Integral Leadership in an Emergent World -- The Start of Something Big?

Let's do that again!

That's my reaction to yesterday's "Integral Leadership in an Emergent World" one-day workshop. We had a perfectly sized group (16) of spectacular participants and, by all accounts, the first-ever (according to Ken Wilber) workshop dedicated to the integration of Integral Theory and Creative Emergence was a success.

As I've mentioned in earlier blogs, this workshop was an exploration of how the broad framework of Integral Theory and the Principles of Creative Emergence can be used by leaders to create breakthroughs in the workplace.

My co-facilitator, Michelle James, CEO of the Center for Creative Emergence, is a veteran facilitator and an expert in creative emergence. While I've led more than my share of Integral Theory-based workshops, seminars, and Intensives, it was Michelle's expert infusion of emergent principles and processes into this jam-packed workshop that set this workshop apart from other Integral Theory educational experiences.

Interest in the participants in our upcoming Integral-Emergence Professional Development Program (probably to start in January 2007) was high, particularly because most of the participants seem to want an opportunity to go deeper and to explore more dimensions of Integral Theory than was possible in a one-day format. I also have a sneaking suspicion that we'll do another of these workshops this fall -- this one was simply too much fun not to want to do it again.

"Please sir, may I have some more?"