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 ==== Integral Futures ==== ==== Integral Futures ====
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 +How is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_theory|integral theory]] translated into futures studies? Deepening conversations, creating more holistic images for the future, putting the practitioners' own development as an important element in facilitating futures workshops... Rihcard Slaughter et al in the Australian futures community have a lot to say about it. A related, although somewhat different concept is "embodied foresight" discussed by Josh Floyd, Alex Burns and Jose Ramos - reading notes below. 
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 <blockquote>Among the central discoveries of the Integral approach is that is it 'depth within the practitioner that determines how well or badly any particular method is used'. This is one of those rare 'new ideas' that changes everything. Among many other things it directs attention back and away from methods per se to the personal (and to some extent, social) interiors from which they emerged in the first place and upon which they entirely depend. Being a 'good futurist' or an 'effective foresight practitioner' is no longer a question that hinges on a one-dimensional concern for cognitive capacity! Many other lines of capability are involved along with requisite stages of development. A corollary is that the kinds of answers, solutions, that are now required cannot, in principle, be found in the domain of conventional thinking, conventional work (what I call 'problem oriented' futures). The latter has run its course and is now exhausted for non-trivial uses.</blockquote> <blockquote>Among the central discoveries of the Integral approach is that is it 'depth within the practitioner that determines how well or badly any particular method is used'. This is one of those rare 'new ideas' that changes everything. Among many other things it directs attention back and away from methods per se to the personal (and to some extent, social) interiors from which they emerged in the first place and upon which they entirely depend. Being a 'good futurist' or an 'effective foresight practitioner' is no longer a question that hinges on a one-dimensional concern for cognitive capacity! Many other lines of capability are involved along with requisite stages of development. A corollary is that the kinds of answers, solutions, that are now required cannot, in principle, be found in the domain of conventional thinking, conventional work (what I call 'problem oriented' futures). The latter has run its course and is now exhausted for non-trivial uses.</blockquote>
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 <blockquote>Both forecasting and scenarios focus largely on the external world. (...) If we direct our attention mainly to the external aspects of the human predicament then ways forward will forever elude us. The global context becomes a trap for humanity. In practice such conventional ‘exterior’ approaches to world issues cover only part of the territory.  <blockquote>Both forecasting and scenarios focus largely on the external world. (...) If we direct our attention mainly to the external aspects of the human predicament then ways forward will forever elude us. The global context becomes a trap for humanity. In practice such conventional ‘exterior’ approaches to world issues cover only part of the territory. 
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 From [[http://integralfutures.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Integral_Futures_APF_Overview_2012.pdf|Integral Futures]] by [[http://www.foresightinternational.com.au/|Richard Slaughter]] From [[http://integralfutures.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Integral_Futures_APF_Overview_2012.pdf|Integral Futures]] by [[http://www.foresightinternational.com.au/|Richard Slaughter]]
  
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 Chris Stewart applied Integral Theory to scenario planning. He suggested that the two most important criteria for scenarios are relevance and diversity of worldviews to provide appropriate depth and breadth. He proposed a generic scenario method using Integral and provided case study examples. His article provided the foundation for the four quadrant model along with principle of practice (POP) for incorporating them into a generic scenario method model. Chris Stewart applied Integral Theory to scenario planning. He suggested that the two most important criteria for scenarios are relevance and diversity of worldviews to provide appropriate depth and breadth. He proposed a generic scenario method using Integral and provided case study examples. His article provided the foundation for the four quadrant model along with principle of practice (POP) for incorporating them into a generic scenario method model.
  
-Slaughter (…) imparts an observation of how Integral Theory has enhanced the futurist’s techniques for scenarios, environmental scanning, the T-cycle, and causal layered analysis. For scenarios and scenario planning, ‘In summary, the integral approach allows us to take scenario planning to a new and more capable stage of development. It means that we can go a long way beyond simple, pragmatic ‘mental models’ and the ‘generic business idea’ (themselves innovations in their time) to framing perceptions and the developmental capacities that underlie them. It also means that researchers and scenario planners can be more aware of the multitude of ways in which their own enculturation and interior development directly and profoundly affect everything they do.’ </blockquote>+Slaughter (…) imparts an observation of how Integral Theory has enhanced the futurist’s techniques for scenarios, environmental scanning, the T-cycle, and causal layered analysis. For scenarios and scenario planning, ‘In summary, the integral approach allows us to take scenario planning to a new and more capable stage of development. It means that we can go a long way beyond simple, pragmatic ‘mental models’ and the ‘generic business idea’ (themselves innovations in their time) to framing perceptions and the developmental capacities that underlie them. It also means that researchers and scenario planners can be more aware of the multitude of ways in which their own enculturation and interior development directly and profoundly affect everything they do.’  
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 From: [[http://www.wfs.org/Upload/PDFWFR/WFR_JunJul2010_Collins.pdf|The Evolution of Integral Futures: A Status Update]] by Terry Collins & Andy Hines From: [[http://www.wfs.org/Upload/PDFWFR/WFR_JunJul2010_Collins.pdf|The Evolution of Integral Futures: A Status Update]] by Terry Collins & Andy Hines
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 ==== Embodied Foresight ==== ==== Embodied Foresight ====
  
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-[[http://www.jfs.tku.edu.tw/13-2/E01.pdf| Embodied Foresight and Trialogues]]:+via [[http://www.jfs.tku.edu.tw/13-2/E01.pdf| Embodied Foresight and Trialogues]]:
  
 At the heart of an integral approach to any sphere of activity and inquiry is inclusion of the greatest possible number of perspectives, and practitioner reflection. At the heart of an integral approach to any sphere of activity and inquiry is inclusion of the greatest possible number of perspectives, and practitioner reflection.
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 Embodied Foresight has anticipatory, enactive and self-reflective knowledge interests, and a cyclical/spiral timeframe that honours the dyad between the practitioner's subjective universe (aion) and how it manifests via enactive cognition in the objective environ- ment (aeon) (Jung, 1966). Embodied Foresight has anticipatory, enactive and self-reflective knowledge interests, and a cyclical/spiral timeframe that honours the dyad between the practitioner's subjective universe (aion) and how it manifests via enactive cognition in the objective environ- ment (aeon) (Jung, 1966).
  
-Futures Studies methods equip practitioners with the power to have real-world impacts with unforeseeable second- and third-order systemic effects. Integral Futures frameworks and models have the potential to 'amplify this tenfold', and add transfor- mative dimensions that can be potentially dangerous to the practitioner's psyche if misapplied. (Fowles, 1977; Hoffer, 1951; Morris, 2003; Wilcox, 1956). Truly 'inte- gral' communities create awareness amongst their practitioners of this perilous terrain as a necessary and never-ending guardianship function (Gurdjieff, 1963; Jung & von Franz, 1998). Embodied Foresight frameworks therefore encompass the ethical and normative injunctive which practitioners must heed when creating and renewing Futures Studies methodologies. For the FS scholar and Foresight practitioner these frameworks provide the self-reflexivity and presence demanded for the effective and ethical application of Applied Foresight.</blockquote>+Futures Studies methods equip practitioners with the power to have real-world impacts with unforeseeable second- and third-order systemic effects. Integral Futures frameworks and models have the potential to 'amplify this tenfold', and add transfor- mative dimensions that can be potentially dangerous to the practitioner's psyche if misapplied. (Fowles, 1977; Hoffer, 1951; Morris, 2003; Wilcox, 1956). Truly 'inte- gral' communities create awareness amongst their practitioners of this perilous terrain as a necessary and never-ending guardianship function (Gurdjieff, 1963; Jung & von Franz, 1998). Embodied Foresight frameworks therefore encompass the ethical and normative injunctive which practitioners must heed when creating and renewing Futures Studies methodologies. For the FS scholar and Foresight practitioner these frameworks provide the self-reflexivity and presence demanded for the effective and ethical application of Applied Foresight. 
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 From [[http://www.jfs.tku.edu.tw/13-2/E01.pdf| A Challenging Conversation on Integral Futures: Embodied Foresight and Trialogues]] by Josh Floyd, Alex Burns and Jose Ramos From [[http://www.jfs.tku.edu.tw/13-2/E01.pdf| A Challenging Conversation on Integral Futures: Embodied Foresight and Trialogues]] by Josh Floyd, Alex Burns and Jose Ramos

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