Integral
Institute is dedicated to the proposition that partial and piecemeal approaches
to complex problems are ineffective. Whether addressing individual and personal
issues of meaning and transformation, or increasingly complex social problems
such as war, hunger, disease, over-population, housing, ecology, and education,
partial and fragmented approaches need to be replaced by solutions that are more
comprehensive, systematic, encompassing—and integral.
Accordingly,
there are four main goals for the Institute:
(1) Integrate the largest amount of research from the largest number of
disciplines—including the natural sciences (physics, chemistry, biology,
neurology, ecology), art, ethics, religion, psychology, politics, business,
sociology, and spirituality.
(2) Develop practical products and services from this research—which can
be used by individuals in their own development, or by groups, businesses,
national and international organizations.
(3) Apply this integrated knowledge and method of problem solving
to critical and urgent issues—especially the serious political, health,
educational, business, and environmental problems facing humanity. This
integral approach to problem solving is employed by the Institute’s own
members; by forming alliances with other organizations; and by training
organizational leaders, managers, and change agents in the Integral Approach.
(4) Create the world’s first Integral Learning Community—at first online
(through the Multiplex), and increasingly
in national and international communities of Integral Practice.
Integral
Institute functions as the world’s premier site for integral research and
applications; as a generator of consulting services, seminars, and conferences;
as a network of the most influential integral theorists from around the world;
and as an open organization for disseminating and applying integral methods to
complex problems in a wide variety of fields, personal to professional.
The mission of the
Institute is to assist people and organizations along integral, comprehensive,
balanced, and sustainable lines in order to dramatically improve the quality of
life on this planet. Integral Institute’s founding belief is that by helping
individuals, companies, organizations, governments, NGOs, and communities to
become integrally informed, they can more effectively chart their courses
and make wiser and saner decisions today and in the future; develop successful,
breakthrough strategies to help solve their problems; and more successfully
mobilize their resources to implement desired solutions consonant with
integral sustainability.
Because Integral Institute
specializes in integral operating systems (IOS) that can help any
organization reorient itself in a more balanced and comprehensive fashion, I-I
serves as an “organization for other organizations,” helping them with operating
systems that touch bases with previously neglected potentials in individuals and
organizations.
Integral Institute is also
pioneering the world’s first Integral Learning Community, previews of
which are presented in Integral
Naked, but the more complete form of which
can be found in the launching of the online Multiplex planned for the
summer of 2003. (See Multiplex for more
information).
By assisting people in
various settings to become more balanced and comprehensive in their
decisions, Integral Institute believes that it can assist a collective increase
in wisdom and basic sanity for the planet and future generations.
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