by the application of the integral theory on the subject. Go to presentation (PDF)...



Integral Approach to Climate Change and Agriculture

Lecture held in Greece, November 9, 2007

Anne Caspari was invited to talk about changing behaviour in the field of agriculture and climate change at the final conference of the EU ACCRETe project in Aeghio, Greece.

K. Firus, A. Caspari at the conference in Aeghio
The ACCRETe project was about becoming aware of the interdependencies “agriculture – climate change”, and was coordinated by the Province of Parma (Italy) together with nine partners from Italy, Greece, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovenia and Romania.

The partners worked together to develop tools to raise awareness and to inform about the link between agriculture and climate change. The aim of the final conference was to present the results of the project and to encourage more awareness among people and operators of the sector so that attitudes may be changed.

The presentation of the “Integral Approach to Climate Change and Agriculture": Interior and Exterior Factors in Changing Behaviour” , with the collaboration of K. Firus of T-6 ecosystems (Rome, Italy) received excellent feedback amongst experts and locals.



Integral EMASeasy™ Training


Integral ‘Train the Trainer’ Seminars in Germany and Portugal for leading Environmental Consultants who apply environmental management systems for small and middle sized companies (EMASeasy™, Ecomapping™).

 

EMAS easy is a new approach based on Ecomapping. It was developped to help SME's to process an environmental management system (EMS) grounded on their baseline assessment. For ECE Eco-Conseil Entreprise, Brussels. The integral trainings were set in the framework of EMASeasy™ workshops for environmental consultants in Germany and in Portugal held by Heinz W. Engel of Ecoconseil Entreprise, Bruxelles, for the European Commission.

The integral part of the training focused on enhancing the effectiveness of the consultants’ communication towards clients and stakeholders. The challenge for environmental consultants is often to be able to carefully frame a sustainability proposal in a way that truly resonates with the client’s mindset.

The training transmitted a method to what experienced, intuitive communicators do naturally, sensing the appropriate communication for their audience. Effective and conscious communication that truly respects the value system of a person or group is a requisite for success.

The integral training focused on the aspects of how to translate ‘green values’, sustainability messages and quality management intentions across different value systems to existing and potential clients with different motivators, in order to enhance the dissemination and the application of the EMASeasy™ tool.

 


Integral Education

Education in integral


Education in the integral key offers students a fully integrated, multi-disciplinary framework, a set of practical guidelines and planning tools. The integral framework is a comprehensive map for an extensive cross-cultural comparison of human capacities for any given area. It provides students of all professional backgrounds and mind-sets with a deep understanding of current best practices that govern economical, environmental, and social sustainability, sustainable development, social responsibility and ethics.

By learning to use this framework, any professional, practitioner or decision-maker can fairly easily adopt a more comprehensive, effective and balanced approach to specific problems and their solutions.    


Through the application of Ken Wilber’s integral framework and Spiral Dynamics integral to sustainability concepts, students learn a cutting edge approach to the most pressing issues of today’s sustainability problems and challenges, and study how to organise knowledge and to successfully design their own projects.

The following courses are held in the integral key at the European School of Economics (ESE), Rome, Italy: “Managing Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility”: Post Graduate Master Course (MSc) and “Business Ethics” (MBA).

Lectures are also given at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Faculty of Architecture, as essential part of the courses “Landscape Ecology” and “Environmental Planning”. More ...

 


Managing Sustainability and Corporate Reponsability
Students Works, April 2008


The following works represent study cases elaborated by students of the MSc Course "Managing Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility" at the European School of Economics.

    Students coming from Germany, Italy, Spain, Serbia, Albania, Hungary, Egypt, Panama, Mexico and Columbia have used the Integral Framework to analyse the dynamics of the Fair Trade business sector.


The works represent ongoing research and the opinion expressed are exclusively those of the respective students.

Grande/Miljanic: Fair trade for our world
Carrizo/Elmalt/Imhof: Fair Trade Integral
Mandli/Sardi: Fair Trade
D'Amato/Refregger: Fair Trade Integral
 



 
June
 
May
20 Lecture: Integral Framework in Action, University of Oslo

 

 

Imagination
is more important
than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

 

 

 

 

 

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