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See map: Google MapsOn Saturday, November 3, at 3 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, The Integral Company's founder Tom Goddard will join Ken in taking questions from fellow Integral Institute members in a discussion of Integral Healthcare. Dr. Goddard is the author of "Integral Healthcare Management" in the first volume of the AQAL Journal.

One of the many rewarding connections I made this weekend was with Seth Braun, an “integral nutritional counselor” who is the author of “Healthy, Fast and Cheap: The Ultimate College Cookbook.” As a budget-busting patron of Whole Foods and the organic food section at Harris-Teeter, I was curious about the notion of an affordable, healthy diet. My interest was particularly piqued because my elder son, Julian, is soon to graduate from high school and, presumably at some point soon, move out of the house. He, too, is nutrition-conscious, but not particularly versed in the realities of what is involved in making sure the income side of the balance sheet consistently exceeds the expense side.

At the Integral Institute’s Integral Healthcare Training Showcase I attended last weekend, Dennis Harkins, of Madison, Wisconsin, tapped into a pretty interesting “all-quadrant” analysis. He showed a rather standard “all-quadrant” slide, then followed that with one I hadn’t seen – one with little 4-quadrant models housed within each of the 4 quadrants. In simple graphic, crafted (he says) in the Madison airport while awaiting his flight to Denver, he both complexified the AQAL world and, for some, may have simplified it.