1. Futures Tools for Everyday Life and Work Integral Futures: knowing ourselves, our businesses and our contexts in richer ways Dr Stephanie Pride StratEDGY Strategic Foresight

2. In this session... Why use tools? What is Integral Theory? Unpacking the Four Quadrants Applying the Four Quadrants to – understanding contexts – self understanding for leadership – understanding your organisation Discussion/questions

3. “We shape our tools, thereafter they shape us” John Culkin, after Marshall McLuhan

4. “the Integral Approach helps you to see both yourself and the world around you in more comprehensive and effective ways” Ken Wilber, ‘Introduction to Integral Theory and Practice’ 2005

6. Integral Theory - The Four Quadrants I INTERIOR/INDIVIDUAL Intentional (self & consciousness) IT EXTERIOR/INDIVIDUAL Behavioural (brain and organism) WE INTERIOR/COLLECTIVE Cultural (culture and wordview) ITS EXTERIOR/COLLECTIVE Social (social and environment) INDIVIDUAL EXTERIOR INTERIOR COLLECTIVE

7. “I” - Intentional (interior/individual) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henri_Rousseau_-_Il_sogno.jpg

9. “It” - Behavioural (exterior individual) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:View_of_Viscera_Page_82.jpg#mediaviewer/File:View_of_Viscera_Page_82.jpg

10. Exterior/individual “It” - Behavioural http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Skull_and_brain_normal_human.svg Individual organism material body and brain (e.g. valves, blood vessels, neuro- transmitters)

11. “We” - Cultural (interior/collective) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henri_Rousseau_-_Il_sogno.jpg

12. Interior/collective “We” - Cultural collective interior experiences shared values, language, meaning, relationships culture traditions

13. “Its” - Social (exterior/collective) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki File:Bowen_House_Beehive_Parliament.JPG#mediaviewerFile:Bowen_House_Beehive_Parliament.JPG

14. Exterior/collective “Its” - Social social, political, economic systems & processes organisational systems exterior forms and behaviours of the group

15. Understanding Contexts: The Four Quadrants Applied to Health

16. Understanding Contexts: Four Quadrants Applied to the ‘eco-crisis’

17. Four Quadrants applied to self–understanding for leadership INTERIOR/INDIVIDUAL Your emotional and psychological well being Your personal beliefs & assumptions EXTERIOR/INDIVIDUAL Your behaviours Your physical wellbeing INTERIOR/COLLECTIVE Contribution to modelling values & unconscious collective assumptions EXTERIOR COLLECTIVE Contribution to modelling org. systems and rules

18. Four Quadrants applied to understanding your business INTERIOR/INDIVIDUAL Employee Engagement Emotional & psychological well being, aspirations, dreams EXTERIOR/INDIVIDUAL Performance Physical well-being Behaviours INTERIOR/COLLECTIVE Shared world views, myths and beliefs; Customs and traditions EXTERIOR COLLECTIVE Organisational systems, processes and structures: Hierarchies, reward systems

19. References/further reading ‘Introduction to Integral Theory and Practice: IOS BASIC AND THE AQAL MAP’ Ken Wilber AQAL, Spring 2005, Vol. 1, No. 1 ‘An integral theory of consciousness’ Ken Wilber, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 4 (1), February 1997, pp. 71-92 Imprint Academic http://imprint.co.uk/Wilber.htmJournal of Consciousness Studies