Marcel Reichart from Burda Media Group in Germany writes at Atlantic-community.org. I am adding: The grassroots -online AND offline are already setting impulses for poltics and change in general.

Retooling a grass-rots network for a presidency

is already a theme in USA. And voices like Phil Noble from poltisonline.com say it for a looong time already:





German Poltical Parties Must Inspire Grassroots Online

Marcel Reichart: German political parties were no doubt transfixed by the campaign revolution executed by Obama via the internet. To stay abreast of changing social dynamics, German political parties must harness creativity and expertise, inspiring the internet savvy to political participation.


Barack Obama has just been inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States, and has already achieved something extraordinary: like no other President before him, he has managed to mobilize and inspire the American people to get involved in politics. With his team of young and competent supporters, he has redefined the way an election campaign is run: Never before has the Internet exerted such a dominating and crucial influence and spurred so much creative activity.

It is a safe bet that the German parties were among those watching closely as Barack Obama achieved nothing less than a political miracle. In the national election year 2009, the German parties and their candidates will definitely not be able to do without the Internet. An opinion survey about the changes in the information and communication culture carried out by the Allensbach Institute shows that the Internet has become the number one source of information. 59% of all 14 to 64 year olds go online several times a day to keep abreast of current events. It is particularly the social networks like Facebook, MySpace, StudiVZ and YouTube that are gaining in importance.

The social becomes political - this was true for the election campaign in the United States and will also be relevant for the German parties. But how are the German parties represented in the leading social communities and which parties have their own communities?

With a social network of more than 30,000 members, the Liberal Party (FDP) is the front-runner among German parties as regards activities on the Social Web. The Social Democrats (SPD) are also present with a community called meineSPD.net. This platform brings together over 20,000 followers. The Christian Democrats' network, CDUnet, is only open to party members. The Greens' website does not offer any community functions, though there is a forum for discussions.

But at least all parties have their own video channel on YouTube: They are called CDU-TV, SPD VISION, KANAL GRÜN, TV LIBERAL and DIE LINKE IM BUNDESTAG. The FDP offering is the most successful with 449,672 page impressions (as of January 2009), followed by SPD and the Left Party (Die Linke) with 136,071 and 125,721 page impressions respectively. As regards the number of videos posted, the Green Party with 179 videos tops the list while the Christian Democrats (CDU) rank last with only 47 videos. But compared to the page impressions of the most successful offering on YouTube in the German-speaking countries-FC Bayern TV-the party channels are still in their beta stage: FCB-TV on YouTube has almost 1.9 million page impressions and about 4,000 subscribers.

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The GURDIAN reports in his Digital Content Blog interesting new developments. This time European/Expansion from LinkedIn. It remains to be seen if they can beat current market leader Xing. As LINkedIn has often often announced in Big Mouth style developments...
Far more interesting and relevant for me is the general role and importance of social and business networks. Especially in context and nexus of European society, poltics  and culture. To move the existing landscapes in business culture and poltics more is necessary than shifiting patterns of connectivity and communication.

The deep vememetic codes- already different in Germany than in UK, Netherlands or Scandinavia- not to mention South Europe and Eastern Europe demand attention.

This year will see very exciting developments. Especially in UK and Germany. The point is for me growing into strong transatlantic roles. And self reliant partners in poltics and cultural development.

Users and members of social networks will play a crucial role in these developments. They are neither numbers for the managers, nor elelements of market shares, neither contingents to deal with nor marketable wetware. They are no sherpas on demand for network strategists. They form pyschoactive collective intelligence in action!

They are citizens. They are subjects of change. They are leaders in themselves.


LinkedIn continues European Expansion with German Launch

LinkedIn continues to buck the recession business trend of slimming down by expanding out, today announcing the launch of a dedicated site for Germany. The service will be bad news for Xing, the market-leading business social network in Germany and much of Europe but LinkedIn, headed by EU managing director Kevin Eyres in London, is aggressively pushing into the continent.

Sites for Spain and France saw significant growth after launch last year - Spain added 200,000 users in two months and France topped 700,000 - and LinkedIn is aiming to grow the existing userbase of 500,000 in Germany. Of those, 80% connect outside Germany using English, but Eyres said the introduction of a locally focused service will trigger more domestic activity.

"Members in Germany use their profiles for international business," he said. "It's a very self selecting group."

"2009 will be more focused on international competition and we'll be looking to launch more locally relevant sites in other, large markets. Expanding is absolutely core to what we are doing for many reasons, but principally because of the global nature of the economy."

This is the fourth country-focused site, as distinct from a language translation of which there are already 41. User's profiles continue to appear in the language they are originally written in, but the site furniture appears in whatever language the user chooses as default.

LinkedIn also said that of its 9 million European users, 30% are from IT, marketing and advertising and finance sectors. Both finance and banking have seen increases of up to 42% as a result of the credit crisis as members try to raise their profile and find new work through the site, and in the UK activity in the recruitment sector also rose 40% in the last three months of 2008.

LinkedIn can boast plenty of high-profile members, including Bill Gates and Richard Branson, but the top prize goes to Barack Obama's flawless profile. Not that he's looking for a new job any time soon...

Found valuable advice for harnessing the power of raving. Even beyond viral marekting. The popular examples of YouTube and new opera singer Paul Potts are well known now. This advice from David Meerman Scott is for you and me:):)Read this from tompeters.com:

Cool Friends Interview with David Meerman Scott


David Meerman Scott

This biographical passage is starting where others typically end. Why does David Meerman Scott always use his middle name? To distinguish himself on search engines from all the other David Scotts-one of whom walked on the moon! David Meerman Scott was vice president of marketing at NewsEdge Corporation, an online news distributor with $70 million in revenue at the height of the dot-com boom. As such, he controlled a multi-million dollar marketing budget, learned that traditional marketing strategies don't work, and began creating content-based, "thought leadership" marketing and PR programs on the Web. Even though the advertising agency for NewsEdge told them not to put valuable information "where competitors could steal it," they created a monthly newsletter called TheEdge, with articles about the exploding world of digital news. It was freely available on the home page of their website because it generated interest from qualified buyers.
In 2002, NewsEdge was sold and David started his own business to refine these ideas, work with select clients, and teach others what he'd learned. He developed a one-day seminar called New Rules of Marketing. The subject of all this work: Reaching buyers directly and driving more revenue using online thought leadership. David is the author of numerous magazine articles and several books, including The New Rules of Marketing and PR, Tuned In (with Craig Stull and Phil Myers), Cashing In With Content, and Eyeball Wars: A Novel of Dot-com Intrigue.

For our interview, Erik and David discuss his new book that will come out in March 2009: World Wide Rave: Creating Triggers that Get Millions of People to Spread Your Ideas and Share Your Stories.

Cool Friends Interview with David Meerman Scott

This is from frank Vissers site integralworld.net
I appreciate that this most important theme - as a maximum of trouble spots and vmemetic complexity is involved-is given more space here. Indeed these efforts should be applauded so far.

Dealing with the leading (for me) approach of Spiral Dynamics Integral, with natural design, its ongoing documentation of the proceedings and real collaboration with an increasing number of innovative strategists, thought leaders and activists and journalists- as far I can see- these contributions seem meager to me.

The only article of Sdi they refer to is one which is already more than 10 years old.
There are no integral slogans in SDi. A good example is the growth of Singapore. I posted some material on it. Natural Design -as documented and described at

http://www.che-mideast.org/

is strongly reflecting lots of positions of Lee Kuan Yew. However it demands lots of years to grasp the essence of the Clare Graves approach. Not only intellectually.
No .

Culture Is Destiny: A Conversation with Lee Kuan Yew

Dealing with hundreds of examples of real life in the world. Take Russia, India, Europe, USA, Mexcio, Midest, Singapore, South Africa and more is essential. Don Beck and his colleagues did it for decades. In the field. Not as armchair philophers.

Its about a cutting edge design process. Beyond mere intellectual and spiritual exercises. However precious these may be. For large scale systems in developing AND devloped worlds. Its not even IBM like scenario planning.

Integral Thoughts on the Middle East Conflict

Frank Visser

The Middle East is a prime case study for the validation of integral theory

In the past several years I have tried to publish essays on Integral World that explore the contours of an integral view of the Middle East conflict - which would be a prime case study for the validity of integral theory.

These essays highlight all the difficulties one encounters when one tries to go beyond political slogans - integral or otherwise: the nature of debate itself, the value of historical research, what to make of the controversial New Historians, the separation of fact and judgement, the possibility of mutual misunderstanding, but also the growing clarity as the debate continues. These postings illustrate both the often one-sided nature of proposed arguments, as well as the need to be corrected by those holding a different opinion.

Sometimes, these contributors despaired at the usefulness of the whole excercise. However, on the whole these essays show that an integral analysis of the Middle East conflict is long overdue. These efforts should be applauded, if only for this reason.

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Here we see Steve Jobs delivering his commencement speech to the graduates of Stanford University in 2005. In it he talks about getting fired from Apple in 1985, life & death.

Here we see Steve Jobs delivering his commencement speech to the graduates of Stanford University in 2005. In it he talks about getting fired from Apple in 1985, life & death.



And this is the text of his speech:

You`ve got to find what you love

Each of his three stories reveals specific truth which will be realized in (r)evolutionary new ways next decades:

The first story is about connecting the dots.

My second story is about love and loss.

My third story is about death.

While searching for new exiting films at current Berlinale 2009-did not find a thrilling one up to now - I discovered this interview with Jon Amiel. Done by Fast Company.

In light of bicentennial of Darwins birth this film project was really capturing my attention. I always found deep biografical aproaches to the life work of explorers, scientists and artists most profound.

The current  discussions about evolution, creation, new atheists, God.spirituality etc. are unthinkable without hte work of this great pioneer.  The thoughts and reflections of Jon Amiel are utterly relevant for me and I hope to see the film as soon as possible in the cinemas.

its an approach to bring discoveries into conection with life conditions and the deep insides of the discoverers themselves.


A Peek into the Life of Darwin with Jon Amiel, Director of Creation [q&a]

By: Sara D. AndersonWed Feb 11, 2009 at 9:17 PM Director Jon Amiel's film, Creation, uncovers the story behind Charles Darwin, the man, and why it took him nearly 25 years to share his discovery.


We all know the text-book version of Charles Darwin: A man who had a soft-spot for beetles and sported an unkempt white beard (see the reverse side of a £10 note); a man who, 150 years ago, after a four-year voyage on the HMS Beagle wrote his discoveries on evolution and natural selection in The Origin of Species. But many of us might not realize that Darwin sat on his discovery for almost 25 years, perhaps because of conflict with the Anglican Church, the love for his religious wife and the unresolved death of his 10-year old daughter.

In light of the bicentennial of Darwin's birth, Jon Amiel, director of the movie Creation (staring Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly and set to release in Fall 2009) talks to us briefly about the book that inspired him to direct this film, Amiel's discovery of a younger, family-oriented Darwin, as well as his insights on the evolving film industry (needless to say, a contortion of Darwinism, but I had to ask).



FC: What inspired you to direct this film?

What first led me into it was a book by Randal [Hume] Keynes (Darwin's great-great-grandson [and also production consultant for the film]). This book is built of family memoirs (diaries, letters and objects) rather than out of a big ideological or theoretical base. Suddenly, when you start reading his letters and you start hearing the story of his relationship with his 10-year-old daughter who died, you find yourself drawn into an intense, emotional journey with an actually incredibly emotional man; Darwin was shy, reclusive, and probably the most reluctant revolutionary that ever lived. He absolutely adored his children - he was actually a modern kind of father, very un-Victorian. [He] allowed his kids to free-run, didn't give a damn about what they wore, and was generally an absolutely delightful parent and human being. So I became fascinated by the drama and appearance and what happens to a man in a society that is dominated by the church.

[The movie is about] what happens to a man who is married to a devoutly Christian woman-who he adores-and how he manages to reconcile his scientific beliefs with his love for his wife [and what happens] when his daughter dies and shatters his belief in a benign deity. Also there is the mystery of Darwin's sickness. As most people know, [he] suffered all of his adult life with a range of very alarming symptoms and there has been a lot of speculation of what caused that. I got very interested in exploring why-I believe-he made himself ill.

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More about Darwin from wonderful Seed Magazine:


Happy Birthday, Darwin!

It's Charles Darwin's 200th birthday. To celebrate, we present features and multimedia galleries of Darwin-inspired works exploring everything from the leading edge of evolutionary research to the quiet beauty of age-old collections. It's our small appreciation of the global culture that has arisen from the great man's world-changing ideas. Explore

+ Carl Zimmer on natural history collections

+ Can Darwin save the economy?

+ Slideshow: Creatures of the Galapagos

 + Darwin Slept Here

+ Video: Evolution in 60 Seconds

Beyond a Theory of Everything

On the very large and very small versus the very, very complex.

Blogging the Origin

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, chapter by chapter.

The new Issue 43 of EnlightenNext March -May 2009 is again picking up this:

SEX The Good, The Strange, and the Sacred

In the

 Editorial

Andrew Cohen is reflecting about the relationship of  spirituality and sexuality since the spring/summer  1998 issue and the current one. (see bold marked areas). I hope this issue is really as provcative as announced. And affronting peoples sensibiltiy is always needed when something radically new is emerging in evolution.):)

In this case as much sexual, poltical and spirutual correctness as sirupy Pseudo Tantra and forms of sensual narcissism. I appreciate highly that this magazine once again is a pacemaker for these discussion and deepest existential reflections.

"As I sit down to write this, it's only a few hours since our new President was sworn into office. We are still flying high on the ecstatic afterglow and the promise of change that his victory represents for us all. I recently turned fifty-three, and never in my lifetime have I witnessed so many people from all over the world experiencing and publicly expressing so much hope for what is possible. It seems as if literally multitudes are allowing themselves to actually believe that this world can become the kind of place we all want it to be in our better moments. This unprecedented suspension of cynicism and the outpouring of faith in our highest human values are exhilarating to behold. After so many decades of false images and double standards, with the inevitable ensuing disillusionment and disappointment, the fact that so many are permitting themselves to have faith in the moral fortitude and trustworthiness of another human being is quite an extraordinary event indeed. It's a very exciting time to be alive!

This is especially moving for me because at EnlightenNext we live and thrive daily on a similar unselfconscious positivity, conviction, and deep faith in what is possible. That is why it is such a thrill for us to witness so many having the experience of the liberating release that occurs when trust and conviction in the potential of our shared higher values are driving our actions. Oh, but I'm letting myself get carried away . . . I'm supposed to be writing an editorial for this issue of EnlightenNext. And boy, is this a hot item you are holding in your hands!

It's been a very long time since we've done an entire feature section on "the birds and the bees"-eleven years, in fact. The title of our Spring/Summer 1998 issue was "What is the relationship between sex and spirituality?" and it included in-depth interviews about the time-honored spiritual practices of tantra and celibacy as well as the relationship between both of these paths and our higher development. The provocative issue we have put together a decade later is a very different animal. It is not so much about sex as it is about postmodern culture, philosophy, and the different perspectives we assume as we strive to make sense out of the human experience. It probes into the factors that influence the way we think about sex and the role that lovemaking plays in our ever-more-complex lives. It's about questioning our social mores as they relate to sexuality and spirituality. Sex is one thing, but how we think about it and the context in which we think about it are something else altogether.

I'm sure that if nothing else, we will have succeeded in getting many of our readers to start thinking and talking about sex and the role it should play in their lives in ways they haven't before. In our main features, we've taken on some pretty avant-garde approaches to this alluring topic, so I want to apologize in advance to anyone who may be offended by the graphic content. The nature of the terrain we are covering simply is what it is; therefore we had to dare to affront some people's sensibilities in order to objectively wrestle with some big and important questions. If you can roll with the punches, I'm sure that after you give this issue a thorough reading, your ideas about sex and the role it plays in your life will have been influenced for the better-at least that's our hope."

Fareed Zakaria once again wrote something insightful in his newest article. its about a cultural sub-population in Israel. Migrational themes always have to be taken into account. We see the same in Germany with German citizens from Turkish parents.

Turks in Germany

However, .):) respecting Fareeds drive for a good journalistic catchline:

Its in essence about the vmemetic patterns in the region. Though these can be triggered of course by migrational tensions.

The strongest approach known to me -which clearly adresses these vmemetic landscapes - is more and more, and its an integral approach:

http://www.che-mideast.org/

So the situation he describes in the Israeli Post Election reality can produce certain flashpoints. A sustainable work for Israel/Palestine needs more of an in-depth look AND action.


Israels Biggest Danger

Today they're 20 percent of the country's population. Demographers predict they'll be 25 percent by 2025.

By Fareed Zakaria

Even before a new coalition could emerge, Israel's latest election was historic. It marked the collapse of Labor, the party that can plausibly claim to have founded Israel and produced its most celebrated prime ministers, from David Ben-Gurion (as head of Labor's predecessor, Mapai), through Golda Meir to Yitzhak Rabin. The last vestige of old Labor is Shimon Peres, who-with fitting irony-is the country's president only because he quit the party. Israel's political spectrum is now dominated by three right-wing groups: Likud, Kadima (the Likud offshoot founded by Ariel Sharon) and Yisrael Beytenu, a party of Russian immigrants. But while most commentators focus on the future of the peace process and the two-state solution, a deeper and more existential question is growing within the heart of Israel.

It's a question posed by the election's biggest winner: Avigdor Lieberman. His Yisrael Beytenu party won 15 seats, placing third but gaining enormous swing power in the Israeli system. Whether or not the new government includes him, Lieberman and his issues have moved to center stage. As fiercely as he denounces the Palestinian militants of Hamas and Hizbullah, his No. 1 target is Israel's Arab minority, which he has called a worse threat than Hamas. He has proposed the effective expulsion of several hundred thousand Arab citizens by unilaterally redesignating some northern Israeli towns as parts of the Palestinian West Bank.

Another group of several hundred thousand could expect to be stripped of citizenship for failing to meet requirements such as loyalty oaths or mandatory military service (from which Israel's Arabs are currently exempt). The New Republic's Martin Peretz, a passionate Zionist and critic of the peace movement, calls Lieberman a "neo-fascist ... a certified gangster ... the Israeli equivalent of [Austria's] Jörg Haider." No liberal democracy I know of since World War II has disenfranchised or expelled its own citizens.

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A very insightful article in SPIEGEL ONLINE from Eberhard Sandschneider, who   is the Otto-Wolff Director of the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin.

The first one, as far I can see, which adresses new global dimensions and trajectories for foreign realtions in German speaking countries. And mentions Germany AND Europe simultaneously.

Congratulations, Prof. Sandschneider! This is a tough and clear analysis which puts the challenges AND opportunities for Germany AND Europe on the radar screen. And re-shapes the Transatlantic constellation in a global light.

Welcome to the stratified realities of different values and perspectives of devloped and developing countries and great to hear and read this wake up call from an expert of German Council on Foreign Relations! The catchline is provocative and on spot.

And I fully agree to the final statements:

"The Europeans themselves have the power to decide whether Europe will become one of the key poles in a multipolar world order.

As a result, there can be but one rallying cry: Stop turning to others with expectations, stop the moaning and groaning. It is time to act and determine what we want to do instead of passing the buck. "

Europeans could demonstrate Integral field Testing on a very large global scale. Integrating regional, national, European and Global identities in a universe of nearly 500 Million people-. Bringing the various centers of gravity into healthy alignment and finally:

Overcoming this subtle, morbid chick of hidden melancholy, relativism, scepticism and poses of broken irony. Overcoming the muscular atrophy when reaching out globally and creating supraordinate goals for navigating diversity.



The Importance of Beeing Europe: Why Obamania isnt the Answer

Prof. Dr. Eberhard Sandschneider

There are growing differences in the way the trans-Atlantic partners assess each other. While Europe has embraced Barack Obama as an "American European," America is looking for strategic partners in other corners of the globe. If Europe wants to be taken seriously, it must decide to become a meaningful actor.


All crises come to an end, and the current economic crisis is no exception. We do not know when that point will be reached, but one thing is already clear: What began as a real estate and financial collapse in the United States has evolved into a global economic crisis of mammoth proportions. By the time it ends, it will have destroyed both book values and real assets on an enormous scale. What is less certain is how the structure of international politics will have changed. We are experiencing an abrupt upheaval in politics, and we are seeing once again that real, fundamental change is only driven by profound crises.

Will we soon be able to discern the contours of a new world order -- one in which the oft-invoked West (the United States and the European Union) plays a less dominant role than it has over the last few decades? Will the United States and the European Union lose influence because emerging countries such as Russia, India, and China have managed to translate their newly acquired economic and financial might into political power? Or will the exact opposite occur, with the global economic crisis hitting emerging countries even harder due to their unstable economic structures and growing social problems? And will the West undergo a resurgence under the leadership of the United States, which, thanks to its flexibility and resilience, will emerge from the crisis more productive and stronger than ever before?

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In February 2006  I started blogging at Zaadz. Since then 3 years passed.

831 Entries

3090 activities in toto

26.800 + Profile Views

More than 300.000 views in sum, 160.000 alone in 2007

Feedback from Gaia members as much as from outside this community. From Germany, Europe and globally.

This is not bad in my view. For the moment:):) I decided for this form of communication- other than writing books, articles or essays -to produce a playful and highly interactive communication in real time. Accessible for global readers too even when not members of the community.

Leaving my German Mother Language and of course fully risking to loose roundabout 30 percent of verbal complexity in this way. Its time to align German speaking countries and its spheres to Europe and world.

I will change my blogging now into something new. At moment its not quite clear what form and metamorphosis will occur. Certainly articles, books, projects and lots of global professional collaboration.

I had an extensive exchange and collaborative exploration last months with German Austrian entrpreneur and game designer Patricia von Papstein. An article about Integral Play and Integral Leadership will emerge out of this dynamic female-male dynamics for the March Issue of Integral leadership Review.

Based on this 2007 article from Gwen Gordon and Sean Hargens. However taking it to the next level of Integral leadership:

Integral Play -An Exploration Of The Playground And The Evolution Of The Player

And in a common declaration and conclusio we articulate some form of follow up.

We both are Europeans and Germans. And we intend to ignite a new creative fire in playful ways from the "land of poets and thinkers"

I wrote in 2002 for Issue 22 of WIE this letter to the editors:



The Great German Fear
Thank you for this brilliant issue! I am living in the city of Berlin, Germany and the themes are very challenging. As Carter Phipps put it [in From the Editors]: ". . . Ken Wilber and Michael Murphy trace the beginnings of evolutionary spirituality back to the late eighteenth century, when the German idealists such as Hegel, Fichte, and Schelling began speaking about human history as the greater and greater unfolding of spirit in this world. Inspired by the burgeoning Industrial Revolution, the notion of progress was then all the rage in the West, a notion that would, over the next few decades, provide the underpinnings for the development of evolutionary theory. . . ." In Germany there is actually a great-unconscious-fear of exploring the transpersonal realms.

It seems that the terrible shipwreck of the Nazi past has created a psychic contraction. This contraction is expressing itself as a great confusion. Ken Wilber describes it as pre/trans fallacy. The land of the "poets and thinkers" is afraid of great visions and the possibility of an evolutionary quantum jump because of this chapter of its history. Ken Wilber describes it in One Taste: "What happened in Germany is, among a million other causes, a classic case of the pre/trans fallacy. In fact, the entire German tradition is a study in the pre/trans fallacy, producing now a Hegel, now a Hitler."

Therefore I want to make clear that Integral Play -as will be explained in length in the ILR article is catalyzing the vertical as much as horizontal complexity and diversity.
This is by far not childish or adolescent endevor. it can create great evolutionary heat and even dynamite. And it can overcome and liberate this great historic contraction and fear. Setting free the potential .

It connects dozens and hundreds of fragments of identity in national and global nexus. And far beyond conceptual, theoretical and paradigmatical Exercises of all kind. Beeing highly psychoactive.

As PLato once said:

"You can discover more about a person in a hour of play than in a year of conversation."

Its a great story for that Patricia and I met last year after he had run through very similar experiences last years. Regarding nearly dozens of points. While she started as entrepreneur and game designer I found everything we exchanged about the power and potential of adult integral play reflected in my blogging at Gaia. In at least 30 percent of all of my entries. That means roughly 280 posts of all kind.

Touching poltics, business, culture, gender, age, science, medicine, entertainement , identity, personal growth, global issues and the relationship between private and public spheres as they developed over thousands and hundreds of years.

We risked this very special collaboration and diving into the dynamics of male/female interplay. Explicitly beyond the flat either or of conflict and consensus.
Beyond standards of spiritual and poltical correctness. Beyond the platitudes of coexistence, come together and lets share something. Beyond discourses of all kind. And ready jumping off the cliffs of conceptual references.

To risk radical openness and intention for the whole. Not tamed by forum rules like in World Economic Forum or TED Forums. However creative and reasonably innovative they may be. A forum can never produce that kind of intimate, powerful  and personal dance and dynamics.

Bruno Giussani, European Director of TED Conferences:

Can you hear me?:):)

More to come. stay tuned. The article will be published in next Integral leadership Review. And included will be our common conclusio.